Welcome to the another edition of the Friday podcast and to the latest installment of the

School of Golf Architecture. This episode focuses on terrain, specifically on Lynxland, and my guest is George Waters, the manager of

Green Section education for the USGA. So it's obviously a hectic time in the

world and in our homes right now now but George made a lot of time for me and gave

me a lot of help and putting together this episode and I'm really grateful for that.

So give him a follow at Gwaters golf on Twitter and check out his brilliant book

Sand and Golf how terrain shapes the game. It's a good one. All right let's get to it

it's a Friday 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 under 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, the dreaded fried egg.

Not to be feared though, it's actually a pretty easy shot to hit.

The basic features of a golf course, the varied ground, the sandy hazards, the closely cropped grass, sometimes bordered by longer grasses and shrubs.

These weren't theorized in the abstract, agreed upon by some committee.

Instead, they were invented by the terrain itself, and that terrain was Linksland.

For a long time, Golf and the Linksland were inextricable, but as the game grew more popular, it moved inland to other types of terrain.

The courses built on the Heathlands and Parklands of England, Europe, and the United States

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