How Digital Tech and AI Could Change Golf Course Design

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Lately Garrett has been wondering how recent technological advances, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, may change golf architecture in the coming decades. So he called up Peter Flory (@nle_golf), whose digital modeling was a key component of the Lido project in Wisconsin. Peter tells Garrett how he researched the history of the C.B. Macdonald-designed Lido Golf Club and which technological methods he used to help architect Tom Doak re-create the course in Wisconsin. Peter and Garrett then discuss the various effects that advances in digital and AI rendering may have on golf course design as a business and an artform.

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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 to the Fried egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison.
0:37.0	And today we are talking about new digital technologies and their potential influence on golf course design.
0:44.0	This is something that's been on my mind a lot lately.
0:46.0	The pace of technological progress seems to be just quickening and quickening.
0:51.0	The artificial intelligence stuff that's come out in recent months and weeks has been just insane.
0:57.0	Like chat GPT. I'm sure you've seen that. I used to be an English teacher.
1:00.0	That piece of technology alone would have completely changed the way that I approached my job as an English teacher.
1:08.0	And so I'm sort of wondering at what point is some of this new technology going to make its way into golf architecture in a big way and really restructure how that business is done.
1:20.0	So to sort through these issues, I'm going to talk to Peter Flory.
1:23.0	Peter is probably best known in the golf world as one of the driving forces behind the Lido recreation project in Wisconsin.
1:31.0	It was really Peter's research that made a lot of that possible.
1:35.0	And he used some very interesting digital methods in that process.
1:39.0	So we're going to talk about that.
1:41.0	And also just about new technologies that are becoming available to golf course architects and developers, including some pretty wild AI stuff.
1:51.0	So that's all ahead. But first, this episode is brought to you by Fatcork.
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