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Curious if following can be possible:

• following specific people and being alerted when they start a thread or comment on one.
• receiving alerts for when someone responds to your own comments (similar to earlier version of the club website).

Thanks!

As we wind down the season here in Philadelphia (only 10 more days to post rounds) I started to take stock of the year I had, where I played, and what my favorites were. In the interest of getting some conversations started on this burgeoning new board, I thought I’d ask: What did you check off the list in 2025 that really stuck with you? What made it special? Insider information on it? Feel free to post specific holes or design details.

I have a few, but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t shouting into the void before I posted them.

Clyde Johnson has restored the Himalayas bunker at St. Enodoc Golf Club in southwestern England to something resembling its vintage form. (Hire this man to work on more GB&I links courses, please.)

OCM Golf teased an "exciting 36-hole project on some amazing land." The property includes "streams, lakes, rocks, and undulation." Work will begin in early 2026, "once the snow melts!" We at Fried Egg Golf have it on good authority that this facility will be north of Toronto, sitting on 850 acres.

OCM Golf has broken ground on a new short course for Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane.

Scot Sherman, lead architect at Love Golf Design, will restore Donald Ross and Walter Travis features at Camden Country Club in South Carolina. I've heard great things about this course.

Quintero Golf Club in Peoria, Arizona, is back in business after a major renovation (involving the trucking in of "Augusta white sand") by Rees Jones.

Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club in Tampa has wrapped up the second phase of a renovation with architect Bobby Weed. The club claims to have restored its "1916 Tom Bendelow and Donald Ross design," but I have some follow-ups about historical accuracy.

Dave Zinkand shared a few photos of his new reversible course at Medina Country Club in Ohio.

Tyler Rae's frilly (somewhat fussy, to my eye?) new bunkers at Ansley Golf Club in suburban Atlanta debuted last week.

Gray Carlton posted some new footage of Brian Schneider's renovation at Silver Spring Country Club in Connecticut.

Clayton, DeVries & Pont offer an update on partner Frant Pont's bunker work at Harry Colt's Whittington Heath. Brian Schneider chimed in with a pointed reply.

CDP are also moving dirt around at Portsea Golf Club, a charming course on the tip of the Mornington Peninsula.

As part of its overhaul of the Robert Trent Jones-designed Patterson Club, Proper Golf is building a green based on No. 4 at Spyglass Hill.

More footage from Proper Golf's work at The Patterson Club.

More bunker-tainment from Mike Nuzzo's redesign of Club Walden in Ohio.

Kawonu Golf Club, a new build by Andrew Green near Greenville, South Carolina, has shown quite a sophisticated and assertive marketing muscle.

Friend of the program Will Watt took some good-looking photos of Mike Clayton and Mike DeVries's new course in Tasmania, 7 Mile Beach, which opens for 18-hole play on December 4.

Back on October 24, Sugarloaf Social Club posted footage of the Great Dunes at Jekyll Island, a Walter Travis course recently resto-vated by Jeff Stein and Brian Ross.

The Lodge at Pebble Beach has reopened after an extensive renovation.

Golf Course Architecture has a story on Faldo Design's new course in Qiddiya City, Saudi Arabia. Funded by the Kingdom's Public Investment Fund (the same source of support behind LIV Golf), Qiddiya is a planned entertainment and tourism capital located in the raw desert outside of Riyadh. In addition to a Nick Faldo-designed golf course, the city will boast a Formula 1-quality race track, a Six Flags theme park, and a Dragon Ball theme park—whatever that might be.

The Kingdom's effort to attract international tourists to attractions like Qiddiya City—and its associated golf offerings—is the real reason LIV Golf exists, by the way. And will likely continue to exist until Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030" program starts to produce results.

This video about Faldo's course, posted on the "Sir Nick Faldo" YouTube channel, is full of exactly the kind of unintentional comedy that can help get us through hard, weird times.

For Golf dot com, Alan Bastable has all the details that are fit to print on this strange story.

The facts:

• A large pile of rubble has recently appeared on the property of East Potomac Golf Links, a 1920s Walter Travis course owned by the National Park Service and operated by the National Links Trust.
• The dirt is coming from the White House, where, in the midst of a government shutdown, the Trump administration is carrying out a $300-million renovation project. This project includes the construction of a now-infamous state ballroom.
• The Washington Post, which first reported the story, noted that the rubble will be used to "add mounding" at East Potomac.
• The National Links Trust has redirected all press inquiries to the Department of the Interior, and the Department of the Interior has not commented on the matter.

A few observations and speculations:

• When the National Links Trust vied for and won the lease to operate East Potomac in 2019 and 2020, it declared an intention to restore the course to its original, reversible design, with the help of architect Tom Doak. So far, those plans have not come to fruition. More recently, The Independent reported that President Trump "is weighing [a] refurbishment and rebranding" of the course in the image of his family's golf properties in New Jersey and Scotland.
• Is the delivery of fill from the White House an indication that some sort of East Potomac renovation is underway? Unlikely. Bringing in dirt is rarely the first step of a golf course construction project.
• Sources tell Fried Egg Golf that the construction company in charge of the rubble delivery, Clark Construction, insists that the material is not toxic.
• This is a big mess. And dumb.

Wild Spring Dunes, an under-construction Dream Golf resort in East Texas, will hold a soft opening on November 12, with eight holes of Tom Doak’s new 18-hole design available for play. Doak had this to say about the course on Instagram: “What’s the best public course in Texas? The first 18 holes at Wild Springs Dunes [have] come a long way since I last saw it in July without a blade of grass being planted, to playing 18 holes the last two days with lead associate Brian Slawnik, our client Michael Keiser, and his crew from Dream Golf.” The resort also posted some Jeff Marsh photographs of the course on its website.

The second course at Wild Spring Dunes, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, has been routed, and clearing is underway. The resort’s lodging component is expected to debut in 2027.

32, married with child, zero interest in fighting, always interested in making new pals.

LIV joins the ranks of sports brands that have nonsensical names.

Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakes, Oakland Athletics.

Now LIV. Are we calling it "Lexi"(LXXII)?

I'd love some recommendations on things I'm probably not watching (movies & TV) / listening to / reading.

I watch all of the standard Netflix, HBO, Apple tv shows (Shrinking, The Studio, The Last of Us, etc.) and love listening to The Rewatchables podcast along with all of the FE pods. But I need some diversity in my life!

What is something that you will die on a hill for? Give me you tried and trues AND something new if you got it.

I must admit that TV and podcasts are my primary vehicles to consume content these days. Carving out 2 hours for a movie feels borderline impossible with a 4 year old and while I love to read I'm just not one who gravitates to it (for context I probably get through 3-4 books a year). That said, please give me some ideas of new (or old) things to tap into.

Cheers!

Greetings!

The latest FEGC collection just launched in the Pro Shop, so I figured it'd be a good time to check in with everyone here. In addition to Smathers & Branson headcovers and accessories, we've finally got our FEGC logos on some Andy Hoodies.

Check out the entire drop at proshop.thefriedegg.com and don't forget to use code FEGCMEMBER at checkout to get 10% off your purchase.

Have something you'd like to see in the shop? Questions about sizing? Let's hear it!

Well, the Bandon rejection emails are pouring in for our 2027 12-person trip to Bandon in the new lottery system.... Time to start thinking for alternatives.

I'm the non-dad that gets to plan all the golf trips with buddies (mostly dads who consider it a luxury to leave home for a golf trip, but have time and travel constraints to consider for getting back to wifey) with people traveling rom Portland, SF, and LA for our bi-annual bandon trips. But i'm starting to think Bandon won't be happening at least without onsite lodging/the prime time tee times. We usually target around 4 days and no more then ~4 hours of travel time... we are there to be golf sicko's, so we don't need to consider Vegas at all.

What are some good alternative travel destinations that can allow us to...

• Easily play a ton of different great courses in a few days window
• Easy lodging, we're planning very far in advance... we're fine with Airbnb's!
• Not have crazy flights or many large 3+ hour drives from SFO,PDX, LAX

Some ideas so far...

• Gamble Sands (stay & play, but only 2 courses - not sure what else is around there and it could be tough to fly into?)
• Monterey (tons of great golf, easy to get to)
• Seattle region (chambers + a ton of other courses to experience)
• Rocky mountain golf? Need recs!
• Bend Oregon / Sunriver
• Tahoe
• Silvies Ranch? I dont know much about it
• Palm Springs

Genuinely can't believe how early Brendan took Potgieter in today's pod. Might be a full case of SGS Host-itis.

Here is the full draft for those who missed it:

I grew up at Skokie so it occupies a very important place in my golf history. I wasn't able to attend the event there last month but was curious what the thoughts were from the group that did. And, any plans for a SCC course review and pictures from the FEG team?

Hey everyone,

I was given a ticket to next year's US Open as part of a charity auction my in-laws won.

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York is hosting and it's up to me to find the hotel.

Any tips on where to stay based on people who have attended in the past or know the area?

Thanks!

46, (soon to be) married, 2 kids, zero interest in fighting.

How we doing, skyline or gold star, where we playing in the tri-state?