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Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast.

In today's episode, I am joined by Michael McCarton and Will Smith.

These two have formed a nonprofit foundation called the National Links Trust.

This nonprofit will focus on the restoration and preservation of municipal golf in the United States.

Their organization plans to start with focusing on East Potomac, Rock Creek, and Langston Golf Course,

three municipal courses in Washington, D.C.

which are managed by the National Park Service.

The National Park Service is starting an RFP process for their next operator which will be

granted a lease up to 60 years. This long-term lease will allow the properties

to have significant investment put into them and hopefully improvement of the courses.

The National Link Trust hopes to be an instrumental part in these three courses future.

Michael McCartan was a guest on episode of 121 when we discussed in detail his thesis on the East Potomac Golf Course.

Since that podcast, he has become more involved with the RFP process and the other municipal courses in Washington, D.C.

For this episode, we will lead into our conversation with Michael and Will with a highlight from our earlier episode with Michael.

I'm Missed Green for example. 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.

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