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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Catching Up with Zac Blair

01.27.2023

After a two-year layoff to recover from shoulder surgery, Zac Blair is back on the PGA Tour this season. He's also back on the podcast, chatting with Andy about his return to professional golf. They also discuss the final stages ...

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01.27.2023 Catching Up with Zac Blair After a two-year layoff to recover from shoulder surgery, Zac Blair is back on the PGA Tour this season. He's also back on the podcast, chatting with Andy about his return to professional golf. They also discuss the final stages ...
01.24.2023 The Superintendents' Masters The GCSAA Golf Championships, held annually in conjunction with the GCSAA Convention and Trade Show, is the biggest tournament of the year for golf course superintendents who play competitively. We attended last year’s edition and found it to be a ...
01.20.2023 Rob Collins Returns It has been over six years since Rob Collins's first appearance on The Fried Egg podcast. He was guest No. 4 back in 2016, and a lot has happened for his architecture firm King-Collins Golf since then. Rob talks with ...
01.17.2023 Who Can Win a Major in 2023? With the 2023 golf season underway, we're already thinking ahead to the four men's major championships. Joseph LaMagna, who writes the excellent Finding the Edge newsletter, joins Andy to discuss which players have the best chance of winning a big ...
01.13.2023 Seth Waugh on Frisco, LIV, and the PGA of America's Recent Moves Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America, joins Andy to talk about a range of recent happenings and hot-button issues. They discuss the decisions the PGA made when Covid-19 hit, how the organization goes about selecting host sites, ...
01.10.2023 Yolk with Doak 39: Ballyneal and Listener Questions We're back with another edition of the Yolk with Doak, our series with golf architect Tom Doak. Andy and Tom devote a portion of this episode to discussing Ballyneal Golf and Hunt Club, Tom's acclaimed 2006 design in the Chop ...
01.05.2023 Yolk with Doak 38: Pinehurst Yesterday, Pinehurst announced that Tom Doak will design the resort's 10th 18-hole course on a dramatic property in Aberdeen, NC. Tom joins Andy to talk about the factors that will make No. 10 unique, including its elevation changes and the ...
01.04.2023 What We Enjoyed in 2022 and What We're Looking Forward to in 2023 In the first pod of the new year, Andy and Garrett spend some time reflecting on their favorite golf moments from 2022 before looking ahead and picking a few things they're excited about in 2023. First they revisit memories from ...
12.20.2022 The Great English Golf Boom In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, golf caught on outside of Scotland for the first time. The game became especially popular in England, where the number of clubs skyrocketed in the 1890s and the first decade of the ...
12.16.2022 What to Know About Walter Travis (ft. Brian Schneider) There’s an argument to be made that Walter Travis, the Australian-born American golfer who lived from 1862 to 1927, is the most underrated golf architect of the Golden Age. To learn more about Travis’s life and work, Andy sits down ...
12.13.2022 Let’s Talk About the OWGR The Official World Golf Ranking has unexpectedly become a lightning rod for debate this year because of its decisions to overhaul its formula and turn down the upstart LIV Golf league's request for immediate membership. To sort through this mess, ...
12.09.2022 Why Golf? Garrett welcomes author Bob Cullen to the podcast to help explain the mysterious ways in which golf can transform a beginner into an addict overnight. Bob examined the subject in his book Why Golf?, which was published over 20 years ...
12.07.2022 An Announcement from The Fried Egg The Fried Egg is launching a membership! It's called Club TFE. Starting on January 2, 2023, members will have access to exclusive content, along with a variety of other perks. In this episode, Andy and Garrett dive into the details ...
11.29.2022 Designing a Clubhouse If you're a regular listener to The Fried Egg, chances are you've spent a fair amount of time thinking about golf course architecture. But have you ever looked at clubhouses—and other kinds of vertical structures often found on golf courses—and ...
11.25.2022 Assembling Retro Sets with Nick Sherburne of Club Champion Nick Sherburne, founder of Club Champion, brings decades of experience as a club maker and fitter to the podcast as he and Andy put together sets of their favorite clubs from the 80s, 90s, and early aughts. If the mention ...
11.22.2022 Yolk with Doak 37: Scotland Travels, Restorations, and Listener Questions In today's edition of the Yolk with Doak, Tom and Andy begin by reminiscing about their visits to Scotland earlier this year. A discussion of restorations, including Tom's own work at the Lido, takes up the middle part of the ...
11.18.2022 Yolk with Doak 36: Tom’s New Projects (ft. the Return of High Pointe) The Yolk with Doak is back! After a busy few months of travel for both Andy and Tom, they had a lot to catch up on. They start by talking about the revival of High Pointe, the first course Tom ...
11.15.2022 Golf’s Scientific Revolution In his new book The Science of Golf, golf broadcaster Will Haskett (@willhaskett) delves into the scientific revolution that golf has experienced over the past quarter century. The book breaks down everything from launch-monitor technology and strokes-gained analytics to neuroscience ...
11.07.2022 The Many Shane Bacons You can now add "children's book author" to Shane Bacon's (@shanebacon) lengthy résumé. The TV personality and host of the Get a Grip podcast just released his first book, "The Golfer's Zoo." He talks with Garrett about why he wanted ...
11.04.2022 The Players That the PGA Tour Can’t Afford to Lose to LIV Only days after LIV's first-year finale in Miami, the high-stakes game of player recruitment for the Saudi-backed league's second season has ratcheted. Building on a recent piece by Andy in The Fried Egg Newsletter, Andy and Garrett discuss the top ...
11.01.2022 Superintendent Series: Brendan Parkhurst of Cape Arundel Brendan Parkhurst, superintendent at Cape Arundel Golf Club in Kennebunkport, Maine, joins Andy as the latest guest in our Superintendent Series. Brendan has been at Cape Arundel for over 20 years and has helped guide the Walter Travis-designed course through ...
10.25.2022 What’s Next in Golf Course Architecture? Golf course architecture is experiencing its biggest boom in almost 20 years. With demand for new courses and restoration/renovation work ramping up, the industry is at an important juncture. Andy and Garrett each share three things they hope and/or expect ...
10.21.2022 The New Yorker Goes Deep on LIV Golf Zach Helfand’s main job is editing The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” section, but for the past few months he has been working on a feature story about the battle between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour. That article ...
10.18.2022 Sugarloaf Social Club Bought a Golf Course Ian Gilley is the co-founder and president of Sugarloaf Social Club, which is a golf society, a popular Instagram account, a merchandising operation, and now a part-owner of a golf course. Ian and Andy start by chatting about searching for ...
10.11.2022 First Impressions of PGA Frisco PGA Frisco is one of the most important golf-development projects of the past two decades. It consists of two 18-hole golf courses, lighted par-3 and putting courses, an ambitious hotel and retail enterprise, and a new "home" for the PGA ...
10.04.2022 Superintendent Series: Sandy Reid of St. Andrews Sandy Reid (@SandyReidGK), the Director of Greenkeeping at St. Andrews Links, is today's guest for our Superintendent Series. Sandy has one of the busiest jobs in the turf industry: he oversees all seven courses at St. Andrews. This year was ...
09.30.2022 Mailbag: All of Your Golf Course Architecture Questions Andy and Garrett are back with another mailbag episode recorded in the midst of their trip through Massachusetts, Maine, and Upstate New York. This one is focused on all of your golf course architecture questions. Well, maybe not all of ...
09.27.2022 Mailbag: Presidents Cup Reactions and Burgerdog Musings From the living room of an A-frame house in Massachusetts, three members of the Fried Egg team—Andy, Garrett, and Will—reach into the mailbag and answer a batch of your questions. The boys cover a variety of Presidents Cup-related topics: surprises ...
09.21.2022 The Presidents Cup: Past, Present, and Future Team golf is back this week with the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow. To celebrate, Garrett and Andy take a walk down memory lane and examine the history of the event. From the split between the PGA of America and ...
09.20.2022 Ranking the 2022 Major Championships with Geoff Shackelford Anticipation for men's major championship golf this year was sky-high. Tiger was returning to the Masters, the PGA Championship had been moved to Gil Hanse-restored Southern Hills, the U.S. Open was visiting the Country Club for the first time since ...
09.16.2022 Is Golf Still Booming? During the Covid-19 pandemic, recreational golf saw a major uptick. Rounds went up and equipment sales boomed. Have those boom times continued in 2022? Or has there been a regression to the mean? To take the temperature of the golf ...
09.13.2022 The Uncertain Future of the European Tour At this past week's BMW PGA Championship, multiple players who have signed with LIV Golf aired their grievances about the direction of the DP World Tour, formerly know as the European Tour. Ian Poulter, Sergio García, and other Euro vets ...
09.02.2022 Denny McCarthy on Putting Prowess, LIV, and the New PGA Tour Denny McCarthy (@_dennymccarthy) just had his most successful year ever on the PGA Tour, highlighted by a T-7 finish at the U.S. Open. He joins Andy Johnson to talk about his outlook for next season, getting hot just in time ...
08.30.2022 Andy’s Scottish Adventure, Part 2: North Berwick, The Old Course, Dunbar, Kilspindie In the second of two episodes recapping his first visit to Scotland, Andy Johnson gives Garrett Morrison his thoughts on two legendary courses—North Berwick Golf Club and the Old Course at St. Andrews—and two lesser-known gems in the East Lothian ...
08.26.2022 Reviewing the PGA Tour’s Big Changes Earlier this month, Andy Johnson and Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) talked through the changes they'd like to see the PGA Tour make in order to compete with LIV Golf. After this week's onslaught of news and announcements about real alterations that ...
08.23.2022 Superintendent Series: Jeff Austin on Reviving Yale Golf Course Our Superintendent Series is back with Jeff Austin, superintendent at Yale Golf Course (@Yale_GolfCourse). Prior to taking over at Yale, Jeff was an assistant superintendent at Augusta National, and he humors Andy with a few stories from his time there, ...
08.19.2022 What’s Next in the Legal Fight Between LIV and the PGA Tour? The courtroom phase of the conflict between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour began last week with a win for the Tour: a federal judge denied an effort by LIV players to obtain a temporary restraining order that would have ...
08.16.2022 It’s Time for Chambers Bay to Get Another Major Garrett Morrison spent this past Sunday watching Japanese sensation Saki Baba become the latest U.S. Women's Amateur champion. He joins Andy Johnson to share his impressions of the course where all the action took place, Chambers Bay, and its role ...
08.09.2022 Bandon Deep Dives: Bandon Dunes Our fifth and final deep dive into the 18-hole courses at Bandon Dunes is here! Since we’ve gone in reverse-chronological order, we have finally arrived at the OG, the 1999 David McLay Kidd design that launched Mike Keiser’s outpost in ...
08.05.2022 To Fend Off LIV, the PGA Tour Needs to Change. Here’s How. On Monday, the PGA Tour released its 2022-23 schedule, and… well, it looks pretty much the same as this year’s schedule. That’s a problem, Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) argues in a new article on The Fried Egg website. If the PGA ...
08.02.2022 Andy’s Scottish Adventure, Part 1: Muirfield, Gullane, Elie After wrapping up his first visit to Scotland a couple of weeks ago, Andy Johnson is ready to relive it with two podcasts recapping the trip. In this first installment, he and Garrett Morrison start with an in-depth discussion of ...
07.28.2022 What Saudi Arabia Really Wants Out of LIV Golf This week, the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational series is holding its third-ever tournament, LIV Bedminster, at a golf course owned by former president Donald Trump. Now there’s a sentence that our 2015 selves—even our 2020 selves—couldn’t have imagined writing. But ...
07.26.2022 James Duncan on Working with Coore & Crenshaw and Building Brambles James Duncan has had over 30 years of experience in golf course architecture and has worked with Tom Doak and Gil Hanse in addition to being a longtime associate with Coore & Crenshaw. He joins Andy Johnson to talk about ...
07.18.2022 Takeaways from the 2022 Open Championship Given the turmoil that has dominated men’s professional golf this year, a Rory McIlroy victory in the Open Championship at St. Andrews would have been a storybook ending to the major season. Well, too bad. Cameron Smith, as he reminded ...
07.15.2022 The Evolution of the Old Course How did the Old Course at St. Andrews become what it is today? Garrett Morrison takes a break from the action at the 150th Open Championship to chat with historian Bob Crosby (@otey71) about how golf’s most famous and influential ...
07.10.2022 Five Things About the 2022 Open Championship with Michael Clayton The 150th Open Championship is almost here, so Michael Clayton (@mikeclaytongolf) joins Andy Johnson to run through five storylines to watch for this week. Tiger, Rory, and the biggest star of week, St. Andrews, are all covered. Michael also discusses ...
07.08.2022 On My First Visit to St. Andrews... Andy Johnson will take his maiden voyage to St. Andrews for next week's Open Championship. To prepare, he talks with a series of guests about their first visits to the Old Course. Tom Doak, James Duncan, Shane Bacon (@shanebacon), Michael ...
07.05.2022 We Regret to Inform You That LIV’s Golf Product Does Not Stink This past weekend, the second event of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational series was staged at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club outside of Portland, Oregon. The Fried Egg's own Garrett Morrison was on site, and he joins Andy Johnson to reflect ...
07.01.2022 Yolk with Doak 35: All Things St. Andrews With the 150th edition of the Open kicking off at the Old Course in a little less than two weeks, Tom Doak and Andy Johnson devote an entire episode to St. Andrews. Tom has gotten to know the course deeply ...
06.28.2022 Yolk with Doak 34: Saudi Golf Issues, Cabot Highlands, and Listener Questions In the latest installment of the Yolk with Doak, golf architect Tom Doak covers a wide range of topics with Andy Johnson. First, they spend some time examining Saudi Arabia's role in golf outside of the LIV tour, namely the ...

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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

Catching Up with Zac Blair

The Superintendents' Masters

Rob Collins Returns

Who Can Win a Major in 2023?

Seth Waugh on Frisco, LIV, and the PGA of America's Recent Moves

Yolk with Doak 39: Ballyneal and Listener Questions

Yolk with Doak 38: Pinehurst

What We Enjoyed in 2022 and What We're Looking Forward to in 2023

The Great English Golf Boom

What to Know About Walter Travis (ft. Brian Schneider)

Let’s Talk About the OWGR

Why Golf?

An Announcement from The Fried Egg

Designing a Clubhouse

Assembling Retro Sets with Nick Sherburne of Club Champion

Yolk with Doak 37: Scotland Travels, Restorations, and Listener Questions

Yolk with Doak 36: Tom’s New Projects (ft. the Return of High Pointe)

Golf’s Scientific Revolution

The Many Shane Bacons

The Players That the PGA Tour Can’t Afford to Lose to LIV

Superintendent Series: Brendan Parkhurst of Cape Arundel

What’s Next in Golf Course Architecture?

The New Yorker Goes Deep on LIV Golf

Sugarloaf Social Club Bought a Golf Course

First Impressions of PGA Frisco

Superintendent Series: Sandy Reid of St. Andrews

Mailbag: All of Your Golf Course Architecture Questions

Mailbag: Presidents Cup Reactions and Burgerdog Musings

The Presidents Cup: Past, Present, and Future

Ranking the 2022 Major Championships with Geoff Shackelford

Is Golf Still Booming?

The Uncertain Future of the European Tour

Denny McCarthy on Putting Prowess, LIV, and the New PGA Tour

Andy’s Scottish Adventure, Part 2: North Berwick, The Old Course, Dunbar, Kilspindie

Reviewing the PGA Tour’s Big Changes

Superintendent Series: Jeff Austin on Reviving Yale Golf Course

What’s Next in the Legal Fight Between LIV and the PGA Tour?

It’s Time for Chambers Bay to Get Another Major

Bandon Deep Dives: Bandon Dunes

To Fend Off LIV, the PGA Tour Needs to Change. Here’s How.

Andy’s Scottish Adventure, Part 1: Muirfield, Gullane, Elie

What Saudi Arabia Really Wants Out of LIV Golf

James Duncan on Working with Coore & Crenshaw and Building Brambles

Takeaways from the 2022 Open Championship

The Evolution of the Old Course

Five Things About the 2022 Open Championship with Michael Clayton

On My First Visit to St. Andrews...

We Regret to Inform You That LIV’s Golf Product Does Not Stink

Yolk with Doak 35: All Things St. Andrews

Yolk with Doak 34: Saudi Golf Issues, Cabot Highlands, and Listener Questions

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