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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Superintendent Series: Edric Funk and Matthew Wharton on the Turfgrass Industry

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

At the GCSAA Golf Industry Show in Orlando, Andy recorded a live episode with The Toro Company’s Edric Funk (@EdricFunk) and Carolina Golf Club superintendent Matthew Wharton (@CGCGreenkeeper). The trio discussed the process behind innovation, the ro...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast.

0:04.0

Today's episode is a special live podcast from this year's golf industry show.

0:10.0

Special thanks to Toro for putting it all together, but I am joined by Eddrick Funk and Matthew Wharton,

0:16.4

superintendent at Carolina Golf Club and we talk a lot about innovation in the space of turf.

0:23.7

So this is obviously a hot topic

0:26.1

with sustainability, never more present

0:29.4

in a lot of aspects of society

0:32.4

and really in golf courses as we look to the future.

0:36.4

So we talk a lot about the innovation coming from Tora with the autonomous mowers as well as the you know different hacks and things that

0:47.1

Matt has done over his career at Carolina Golf Club to innovate in his own way.

0:52.2

Without further ado here is the podcast with

0:55.4

Matt and Edrick. I miss a green for example I'm already upset when I find my

1:00.1

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 lie I'm about

1:09.2

ready to run off the golf course. course. Thank you everybody for coming out to this and special thanks to Toro for setting this up.

1:30.0

It's really exciting to interview Matt and Edrick here.

1:35.4

So we got Matthew Wharton from Carolina Golf Club,

1:39.0

Master Greenskeeper, former president

1:41.7

of the Carolina Golf Course Superintendents Association.

1:45.0

And then we've got Eddrick Funk, who is the Director of the Center for Toro.

1:53.0

Toro.

1:54.0

So we're going to talk a little bit about turf, probably a little bit about life and innovation

2:00.0

in life.

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