Yolk with Doak 34: Saudi Golf Issues, Cabot Highlands, and Listener Questions

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In the latest installment of the Yolk with Doak, golf architect Tom Doak covers a wide range of topics with Andy Johnson. First, they spend some time examining Saudi Arabia's role in golf outside of the LIV tour, namely the kingdom's massive investment in golf course construction. Tom also provides updates on his current activities, which include the recently announced second course at Cabot Highlands, formerly known as Castle Stuart. Finally, Tom and Andy run through listener questions about the playability trend in design, changes to Tom's early projects, and the delicate balance that's required when imitating another architect's work. Look for part two of this conversation, which will focus on St. Andrews, this coming Friday.

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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 Friday egg.
0:07.0	Friday. The dreaded Friday.
0:09.0	Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday.
0:11.0	Friday. Friday. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Friday podcast and another edition of the
0:40.0	Yoke with Doke. It's been a little while since Tom Doke and I talked on air.
0:47.0	We talked off air, but been a little while since we talked on air.
0:51.0	Figured there was a lot of stuff going on in his world and wanted to catch up with that.
0:57.0	There was news that broke on Monday morning of this week that he would be designing a second
1:03.0	course at Castle Stewart. So we talk about that.
1:06.0	But we also talk about golf course architecture, golf course development in Saudi Arabia.
1:12.0	Saudi Arabia has obviously been a huge, huge news story in the world, the professional golf.
1:18.0	I think people are kind of missing how much they're doing on the golf course development side as well.
1:25.0	And he kind of just talks about that a little bit. But without further ado,
1:30.0	here is the latest episode of the Yoke with Doke. Thank you, Tom, for the time.
1:40.0	Tom, it's been a while. Seems like everybody in golf architecture is very busy.
1:46.0	And you're one of those people.
1:49.0	We are very, very busy. I haven't been this busy.
1:53.0	Well, I haven't been this busy since 2008, which is a little concerning on some levels.
1:59.0	The other thing is all your, all the people that work with you are busy too.
2:05.0	So it kind of multiplies the effect, right?
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