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October 27, 2023
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Weekend Chat: Much Ado About Rankings

Your Club TFE comment section for the last weekend of October

Weekend Chat: Much Ado About Rankings
Weekend Chat: Much Ado About Rankings

Do you have your Halloween costume figured out? Do you have your kids’ Halloween costumes figured out? Did you buy candy before all the good bags sold out?

Do you not have to worry about any of that? Lucky you.

Welcome to the final weekend of October 2023. I hope you’re doing well. Are you new here? Introduce yourself. Play somewhere cool in the past week or two? Let us know about it. Recognize the course and hole in the header? Try to get in there before Adam T. does (you won’t). The comment section is below.

Club TFE housekeeping

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you at the Club TFE Member-Guest at Meadow Club this coming Monday. We’ve sent a couple of emails with important info recently, so check your inbox.

Club TFE-only registration for 2024 Fried Egg Golf events is live! Details here.

Your weekly question

In this morning’s newsletter, I wrote about the controversy over Golf‘s latest ranking of the top 100 courses in the world. Short version: a number of brand-new designs, including ones that certain panelists have a stake in, did surprisingly well; Cape Wickham dropped off the list; and that course’s co-designer, Darius Oliver, was none too pleased.

So my questions for you: 1) At this point, are the magazine rankings helping or hurting the golf world? 2) What would a valid, useful golf-course ranking look like?

Attendees of the Member-Guest may have some real tales of San Francisco after next Monday! Thanks for supporting Fried Egg Golf.

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Garrett Morrison

When I was 10 or 11 years old, my dad gave me a copy of The World Atlas of Golf. That kick-started my obsession with golf architecture. I read as many books about the subject as I could find, filled a couple of sketch books with plans for imaginary golf courses, and even joined the local junior golf league for a summer so I could get a crack at Alister MacKenzie's Valley Club of Montecito. I ended up pursuing other interests in high school and college, but in my early 30s I moved to Pebble Beach to teach English at a boarding school, and I fell back in love with golf. Soon I connected with Andy Johnson, founder of Fried Egg Golf. Andy offered me a job as Managing Editor in 2019. At the time, the two of us were the only full-time employees. The company has grown tremendously since then, and today I'm thrilled to serve as the Head of Architecture Content. I work with our talented team to produce videos, podcasts, and written work about golf courses and golf architecture.

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