I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a bright egg.

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I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.

Welcome to the bright egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking about what happens when the New Yorker magazine does a deep dive on live golf.

My guest today is Zach Hellfand, who's a writer and editor at the New Yorker.

And for the past few months, he's been reporting a big feature story on the conflict between the Saddybacked Liv Circuit and the PGA tour.

That piece will appear in the next edition of the magazine and was published online earlier this week under the catchy title Will the Saudis and Donald Trump save golf or wreck it.

Now, since it's part of my job to follow golf news, I didn't really expect to learn anything new from this article.

But I actually did.

Zach does some really fresh reporting here, even getting a sit-down interview with Majed Al-Sor, who doesn't do much media and is one of Liv's most important decision makers.

So I thought it would be good to bring Zach on the podcast and talk about why the New Yorker got interested in Liv and what he as a relative outsider to golf media made of it all.

To keep up with the fried egg, including our commentary on the battle for professional golf, you can subscribe to our newsletter at thefriedeg.com.

So Zach, you are the editor of the New Yorker's talk of the town section, right? Is that kind of what you're mainly doing at the magazine right now?

Yes, so I'm one of the editors. So it's me and my boss Susan. That's my day job. I talk of the town.

And it's the section of short pieces that appears toward the front of the magazine. I think people who've seen the New Yorker will be familiar with it.

Often very charming, sometimes a little hard to figure out, and that's part of the mystery and allure of them.

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