Live from St. Andrews - The Old Course and Fife
The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Fried Egg Golf
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Andy Johnson is back at home after a weeklong visit to Scotland and multiple rounds at the Old Course at St. Andrews. He's first joined by Fried Egg Golf's Matt Rouches to recap their bucket-list trip as Matt shares his thoughts on his first visit to the Home of Golf. The second half of this episode is part of a live Fried Egg Golf Podcast recorded at the Byre Theater in Fife, Scotland. Andy chats with golf historian, author, and architect Scott Macpherson about the history of the Old Course and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I misogreen, for example, I'm already upset. |
| 0:02.0 | When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. |
| 0:05.0 | And when I find my ball in a... |
| 0:06.0 | Fried egg. |
| 0:07.0 | Friday egg. |
| 0:08.0 | The dreaded fried egg. |
| 0:09.0 | Friday. |
| 0:10.0 | Friday. |
| 0:11.0 | Fried egg lie. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm about ready to run off Friday golf podcast. I'm your host, Andy Johnson, and I'm excited. I'm back from Scotland, back from the Masters, |
| 0:48.3 | wrapped up a ton of crazy travel and wanted to unpack a little from our trip from Scotland. |
| 0:55.9 | So we've got a couple things for you in today's episode. |
| 1:00.2 | We have our live podcast with Scott McPherson, the great author, historian, golf course |
| 1:08.1 | architect who wrote the evolution of the old course, a exhaustive history |
| 1:14.7 | on all the changes in kind of how the old course came to be as we know it. But first, I'm going to |
| 1:23.3 | unpack Scotland a little bit with one of my colleagues, Matt Ruchess, who joined the trip. |
| 1:30.0 | And we're going to talk a little bit about golf in Scotland, the old course, old course |
| 1:34.8 | reverse. And then we'll kick it over to our live podcast that was held at the Bayer |
| 1:41.8 | theater in St. Andrews, really organized and put together by the |
| 1:46.8 | Links Trust. Big thanks to both of them for doing that. It was kind of part of their programming |
| 1:54.0 | for Old Course Reverse a great event that I would suggest everybody enter the lottery for. |
| 2:01.6 | I know that lotteries can be frustrating that if you don't get it, but you know, enter |
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