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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Yolk with Doak 2: Golf Course Architecture 101 - Part 2

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In the second and final installment of our introduction to golf course architecture, Tom Doak discusses what makes a great green complex and what he thinks about front-to-back sloping greens. He also recommends a few of the best golf course architect...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Part 2 of Golf Course Architecture 101 on The Yoke with Doke.

0:07.0

If you miss Part 1, check it out on our feed on iTunes Stitcher or on our website and if you join the podcast please give us a review

0:18.5

and rate us in the iTunes store. door.

0:23.0

Tom Doke is back and as usual, he's not holding back.

0:25.0

And as usual, he's not holding back.

0:31.0

But don't toss the yol. And the famously candid doke doesn't pull any punches.

0:38.8

How do I make natural looking contour?

0:46.0

Higher the biggest fool in the village and tell him to make it flat. First overrated, underrated, rough.

0:50.0

Terribly over the years.

0:53.0

So you've mentioned front to back,

1:00.0

so you've mentioned front to back sloping greens a couple times and

1:05.2

Tom W had a question.

1:07.2

He says, I think that front to back sloping greens are challenging and

1:10.3

interesting.

1:11.3

Why don't we see more greens that slope this way?

1:14.0

There's two reasons you don't see those more.

1:18.0

One is that they're hard to see from the fairway.

1:23.3

You know, if you're playing a pole that's just running straight

1:25.6

down a hill and then the green keeps running down the hill,

1:28.6

that's okay.

1:29.2

That's just the same as having a flat hole

1:31.2

with a flat green.

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