Welcome back to part two of the latest episode of The Yoke with Doke.

Longtime Associate Don Playcek joins Tom to discuss routing.

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and they make for great gifts. And now part two of our discussion on routing.

Tom Doak is back and as usual he's not holding back. But don't toss the yolk.

And the

famously candid joke doesn't pull any punches.

How do I make natural looking contour?

Higher the biggest fool in the village

and tell him to make it flat.

First overrated underrated, rough.

Terribly over the years. I imagine maintenance is another thing that goes into it a little bit in the sense of if the greens are close by it's less gas easier faster to maintain easier to maintain easier to mow

greens or you know does it does that play a role in routing at all a little maybe not as much as you you're

thinking there but yeah i mean you know for, the old stock courses were, you know, you've got a bunch of parallel

halls and you can mow green, you don't necessarily mow all the greens in order because it's it's it's it's it's much faster to hop from this green across the

Next T to the green that's coming back the other way two holes later and you just there's a you know you can get around much quicker.

Whereas the modern courses that are all stretched out

and every hole is a beautiful view,

you pretty much have to maintain the golf course in the order that you play it.

And so the maintenance guys are going all the way around the golf course every day to get it done.

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