Growing Grass at Sullivan County and Leveling Up a Golf Architecture Business

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

For the first interview in this episode, Andy is joined by Shaun Smith (@GorseNod), superintendent at Sullivan County Golf Club, a public nine-holer in upstate New York now operated by author Tom Coyne. Shaun discusses the ups and downs of his life and career, what he's done so far at Sullivan County, and what his hopes are for the future. In the second half of the episode, Andy brings on golf architect Tyler Rae (@TylerRaeDesign). Andy and Tyler talk about what has changed in Tyler's career since he was last on the pod five years ago and the differences he has noticed between restoration and new-build projects. They wrap up by discussing the top three courses they saw in the past year.

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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 podcast.
0:38.0	Today, I am joined by a couple of guests.
0:41.0	I have Sean Smith, the superintendent at Sullivan County Golf Course, which is up in the cast skills.
0:49.0	And a golf course that he has breathed a lot of new life in with also the help of Tom Coin, who's come on board to help out this year.
0:59.0	And possibly into the future, a golf course really on the rise.
1:03.0	And Sean has just really an amazing life story with golf and life in general.
1:09.0	So it was great to talk to him about his life and his life and turf.
1:15.0	And then in the second part of this interview, we talk with Tyler Ray.
1:21.0	So Tyler, it's been a number of years since I last talked to Tyler.
1:25.0	And since Tyler's career has really exploded, he's gone from being a shaper and occasional solo architect to really a solo architect that has a number of high profile jobs.
1:38.0	So it was really great to chop it up with Tyler about growing his business as well as some of the projects that they're working on.
1:47.0	Having the hopper and new build versus restoration, all sorts of stuff.
1:54.0	So this is a jam pack podcast with a couple interviews.
1:58.0	And yeah, let's get right into it here is Sean Smith.
2:03.0	But first, let's take a quick break to hear about our sponsor, Toro.
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