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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Mapmaking with Don Placek

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this wide-ranging conversation, Don Placek, Partner at Renaissance Golf Design, and Andy Johnson cover the complexity and challenges of the golf architecture consulting business, compare finding new golf courses to discovering new music, and discu...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast.

0:04.7

Today's episode is brought to you by Dream Golf.

0:08.6

I'm sure everybody that listens to this podcast knows about Dream Golf, but you're probably

0:14.4

unaware of the brand name.

0:16.5

Dream Golf are the people behind Band & Dunes, Cabot, Cape Breton, and San Valley.

0:22.8

So some of the best golf resorts in the world, probably the best golf resorts in America,

0:29.8

they are putting together a giveaway, this is a good deal, you know, it's free, sign

0:35.3

up at dreamgolf.com, backslash giveaway to submit your entry, all you have to put in

0:41.1

is an email, and you get the chance to win a four day, three nights day at your choice

0:48.1

of either Band & Dunes or San Valley.

0:52.7

So you have to submit this at dreamgolf.com, backslash giveaway, by September 30th for your

0:59.6

chance to win a four day, three nights day at either Band & Dunes or San Valley.

1:05.9

Pretty good deal for free, you get that chance.

1:08.5

And obviously, great golf courses of both, the Lido is opening next year for preview play,

1:15.2

you'd get the chance to be one of the first to preview that, or you'd get the chance

1:18.9

to hang out at Band & Dunes for the 22, 22 US Junior Am, which is out there.

1:25.1

So enter to win for free at dreamgolf.com, backslash giveaway.

1:30.4

Today's episode is with Don Placik, Don is a partner at Renaissance Golf Design, Don lives

1:36.1

up in Traverse City, I interviewed him in his office up there when I was on a recent

1:42.4

stay in Northern Michigan, this is kind of a free flowing conversation, we talk a lot

1:46.6

about Don's art, it's world-renowned golf art, he does all of the routing maps for Renaissance

1:54.0

golf, Tom Dokes projects, and it's becoming a bigger and bigger part of his daily life.

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