Hey, it's Garrett. Before we get started on today's episode of the School of Golf Architecture, I wanted to tell you a little about the fried egg newsletter.

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email address all right on with the episode. 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 lion, a bunker, is completely different than 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. Welcome back to the Friday

to the Friday podcast and to the fifth edition of the School of Golf Architecture. I'm Garrett Morrison.

A few months ago the PGA Tour player Roberto Castro tweeted out something that got me

thinking. He said I'm no student of golf architecture, but even still, I've never once thought about the routing of a golf course.

What am I supposed to be comparing it to? The infinite other routings an architect could have chosen, I don't get it.

This is a fairly common frustration, I think. Most golf architects will tell you that routing is their most

important task. At the same time, it's often the most difficult aspect of a golf

course for a player to perceive. So my hope is with this installment of the School of Golf Architecture,

we can clear up some of that confusion.

The term routing in golf course design refers to how an architect lays out holes on a piece of

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