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 lie

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

podcast today I welcome on Keith Foster a golf course architect who has done many

beautiful restoration of classic golf courses across the country and also has built

up an impressive list of solo designs. Keith, welcome on.

Hey, thanks so much, Andy, for having me.

It's my pleasure.

Yeah, excited, you know, talk.

Golden Age architecture, some of your architecture, I grew up playing Shepherds Crook one of your public designs and it's as I call it the crook I think it's one of the best courses in Chicago land that anybody can play.

But to kick things off, you know, two of your most dramatic

restorations that I've seen are Philly Cricket Club and Marine Country Club and each of them you've

taken out quite a few trees and I would I'm curious what you find to be the biggest misconception with

memberships, committees and just golfers in general about trees?

Well, you know, I think, I think, Andy, what really happens on trees is that, you know, every

golf course, I don't care how old it is or how new it is. There comes a time when someone's going to say we could

put a tree here, we could put a tree there, and older golf courses they fell victim to, you know, when R.T.J. Mr. Jones was the man, the open doctor in the 50s, you know, for U.S. Open sites and so on all these trees got planted and then Lady Bird

Johnson in the 60s to Arbor days and so on so all of these golf courses

initially started out not heavily treed and then

over time you know trees get planted here and there I think what's interesting

is most old school golf courses tend to be wider in scale because of course you have wider fairways you set bunkers on angles and the game becomes and should be a more strategic one.

But then when trees get planted in the 50s and they're small,

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