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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

The History of Augusta National's Design (Great Courses 5)

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this fifth installment of our Great Courses series, we dig into the history of the golf architecture at Augusta National Golf Club. Garrett is joined by Joshua Pettit, the principal architect at Pacific Golf Design, the founder of the Alister MacKenzie Institute, and the editor of The MacKenzie Reader. Garrett and Josh discuss the lives and ideas of Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie, Augusta National's original architects, as well as the influences and philosophical convictions that both men brought to the design of the course. Garrett and Josh also talk about how several specific holes have changed over the years and whether a restoration of certain original features would be feasible or desirable.

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I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg

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I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking

0:39.6

about the history of the Golf Architecture at Augusta National Golf Club. This is the fifth

0:44.9

installment of our great courses series. These are basically deep dives into

0:50.0

golf courses that have really shaped the game.

0:53.4

And my guest for this episode is Joshua Pettit.

0:56.2

Josh is a golf architect and a historical researcher.

0:59.4

His firm is called Pacific Golf Design,

1:02.0

and he's also the founder of the Alistair Mackenzie Institute.

1:06.4

Recently Josh edited and published The Mackenzie Reader, which is a truly impressive collection of Alistair Mackenzie's writings on golf architecture and more.

1:17.0

And today, Josh and I are going to dig into where the golf course at Augusta National

1:21.0

came from.

1:22.0

Of course, a gust Augusta National was designed by Bobby Jones and

1:25.8

Alister Mackenzie, and so Josh knows a great deal about its origins, what it was like initially,

1:32.0

what its philosophy of design was, how it evolved over time.

1:36.0

Josh has a lot of information about those subjects and, you know, a lot of stuff that I really didn't know before I started talking to him.

1:45.6

So I'm really looking forward to this conversation.

1:47.6

I think it'll be a great way to kick off the run-up to the Masters.

1:51.5

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