Hello, and welcome to the Friday podcast. My name is Garrett Morrison and for today's episode

I sat down with Andy Johnson to discuss the state of the restoration trend in the American golf industry today

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I'm Miss a 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 fried egg fried egg the dreaded fried egg

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All right, so in this podcast we are going to have a discussion about an article that you

Wrote Andy recently for our website published this week about the great remaining restoration opportunities in American golf

So the course is that still need to be restored even after we've had a big restoration boom in the golf architecture industry

And so it's an interesting article. It really has generated a lot of discussion

So we thought we'd dig in a little bit further in a podcast

So maybe we could start with just what prompted you to write this article?

Definitely. Yeah, this has been something I think over the last month or so

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