U.S. Open Favorites, Turf in L.A. with Lauren Lasocha, and KFT Life with Logan McAllister

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Andy starts this episode off by giving his 10 favorites for the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. He is then joined by Lauren Lasocha, senior agronomist at Bel-Air Country Club (12:37). Lauren tells Andy about working at not only Bel-Air but also LACC, the expectations those clubs have for big-time tournaments, and her experiences as a woman in the turf industry. For a final segment, Andy talks with Korn Ferry Tour player Logan McAllister (1:01:42) about his career and the challenges of progressing in professional golf.

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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 fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Fried egg podcast.
0:38.0	Today's episode is we're doing another big podcast. We got a couple of guests.
0:44.0	We've got assistant superintendent at Belair, Lauren Lasoka.
0:48.0	She comes on to talk about the prep for the US Women's Am at Belair.
0:55.0	She's also worked at LACC. So we talk a lot about LACC and Belair and kind of what makes those places unique as well as her career and turf.
1:04.0	She's been all over the world. It's a it's a fascinating, you know, group of experiences.
1:10.0	So that was really a fun chat and then Logan McAllister, a former all-American at Oklahoma joins us.
1:19.0	He's in his I guess it's his first year on the corn fairy tour is his first full year.
1:25.0	He had he got through PJ tour you last year and had eight starts on the corn fairy tour and it's playing some really great golf in recent weeks on the corn fairy tour.
1:34.0	A definitely a name to watch and was was fun chatting with him about his career as experiences on the corn fairy tour to date.
1:43.0	So before we get into that, we've got we've got the US open coming up.
1:47.0	So I figured I would do my 10 favorites as I've done in earlier podcasts ahead of the US open.
1:54.0	So we'll run through these quick LACC as we did our preview podcasts on the course last episode.
2:03.0	So that was Tuesday's episode with Garrett. We talked a lot about the course in detail.
2:08.0	The things I'm looking at for this golf course are going to be obviously major championships.
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