Yolk with Doak 41: Sedge Valley, Pinehurst No. 10, Difficulty vs. "Fun," and Blind Shots

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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For the second of our two Thanksgiving-week Yolk with Doak installments, Andy and golf course architect Tom Doak tackle some more listener questions. Among other topics, they discuss Doak's recent Sedge Valley and Pinehurst No. 10 projects, designing short par 4s and shot courses that challenge elite players, difficult vs. "fun" courses, a wild idea for an Olympic course, and the pros and cons of blind shots.

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0:00.0	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
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0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am Andy Johnson and we have another episode with Tom Doak.
0:44.0	Another episode of The Yoke with Doak for you.
0:47.0	So we released an episode that was all part of this conversation earlier this week so it'll be the
0:55.1	last podcast in your feed but in this episode we talk about Such Valley Tom's new
1:00.7	course at Stan Valley as well as Pinehurst Number 10 and a slew of other topics.
1:06.5	So this was a really fun conversation.
1:10.0	I hope everybody is having a great and safe Thanksgiving holiday.
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1:34.4	So really appreciate the support and through the year,
1:37.7	it's been a great year and can't wait to do it again next year.
1:42.4	So thank you guys for the support and without further ado here's Tom Doe
1:52.0	All right let's talk a little bit about Sedge.
1:54.0	You know, one thing out there, you have a lot of driveable par-forrs.
2:00.0	Just in general, and in your career, you've built a lot of great drive-ableable parfores. I think a lot of people would
2:04.6	agree with that. And Thunder McRobbert asked a question, how do you keep them from feeling
2:10.1	too similar to each other? Well, first let's talk about Sedge a little.
2:15.0	I mean, the disappointing part of doing the Renaissance Cup was that Sedge Valley was reduced to a
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