Match Play Setups & U.S. Mid-Am Champ Brandon Holtz
The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Fried Egg Golf
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
On this two-part episode, Andy Johnson is first joined by Joseph LaMagna and Garrett Morrison to look back at how Bethpage Black fared as a Ryder Cup venue. The three discuss the various issues with the course setup before looking at future Ryder Cup host sites. Andy, Joseph, and Garrett also pitch some of their own ideas for where to host one of golf's biggest events. Andy then sits down with 2025 U.S. Mid-Amateur winner Brandon Holtz to discuss his win at Troon Country Club. They recap Brandon's week at his first-ever USGA event and also dive into the topic of reinstated amateur status in golf.
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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 today I'm excited. |
| 0:43.9 | We're going to do a little more Ryder Cup debrief. This is mostly about just golf courses, |
| 0:49.5 | match play, set up, that type of stuff. I'm talking with Joseph Lamania and Garrett Morrison of Friday golf. |
| 0:56.9 | And then in the back half, I am joined by U.S. |
| 0:59.2 | Midam champ Brandon Holtz from Bloomington, Illinois, who was nice enough to join right |
| 1:05.9 | after winning the midam a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:08.4 | So we had a lively discussion about his path, which is a pretty |
| 1:11.5 | incredible one playing college basketball and now playing mid-am golf and winning the U.S. |
| 1:19.5 | mid-am. So we talk about that. Also talk a little reinstated ams, a hot topic in the amateur |
| 1:26.1 | golf world. And yeah, so this was a really fun podcast. |
| 1:31.0 | I hope you guys enjoy it. And before we get to the podcast, let's talk about our friends over at |
| 1:37.0 | Club Champion. I'll tell you what, if you want to try and compete at a U.S. Mid-Am, you need to have |
| 1:42.8 | your clubs dialed in. I played one midam, |
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