Welcome back to another edition of the Yoke with Doke. This time Tom and I are joined by longtime

Renaissance Golf Associate Don Placic. Don is a man of many talents and beyond golf course architecture he is also behind much of the

Renaissance artwork such as the routing maps and the yardage books.

Here's the first part of a two-part episode with Tom and Don about the soul of a golf course, the routing.

Enjoy. Tom Dolek is 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?

Hire the biggest fool in the village until I make it flat.

First overrated, underrated, rough.

Terribly over the years.

You know, I fell in love with Cyprus point when I was

you know I fell in love with Cyprus Point when I was a teenager partly because that routing is so good

You know you go through you go from the clubhouse by the ocean through some lynxie stuff, back into the trees, up into the dunes,

back out of the dunes into the trees,

back through the Lynxie stuff,

and you wind up on the coast.

I mean, you see the whole property.

You know, it's not just divided up into trees links coast you kind of move back and

forth between them so it's a spectacular way to see the property.

It's like if you were going to walk the property,

that's the way you'd walk it.

Another one that I used as an example of that in my book years ago

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