The Evolution of the Old Course

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How did the Old Course at St. Andrews become what it is today? Garrett Morrison takes a break from the action at the 150th Open Championship to chat with historian Bob Crosby (@otey71) about how golf’s most famous and influential course changed—in surprisingly radical ways—during the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. This evolution, Bob argues, has a lot to teach us about the nature of strategic course design. It also accounts for why the Old Course continues to fascinate us today.

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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 bright egg.
0:07.0	Bright egg.
0:08.0	The dreaded bright egg.
0:09.0	Bright egg.
0:10.0	Bright egg.
0:11.0	Bright egg.
0:12.0	Bright egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to the bright egg podcast. My name is Garrett Morrison.
0:39.0	And today we're talking about the evolution of the old course at St. Andrews.
0:43.0	With the open championship at the old course for the 30th time this week,
0:47.0	we thought it would be fun to dig into some of the deep history of this place.
0:51.0	And it might surprise you to find out how different the course was in its early days
0:56.0	and why it eventually took on the form that it has today.
1:00.0	My guest is Bob Crosby, who has been on the podcast a couple of times before.
1:04.0	Bob is a golf historian. He's working on a book project about John Lowe,
1:09.0	a major figure in the golf world of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
1:14.0	And my and Bob's discussion touches on some of the very important contributions
1:17.0	Lowe made to the design of the old course at a critical juncture in its history.
1:23.0	But our discussion also just sort of ranges through time and gives a general picture
1:28.0	of the way the old course has changed over time.
1:31.0	All right, let's get to it. Here is me and Bob Crosby on the evolution of the old course.
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