Trees and Golf
The best way to plunge a golf club into chaos is to suggest chopping down trees. In today’s episode, golf architecture author and consultant Bradley Klein joins Garrett Morrison to discuss this contro...
19 Jun 202559min
Deep Dive: Oakmont
Today we’re diving deep into this year’s U.S. Open venue, Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. First, Garrett Morrison speaks with David Moore, Curator of Collections at Oakmont, about the e...
3 Jun 20251h 27min
Golf Architecture 101: Template Holes
In this installment of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett introduces his Fried Egg Golf colleague PJ Clark to C.B. Macdonald's "ideal holes." They discuss how Macdonald came up with the notion ...
20 Mai 202559min
Is It Time to Move Beyond Minimalism?
If you’ve listened to any amount of golf architecture discussion in the past two decades, you’ve probably heard the term “minimalism.” In a basic sense, minimalism means trying to create compelling go...
6 Mai 202548min
How to Design for Elite and Average Golfers Simultaneously
It’s not easy to design a golf course that challenges elite players without making average golfers want to quit the game. That was the task OCM Golf faced in its 2023-24 redesign of Course 3 at Medina...
22 Apr 202547min
Alister MacKenzie, Augusta National, and the 1930s in America
What was Alister MacKenzie up to in the 1930s? For one thing, he was building Augusta National. But more generally, MacKenzie was exploring new forms of golf architecture and producing some genuinely ...
3 Apr 20251h 7min
Can Golf Courses Help Us Be More Human?
Beau Welling is the founder and CEO of Beau Welling Design, and in addition to collaborating with Tiger Woods and designing courses like Bluejack National and Fields Ranch West at PGA Frisco, he is an...
25 Mar 202551min
What Makes TPC Sawgrass Great (and How It Could Be Better)
Ahead of this week's Players Championship, Garrett Morrison is joined by Fried Egg Golf's Joseph LaMagna for a discussion about Pete Dye's Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. The two share their favorite ...
11 Mar 202557min
