John Fields on NCAAs, the La Costa Redesign, and Coaching Spieth and Scheffler

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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John Fields, the longtime head coach of the men's golf team at the University of Texas, joins Garrett to discuss a variety of topics in advance of the NCAA D1 Men's Golf Championship. Coach Fields talks about the Longhorns' season so far and the story behind how UT became the host of the men's and women's NCAA championships at the Gil Hanse-renovated North Course at Omni La Costa in Southern California. He also identifies a couple of back-nine holes to watch for in the coming days. In the back half of the episode, Coach Fields details his coaching career and his experiences with players like Cody Gribble, Jordan Spieth, and Scottie Scheffler.

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0:00.0	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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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Well, Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and my guest
0:39.2	is Coach John Fields. Coach Fields is a legend in college golf. He's been the head
0:46.2	Ben's golf coach at the University of Texas since 1997 and he's coached
0:51.1	players like Cody Gribble, Dylan Fratelli, Jordan
0:54.6	Speeth, Scotty Sheffler, Cole Hammer, the Cooney Brothers, and many more.
0:59.1	He was also involved in relocating the Division I NCAA championships to a Gilhance redesigned
1:06.5	course at Omni Lacosta. The University of Texas is actually the host of that championship
1:12.0	this year and the women's tournament is
1:14.6	wrapping up as I record this with a match between Stanford and UCLA. The
1:20.0	men's event will be played from May 24th through the 29th.
1:24.7	In other words, coming right up.
1:26.6	So Coach Fields was very busy on the day that I talked to him
1:30.7	and I was really grateful that he spent about 45 minutes of his day just
1:35.4	talking to me.
1:36.4	Lot to talk about with Coach Fields.
1:38.6	He's got a ton of great stories, so I'm really excited about this conversation. But first a word about USGA
1:45.8	memberships. Are you a USGA member? Well, when you become one you join a
1:51.4	like-minded community of golfers advocating for the good of the game.
1:56.0	USGA memberships keep golf thriving today and support the USGA's mission to make the game more accessible, sustainable,
2:05.5	and ensure that it continues to grow for years to come.
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