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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U.S. Open Favorites, Turf i...

06.02.2023

Andy starts this episode off by giving his 10 favorites for the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. He is then joined by Lauren Lasocha, senior agronomist at Bel-Air Country Club (12:37). Lauren tells Andy about working at not ...

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

06.02.2023 U.S. Open Favorites, Turf in L.A. with Lauren Lasocha, and KFT Life with Logan McAllister Andy starts this episode off by giving his 10 favorites for the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. He is then joined by Lauren Lasocha, senior agronomist at Bel-Air Country Club (12:37). Lauren tells Andy about working at not ...
05.31.2023 A Preview of LACC North (ft. Gil Hanse and Geoff Shackelford) With the 2023 U.S. Open two weeks away, Garrett and Andy sit down to discuss the host venue, the North Course at Los Angeles Country Club. They agree that this is one of the best golf courses in the country, ...
05.25.2023 Top Five Golfers of the Post-Tiger Era, NCAA Golf Championships, and Golden Age Auctions Andy opens this mega-episode by running through his top five players of the post-Tiger era. Golf Channel's Brentley Romine (@BrentleyGC) then joins the show (18:50) to talk all things NCAA Golf, including the men's and women's national championships, Rose Zhang's ...
05.23.2023 Takeaways from the 2023 PGA Championship Brooks Koepka is your 2023 PGA champion. Fried Egg contributor and Finding the Edge author Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) joins Garrett to talk about Koepka's resurgence, skill set, and strategic approach. They also touch on the performances of second-place finishers Viktor ...
05.18.2023 A Short-Game Wizard vs. a Ball-Striking Prodigy at the 1938 PGA Championship For this mid-week PGA Championship episode, we go back to 1938, when the tournament was still a match-play competition. In that year's final match, a 26-year-old Sam Snead, one of the most imposing ball-strikers the game has ever seen, faced ...
05.14.2023 Five Things About the 2023 PGA Championship with Ryan Lavner Ryan Lavner, senior writer at Golf Channel, joins Andy to preview the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Ryan, who grew up near Rochester, and Andy both share five things they're paying attention to ...
05.11.2023 What to Know About Donald Ross (ft. Bradley Klein and Chris Buie) Just one week left until the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. As we gear up for the event, we’re looking at the architect behind Oak Hill, Donald Ross. Andy chats with authors Bradley Klein ...
05.09.2023 LIV's Major Complaints and How the PGA Tour Monitors Slow Play Garrett and Brendan start this Tuesday show with a discussion of Talor Gooch's ongoing battle with the USGA over an exemption-category change that may keep him out of the 2023 U.S. Open (4:18). They touch on the various sides of ...
05.04.2023 PGA Championship Favorites and Oak Hill Insights To paraphrase Bill Belichick, we're on to Rochester! In this solo pod, Andy runs through his top 10 picks for the PGA Championship and explains what style of play will do well at this year's venue, the East Course at ...
05.02.2023 A Preview of Oak Hill (ft. Andrew Green and Fred Beltz) In this episode, Andy and Garrett discuss the East Course at Oak Hill Country Club, the host of the 2023 PGA Championship. First they bring on Fred Beltz, the club historian, and Andrew Green, the architect behind the recent historical ...
04.28.2023 Does Golf Need a Shot Clock? Washington Post sports columnist Barry Srvluga joins Andy to discuss the impact of baseball's new rules on the sport. Barry delves into the challenges baseball faced and the factors that led to its major overhaul. He and Andy then explore ...
04.25.2023 Rodeo Dunes Insights with Michael Keiser and Reflections on New-Coke Dinah Shore Garrett and Meg kick off this Tuesday show by briefly tackling the age-old question, Which event felt more like a real golf tournament: the PGA Tour's Zurich Classic or LIV Adelaide? Garrett then brings on Dream Golf Resorts developer Michael ...
04.19.2023 Introducing The Park with Jim Wagner of Hanse Golf Course Design The Park in West Palm Beach is one of the most exciting municipal golf course projects in recent memory. Designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, The Park opened on Monday and brings high-quality public golf architecture to South Florida. ...
04.13.2023 Andy and Garrett Go to Augusta National Andy got to play Augusta National for the first time the day after the 2023 Masters. Garrett got to walk around Augusta National for the first time on Saturday at the 2023 ANWA. In this episode, they discuss.
04.11.2023 Masters Takeaways: Rahm vs. Koepka and a Mailbag with Shane Bacon Garrett and Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) kick off this post-Masters Tuesday episode by guessing what TFE founder Andy Johnson will shoot in his media-lottery round at Augusta National. They then give a thorough rundown of the Sunday duel between Jon Rahm ...
04.06.2023 Masters Presser Reactions and an Alternative History of Augusta National's Design This midweek Masters episode starts with Garrett offering some solo thoughts on the pre-tournament press conferences at Augusta National (0:34). He touches on ANGC chairman Fred Ridley's announcement of a partnership with a local muni as well as Ridley's diplomatic ...
04.01.2023 Five Things About the 2023 Masters with Trevor Immelman Trevor Immelman, the 2008 Masters champion and current CBS lead analyst, joins host Andy to provide a preview of the upcoming 2023 Masters. Immelman brings fresh insights from his recent weekend spent at Augusta National, including an in-depth analysis of ...
03.28.2023 The Uncertain State of the LPGA Tour and a Trio of ANWA Player Profiles with Anne Walker Garrett and Meg Adkins (@megadkins_TFE) launch this Tuesday show by sharing their favorite memories from the erstwhile WGC-Dell Match Play. They then dig into the current state of the LPGA Tour, offering takeaways from this past week's Drive On Championship; ...
03.23.2023 Masters Favorites, Golf Architecture Chat, and a Ranking of Golf Areas in Great Britain Andy opens the episode by running through his favorites for the 2023 Masters. He is then joined by golf architect Jaeger Kovich for a wide-ranging conversation. They talk about how Jaeger builds greens, the challenges of running his own firm, ...
03.21.2023 A Farewell to the Match Play and a Rollback Chat with Dean Snell NOTE: If you initially hear last week's episode with Brendan Porath and Sean Martin, delete that episode and re-download. We made an uploading mistake. Sorry about that! At the top of our Tuesday show, Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) calms Garrett's fears ...
03.16.2023 A Rollback Extravaganza On Tuesday, the USGA and R&A announced a Model Local Rule (MLR) that, if adopted, would reduce the flight of the golf ball in high-level tournaments. This is a historic move that deserves the mega-pod treatment. To kick things off, ...
03.14.2023 The Tao of Scottie Scheffler and Rank-and-File Rumblings at the 2023 Players Our Tuesday show covers a variety of topics related to the past week's Players Championship. First, Garrett talks with Brendan Porath (@BrendanPorath) about whether Scottie Scheffler's win should count as 0.5 of a major (0:35). Then Garrett brings in the ...
03.09.2023 Assessing the PGA Tour's New Structure with Joe Ogilvie Over the past week, the PGA Tour has released details about the structure of its new "designated event model." To sort it all out, Andy sits down with former tour player Joe Ogilvie (@ogilviej). Joe talks about his time on ...
03.07.2023 Four Things About the 2023 Players Championship with Shane Bacon It's Players week! Shane Bacon (@shanebacon) joins Andy to preview the action at TPC Sawgrass. They discuss how designated events will affect the 2023 Players and future tournaments, the Tour's response to LIV defectors (including last year's Players champion Cameron ...
03.02.2023 LIV Ratings, PGA Tour Telecast Changes, and Other Golf-on-TV Topics LIV Golf is getting some brutal-sounding ratings on the CW, the PGA Tour's TV partners are changing things up, and golf broadcasting has become a hot topic lately. To break it all down, Garrett talks with Josh Carpenter (@JoshACarpenter), an ...
02.28.2023 Superintendent Series: Javier Campos of Cal Club Javier Campos (@CalClimbingSoup) is the golf course superintendent at the California Golf Club of San Francisco, more commonly known as Cal Club. Javier sits down with Andy to discuss, among other things, how he worked his way up the ranks ...
02.24.2023 The PGA Tour Season So Far Andy starts this episode by running through his 10 (early) favorites to win the 2023 Masters. He is then joined by Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) to talk about a variety of topics: their takeaways from the West Coast swing, the players ...
02.21.2023 Andrew Putnam Talks About Making It on the PGA Tour Thirty-four-year-old Andrew Putnam is a pro's pro. He has quietly put together an impressive career on the PGA Tour, winning once (at the 2018 Barracuda) and establishing himself as one of the best putters in the game. He joins Andy ...
02.16.2023 Full Swing Reactions with Megan Schuster The much-anticipated Netflix docuseries on professional golf has arrived. Full Swing debuted yesterday with eight episodes on the 2022 PGA Tour (and LIV) season. For some honest reactions to the show, Garrett calls up Megan Schuster (@megschuster), who covers golf ...
02.14.2023 The State of LIV Golf LIV Golf, the upstart golf tour backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will start its second season next week in Mexico. It's been an odd, somewhat rough offseason for Greg Norman's organization, with executives fleeing and no big-name player ...
02.10.2023 Why We're (Cautiously) Optimistic About the PGA Tour's Designated Events This week's Waste Management Phoenix Open is the PGA Tour's first full-field "designated event." The designated-event series, created in response to LIV Golf's attempts to lure the world's top male players with guaranteed paydays, will transform the Tour's structure in ...
02.07.2023 Thad Layton on Taking Arnold Palmer Design Company into the Future Thad Layton has worked for Arnold Palmer Design since he graduated from college 23 years ago, and today he is the Senior Golf Course Architect and Vice President at the company. He joins Andy to talk about working with Arnold ...
02.03.2023 How Digital Tech and AI Could Change Golf Course Design Lately Garrett has been wondering how recent technological advances, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, may change golf architecture in the coming decades. So he called up Peter Flory (@nle_golf), whose digital modeling was a key component of the ...
01.31.2023 Golf Architecture Mailbag: Rollback Possibilities, Pet Peeves, and Public Golf Problems You asked, we answered. Andy and Garrett tackle a variety of golf architecture-related questions from listeners, including ones about the impact a potential equipment rollback will have on championship courses, which practices in modern golf course design are most objectionable, ...
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 ...

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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast episodes:

U.S. Open Favorites, Turf in L.A. with Lauren Lasocha, and KFT Life with Logan McAllister

A Preview of LACC North (ft. Gil Hanse and Geoff Shackelford)

Top Five Golfers of the Post-Tiger Era, NCAA Golf Championships, and Golden Age Auctions

Takeaways from the 2023 PGA Championship

A Short-Game Wizard vs. a Ball-Striking Prodigy at the 1938 PGA Championship

Five Things About the 2023 PGA Championship with Ryan Lavner

What to Know About Donald Ross (ft. Bradley Klein and Chris Buie)

LIV's Major Complaints and How the PGA Tour Monitors Slow Play

PGA Championship Favorites and Oak Hill Insights

A Preview of Oak Hill (ft. Andrew Green and Fred Beltz)

Does Golf Need a Shot Clock?

Rodeo Dunes Insights with Michael Keiser and Reflections on New-Coke Dinah Shore

Introducing The Park with Jim Wagner of Hanse Golf Course Design

Andy and Garrett Go to Augusta National

Masters Takeaways: Rahm vs. Koepka and a Mailbag with Shane Bacon

Masters Presser Reactions and an Alternative History of Augusta National's Design

Five Things About the 2023 Masters with Trevor Immelman

The Uncertain State of the LPGA Tour and a Trio of ANWA Player Profiles with Anne Walker

Masters Favorites, Golf Architecture Chat, and a Ranking of Golf Areas in Great Britain

A Farewell to the Match Play and a Rollback Chat with Dean Snell

A Rollback Extravaganza

The Tao of Scottie Scheffler and Rank-and-File Rumblings at the 2023 Players

Assessing the PGA Tour's New Structure with Joe Ogilvie

Four Things About the 2023 Players Championship with Shane Bacon

LIV Ratings, PGA Tour Telecast Changes, and Other Golf-on-TV Topics

Superintendent Series: Javier Campos of Cal Club

The PGA Tour Season So Far

Andrew Putnam Talks About Making It on the PGA Tour

Full Swing Reactions with Megan Schuster

The State of LIV Golf

Why We're (Cautiously) Optimistic About the PGA Tour's Designated Events

Thad Layton on Taking Arnold Palmer Design Company into the Future

How Digital Tech and AI Could Change Golf Course Design

Golf Architecture Mailbag: Rollback Possibilities, Pet Peeves, and Public Golf Problems

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

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