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I'm about ready to run off the golf course Oh, Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we are talking about

how to build a golf course affordably and maybe more important

what's preventing people from building golf courses affordably right now.

This has been a big theme in my recent conversations with architects and

superintendents. It's something people in the industry are talking about a lot.

How much is being spent on golf course construction and renovation, some truly eye-popping numbers out there.

And it's a problem because those costs get passed down to you, the golfer.

So I thought it was just time to have a conversation purely focused on that theme.

What is the nitty gritty of how you actually build affordable golf.

And this is a question that's not just relevant

for industry people, for architects and superintendents.

This is something that every golfer should know at least a little about because you pay green fees, you pay member dues.

Ultimately you are funding all of this in the end.

And if you're empowered with some knowledge, you can start to say things like, hey, that

super expensive method of green construction or bunker construction might not be necessary for my

personal enjoyment of golf and you can start to push back on some of the things that

make the game more expensive right now. So my guest for this

podcast is Mike Young. Mike is a golf course architect and really one of the

pioneers of modern minimalism in golf course construction. He designed the fields

golf course in Georgia in 1986 and at that time the fields was really different from

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