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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Designing Golf

Episodes (37)

Thursday Golf Architecture 101: The Championship Setup Wars
Apr 30th Great Architects: Donald Ross (feat Bradley Klein)
Apr 16th The Economics of Golf Course Construction (feat. Bruce Hepner)

Designing Golf

May 21, 2026
1 hours
59 MB

After a surprisingly controversial PGA Championship at Aronimink, Garrett brings on his Fried Egg Golf colleague PJ Clark to chat about championship golf course design and setup. First they discuss the factors that made Aronimink a polarizing venue: the lack of trees, the firm greens, the provocative pins, and the relatively low emphasis on driving accuracy. Then Garrett takes PJ through a brief history of the championship setup wars, starting with Robert Trent Jones’s “Open Doctor” shenanigans in the 1950s and 60s. Finally, Garrett and PJ both lay out what they’re looking for in a 21st-century major champion...

Designing Golf

Golf Architecture 101: The Championship Setup Wars

Fried Egg Golf

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