How Old Barnwell Got Built

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Designed by Brian Schneider and Blake Conant, Old Barnwell near Aiken, South Carolina, is one of the best-reviewed and most buzzed-about new golf courses of the past several years. In this episode, Garrett sits down with Old Barnwell's founder Nick Schreiber to delve into the nuts and bolts of how the course came to be. They talk about Nick's early years as a caddie, his vision for a "mission-focused" private club, how he found the property, why he hired Schneider and Conant, and his plans for Old Barnwell's second and third courses. They also discuss the broader state of the golf course industry—specifically, whether the current surge in construction might prove to be a bubble.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
0:06.8	fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie
0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're digging
0:39.6	into the story behind one of the most buzzed about new golf courses in America. I'm talking about
0:46.6	old Barnwell near Aiken, South Carolina. This Brian Schneider and Blake Conan design has received rave reviews since opening for preview play last year
0:57.2	I got to play it on the Sunday before the Masters and I can confirm that it is an incredibly inventive work of golf architecture and just a fun course to play.
1:08.0	But another thing that makes old Barnwell stand out in the current crop of new private golf clubs and there are a lot of them is its vision for itself.
1:16.7	This is a club that wants to have a positive impact on the world and in this episode we'll talk about how feasible it is to have that kind of impact with a golf club.
1:27.0	I realize that this idea of a mission-focused club might provoke some skepticism, so we'll adjust that.
1:34.2	My guest is Nick Schreiber.
1:36.0	Nick is the founder of Old Barnwell,
1:38.2	and this is really his passion project.
1:40.4	He's there all the time.
1:41.8	He was there the day that I played it. This is really his baby. So I'm looking forward to digging into the nitty gritty of how he got this thing built and what he hopes it'll become.
1:52.0	First though, let's talk a little bit about Good Walk coffee.
1:56.8	I was super excited to hear that we were partnering with Good Walk.
2:01.0	This is a company that I've admired from afar ever since they launched in 2019, and it's
2:07.0	really a company that sits right at the nexus of my two big interests. coffee and golf.
2:13.6	Goodwalk was founded by Coffey Nuts who also happened to be Golf Nuts,
2:18.0	and they're very serious about applying the golf values of fair play and honesty to the way that they conduct their
2:24.9	coffee business. They buy high-grade beans from around the world at fair market
2:30.1	prices from farmers who follow sustainable practices and pay good living wages to their workers.
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