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 fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg

fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course Oh, Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another edition of the Friday

podcast this morning we're joined by golf course architect Jay Blasey.

Jay was an integral part in the design of Chambers Bay under Robert Trent Jones Jr. design and now is out on his own.

Recently completed a great project at Santa Ana Country Club and is a big part of the Sharp Park

movement and restoration in San Francisco. Jay, welcome on.

Thanks so much, Andy. I'm excited to join you.

Yeah, yeah, it should be fun.

The thing I always like to start out with with these conversations is I'm curious about how you got into

golf and then how when do you kind of decide you want to be a golf course architect?

Yeah well for me it started really early.

And kind of close to your heart, my dad grew up on the south side of Chicago and was a catty at Beverly.

And so that's how he fell in love with the game and he met my mom at the University of Wisconsin and they settled in Madison and so when I was born he he brought plastic clubs to the hospital and when he was a teacher and so he had summers off and on his summers off he worked on the grounds crew and he befriended the superintendent who was

an influential guy in Wisconsin from the superintendent side of things, but Rome Miller.

And so when they got built their first house,

he convinced the superintendent to come over

and build a putting green in the backyard.

So I was lucky enough to grow up.

I had a putting green in my backyard and we moved when I was

young and we ended up with a putting green with two little bunkers and then we

moved again and I then we moved out to the country and had seven acres and then we had three putting greens in the yard

there three little golf holes in the yard. So my interest in the game started you know literally

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