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Designing Golf

Designing Golf

Fried Egg Golf

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Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 17

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Designing Golf is a show about golf courses: how they’re built, who builds them, and which ones are worth playing. Hosted by Fried Egg Golf’s Garrett Morrison, Designing Golf will explore all facets of golf architecture, from its basic principles to its history to its practitioners to its best examples in the United States and abroad. Each episode will investigate a different topic in a fun, concise way. Whether you’re a longtime aficionado or a beginner in the subject, Designing Golf will deepen your knowledge about and fascination with golf courses and golf course design.
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  • 🇨🇦 Canada - golf

    04/08/2025
    #24

  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - golf

    04/08/2025
    #28

  • 🇩🇪 Germany - golf

    04/08/2025
    #54

  • 🇺🇸 USA - golf

    04/08/2025
    #15

  • 🇫🇷 France - golf

    04/08/2025
    #86

  • 🇨🇦 Canada - golf

    03/08/2025
    #23

  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - golf

    03/08/2025
    #19

  • 🇩🇪 Germany - golf

    03/08/2025
    #42

  • 🇺🇸 USA - golf

    03/08/2025
    #12

  • 🇫🇷 France - golf

    03/08/2025
    #80

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The 10 Golf Architecture Books Everyone Should Read

mardi 11 février 2025 • Duration 48:22

If you want to learn more about golf course design, which books should you read? Garrett Morrison fields this question pretty frequently, so for today’s episode, he brings on writer and historian Stephen Proctor to discuss the 10 most essential golf architecture books.

The Four Golf Courses That Shaped Geoff Ogilvy

mardi 28 janvier 2025 • Duration 52:29

Geoff Ogilvy is the 2006 U.S. Open champion, one of the sharpest minds in golf, and an architect whose firm, OCM, is making waves in the industry. In this episode, Garrett Morrison asks him about the four golf courses that most influenced his ideas about the game.

Golf Architecture 101: The Three (or Two?) Schools of Design

mardi 28 janvier 2025 • Duration 46:05

For the first episode of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett Morrison talks Fried Egg Golf producer PJ Clark through the so-called “schools”—that is, philosophies—of golf course design: penal, strategic, and heroic. If you want to learn more about golf architecture, this is a good place to start.

What to Expect from Golf Architecture in 2025

mardi 28 janvier 2025 • Duration 38:51

Garrett Morrison sits down with Fried Egg Golf founder Andy Johnson to preview the year in golf architecture. Garrett and Andy discuss the projects, architects, and trends that they’ll be tracking in 2025.

Designing Golf Trailer

mercredi 22 janvier 2025 • Duration 01:32

Introducing Designing Golf, a new podcast from Fried Egg Golf, hosted by Garrett Morrison.

Golf Architecture 101: Alister MacKenzie's 13 Principles

mardi 25 février 2025 • Duration 54:16

In this second installment of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett Morrison guides Fried Egg Golf producer PJ Clark through Alister MacKenzie’s famous 13 principles of golf course design. Garrett and PJ give particular attention to MacKenzie’s preferences for hole-to-hole variety, a minimum of blind approaches, returning nines, and naturalistic earthworks. They also manage to work in an allusion to a Tim Robinson sketch.

Can Golf Courses Help Us Be More Human?

mardi 25 mars 2025 • Duration 51:38

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 an experienced landscape designer and urban planner. In this episode, Garrett Morrison talks with Beau about how designing a golf course is like designing a city. As far as Beau is concerned, the goal is the same: to help people feel and be more human.

What Makes TPC Sawgrass Great (and How It Could Be Better)

mardi 11 mars 2025 • Duration 57:21

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 things about the course and what makes it one of the best venues on the PGA Tour before coming up with some ideas on how the Stadium Course, and the Players itself, can improve.

Alister MacKenzie, Augusta National, and the 1930s in America

jeudi 3 avril 2025 • Duration 01:07:13

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 experimental, even radical, courses. In this episode, Garrett Morrison speaks with Josh Pettit, founder of the Alister MacKenzie Institute, about MacKenzie’s wild ’30s: what projects he completed, how this era of his career influenced the design of Augusta National, and how it might light the way forward for golf architecture in the 21st century.

How to Design for Elite and Average Golfers Simultaneously

mardi 22 avril 2025 • Duration 47:16

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 Medinah Country Club. In this episode, OCM partner Mike Cocking sits down with Garrett Morrison to talk about how he helped reimagine Medinah No. 3 as a course simultaneously capable of hosting both the 2026 Presidents Cup and an ordinary Saturday four-ball.

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