Superintendent Series: Javier Campos of Cal Club

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Javier Campos (@CalClimbingSoup) is the golf course superintendent at the California Golf Club of San Francisco, more commonly known as Cal Club. Javier sits down with Andy to discuss, among other things, how he worked his way up the ranks of Cal Club's grounds crew, the influence of his mentor Thomas Bastis, the difficulties of the past winter in Northern California (which included a Caddyshack-like invasion of gophers), the intricacies of managing fine fescue and bentgrass surfaces on the West Coast, and his thoughts about autonomous maintenance equipment. Before getting to his chat with Javier, Andy goes through what the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup top 10 would be if the FEC were determined by designated-event results only.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg podcast.
0:37.0	And today's super intended series interview with Javier Campos.
0:41.0	As always, today's super intended series is brought to you by Toro.
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1:18.0	As mentioned before, today's interview is with Javier Campos.
1:22.0	He is the head superintendent at the California golf club of San Francisco.
1:27.0	Most people know of it as Cal Club.
1:30.0	Javier has been there for a number of years.
1:32.0	He started working there at age 17.
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