The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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A deeper level of golf: conversations and stories about golf course design, professional golf, and more from the team behind TheFriedEgg.com

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05.20.2022

After a day of walking around Southern Hills Country Club and watching the first round of the PGA Championship, Garrett Morrison and Meg Adkins convene in the media center (right next to KVV as he did a guest spot on ...

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

05.20.2022 On-the-Ground Observations from the 2022 PGA Championship After a day of walking around Southern Hills Country Club and watching the first round of the PGA Championship, Garrett Morrison and Meg Adkins convene in the media center (right next to KVV as he did a guest spot on ...
05.15.2022 Five Things About the 2022 PGA Championship with Kevin Van Valkenburg It's PGA Championship week! ESPN.com's Kevin Van Valkenburg (@kvanvalkenburg), who will be on site at Southern Hills, talks with Andy Johnson about all the major storylines heading into the second men's major of the year. From the challenges of the ...
05.13.2022 Reminiscing About Phil’s Win at the 2021 PGA Championship It's Flashback Friday: Fried Egg Edition! With the 2022 PGA Championship next week, Andy Johnson and Brendan Porath join Garrett Morrison to look back Phil Mickelson's victory last year at the Ocean Course. Andy and Brendan were on site at ...
05.10.2022 Superintendent Series: Tyler Marcotte of Brambles Today's guest on our Superintendent Series is Tyler Marcotte, the Head Superintendent at Brambles in Middletown, California. Tyler has one of the more interesting jobs in turf right now. He is currently overseeing the grow-in at Brambles, a new Coore ...
05.06.2022 Bandon Deep Dives: Pacific Dunes With our fourth deep dive into the five 18-hole courses at Bandon Dunes, we arrive at Tom Doak’s Pacific Dunes, which opened in 2001. Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison discuss the course’s intricate strategic puzzles; its use of the “sandy ...
05.03.2022 Can Course Design Change Golf Culture? Golf's accessibility problem isn't new, and fixing it won't happen overnight. Golf architect Christine Fraser (@cfgolfdesign) knows this, but she also believes that good course design can chip away at the issue. She talks with Garrett Morrison about how tee ...
04.28.2022 A Southern Hills Preview (ft. Gil Hanse) The 2022 PGA Championship, which starts in three weeks, will be held at Southern Hills Country Club, a 1936 Perry Maxwell masterwork that has recently undergone a historical renovation by Hanse Golf Course Design. In this episode, Andy Johnson and ...
04.26.2022 Superintendent Series: Justin DePippo of Bel-Air Country Club For the latest edition of our Superintendent Series, Andy Johnson talks with Justin DePippo, the Director of Golf Course and Grounds at Bel-Air Country Club. Andy and Justin discuss Tom Doak's recent restoration of George Thomas's design at Bel-Air, the ...
04.22.2022 How Golf Courses Can Conserve More Water Happy Earth Day! As we did last year at this time, we asked Dr. Cole Thompson to come on the podcast and chat about golf's relationship with the environment. Cole is the assistant director of Green Section Research at the ...
04.19.2022 Pasatiempo Is So, So Good After a recent visit to Pastiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, California, Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison figured it was time to dedicate a full podcast to this brilliant (and publicly accessible!) Alister MacKenzie design. From the underrated front nine ...
04.15.2022 Justin Ray Uses Numbers to Tell the Story of the PGA Tour Season So Far Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) has an unrivaled ability to present statistics and historical facts in a way that gives golf fans a better understanding of players and their performances. He and Garrett Morrison chat about Justin’s methods and his background in ...
04.12.2022 Takeaways from the 2022 Masters Scottie Scheffler played so brilliantly at the 2022 Masters that, for much of the final round, the outcome wasn’t in doubt. But what this Masters may have lacked in competitive tension, it made up for in rich storylines. To think ...
04.07.2022 Advice for Spectating at the Masters What should I know before going to the Masters? What are the most underrated and overrated vantage points at Augusta National? How can I best appreciate the course architecture? Should I actually avoid the merch tent? If you’re planning to ...
04.03.2022 Five Things About the 2022 Masters with Shane Bacon Masters week is here! To preview the upcoming action, Andy Johnson welcomes Shane Bacon (@shanebacon), co-host of Golf Today on Golf Channel and host of the recently revived Get a Grip podcast, to discuss the five things they're looking forward ...
04.01.2022 Digging into the Latest Design Changes at Augusta National With the Augusta National Women’s Amateur wrapping up tomorrow and the 2022 Masters approaching, Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison sit down to discuss the latest changes to America’s most influential golf course. They touch on the tree removal along the ...
03.29.2022 Emilia Migliaccio on Nearly Winning the ANWA—and Then Deciding Not to Turn Pro The 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur begins tomorrow, and who better to talk to about it than Emilia Migliaccio (@emiliamigliacc1)? Emilia played in the inaugural ANWA in 2019, finished second last year, and will be in the field again this ...
03.25.2022 A History of the Stymie Today we tell the story of one of the great lost elements of match-play golf: the stymie. A stymie occurred when one player’s ball on the green ended up between the hole and the opponent’s ball. Unless the balls were ...
03.22.2022 Is an Equipment Rollback on the Horizon? With last week's Distance Insights update from the USGA and R&A;, it made sense to bring in Geoff Shackelford (@geoffshac) to discuss the latest developments. Geoff has been writing about and covering the distance issue in golf for over 20 ...
03.18.2022 Mailbag: Promoting Shot-Shaping on the PGA Tour, Improving Golf Telecasts, and Renovating Augusta National Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison sit down (in person this time!) to discuss an array of listener questions. They talk about how the PGA Tour can better assess shot-shaping skills, which musical artist TPC Sawgrass resembles, how golf telecasts can ...
03.16.2022 Roberto Castro on the Wild 2022 Players Championship Former PGA Tour player Roberto Castro (@cicioCASTRO) talks with Andy Johnson about the marathon that was the 2022 Players Championship. From the weather to the final putt on Monday, Roberto shares his insights into what makes the tournament so difficult ...
03.11.2022 Jerry Pate on Early TPC Sawgrass and His 1982 Players Win In February 2020, Garrett Morrison interviewed 1976 U.S. Open champion Jerry Pate about his win at the 1982 Players Championship, the first Players held at TPC Sawgrass. Jerry talked about his first impressions of the Pete Dye-designed Stadium Course, his ...
03.08.2022 Four Things About the 2022 Players Championship with Sean Martin It’s tradition around here to release a “Five Things About...” episode on Tuesday before a major championship. Since the Players Championship, in spite of the PGA Tour’s best efforts, isn’t quite a major, we thought “Four Things” would suffice. Andy ...
03.04.2022 Let’s Not Learn the Wrong Lessons from Phil Mickelson’s Downfall Things have been moving quickly for Phil Mickelson. After his comments about the Saudi-backed Super Golf League made headlines, he was dropped by most of his major sponsors and pilloried by both the media and his PGA Tour colleagues. The ...
03.01.2022 Superintendent Series: Joshua C.F. Smith of Orinda Country Club and FlagBag Golf Co. Joshua C.F. Smith (@joshuacfsmith) has worn many hats in golf. From playing competitively in college to serving as superintendent at Orinda Country Club outside of Oakland, California, he has seen many aspects of the industry. He has also found time ...
02.25.2022 A Primer on Sportswashing in Golf (ft. Will Bardwell and Dr. Helen Lenskyj) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making major inroads in professional golf. It holds lucrative annual events, funds a 10-event series on the Asian Tour, and hopes to lure the world’s best male players to a proposed Super Golf League. ...
02.22.2022 Bandon Deep Dives: Bandon Trails The third of our deep dives into the five 18-hole courses at Bandon Dunes focuses on Bandon Trails, built by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw in 2005. Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison talk about how the construction of Bandon Trails ...
02.15.2022 Reflecting on the PGA Tour’s First Month of 2022 and Previewing Riviera with Joseph LaMagna With the final tournament of the West Coast swing upon us, it's a good time to catch up with Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna), Fried Egg contributor and author of the biweekly newsletter Finding the Edge, about the early part of the ...
02.11.2022 Superintendent Series: Eric Richardson of Essex County Club In the latest edition of our Superintendent Series, Andy Johnson meets up with Eric Richardson (@erichturf), Director of Grounds at Essex County Club, at the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) Conference and Trade Show in San Diego, California. ...
02.08.2022 Ben Cowan-Dewar on Founding Cabot and Becoming a Golf Course Developer Ben Cowan-Dewar is the co-founder and CEO of Cabot, the company that developed Cabot Cape Breton and recently purchased World Woods Golf Club in Florida. Ben talks with Andy Johnson about Cabot’s first U.S.-based property, which will be rebranded as ...
02.04.2022 What to Know About Perry Maxwell (ft. Chris Clouser and Colton Craig) In the latest installment of our “What to Know About…” series on golf’s greatest architects, we focus on Perry Maxwell, the designer of many courses, including Prairie Dunes, Southern Hills, and Old Town Club. Garrett Morrison and Andy Johnson kick ...
02.01.2022 Catching Up with Bill Coore Legendary golf course architect Bill Coore returns to the podcast for the first time in over two years. He and Andy Johnson have a lot to catch up on, and they cover a number of past and present Coore & ...
01.28.2022 Bandon Deep Dives: Old Macdonald In the second of their five Bandon Dunes deep dives, Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison discuss what may be the resort’s most polarizing course: Old Macdonald, built by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina in 2009. Andy and Garrett start with ...
01.25.2022 Challenging Golf Course Architecture’s Status Quo with Tim Jackson and David Kahn While visiting Scottsdale, Arizona, Andy Johnson met up with Tim Jackson and David Kahn of Jackson Kahn Design (@JKDgolfdesign). Tim and David got their start working for Tom Fazio’s organization, founded their own firm in 2009, and went on to ...
01.21.2022 Yolk with Doak 33: Listener Questions and the State of the Industry In this second part of his most recent conversation with Andy Johnson, Tom Doak answers more listener questions, including ones about the upcoming Sedge Valley project at Sand Valley and the non-golf literature that has influenced him. Tom and Andy ...
01.18.2022 Building an Affordable Set of Used Golf Clubs with Ryan Barath As the supply-chain crisis escalates, new golf equipment is becoming pricier and harder to get ahold of. So it might be a good time to take an interest in used clubs. Ryan Barath (@rdsbarath), lead content strategist at Tour Experience ...
01.14.2022 Yolk with Doak 32: New Year’s Resolutions and Unconventional Course Concepts In the latest edition of our interview series with golf course architect Tom Doak, Tom answers listener questions about New Year's resolutions, forward-tee placement, and accounting for climate change in his designs. He also shares with Andy a number of ...
01.11.2022 Superintendent Series: Devon Carroll on Women in Turf Why aren’t there more women in the turf industry? What changes would be necessary for there to be more? Devon Carroll (@turfgirl24), a doctoral candidate in turfgrass science at the University of Tennessee, has looked deeply into these questions. Recently ...
01.04.2022 Previewing the 2022 PGA Tour Season with Joseph LaMagna Let’s be honest: the PGA Tour season doesn’t really start until the serene seascapes of Kapalua fill our TV screens in the first week of January. To prepare for the occasion, Andy Johnson calls up Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna), the sharp ...
12.28.2021 Fried Egg Events, Explained For our final episode of 2021, we talk about The Fried Egg’s roster of 2022 events. First, Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison run through some FAQs: Why do we hold these events? How do we choose the venues? What’s the ...
12.21.2021 Bandon Deep Dives: Sheep Ranch Over the next several weeks, we plan to record deep-dive discussions for all five 18-hole courses at Bandon Dunes. First up, in reverse-chronological order: Sheep Ranch. Before it was officially part of the resort, Sheep Ranch was a free-form course ...
12.14.2021 Bees Can Guide Us to the Future of Golf (Seriously) One of the most pressing issues in golf right now is the relationship between the game and the environment. As temperatures rise and water supplies dwindle, courses need to reevaluate the way they use resources and interact with their ecosystems. ...
12.10.2021 Which U.S. Golf Courses Still Need to Be Restored? Earlier this week, Andy Johnson wrote an article for The Fried Egg website on the great remaining restoration opportunities in American golf. It generated a lot of discussion, so Andy and Garrett decided to sit down and discuss the topic ...
12.07.2021 Superintendent Series: Ken Nice of Bandon Dunes Ken Nice, Senior Director of Agronomy at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, joins Andy Johnson to discuss… basketball, of all things! Once the hoops chat is over, Ken shares some stories from his experience as the assistant superintendent during the construction ...
12.03.2021 Fried Egg Stories: The Hickory Open For the latest installment of our audio documentary series, Garrett Morrison heads out to the Oregon coast for the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open. At this event, players must use wooden-shafted clubs either made before 1935 or faithfully based on those ...
11.30.2021 Dream 18: Bandon Dunes After a six-day stint at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, a trio of tired Eggs (@the_woke_yolk, @gfordgolf, @willknightsTFE) sit down to hash out their "Dream 18": a composite course consisting of their favorite holes from the five 18-hole courses on the ...
11.23.2021 Yolk with Doak 31: Municipal Golf, the Renaissance Cup, and Apache Stronghold Our series with golf architect Tom Doak continues as he and Andy Johnson catch up in Washington D.C., where they attended the National Links Trust Symposium on Municipal Golf. In addition to discussing sustainability and course maintenance in the municipal ...
11.16.2021 What to Know About George C. Thomas Jr. (ft. Geoff Shackelford) George C. Thomas Jr. is the golf architect behind Riviera Country Club, Bel Air Country Club, the North Course at Los Angeles Country Club, and the classic 1927 book Golf Architecture in America. To learn more about Thomas, Andy Johnson ...
11.09.2021 Trevor Immelman on the Presidents Cup, Ernie Els, and What It Takes to Win on Today’s PGA Tour Trevor Immelman is the 2008 Masters champion, a TV analyst, and the incoming captain of the International Presidents Cup squad. In this episode, he chats with Andy Johnson about what it takes to be a winner on the PGA Tour ...
11.05.2021 Superintendent Series: Ryan Tuxhorn of Somerset Hills Country Club Ryan Tuxhorn (@r_tuxhorn) joins Andy Johnson for the latest edition of our Superintendent Series. Ryan went straight from college to working as an intern and making his way through the ranks at Merion Golf Club. He shares how his experiences ...
11.02.2021 What to Know About William Flynn (ft. Wayne Morrison) Wayne Morrison is the author of The Nature Faker, a monumental biography of William Flynn. It’s safe to say that no one on earth knows more about Flynn, the architect behind Shinnecock Hills and many other great courses. In this ...

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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

On-the-Ground Observations from the 2022 PGA Championship

Five Things About the 2022 PGA Championship with Kevin Van Valkenburg

Reminiscing About Phil’s Win at the 2021 PGA Championship

Superintendent Series: Tyler Marcotte of Brambles

Bandon Deep Dives: Pacific Dunes

Can Course Design Change Golf Culture?

A Southern Hills Preview (ft. Gil Hanse)

Superintendent Series: Justin DePippo of Bel-Air Country Club

How Golf Courses Can Conserve More Water

Pasatiempo Is So, So Good

Justin Ray Uses Numbers to Tell the Story of the PGA Tour Season So Far

Takeaways from the 2022 Masters

Advice for Spectating at the Masters

Five Things About the 2022 Masters with Shane Bacon

Digging into the Latest Design Changes at Augusta National

Emilia Migliaccio on Nearly Winning the ANWA—and Then Deciding Not to Turn Pro

A History of the Stymie

Is an Equipment Rollback on the Horizon?

Mailbag: Promoting Shot-Shaping on the PGA Tour, Improving Golf Telecasts, and Renovating Augusta National

Roberto Castro on the Wild 2022 Players Championship

Jerry Pate on Early TPC Sawgrass and His 1982 Players Win

Four Things About the 2022 Players Championship with Sean Martin

Let’s Not Learn the Wrong Lessons from Phil Mickelson’s Downfall

Superintendent Series: Joshua C.F. Smith of Orinda Country Club and FlagBag Golf Co.

A Primer on Sportswashing in Golf (ft. Will Bardwell and Dr. Helen Lenskyj)

Bandon Deep Dives: Bandon Trails

Reflecting on the PGA Tour’s First Month of 2022 and Previewing Riviera with Joseph LaMagna

Superintendent Series: Eric Richardson of Essex County Club

Ben Cowan-Dewar on Founding Cabot and Becoming a Golf Course Developer

What to Know About Perry Maxwell (ft. Chris Clouser and Colton Craig)

Catching Up with Bill Coore

Bandon Deep Dives: Old Macdonald

Challenging Golf Course Architecture’s Status Quo with Tim Jackson and David Kahn

Yolk with Doak 33: Listener Questions and the State of the Industry

Building an Affordable Set of Used Golf Clubs with Ryan Barath

Yolk with Doak 32: New Year’s Resolutions and Unconventional Course Concepts

Superintendent Series: Devon Carroll on Women in Turf

Previewing the 2022 PGA Tour Season with Joseph LaMagna

Fried Egg Events, Explained

Bandon Deep Dives: Sheep Ranch

Bees Can Guide Us to the Future of Golf (Seriously)

Which U.S. Golf Courses Still Need to Be Restored?

Superintendent Series: Ken Nice of Bandon Dunes

Fried Egg Stories: The Hickory Open

Dream 18: Bandon Dunes

Yolk with Doak 31: Municipal Golf, the Renaissance Cup, and Apache Stronghold

What to Know About George C. Thomas Jr. (ft. Geoff Shackelford)

Trevor Immelman on the Presidents Cup, Ernie Els, and What It Takes to Win on Today’s PGA Tour

Superintendent Series: Ryan Tuxhorn of Somerset Hills Country Club

What to Know About William Flynn (ft. Wayne Morrison)

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