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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fried egg lie I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast, I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking to a superintendent who's trying to revive his hometown nine-hole golf course.

Tom Schwab is the superintendent at the municipal Napoleon golf course in Napoleon Ohio.

Now Tom has also worked at a number of top flight clubs like Marion and Aronimink and

curtland, but a few years ago he decided to take the job at his hometown

Nineholer, Napoleon, and he's hoping to make some major improvements to that course.

You know, we've talked to a few superintendents this year

who have taken on these kinds of projects.

Clay Payne at Buffalo Dunes in Kansas,

Stephen Beal at Wolf River in Michigan, and pretty soon we'll have a video coming

out featuring Len Curtin at George Wright Golf Course in Boston. We like highlighting these stories and we think they represent a kind of micro-trend in the

industry right now where some of the most promising renovation work at public courses is being done one on a budget and two

spearheaded by skilled ambitious superintendents who could probably work at the private club of their

choosing but have decided to take on a challenge.

This is a real challenge trying to get a local nine whole course in

Napoleon Ohio back on its feet and that's what Tom Schwab is trying to do. He's at the very beginning of his work at Napoleon, so I thought it would be fun to talk to him now at this early point in the process and get a sense of what his plans are for the future.

And my hope is as people listen to this episode,

they think of their own local nine-hole courses

and think of how those can be improved.

Because it really can happen happen but the biggest thing that you need

is just a great superintendent. This episode is brought to you by Toro.

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