Thad Layton on Taking Arnold Palmer Design Company into the Future

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Thad Layton has worked for Arnold Palmer Design since he graduated from college 23 years ago, and today he is the Senior Golf Course Architect and Vice President at the company. He joins Andy to talk about working with Arnold Palmer and building golf courses all over the world, including getting his first lead-design gig on a project in Kazakhstan. In recent years, Thad has done a lot of compelling work under the APDC umbrella, and he tells Andy about guiding the company into a new era. Before getting to his conversation with Thad (5:45), Andy shares some thoughts about the play stoppages at last weekend's Pebble Beach Pro-Am and how America's obsession with fast greens is partly to blame.

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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.
0:38.0	Today's episode is with Thad Layton.
0:41.0	Thad is the senior golf course architect and vice president at Arnold Palmer Design Company.
0:48.0	So the company that conducts all of the design work under the Arnold Palmer umbrella.
0:55.0	Thad, I've known for a number of years. And I think he's been doing some pretty interesting stuff,
1:01.0	you know, given the reputation of Arnold Palmer design.
1:05.0	And that's why I was really excited to talk to him.
1:08.0	Obviously, a wildly different background than the majority of the architects that we have on this podcast.
1:15.0	You know, one with a lot of different experiences than, you know, going to work for Pete Dye or going to work for Corrin Crenshaw,
1:22.0	whatever it may be, you know, he was building golf courses in far-flung locations across the world
1:28.0	and he gets into stories from one of those, which was quite the story.
1:33.0	So I'm really excited to talk about a golf design and kind of Thad's unique experiences on this podcast.
1:41.0	You know, one quick thing I did want to talk about.
1:44.0	I wanted to talk about the Pebble Beach program and just something I found ridiculous.
1:48.0	And I'm hoping eventually changes in America.
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