The fried egg requires a different technique.

What you need to do is actually square the face

so it'll dig down underneath that bad lie

and propel that ball right out onto the green.

Here's the thing.

Playing out of a buried lion a bunker is completely different than playing out of a nice clean

lion a green side bunker.

You need to be aggressive on any shot, whether it's sitting cleanly or it's a fried egg.

Well, we've all faced it. Regretted fried egg.

It's not to be feared, though, it's actually a pretty easy shot to the hit. The School of Golf Architecture, episode 4, Collaboration. So the first three episodes of the School of Golf Architecture covered the relationship

between a course and its sight.

The discussion often wandered into philosophical territory, and I'm into that kind of thing obviously.

But for this installment I wanted to get practical.

How exactly do golf courses get built?

There's a tendency when discussing the stories behind golf courses to focus on the individual

architect.

We lionize figures like Harry Colt, Seth Rayner, Donald Ross, and Pete Die.

And we see the projects they work on as essentially theirs.

We speak of Mackenzie Cypress Point or Doke Pacific Dunes.

On the flip side, when a course doesn't turn out well, we know who to blame.

But the truth is that it takes many more people than the lead architect to create a golf course.

First, there are the owners.

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