Golf Architecture Mailbag: Most Exciting New Courses, The Lido, and More

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Mailbag time! Andy and Garrett address a bunch of golf architecture-related questions from listeners. Among the topics covered: this year's most exciting new-build golf courses, the best courses Andy and Garrett saw for the first time recently, the virtues of the Lido, whether more "Harbour Town-style" courses should be built, why Pete Dye is not "VERY overrated," and whether template holes are lazy and uncreative. Also, Garrett gets a headache trying to answer the following question: If you could play one architect's body of work for the rest of your golfing life, whom would you choose and why?

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg golf podcast.
0:39.0	I am your host, Andy Johnson.
0:41.0	Today, we've got a fun little thing. We haven't done it in a while.
0:45.0	We're doing an architecture mailbag.
0:47.0	So this is going to be all about golf courses and architecture.
0:50.0	Joining me is Garrett Morrison, one of my co-hosts on this podcast.
0:54.0	And we're going to dive into all things golf architecture.
0:58.0	This was, we got to a slew of questions. We asked for questions on Twitter, got a bunch of them.
1:05.0	And I think we'll end up doing a part two on Tuesday, along with an interview that Garrett did.
1:12.0	So we will, we'll do some more of these and we'll probably put up a call for questions on Instagram shortly.
1:18.0	So as a quick reminder, if you're interested in golf architecture, if you want more of this stuff,
1:25.0	we're having daily discourse in club TFE.
1:28.0	That's our membership. It is $120 for the year.
1:32.0	We're doing things like design notebook, which is a every Monday or early in the week column that dives into all the things going on in the design golf architecture world.
1:44.0	We do a weekly course profile and then we do a monthly member-only video that is always on, you know, kind of golf architecture.
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