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

fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course Oh, Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another episode of the fried egg podcast with us this morning

bright and early in Florida here and late at night in Australia is Michael

Clayton Michael had a long playing career. He was a

professional on both the Australian and European Tours. He won a few times and he has now become one of the games

preeminent golf course architects with his firm of OCCM.

So Michael, thanks for coming on.

Thank you, I look forward to it.

Yeah, I'd, you know, I think think it would be great if you could

tell us a little bit about your background how you got into golf

and uh... you know

so the reader the listeners that don't know a ton about you can get a little

info on you.

Well I grew up in Melbourne which is the best city to play golf in Australia,

as well the sand belt courses, but I grew up on the other side of the city from the sand belt really.

My parents bought a house at the back of a place called Easton.

Golf club, which is now being dug up for housing.

They're in the midst of cutting ropes through it and building houses on it. But I jumped the fence and started

to carry and then I just started to play and you know I got kind of went through the system there I suppose playing school by golf and junior golf and amateur golf and

Peter Thompson was from here so I spent a lot of time watching him play and my

interest in design I suppose was you know I grew up watching golf and playing golf a bit at Royal Melbourne and Kex Nathan, Metropolitan

and Victoria saw all the great causes in the sandbroughts.

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