Welcome back to the Friday Egg Podcast. I am excited for today's podcast with Joe Bauch and Mike Serba.

I think you guys are going to really enjoy it. We discuss these two guys. They're just regular Joe's

restoration efforts at Philadelphia

municipal course, Cobbs Creek. They set out 11 plus years ago to restore

Philadelphia this course to its original glory which was considered one of the best

municipal courses in the country. At this point now they're finalizing a long-term land lease with the city which would be up to 70 years and they would have the intention to have a restoration led by Gilhance.

So this is really an exciting project and just a great project for the public golfer

and golf in general and could be an awesome template for other communities to follow.

A couple quick housekeeping things.

Brendan Porath and I, who's a regular on this podcast start a new podcast called The Shotgun Start.

This podcast will be a much quicker, shorter format podcast and it will be on a regular

schedule of every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.

This podcast will be geared towards more quick updates and commentary on the latest

happenings in golf. There'll be short interviews.

Just last Friday, we had Gill hands on the podcast

for about 12 minutes to talk about Aronimink

and a couple other things,

you know, golf Course Architecture Base, as well as giving an update on the tournament.

So it's definitely worth giving it a try, give it a listen and subscribe on iTunes. It's called the shotgun start and it's up on every other podcast platform that I know of now.

As a note, I got a lot of people asking, does this mean the Friday Egg podcast is gone?

Nothing will change with this podcast. We will continue to do deep dive interviews and

discussions on all sorts of different golf topics.

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