Designing Golf

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Designing Golf episodes

March 11, 2025 What Makes TPC Sawgrass Great (and How It Could Be Better)
Ahead of this week's Players Championship, Garrett Morrison is joined by Fried Egg Golf's Joseph LaMagna for a discussion about Pete Dye's Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. The two share their favorite things about the course and what makes it one of the best venues on the PGA Tour before coming up with some ideas on how the Stadium Course, and the Players itself, can improve.
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58 min
February 25, 2025 Golf Architecture 101: Alister MacKenzie's 13 Principles
In this second installment of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett Morrison guides Fried Egg Golf producer PJ Clark through Alister MacKenzie’s famous 13 principles of golf course design. Garrett and PJ give particular attention to MacKenzie’s preferences for hole-to-hole variety, a minimum of blind approaches, returning nines, and naturalistic earthworks. They also manage to work in an allusion to a Tim Robinson sketch.
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55 min
February 11, 2025 The 10 Golf Architecture Books Everyone Should Read
If you want to learn more about golf course design, which books should you read? Garrett Morrison fields this question pretty frequently, so for today’s episode, he brings on writer and historian Stephen Proctor to discuss the 10 most essential golf architecture books.
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49 min
January 28, 2025 The Four Golf Courses That Shaped Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy is the 2006 U.S. Open champion, one of the sharpest minds in golf, and an architect whose firm, OCM, is making waves in the industry. In this episode, Garrett Morrison asks him about the four golf courses that most influenced his ideas about the game.
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53 min
January 28, 2025 Golf Architecture 101: The Three (or Two?) Schools of Design
For the first episode of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett Morrison talks Fried Egg Golf producer PJ Clark through the so-called “schools”—that is, philosophies—of golf course design: penal, strategic, and heroic. If you want to learn more about golf architecture, this is a good place to start.
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47 min
January 28, 2025 What to Expect from Golf Architecture in 2025
Garrett Morrison sits down with Fried Egg Golf founder Andy Johnson to preview the year in golf architecture. Garrett and Andy discuss the projects, architects, and trends that they’ll be tracking in 2025.
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39 min
January 22, 2025 Designing Golf Trailer
Introducing Designing Golf, a new podcast from Fried Egg Golf, hosted by Garrett Morrison.
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2 min

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Designing Golf is a show about golf courses: how they’re built, who builds them, and which ones are worth playing. Hosted by Fried Egg Golf’s Garrett Morrison, Designing Golf will explore all facets…