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 for another edition of the Friday podcast. Today we will dive back into

golf course architecture and we are joined by Riley Johns. Riley is an up-and-coming

architect from Canada who recently completed his first solo design

with Keith Reb at Winter Park and has worked under great architects such as Tom Doak, Bill Kore, Ben Crenshaw, and Rod Whitman.

Riley, welcome on.

Thanks for having me.

I'm a big fan of your up and coming success as a professional podcaster.

I don't know about that.

After the intro music it takes a sharp decline. So I'd love to, you know, I think a lot of people probably aren't familiar with your name but would love to hear a little

bit about your background, how you got into golf course design and a little bit about you.

Well, you know, I kind of came from, I'm Canadian obviously, so, you know, golf is a big part of our you know our country up here along with other sports like hockey but you know I kind of came from a different side of

things I came from more of a

of a construction background rather than you know I was never the kid

that was drawing you know golf holes on the back of his you know restaurant place mat. You know I never you know my father was never a member at a

prestigious club and and so I never really had a you know a Gulf

centric kind of background I came from more of know, I love the outdoors.

You know, I was always the kid that,

you know, we never had TV or anything like that.

We don't go outside and play, we build forts out in the forest and you know I was pretty

lucky to grow up in a town, mountain town in Canada right next to you know bats and it's a beautiful part of the country so you

know I spent a lot of time outdoors and you know we we you know I was always the kid that was, we'd always, we'd have a sandbox, right?

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