Where Did Country Clubs Come From?
The late 1800s saw the invention of an important institution: the American country club. This week’s U.S. Open venue, The Country Club in Brookline, was the first—or at least one of the first. By the ...
17 Jun 202240min
Five Things About the 2022 U.S. Open with Tron Carter
It's U.S. Open week! To give a preview of the action, Andy Johnson sits down with Tron Carter (@TronCarterNLU) and runs through five things they'll be watching for at The Country Club in Brookline. Th...
13 Jun 202257min
Fried Egg Stories: How to Slay a Monster (The Open Doctor and His Monster, Part 3)
This episode concludes our series “The Open Doctor and His Monster,” which chronicles the origins, rise, and end of the Robert Trent Jones era in golf. Today, we tell the story of the movement that ch...
10 Jun 202241min
Fried Egg Stories: Ben Hogan vs. the Monster (The Open Doctor and His Monster, Part 2)
In this second installment of our documentary series “The Open Doctor and His Monster,” we focus on the 1951 U.S. Open, in which Ben Hogan did battle with Robert Trent Jones’s modern architecture at O...
8 Jun 202242min
Fried Egg Stories: How to Make a Monster (The Open Doctor and His Monster, Part 1)
Today, we kick off a three-part documentary series called “The Open Doctor and His Monster,” in which we chronicle the Robert Trent Jones era in golf: its origins in Rochester, New York; its breakthro...
6 Jun 202237min
Chatting Pine Needles and U.S. Women’s Open with Kyle Franz
Golf architect Kyle Franz (@KyleFranzGolf) returns to the podcast to share his wealth of knowledge of Pine Needles, the site of the ongoing 2022 U.S. Women's Open. Kyle carried out a restoration of th...
3 Jun 202249min
A Preview of The Country Club (ft. Gil Hanse)
With the U.S. Open a little over two weeks away, we are well into the "from many, one" process. The 2022 edition will be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, for the first time since ...
31 Mai 20221h 22min
Takeaways from the 2022 PGA Championship
The final two days of the 2022 PGA Championship were generally a bit of a slog. The big names were going in the wrong direction, and the rest of the leaderboard wasn't producing much excitement. But t...
24 Mai 20221h 8min
