Golf Architecture with Blake Conant
The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Fried Egg Golf
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Fried Egg Golf Podcast, Andy chats with golf architect Blake Conant. The two discuss Blake's transition from shaper to architect, his experiences working with the likes of Tom Doak and Brian Schneider, and the differences between working on a solo project and a project as part of a team. Andy and Blake also dive into some golf architecture history, discussing Langford and Moreau, Alister MacKenzie, and more. To wrap up this episode, Andy answers a mailbag question received from a Fried Egg Golf Club member!
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| 0:00.0 | I misogreen, for example, I'm already upset. |
| 0:02.0 | When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. |
| 0:05.0 | And when I find my ball in a... |
| 0:06.0 | Fried egg. |
| 0:07.0 | Friday egg. |
| 0:08.0 | The dreaded fried egg. |
| 0:09.0 | Friday. |
| 0:10.0 | Friday. |
| 0:11.0 | Fried egg lie. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm about ready to run off Friday golf podcast. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm your host, Andy Johnson. |
| 0:42.4 | This week, I'm excited to be joined by one of golf's young, bright, up-and-coming golf |
| 0:48.6 | architect's Blake Conant. |
| 0:50.3 | Blake has been on this podcast a few times, but with me a long time ago, and since his career |
| 0:57.2 | has really progressed, he's done some solo work on his own. He's continued to work a lot |
| 1:03.2 | with Tom Doak, and he was a co-designer of Old Barnwell, kind of one of the big courses |
| 1:09.8 | in the last five years that opened. So I was really excited to chat withwell, kind of one of the big courses in the last five years that opened. |
| 1:11.9 | So I was really excited to chat with Blake and kind of just chop it up about golf architecture. |
| 1:18.6 | We discussed a ton of stuff, on topic, some off topic, but it was a really fun conversation. |
| 1:25.9 | Our flew by. We'll have to have them back on another time. |
| 1:29.6 | But before we get to the Blake interview, we are also going to add, I think most episodes |
| 1:38.1 | will do this. |
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