Welcome back to another edition of The Yoke with Doke.

In this episode, Tom Doke and I discuss his new project at Sand Valley,

golf in England, and then we get to a bunch of listener questions.

Recorded a few of these, so we'll release these throughout the winner.

Without further ado, here is Tom Doak. Tom Doak is back and as usual he's not holding back and as usual he's not holding back. But don't toss the yol. And the famously candid doke doesn't pull any

punches. How do I make natural looking contour?

Higher the biggest fool in the village

and tell them to make it flat.

First overrated, underrated, rough.

Terribly over the years.

Yeah, what do you think about Yale?

Well, Yeah, what do you think about Yale? Uh, well, I'm a Cornell person, so I have to temper it with their Yaleies.

But, um, I've always loved that golf course.

It's so, you know, I grew up in Connecticut.

It's the only really good golf course in Connecticut.

And it's, and it's about the,

it's one of the few courses I play that actually feels like Connecticut. I mean, Connecticut is woodsy, but also really rocky, which is why there aren't a lot of great golf courses there, because it cost a fortune to build in that kind of land and very few people did it but you know they built that

golf course in the 20s blasting and you know blasting off the tops of a ridge to build a green some pretty intense

construction for those days and it's and but they could only do so much with it so it's still super dramatic compared to most of the courses in that day and age because it was built on such a rugged side.

Yeah, feels like you're like constantly having to tackle wilderness out there.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you know in that 18th hall is probably the best example of that that, you know,

that feels just like you're playing across country and you know it's so much longer if you're playing the back tee than a typical

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