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 to another edition of the Friday

podcast today we are live from the Players Championship and we are

joined by Steve Wenslau who's the vice president of the PGA Tours

design services and Player Liaison.

Steve, welcome aboard.

Thank you.

It's good to be here.

Yeah, so a big week for you, obviously with the changes at one of you know America's most

iconic and memorable golf courses you know the big changes are the 12th hole and then there's some other small subtle changes and

you know completely new green surfaces but first I think a lot of people would

love to hear a little bit about your background.

Sure.

Landscape Architecture, University of Georgia.

Been here with the PJ Tour now for 20 years.

Originally started with the TPCs, development of the TPCs and still work very actively

with the TPCs, but have evolved more into the PGA Tour side and sanctioned events and working on golf course modifications,

significant golf course modifications basically with any PJ tour sanction venue.

And then new venue assessment as well. So how did you get into the architecture world?

Like you know was there a moment that said I want to I want to design golf courses and

yeah the moment was early on actually before I before I

went to college I was doing landscape work is always working outside working down in

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