Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast and to the first installment of the School of Golf Architecture.

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All right, the School of Golf Architecture. I'll introduce the idea for this series in full once this episode gets underway,

but basically it's an introduction to golf course design, where I'm kind of standing in as the student, heading out into the world and talking to some experts like today's guest Blake Conan and just trying to learn as

much as I can from them about this fascinating subject and delivering the results to

you. Today's episode is about the idea of place in golf architecture and let's just get to it.

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 a thing playing out of a buried lie in 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.

It's not to be feared though, it's actually a pretty easy shot to hit. So a little backstory. Three years ago, Andy wrote a series for the Friday

website called Golf Course Architecture 101. There are really fun articles and a lot of people seem to enjoy them and find

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