The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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We talk about all things golf from the perspective of a better than scratch golfer. Topics range from the PGA Tour to golf course architecture.

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Yolk with Doak 30: What’s H...

07.28.2021

In the latest installment of our interview series with Tom Doak, Tom gives an update on the progress at the Lido, the Keiser family’s latest course near Sand Valley. He and Andy discuss the pros and cons of the technology ...

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

07.28.2021 Yolk with Doak 30: What’s Happening at the Lido and Dornick Hills In the latest installment of our interview series with Tom Doak, Tom gives an update on the progress at the Lido, the Keiser family’s latest course near Sand Valley. He and Andy discuss the pros and cons of the technology ...
07.22.2021 Yolk with Doak 29: The Opening of St. Patrick's and the Making of Pacific Dunes The Yolk with Doak returns! In the first of two new episodes of our interview series with golf architect Tom Doak, we cover the recent grand opening of St. Patrick's Links at the Rosapenna Hotel and Golf Resort in Ireland. ...
07.14.2021 Five Things About the 2021 Open Championship with Jaime Diaz Golf Channel's Jaime Diaz joins Andy to discuss this week's Open Championship at Royal St. George's. Jaime has over 30 years of experience in golf journalism, and he shares his favorite memories from the Open and how writing about it ...
07.11.2021 The Controversial Beginnings of Royal St. George's When Royal St. George's Golf Club, the host of the upcoming Open Championship, opened in the late 1880s, it looked a lot different than it does today. The earliest iteration of the course embodied the Victorian principles of its designer, ...
07.07.2021 Superintendent Series: Brendan Byrne on Llanerch and Philly Cheesesteaks Brendan Byrne, superintendent and co-general manager at Llanerch Country Club in Havertown, Pennsylvania, chats with Andy about his 20+ year career in golf, from starting out at Rolling Green Golf Club to overseeing the recent restoration at Llanerch. He shares ...
07.01.2021 Shane Ryan on the Ryder Cup and the State of Golf Media Shane Ryan is a contributor for GolfDigest.com and the author of Slaying the Tiger, an account of the 2014 PGA Tour season. He sits down with Garrett Morrison to talk about the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, which he covered last ...
06.28.2021 2021 U.S. Open Recap with Shane Bacon Shane Bacon, co-host of Golf Today and the Get a Grip podcast, joins Andy for a recap of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. The two discuss Jon Rahm's breakthrough major win, Bryson's claim of not caring about his 44 ...
06.23.2021 Stretching Routines and Host Family Stories with Brad Marek PGA professional Brad Marek joins Andy to discuss his great run at last month's PGA Championship. Brad played for years on the mini tours before becoming a well-regarded teaching pro at Corica Park in the Bay Area. In this episode, ...
06.15.2021 Five Things About the 2021 U.S. Open with Geoff Ogilvy You probably know that Geoff Ogilvy won the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. What you may have forgotten is that he also contended for the 2008 edition at Torrey Pines. In fact, at one point on Sunday, he was ...
06.11.2021 Superintendent Series: Rich McIntosh on Torrey Pines and the U.S. Open Rich McIntosh, superintendent of the South Course at Torrey Pines, joins Andy to discuss how preparations are going for the 2021 U.S. Open. Rich has an incredibly difficult job: taking one of the busiest municipal courses in the world and ...
06.09.2021 Mike Clayton on Phil’s Win, World Tours, and the U.S. Women’s Open Time for a supersized episode! Last week, Andy called up Mike Clayton—former tour pro, current golf architect, and general voice of reason—to talk about Phil Mickelson’s victory at the PGA Championship, ideas for a world golf tour, and Mike’s upcoming ...
06.04.2021 Fried Egg Stories: The Qualifier On April 26, 73 players arrived at Half Moon Bay Golf Links with hopes of qualifying for the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open at Olympic Club. One of them was Juli Inkster, Hall of Famer and seven-time major champion. Now 60 ...
05.19.2021 Five Things About the 2021 PGA Championship with Kyle Porter Kyle Porter, golf writer for CBS and co-host of the First Cut podcast, joins Andy Johnson to preview this week's PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. Kyle and Andy each run through five things they'll be paying attention to as the ...
05.17.2021 Superintendent Series: Jeff Stone on Kiawah and the PGA Championship Jeff Stone has worked for the Kiawah Island Golf Resort since before the Ocean Course was built, and he has been the golf course superintendent at the Ocean Course since 2003. For this edition of the Superintendent Series, Jeff takes ...
05.14.2021 Fried Egg Stories: Making the Ocean Course In September 1989, a devastating hurricane hit South Carolina. Directly in its path was Kiawah Island, where Pete Dye had just begun to build a new golf course. And this wasn't just any course: in two years, it was supposed ...
05.11.2021 What's New at the Ocean Course for the 2021 PGA Championship Golf architect Scot Sherman joins Andy Johnson to discuss recent renovation work at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island for the 2021 PGA Championship. Scot talks about how being at the Ocean Course has brought his career full circle, and ...
05.04.2021 Two Championship Golf Courses in California (and a Lovely Muni) Last week, the Fried Egg team went on a whirlwind tour of California, and in this episode Andy and Garrett break down the highlights. First they discuss Soule Park, host of the Fried Egg's Boomerang event and one of the ...
04.20.2021 Golfers and Environmentalists Are Not Enemies A common knock on golf courses is that they're bad for the environment. But that's an over-simplified view—and in some cases, a flat-out incorrect one. With Earth Day coming up, we thought it was time to sort through these issues ...
04.14.2021 Reviewing Hideki's Masters Win with Sean Martin For the past decade, Sean Martin, senior editor at PGA Tour.com, has been covering Hideki Matsuyama's career with more depth and nuance than any other golf writer. So who better than him to sit down with Andy Johnson and review ...
04.06.2021 Five Things About the 2021 Masters with Shane Bacon Golf Channel host Shane Bacon joins Andy Johnson to discuss the upcoming Masters Tournament. Shane and Andy each run through five things they're looking forward to seeing at Augusta National this week. They touch on Jordan Spieth's reemergence, Rory McIlroy's ...
04.02.2021 The Lost Masters with Curt Sampson When the world is in disarray, what, if anything, is the role of professional sports? Specifically, what's the role of the Masters, a tournament that has always felt like an escape from everyday life? To explore those questions, Garrett Morrison ...
03.31.2021 Jim Wagner of Hanse Golf Course Design on Contours and Cavemen Jim Wagner is a longtime design partner at Hanse Golf Course Design and the head of the firm’s Caveman Construction crew. With the rise of the design-build approach in golf course architecture, Jim’s on-the-ground knowledge is more relevant than ever. ...
03.23.2021 Superintendent Series: Jim Huntoon on Mowing Lines and Myrtle Beach Jim Huntoon is the golf course superintendent at the Heritage Club in the Myrtle Beach area and a contributor to the Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association. In this installment of our Superintendent Series, Jim speaks with Andy about finding creativity ...
03.17.2021 An Insider's View of Golf Course Rankings For many people, golf course rankings published by major magazines provide an introduction to golf course architecture. They communicate the basic notion that some courses might (or should) be considered "greater" than others. Since 1996, Jonathan Cummings has served on ...
03.11.2021 How Your Personality Shapes Your Golf Game Kiel Alderink is a PGA professional and one of Golf Digest's top instructors under the age of 40. Along with mental coach John Weir, he founded Mental Golf Type, a company that uses personality psychology to help golfers practice and ...
03.06.2021 Fried Egg Stories (Rerelease): Making TPC Sawgrass Programming note: We first released this episode on Thursday, March 12, 2020. That evening, the Players Championship was canceled in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. So with the 2021 Players approaching, we thought we'd give this story another chance. In ...
02.26.2021 A Way Forward for Municipal Golf Today we wrap up our deep dive into Andy Johnson's visit to North and South Carolina with a hybrid episode. The first half is devoted to a conversation that Andy had with Troy Miller at Charleston Municipal Golf Course. Troy ...
02.23.2021 Tony Jacklin on the Ryder Cup, the Yips, and the Concession (Golf Club) In collaboration with Jack Nicklaus, English golf legend Tony Jacklin designed the Concession Golf Club, which will host the WGC-Workday Championship this week. Ahead of that event, Jacklin joined Andy Johnson to discuss his long, decorated career. They talk about ...
02.18.2021 Geoff Ogilvy on Instruction, P-Reed, Rollback, and Mixed Events Geoff Ogilvy is back! He joins Andy to talk about he recent golf news, including the USGA’s potential adjustments to equipments standards and Patrick Reed’s rules incident at Torrey Pines. They also chat about the new Players Series, mixed events ...
02.16.2021 Disc Golf Architecture with John Houck Disc golf has a lot in common with golf. It's usually played over nine or 18 holes; there are tees and targets; there are drives, approaches, and putts; and scores are often calculated according to par. But Fried Egg listeners ...
02.09.2021 The Latest from the USGA Distance Insights Project Thomas Pagel, the USGA's senior managing director of governance, joins Andy to discuss the USGA and R&A;’s latest announcement regarding their years-long Distance Insights Project. Last year the governing bodies released a major Distance Insights Report, and last week they ...
02.07.2021 Thoughts on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Garrett and Andy sit down to discuss Andy's recent trip through the Carolinas. In this first part of their conversation, they open with some thoughts on the events and content projects The Fried Egg has on the schedule for 2021. ...
01.26.2021 Zac Blair Hires Doak and Goalby for the Tree Farm Zac Blair makes his long-awaited return to the podcast to discuss the latest news on his golf course project in Aiken, South Carolina. Zac talks about his decision to hire Tom Doak and Kye Goalby as well as the membership ...
01.18.2021 Yolk with Doak 28: The Lido Club Tom Doak joins to discuss his latest project, rebuilding the Lido Club near the Sand Valley Golf Resort. Andy and Tom discuss the history of C.B. Macdonald's lost Lido, the challenges of rebuilding it, and how Tom and his crew ...
01.07.2021 Five Things About the 2021 PGA Tour Season with Sean Martin Sean Martin, Senior Editor at PGA Tour.com, joins Andy to discuss the 2021 PGA Tour season. Both Sean and Andy identify five things they will be watching for this year. They talk about the youth wave on tour, Dustin Johnson, ...
01.03.2021 Superintendent Series: Bob Ranum on Garden City and Mike Strantz Long Island legend Bob Ranum joins Andy to talk about his career in golf course maintenance. Bob discusses his superintendent jobs at Garden City Golf Club and Atlantic Golf Club. Topics include helping to restore Garden City with Tom Doak, ...
12.15.2020 Yolk with Doak 27: Tom's 2020 American Road Trip Tom Doak returns to delve more into his recent road trip across the United States. During his travels, Tom visited two upcoming projects, Dornick Hills in Oklahoma and Sandpiper in California. He and Andy also discuss how beauty affects a ...
12.08.2020 Superintendent Series: Preparing Champions Golf Club for the U.S. Women's Open Chris Ortmeier, Director of Agronomy at Champions Golf Club, and Darin Bevard, Director of Championship Agronomy for the USGA, join Andy to discuss this week's U.S. Women's Open. Chris and Darin detail the unique challenges associated with the December date ...
12.02.2020 Yolk with Doak 26: Houston Open Redux In the latest installment of our series with the golf course architect Tom Doak, he talks about his month-long road trip across America. One of his most prominent stops came at the PGA Tour's 2020 Houston Open at Memorial Park, ...
11.30.2020 Episode 199: Mike Young Golf course architect and owner Mike Young joins Andy to talk about his career in golf. Mike discusses getting his start in golf turf equipment sales and making the leap into design and eventually ownership at the Fields Golf Club ...
11.24.2020 Episode 198: Data Golf Data Golf, founded by brothers Matt and Will Courchene, is on a mission to make sense of the piles of data coming out of professional golf today. In this episode, Garrett Morrison speaks with Matt about how advanced statistics might ...
11.20.2020 Episode 197: Geoff Ogilvy - 2020 Masters Geoff Ogilvy joins Andy to break down the 2020 Masters. Geoff tells some stories about playing with this year's champion Dustin Johnson and discusses DJ's great mental approach to golf. The conversation also touches on the excellent play from several ...
11.12.2020 Fried Egg Stories: The Pursuit of Perfect Turf Even in November, Augusta National looks flawless. But why is it that we get so excited about green, uniform grass? In this edition of our audio documentary series, we dig into the backstory of America’s obsession with perfect turf. Our ...
11.09.2020 Episode 196: Geoff Ogilvy - All 18 at Augusta National Before the last year's Masters, we released a two-part discussion with Geoff Ogilvy about Augusta National Golf Club. Here, we present a condensed, one-episode version of that conversation. Andy and Geoff cover every hole at the course, delving into the ...
11.07.2020 Episode 195: Lukas Michel - 2020 Masters Prep and playing America's best golf courses 2019 U.S. Mid Am Champion Lukas Michel joins the podcast to discuss his preparations for the Masters as well as his travels in the U.S. since the U.S. Amateur. Lukas details his work on Mike DeVries's restoration crew at Bloomfield ...
10.29.2020 Episode 194: Luke Reese - One for the Memory Banks Author Luke Reese joins the podcast to talk about his new book One for the Memory Banks. Luke reflects on his experiences learning the game late in life as an American in Scotland and the friendships he made along the ...
10.26.2020 Superintendent Series: Josh Mahar on Wild Horse and Sand Hills Josh Mahar, Superintendent at Wild Horse Golf Club, joins the podcast to discuss his longtime involvement in world-class golf in the Nebraska Sandhills. Josh was part of the grow-in team not only at Wild Hose but also at the renowned ...
10.15.2020 School of Golf Architecture, Part 5 (2): Routing with Jeff Mingay This is the second part of Garrett’s discussion with golf architect Jeff Mingay (@jeff_mingay) about how golfers can “read” the routing of a course. Having laid out the shared traits of good routings, they dig into a few famous examples. ...
10.13.2020 School of Golf Architecture, Part 5 (1): Routing with Jeff Mingay Routing is perhaps the most important step in designing a golf course, but it’s a difficult concept for non-architects to understand. How can a regular golfer “read” the routing of a course that has already been built? Garrett explores this ...
10.07.2020 Episode 193: Jaeger Kovich - Aronimink Golf Club Golf architect Jaeger Kovich joins the podcast to recall his time as a shaper for Hanse Golf Course Design during the firm's 2016 restoration of Aronimink Golf Club. This week, Aronimink plays host to the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

Yolk with Doak 30: What’s Happening at the Lido and Dornick Hills

Yolk with Doak 29: The Opening of St. Patrick's and the Making of Pacific Dunes

Five Things About the 2021 Open Championship with Jaime Diaz

The Controversial Beginnings of Royal St. George's

Superintendent Series: Brendan Byrne on Llanerch and Philly Cheesesteaks

Shane Ryan on the Ryder Cup and the State of Golf Media

2021 U.S. Open Recap with Shane Bacon

Stretching Routines and Host Family Stories with Brad Marek

Five Things About the 2021 U.S. Open with Geoff Ogilvy

Superintendent Series: Rich McIntosh on Torrey Pines and the U.S. Open

Mike Clayton on Phil’s Win, World Tours, and the U.S. Women’s Open

Fried Egg Stories: The Qualifier

Five Things About the 2021 PGA Championship with Kyle Porter

Superintendent Series: Jeff Stone on Kiawah and the PGA Championship

Fried Egg Stories: Making the Ocean Course

What's New at the Ocean Course for the 2021 PGA Championship

Two Championship Golf Courses in California (and a Lovely Muni)

Golfers and Environmentalists Are Not Enemies

Reviewing Hideki's Masters Win with Sean Martin

Five Things About the 2021 Masters with Shane Bacon

The Lost Masters with Curt Sampson

Jim Wagner of Hanse Golf Course Design on Contours and Cavemen

Superintendent Series: Jim Huntoon on Mowing Lines and Myrtle Beach

An Insider's View of Golf Course Rankings

How Your Personality Shapes Your Golf Game

Fried Egg Stories (Rerelease): Making TPC Sawgrass

A Way Forward for Municipal Golf

Tony Jacklin on the Ryder Cup, the Yips, and the Concession (Golf Club)

Geoff Ogilvy on Instruction, P-Reed, Rollback, and Mixed Events

Disc Golf Architecture with John Houck

The Latest from the USGA Distance Insights Project

Thoughts on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island

Zac Blair Hires Doak and Goalby for the Tree Farm

Yolk with Doak 28: The Lido Club

Five Things About the 2021 PGA Tour Season with Sean Martin

Superintendent Series: Bob Ranum on Garden City and Mike Strantz

Yolk with Doak 27: Tom's 2020 American Road Trip

Superintendent Series: Preparing Champions Golf Club for the U.S. Women's Open

Yolk with Doak 26: Houston Open Redux

Episode 199: Mike Young

Episode 198: Data Golf

Episode 197: Geoff Ogilvy - 2020 Masters

Fried Egg Stories: The Pursuit of Perfect Turf

Episode 196: Geoff Ogilvy - All 18 at Augusta National

Episode 195: Lukas Michel - 2020 Masters Prep and playing America's best golf courses

Episode 194: Luke Reese - One for the Memory Banks

Superintendent Series: Josh Mahar on Wild Horse and Sand Hills

School of Golf Architecture, Part 5 (2): Routing with Jeff Mingay

School of Golf Architecture, Part 5 (1): Routing with Jeff Mingay

Episode 193: Jaeger Kovich - Aronimink Golf Club

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