Happy New Year and welcome back to another edition of the fried egg podcast.

Thanks for all the support in 2017.

To kick things off in 2018, we'll have a two-part podcast with Golf Course architect Jim Urbina. If you don't or haven't already

please subscribe to our podcast at iTunes and rate and review us. Now here's Jim Urbina.

I'm Mr. Green for. 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.

The dreaded fried egg.

Fried egg.

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

I'm joined by golf course architect Jim Urbina. Jim welcome on.

Good morning, Andy.

Thanks for having me on.

Wonderful day to talk about golf.

I don't know if there is a bad day to talk about golf.

Well, let's just say this is the best day to talk about golf.

Yeah. So Jim you you do a lot of you've done just you know you've had a great career so far and you've been

doing quite a bit of restoration work at a lot of high-profile places so I think you know my first question is how do you get a club to

buy in on a restoration you know that's always tough because when I get that phone call, when somebody reaches out to me and asks me about a club, a particular club, a Greens Committee chairman, a club president, somebody who was associated with the club.

They call me and ask me, what do you know about a particular golf course?

Would you be interested in talking to us about it. I'm always

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