Michael Clayton Talks Royal Melbourne (Great Courses 4)

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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To wrap up the initial run of our Great Courses series, Garrett brings on the doyen of Australian golf Michael Clayton (@mikeclaytongolf) to discuss the brilliant courses at Royal Melbourne. Garrett and Mike discuss Mike's personal history with Royal Melbourne, the architectural history of Alister MacKenzie's West Course and Alex Russell's East Course, the impact of these designs on the Australian game, and the finest rounds of golf Mike has seen played over Royal Melbourne's famed Composite Course. We loved making the first four episodes of the Great Courses series, and we hope you enjoyed listening to them. Let us know if you'd like more (and if you have suggestions for topics)!

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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 Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking
0:39.1	about Royal Melbourne with Michael Clayton. This is the slightly delayed fourth episode of our
0:46.0	great courses series from this past December. These have basically been deep
0:51.6	dives into some of the world's best and most influential
0:55.2	golf courses. We started with St Andrews, of course, then went to National Golf Links in
1:00.4	Sunningdale, and I can't think of a better way to wrap up this initial run of the Great Courses
1:06.4	episodes then heading to the Australian Sandbelt and talking about what Alistair
1:12.0	Mackenzie accomplished there.
1:14.0	The West Course at Royal Melbourne was really Mackenzie's first outrageously great design.
1:20.0	He had not yet built Cypress Point or Augusta National. He had done some really amazing stuff in Great Britain. I don't want to downplay that.
1:29.0	But the courses that you really know Mackenzie for now had not yet been produced when he got
1:36.6	the Royal Melbourne job. So Royal Melbourne was a big step forward for Mackenzie's career, and it was also a big step forward for Mackenzie's career and it was also a big step forward for Australian golf.
1:46.6	It's tough to overstate the impact that Royal Melbourne both Mackenzie's West Course and Alex Russell's later East Course had on the game in Australia.
1:56.8	And there's no better person to talk about all of this than Michael Clayton.
2:01.4	Mike is a former tour pro, a current golf architect, and one of the leading voices in the
2:06.4	game both in Australia and internationally.
2:09.6	He's been in our podcast several times before and I'm super excited to have him back to discuss a
2:14.3	topic that is so very much in his wheelhouse. Before we get to that though let's talk a
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