James Duncan on Working with Coore & Crenshaw and Building Brambles

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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James Duncan has had over 30 years of experience in golf course architecture and has worked with Tom Doak and Gil Hanse in addition to being a longtime associate with Coore & Crenshaw. He joins Andy Johnson to talk about how he got his start in the business and what brought him from his native Denmark to America. He and Andy discuss his experiences at Austin Golf Club, Hidden Creek, and the ill-fated Dos Pueblos project, and they wrap up with an update on the Brambles project outside of Napa, California, which will open in the coming months.

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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 bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg. The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg. Bright egg. Bright egg. Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the bright egg podcast.
0:40.0	Today's episode is with James Duncan.
0:44.0	James Duncan is a long time associate for Core and Crenshaw.
0:49.0	He has also worked with Tom Doak. He's a great golf mind.
0:54.0	And I really enjoyed speaking with him.
0:57.0	He's been a fundamental driving force behind the new Core and Crenshaw golf course in north of Napa called Brambles,
1:06.0	which is being grasped right now.
1:08.0	So it's getting close to having golf holes open and ready to play.
1:13.0	I think they're targeting next year for a full opening.
1:16.0	But it was great to talk to James. He's a wealth of knowledge and just a very thoughtful person.
1:23.0	So without further ado, here is our episode with James Duncan.
1:32.0	Can you explain that internship that you signed up for so you're in college?
1:37.0	Like just the backstory a little bit on that.
1:40.0	Yeah, so you know, I'm in Copenhagen as a civil engineering student.
1:43.0	And there's no such thing as a golf program.
1:48.0	So you had to kind of fake it.
1:50.0	You had to make it sound like engineering.
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