Superintendent Series: Sandy Reid of St. Andrews

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sandy Reid (@SandyReidGK), the Director of Greenkeeping at St. Andrews Links, is today's guest for our Superintendent Series. Sandy has one of the busiest jobs in the turf industry: he oversees all seven courses at St. Andrews. This year was busier than ever for him, with the 150th Open and the Dunhill Links both taking place at the Old Course. Sandy shares how he and his team managed the infrastructure necessary for the events and the inevitable wear and tear to the course. He and Andy also talk about Sandy's time at Carnoustie, how he maintains courses that rarely shut down, what it's like having the property turn into a park on Sundays, and much more. The Superintendent Series is brought to you by the Toro Company. NOTE: There was an issue with the originally posted version of this episode; you may need to re-download it.

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0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
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0:12.0	Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried Egg podcast in our superintendents series.
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1:42.0	I met Sandy when I was over for the open this year and Sandy oversees all the courses at St Andrew's.
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