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Designing Golf

Designing Golf

Fried Egg Golf

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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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Designing Golf episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Designing Golf for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Designing Golf episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Designing Golf - The Four Golf Courses That Shaped Geoff Ogilvy
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01/28/25 • 52 min

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.

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Designing Golf - What to Expect from Golf Architecture in 2025
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01/28/25 • 38 min

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.

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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.

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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.

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Designing Golf - Designing Golf Trailer
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01/22/25 • 1 min

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Designing Golf - The 10 Golf Architecture Books Everyone Should Read
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02/11/25 • 48 min

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.

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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.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Designing Golf have?

Designing Golf currently has 7 episodes available.

What topics does Designing Golf cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Sports and Golf.

What is the most popular episode on Designing Golf?

The episode title 'The Four Golf Courses That Shaped Geoff Ogilvy' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Designing Golf?

The average episode length on Designing Golf is 43 minutes.

How often are episodes of Designing Golf released?

Episodes of Designing Golf are typically released every 13 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Designing Golf?

The first episode of Designing Golf was released on Jan 22, 2025.

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