Has Modern Golf Passed Kapalua By? Plus, Golf Architecture with Jaeger Kovich

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part podcast, Andy Johnson is first joined by Fried Egg Golf's Joseph LaMagna to discuss the first PGA Tour stop of the 2025 season, Hideki Matsuyama's record-breaking win at The Sentry. With Matsuyama taking down the PGA Tour's 72-hole record for score-to-par, Andy and Joseph discuss whether the game has moved past the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort. The two debate whether changing the course to a par 72 as opposed to the current par 73 iteration would make things any better and how the PGA Tour could possibly add some teeth to a course that lacks defense when the wind isn't blowing. For the second part of this show, Andy chats with golf architect Jaeger Kovich about the most pressing issues for the golf course industry in 2025, such as rising building costs and the continued growth of resort golf.

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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 the golf course. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast.
0:41.0	I am your host, Andy Johnson, and I'm excited about this episode.
0:46.2	We are back, as a reminder from last week, this cadence will be every Wednesday this year.
0:52.5	So every Wednesday morning, you can expect a new episode of this podcast.
0:59.1	I'm excited for a couple of reasons.
1:00.8	We got TGL debut tonight as of this recording, Tuesday night.
1:06.9	So we will see a new form of golf.
1:10.2	We did a podcast last week about what we were kind of
1:14.0	thinking about TGL. I'm really excited to see it rolled out. I think it's a really big opportunity
1:19.7	for golf. I am interested to see how it all works. I think we all should exercise a little bit of patience because
1:29.4	this is a brand new thing. They are going to definitely figure stuff out in the first season.
1:34.7	And ideally, it is successful enough to get a five-year window to really grow and flourish.
1:42.4	Because primetime exposure for golf on ESPN would be a
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