Hello friends!
I'm looking for some questions for this month's TFE Mailbag, both the sacred and the profane. I had a lot of fun with the last one, which you can read here:
https://www.thefriedegg.com/articles/golf-mailbag-karaoke-gary-player-friday-night-lights
Hit me with your weirdest, smartest, funniest questions and I'll try to get em answered. Either here or email if you prefer. kvv@thefriedegg.com
KVV
Hello friends!
I'm looking for some questions for this month's TFE Mailbag, both the sacred and the profane. I had a lot of fun with the last one, which you can read here:
https://www.thefriedegg.com/articles/golf-mailbag-karaoke-gary-player-friday-night-lights
Hit me with your weirdest, smartest, funniest questions and I'll try to get em answered. Either here or email if you prefer. kvv@thefriedegg.com
KVV
Howdy!
Next Wednesday, we're gathering for this month's hangout with Brendan, KVV, and Garrett to discuss our 2026 Fried Egg plans across the content front. The recording will be at Noon ET on January 21. Link to join in live is below as well as the article in the Clubhouse.
What questions do you have for the group? It can be about our content plans, travel plans, personal plans, Jordan Spieth's season outlook, etc.
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: Noon ET
Howdy!
Next Wednesday, we're gathering for this month's hangout with Brendan, KVV, and Garrett to discuss our 2026 Fried Egg plans across the content front. The recording will be at Noon ET on January 21. Link to join in live is below as well as the article in the Clubhouse.
What questions do you have for the group? It can be about our content plans, travel plans, personal plans, Jordan Spieth's season outlook, etc.
Date: Wednesday, January 21
Time: Noon ET
Bryson DeChambeau just became the first professional golfer to endorse a prediction market. Of course he did.
The self-proclaimed scientist, golf's most insufferable mix of pseudo-intellectualism and shameless opportunism, has signed with Kalshi to become their billboard. Complete with TV commercials and, most disturbingly, "the launch of markets on events he plays in."
If you're wondering how we got to a place where athletes can openly partner with platforms that let people bet on their own performances, with zero insider trading protections, while everyone in charge just shrugs, welcome to 2026. Where regulatory capture meets algorithmic manipulation meets artificial intelligence, and a guy who once tried to convince us he could science his way to golf dominance is now trying to convince us that turning sport into a betting market is innovation.
Kalshi is a prediction market. That's the sanitized term for what is, functionally, a betting platform where you can wager on virtually anything. Press conference lengths. Whether Israel will start a nuclear war with Iran. Whether Bryson DeChambeau finishes in the top 20 at the Masters.
Brian Phillips at The Ringer recently explained the regulatory sleight of hand that made this possible. Kalshi convinced the government it wasn't a gambling platform but a derivatives market. This one classification unlocked everything: they can operate in states where sports betting is illegal, they face none of the scrutiny applied to actual sportsbooks, and, crucially, unlike stock markets that prohibit insider trading, derivatives markets have no such restrictions.
Let me repeat that: There is nothing stopping someone with direct knowledge of an outcome from betting on that outcome and taking your money.
Kalshi's CEO has said the promise of prediction markets "is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
The explicit goal is to turn every aspect of human existence into something people can bet on, and more importantly, something insiders can manipulate for profit. And the people who could stop this, who should stop this, are instead partnering with them. CNN and CNBC both signed deals with Kalshi. The Golden Globes integrated Polymarket into their broadcast.
Of course it's Bryson. The guy who rebranded himself as golf's great thinker, who talks about physics and science while demonstrating neither, who left the PGA Tour for LIV's blood money while claiming it was about "growing the game."
And now he's partnering with a platform that will create betting markets on his own performances. Not adjacent to them. Not theoretically related. Directly on them.
The implications are obvious to anyone who's thought about sports integrity for five minutes. Can you trust a guy with financial ties to a betting platform is trying his hardest on a random Sunday at a LIV event? When finishing T-27 instead of T-18 means nothing to his bank account but might mean hundreds of thousands to someone who knew it was coming? When every decision (lay up or go for it, aggressive line or conservative, one more practice putt or call it) has twenty plausible explanations?
But here's the thing: you don't even need actual corruption for this to be corrosive. The mere appearance of a conflict of interest destroys trust. And golf, more than most sports, runs on trust. There are no referees watching every shot. Players call penalties on themselves. The entire structure assumes everyone is competing on merit.
If the USGA and Augusta National and the R&A have any sense of institutional responsibility, they'd take a hard look at whether someone with direct financial ties to a betting platform (I mean predictions market) that creates markets on his performance should be welcome in their fields.
What makes this particularly dangerous isn't just prediction markets in isolation. It's that they're emerging at the exact moment when three massive tech trends are colliding, and nobody in a position of authority seems interested in pumping the brakes.
First: The gutting of content moderation. Social media platforms have systematically dismantled their safeguards against misinformation. Twitter is a disinformation playground. Meta fired most of its content moderation staff. There's no one watching the gates anymore.
Second: AI-powered manipulation at scale. Want to move a betting line? Generate a deepfake video showing Bryson limping after a practice round. Create fake text screenshots suggesting he's injured. Deploy bot networks to amplify the rumors across social platforms. The technology exists now, costs almost nothing, and gets more sophisticated every week.
Third: The prediction markets themselves. Which, as we've established, have no insider trading protections, accept anonymous cryptocurrency bets, and are being actively integrated into news coverage.
Here's how it could work: Someone places a massive bet against Bryson winning the U.S. Open. They generate and spread AI-created "evidence" of an injury or scandal. The rumors proliferate on unmoderated social platforms. Other traders see the odds shifting and pile on. The conspirators cash out. And maybe Bryson never even knows it happened until reporters start asking questions based on the fake news.
Or worse, the odds become the news. CNN and CNBC are using Kalshi data in their coverage. News shapes public perception, which shapes betting behavior, which appears as "data," which shapes more news. It's a closed loop where reality and perception blur, and somewhere in the middle, insiders extract money from the confused masses.
This already happens. The Times reports that someone using a brand-new crypto account bet $34,000 against very long odds on Venezuela's Maduro losing power, wagering most of it just hours before news of his capture broke. They walked away with $410,000. Similar suspicious trading patterns appeared around Trump's pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
Kalshi claims to prohibit insider trading and checks trades against a database of "politically exposed people." But as Timothy Massad, who led the CFTC under Obama, told the Times: "It's very difficult for the platforms themselves to prevent this or the C.F.T.C. to prohibit it." The law is so vague it's virtually impossible to enforce.
And the people who should be regulating this, preventing this, stopping this? They're partnering with them instead. Major news networks. Awards shows. The president's son. And now, most pertinent to the audience reading this about sport, athletes themselves.
Traditional sportsbooks don't let athletes become spokespeople for betting on their own performances. There's a firewall, however imperfect, between competition and gambling. Athletes can't bet on their own sports. Regulations exist to maintain competitive integrity.
Prediction markets ignore all of that. They're not regulated as gambling. They're derivatives markets. Different rules. Fewer protections. And now they're paying athletes directly to promote betting on those same athletes' performances.
The counter-argument is that sports betting already exists, so what's the difference? The difference is oversight. The difference is separation. The difference is that we had, however imperfectly, some guardrails. Prediction markets are dismantling those guardrails while the people in charge either don't understand what's happening or don't care.
DraftKings and FanDuel (who we should also note have some pretty deplorable business practices) both launched prediction markets in December. More will follow. The money is too big. The technology is too powerful. The regulations are too weak. And nobody's stepping in to stop it.
Actually, it's worse than nobody stepping in. The people positioned to regulate these platforms are actively invested in them.
A New York Times report published today, January 15, 2026, reveals that Donald Trump Jr. is simultaneously an investor in and adviser to Polymarket, a paid adviser to Kalshi, and a director of Trump Media, which just announced its own prediction market platform called Truth Predict. He's literally advising the two biggest competitors in the space while his father's administration oversees their regulation.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is supposed to police these markets, spent the Biden years trying to constrain them. Then Caroline Pham took over temporarily under Trump and said the agency had "unfairly constrained" prediction markets and needed to "back off." Both Kalshi and Polymarket's CEOs now sit on the CFTC's innovation council, helping shape policy on the very industry they profit from.
The timeline is damning: A week before Trump's inauguration, Kalshi hired Don Jr. as a strategic adviser. Four months later, the CFTC dropped its appeal of a ruling that had banned Kalshi from election betting. Polymarket was under investigation by both the FBI and CFTC. In July, both investigations closed. In August, Don Jr. invested in Polymarket and joined its advisory board. A week later, the CFTC issued a ruling that cleared obstacles for Polymarket to serve U.S. traders.
This isn't regulatory capture. This is regulatory demolition. The agencies meant to protect the public from predatory gambling are instead partnering with the gamblers, taking their advice, and clearing their legal obstacles. All while the president's son collects checks from multiple platforms and helps launch a competing one.
And now athletes like Bryson are free to sign deals that would have been unthinkable three years ago, because the people who could stop them are literally on the payroll.
Bryson DeChambeau is a cancer to the fabric of golf. Not because he hits it far or changed his body or plays on LIV. Because at every opportunity, he chooses the path that enriches himself while degrading the sport. The pseudo-intellectual act, the Saudi money, and now this, partnering with a platform designed to turn competition into content for betting markets.
He's the perfect avatar for this moment. The guy who talks about science while understanding nothing about institutional trust. Who claims to love golf while actively participating in its corruption. Who sees the future of sports as something to be financialized and extracted, and signs up to be the face of that extraction.
But Bryson's just a symptom. The disease is that the people who could stop this, who should stop this, are instead enabling it. The CFTC dropped its enforcement. Don Jr. is collecting checks from both major platforms while his father's administration clears their legal obstacles. News networks are integrating betting odds into their coverage. And nobody with actual power seems to think there's a problem.
This is happening in real-time. The momentum is all in the wrong direction. The money is too big. The technology is too powerful. The regulators have been captured. And the platforms have explicitly said their goal is to financialize everything.
When we look back in five years at how sports became indistinguishable from professional wrestling, how we stopped being able to trust what we were watching, we'll remember this moment. January 2026. When a guy who hits golf balls for a living became the first athlete to openly endorse betting on his own performances, while the president's son advised the platforms and the regulators looked the other way.
Complete with TV commercials.
I'd bet on it, but that feels like giving them what they want.
Sources:
Disclaimer: I work for Fried Egg Golf but I am not a big J journalist. I am not a little J journalist. This post was not edited or revised by the editorial team at Fried Egg Golf. I’m merely a human who is upset by the current trends that I see and am using this modest medium to get my thoughts out there. These thoughts are my own and are not meant to be representative of the broader Fried Egg team.
Bryson DeChambeau just became the first professional golfer to endorse a prediction market. Of course he did.
The self-proclaimed scientist, golf's most insufferable mix of pseudo-intellectualism and shameless opportunism, has signed with Kalshi to become their billboard. Complete with TV commercials and, most disturbingly, "the launch of markets on events he plays in."
If you're wondering how we got to a place where athletes can openly partner with platforms that let people bet on their own performances, with zero insider trading protections, while everyone in charge just shrugs, welcome to 2026. Where regulatory capture meets algorithmic manipulation meets artificial intelligence, and a guy who once tried to convince us he could science his way to golf dominance is now trying to convince us that turning sport into a betting market is innovation.
Kalshi is a prediction market. That's the sanitized term for what is, functionally, a betting platform where you can wager on virtually anything. Press conference lengths. Whether Israel will start a nuclear war with Iran. Whether Bryson DeChambeau finishes in the top 20 at the Masters.
Brian Phillips at The Ringer recently explained the regulatory sleight of hand that made this possible. Kalshi convinced the government it wasn't a gambling platform but a derivatives market. This one classification unlocked everything: they can operate in states where sports betting is illegal, they face none of the scrutiny applied to actual sportsbooks, and, crucially, unlike stock markets that prohibit insider trading, derivatives markets have no such restrictions.
Let me repeat that: There is nothing stopping someone with direct knowledge of an outcome from betting on that outcome and taking your money.
Kalshi's CEO has said the promise of prediction markets "is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
The explicit goal is to turn every aspect of human existence into something people can bet on, and more importantly, something insiders can manipulate for profit. And the people who could stop this, who should stop this, are instead partnering with them. CNN and CNBC both signed deals with Kalshi. The Golden Globes integrated Polymarket into their broadcast.
Of course it's Bryson. The guy who rebranded himself as golf's great thinker, who talks about physics and science while demonstrating neither, who left the PGA Tour for LIV's blood money while claiming it was about "growing the game."
And now he's partnering with a platform that will create betting markets on his own performances. Not adjacent to them. Not theoretically related. Directly on them.
The implications are obvious to anyone who's thought about sports integrity for five minutes. Can you trust a guy with financial ties to a betting platform is trying his hardest on a random Sunday at a LIV event? When finishing T-27 instead of T-18 means nothing to his bank account but might mean hundreds of thousands to someone who knew it was coming? When every decision (lay up or go for it, aggressive line or conservative, one more practice putt or call it) has twenty plausible explanations?
But here's the thing: you don't even need actual corruption for this to be corrosive. The mere appearance of a conflict of interest destroys trust. And golf, more than most sports, runs on trust. There are no referees watching every shot. Players call penalties on themselves. The entire structure assumes everyone is competing on merit.
If the USGA and Augusta National and the R&A have any sense of institutional responsibility, they'd take a hard look at whether someone with direct financial ties to a betting platform (I mean predictions market) that creates markets on his performance should be welcome in their fields.
What makes this particularly dangerous isn't just prediction markets in isolation. It's that they're emerging at the exact moment when three massive tech trends are colliding, and nobody in a position of authority seems interested in pumping the brakes.
First: The gutting of content moderation. Social media platforms have systematically dismantled their safeguards against misinformation. Twitter is a disinformation playground. Meta fired most of its content moderation staff. There's no one watching the gates anymore.
Second: AI-powered manipulation at scale. Want to move a betting line? Generate a deepfake video showing Bryson limping after a practice round. Create fake text screenshots suggesting he's injured. Deploy bot networks to amplify the rumors across social platforms. The technology exists now, costs almost nothing, and gets more sophisticated every week.
Third: The prediction markets themselves. Which, as we've established, have no insider trading protections, accept anonymous cryptocurrency bets, and are being actively integrated into news coverage.
Here's how it could work: Someone places a massive bet against Bryson winning the U.S. Open. They generate and spread AI-created "evidence" of an injury or scandal. The rumors proliferate on unmoderated social platforms. Other traders see the odds shifting and pile on. The conspirators cash out. And maybe Bryson never even knows it happened until reporters start asking questions based on the fake news.
Or worse, the odds become the news. CNN and CNBC are using Kalshi data in their coverage. News shapes public perception, which shapes betting behavior, which appears as "data," which shapes more news. It's a closed loop where reality and perception blur, and somewhere in the middle, insiders extract money from the confused masses.
This already happens. The Times reports that someone using a brand-new crypto account bet $34,000 against very long odds on Venezuela's Maduro losing power, wagering most of it just hours before news of his capture broke. They walked away with $410,000. Similar suspicious trading patterns appeared around Trump's pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.
Kalshi claims to prohibit insider trading and checks trades against a database of "politically exposed people." But as Timothy Massad, who led the CFTC under Obama, told the Times: "It's very difficult for the platforms themselves to prevent this or the C.F.T.C. to prohibit it." The law is so vague it's virtually impossible to enforce.
And the people who should be regulating this, preventing this, stopping this? They're partnering with them instead. Major news networks. Awards shows. The president's son. And now, most pertinent to the audience reading this about sport, athletes themselves.
Traditional sportsbooks don't let athletes become spokespeople for betting on their own performances. There's a firewall, however imperfect, between competition and gambling. Athletes can't bet on their own sports. Regulations exist to maintain competitive integrity.
Prediction markets ignore all of that. They're not regulated as gambling. They're derivatives markets. Different rules. Fewer protections. And now they're paying athletes directly to promote betting on those same athletes' performances.
The counter-argument is that sports betting already exists, so what's the difference? The difference is oversight. The difference is separation. The difference is that we had, however imperfectly, some guardrails. Prediction markets are dismantling those guardrails while the people in charge either don't understand what's happening or don't care.
DraftKings and FanDuel (who we should also note have some pretty deplorable business practices) both launched prediction markets in December. More will follow. The money is too big. The technology is too powerful. The regulations are too weak. And nobody's stepping in to stop it.
Actually, it's worse than nobody stepping in. The people positioned to regulate these platforms are actively invested in them.
A New York Times report published today, January 15, 2026, reveals that Donald Trump Jr. is simultaneously an investor in and adviser to Polymarket, a paid adviser to Kalshi, and a director of Trump Media, which just announced its own prediction market platform called Truth Predict. He's literally advising the two biggest competitors in the space while his father's administration oversees their regulation.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is supposed to police these markets, spent the Biden years trying to constrain them. Then Caroline Pham took over temporarily under Trump and said the agency had "unfairly constrained" prediction markets and needed to "back off." Both Kalshi and Polymarket's CEOs now sit on the CFTC's innovation council, helping shape policy on the very industry they profit from.
The timeline is damning: A week before Trump's inauguration, Kalshi hired Don Jr. as a strategic adviser. Four months later, the CFTC dropped its appeal of a ruling that had banned Kalshi from election betting. Polymarket was under investigation by both the FBI and CFTC. In July, both investigations closed. In August, Don Jr. invested in Polymarket and joined its advisory board. A week later, the CFTC issued a ruling that cleared obstacles for Polymarket to serve U.S. traders.
This isn't regulatory capture. This is regulatory demolition. The agencies meant to protect the public from predatory gambling are instead partnering with the gamblers, taking their advice, and clearing their legal obstacles. All while the president's son collects checks from multiple platforms and helps launch a competing one.
And now athletes like Bryson are free to sign deals that would have been unthinkable three years ago, because the people who could stop them are literally on the payroll.
Bryson DeChambeau is a cancer to the fabric of golf. Not because he hits it far or changed his body or plays on LIV. Because at every opportunity, he chooses the path that enriches himself while degrading the sport. The pseudo-intellectual act, the Saudi money, and now this, partnering with a platform designed to turn competition into content for betting markets.
He's the perfect avatar for this moment. The guy who talks about science while understanding nothing about institutional trust. Who claims to love golf while actively participating in its corruption. Who sees the future of sports as something to be financialized and extracted, and signs up to be the face of that extraction.
But Bryson's just a symptom. The disease is that the people who could stop this, who should stop this, are instead enabling it. The CFTC dropped its enforcement. Don Jr. is collecting checks from both major platforms while his father's administration clears their legal obstacles. News networks are integrating betting odds into their coverage. And nobody with actual power seems to think there's a problem.
This is happening in real-time. The momentum is all in the wrong direction. The money is too big. The technology is too powerful. The regulators have been captured. And the platforms have explicitly said their goal is to financialize everything.
When we look back in five years at how sports became indistinguishable from professional wrestling, how we stopped being able to trust what we were watching, we'll remember this moment. January 2026. When a guy who hits golf balls for a living became the first athlete to openly endorse betting on his own performances, while the president's son advised the platforms and the regulators looked the other way.
Complete with TV commercials.
I'd bet on it, but that feels like giving them what they want.
Sources:
Disclaimer: I work for Fried Egg Golf but I am not a big J journalist. I am not a little J journalist. This post was not edited or revised by the editorial team at Fried Egg Golf. I’m merely a human who is upset by the current trends that I see and am using this modest medium to get my thoughts out there. These thoughts are my own and are not meant to be representative of the broader Fried Egg team.
As FEGC member Pearce Barringer noted a few hours ago, Old Shores, a new Dream Golf development in the Florida panhandle, made several newsy announcements today.
We first reported on Old Shores in November 2024.
The resort's first course, designed by Tom Doak, is now under construction, with Angela Moser serving as lead associate. Moser headed up on-site efforts at Doak's Pinehurst No. 10 and recently earned a commission of her own at Burlington Golf and Country Club in Ontario, Canada. A grand opening for Old Shores No. 1 (not the official name, of course) is on the calendar for fall 2027.
Dream Golf also revealed some details of its future plans for Old Shores:
1) The resort's plans also include a second 18-hole course designed by longtime Doak associate and Old Barnwell co-designer Brian Schneider, a 12-hole "precision course" in the vein of The Commons at Sand Valley, a par-3 course, and a nine-hole regulation course similar to The Dunes Club in Michigan. This kind of varied golf offering has become typical of the Dream Golf resorts spearheaded by Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser's sons Michael and Chris.
2) Schneider's course will be inspired by Augusta National, but not by the current iteration of the Masters venue. Instead, Schneider will be taking inspiration from Augusta National as it stood in the 1930s, with minimal bunkering, eccentric green shapes and contours, and a rough-hewn aesthetic. Michael Keiser said in a press release that this course will be "very different from the first course [at Old Shores], and as dramatic as anything we've ever built." Whereas Doak's design occupies relatively subtle terrain, Schenider's course will tackle a severe piece of land with up to 90 feet of elevation change.
3) Architects have not yet been selected for the other courses at Old Shores.
4) The golf courses will radiate out from a walkable core consisting of restaurants, lodging, and home sites. "It's like this little village is the hub and the spokes are the golf courses that go out in all directions," Keiser said. "So, when you arrive, we'll get you our of your car and we'll take your luggage to wherever you're staying — a hotel room or rented home — and then you're going to be walking everywhere."
Thoughts? Takes? Have at it.
For my part, I find Michael and Chris Keiser to be among the most smartest, most inventive developers in the business. They love golf and golf course design, and it shows in their planning.
As FEGC member Pearce Barringer noted a few hours ago, Old Shores, a new Dream Golf development in the Florida panhandle, made several newsy announcements today.
We first reported on Old Shores in November 2024.
The resort's first course, designed by Tom Doak, is now under construction, with Angela Moser serving as lead associate. Moser headed up on-site efforts at Doak's Pinehurst No. 10 and recently earned a commission of her own at Burlington Golf and Country Club in Ontario, Canada. A grand opening for Old Shores No. 1 (not the official name, of course) is on the calendar for fall 2027.
Dream Golf also revealed some details of its future plans for Old Shores:
1) The resort's plans also include a second 18-hole course designed by longtime Doak associate and Old Barnwell co-designer Brian Schneider, a 12-hole "precision course" in the vein of The Commons at Sand Valley, a par-3 course, and a nine-hole regulation course similar to The Dunes Club in Michigan. This kind of varied golf offering has become typical of the Dream Golf resorts spearheaded by Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser's sons Michael and Chris.
2) Schneider's course will be inspired by Augusta National, but not by the current iteration of the Masters venue. Instead, Schneider will be taking inspiration from Augusta National as it stood in the 1930s, with minimal bunkering, eccentric green shapes and contours, and a rough-hewn aesthetic. Michael Keiser said in a press release that this course will be "very different from the first course [at Old Shores], and as dramatic as anything we've ever built." Whereas Doak's design occupies relatively subtle terrain, Schenider's course will tackle a severe piece of land with up to 90 feet of elevation change.
3) Architects have not yet been selected for the other courses at Old Shores.
4) The golf courses will radiate out from a walkable core consisting of restaurants, lodging, and home sites. "It's like this little village is the hub and the spokes are the golf courses that go out in all directions," Keiser said. "So, when you arrive, we'll get you our of your car and we'll take your luggage to wherever you're staying — a hotel room or rented home — and then you're going to be walking everywhere."
Thoughts? Takes? Have at it.
For my part, I find Michael and Chris Keiser to be among the most smartest, most inventive developers in the business. They love golf and golf course design, and it shows in their planning.
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https://linksmagazine.com/new-florida-golf-resort-old-shores-announces-plans-for-multiple-courses/
Just now hearing about this new development from Keiser and Co. First course is underway, being built by Tom Doak, and it was just announced that Brian Schnieder will be handling the second 18. Excited to see this as I often vacation down in the panhandle, and golf in that area is mediocre at best.
The interesting bit is "Keiser says [Schnieder's] layout is inspired by Augusta National as it existed in the 1930s when Perry Maxwell extensively renovated seven greens with bold internal contouring." We will see about that.
Also curious to see how walkable Tom's course is. Keiser has put an emphasis on walkability at his previous resorts, but Tom's routing does look a bit like a hike in the Florida heat. 
Also interested to see how they handle drainage. Lots of sand soil in those next of the woods, but there's also plenty of rain and a shallow water table. Some of the images Linksoul shared made the property look pretty wet.
I'm sure the courses we'll be very exciting, and I am sure the online golf world will have many opinions. Hope to check them out alongside a few eggheads at a future FEG Event.
https://linksmagazine.com/new-florida-golf-resort-old-shores-announces-plans-for-multiple-courses/
Just now hearing about this new development from Keiser and Co. First course is underway, being built by Tom Doak, and it was just announced that Brian Schnieder will be handling the second 18. Excited to see this as I often vacation down in the panhandle, and golf in that area is mediocre at best.
The interesting bit is "Keiser says [Schnieder's] layout is inspired by Augusta National as it existed in the 1930s when Perry Maxwell extensively renovated seven greens with bold internal contouring." We will see about that.
Also curious to see how walkable Tom's course is. Keiser has put an emphasis on walkability at his previous resorts, but Tom's routing does look a bit like a hike in the Florida heat.
Also interested to see how they handle drainage. Lots of sand soil in those next of the woods, but there's also plenty of rain and a shallow water table. Some of the images Linksoul shared made the property look pretty wet.
I'm sure the courses we'll be very exciting, and I am sure the online golf world will have many opinions. Hope to check them out alongside a few eggheads at a future FEG Event.
On the Golfer's Journal podcast yesterday announcing their 2026 events, Gil Hanse made the statement that he believes that the renovation at Spanish Bay will be the last large project completed on the California coastline due to the nature of the coastal commission. Do we think he is saying this because he believes it or is he trying to create a sense of urgency at Pebble Beach?
On the Golfer's Journal podcast yesterday announcing their 2026 events, Gil Hanse made the statement that he believes that the renovation at Spanish Bay will be the last large project completed on the California coastline due to the nature of the coastal commission. Do we think he is saying this because he believes it or is he trying to create a sense of urgency at Pebble Beach?
After spending hours searching for the hidden One-and-Done link, I’ve got my first pick of the year in. Who do you like? Who do you hate? And, most importantly, what tournament are we saving Jordan Spieth for?
After spending hours searching for the hidden One-and-Done link, I’ve got my first pick of the year in. Who do you like? Who do you hate? And, most importantly, what tournament are we saving Jordan Spieth for?
Hoping for recommendations on other golf to play in the Wichita/Hutchison Kansas area. Will be in town to play Prairie Dunes and have time for some other golf. Hesston and Sand Creek Station seem to keep popping up on searches but would welcome tips!
Hoping for recommendations on other golf to play in the Wichita/Hutchison Kansas area. Will be in town to play Prairie Dunes and have time for some other golf. Hesston and Sand Creek Station seem to keep popping up on searches but would welcome tips!
Eggsters,
I am traveling to Fort Worth next month and am looking for course recommendations. My brother in law is more of a casual golfer, PGA Frisco will be a tough sell but looking for that next tier of courses.
Texas Rangers Golf Club, Steven’s Park, and Rockwood Park are all courses I’ve looked at but trying to call in the experts here! Look forward to any recommendations.
-Taylor
Eggsters,
I am traveling to Fort Worth next month and am looking for course recommendations. My brother in law is more of a casual golfer, PGA Frisco will be a tough sell but looking for that next tier of courses.
Texas Rangers Golf Club, Steven’s Park, and Rockwood Park are all courses I’ve looked at but trying to call in the experts here! Look forward to any recommendations.
-Taylor
Hi Eggsters....
Planning on playing Soule and maybe thought we could set up a little pre tourney the day before at Rustic Canyon. Let me know your thoughts,
Burke
Hi Eggsters....
Planning on playing Soule and maybe thought we could set up a little pre tourney the day before at Rustic Canyon. Let me know your thoughts,
Burke
I'm copy/pasting some information from Sunday's email here but wanted to provide a place for questions/concerns as we head into event registration season! Pumped to launch Soule Park today and can't wait to get through the rest of our schedule soon.
Member Passcode: FEGC2026
We begin registration season with a string of events this week. Our events at Soule Park and Lookout Mountain open on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively and FEGC lottery entries for our Southwest Michigan trip also open on Wednesday. We'll also open registrations for our Philadelphia Country Club and Moraine Country Club events this month. Add-on opportunities are also being added to trips where applicable so please check those out on each individual event page. You will also receive a reminder email from me on registration days should you misplace the early-access code. open at Noon ET
January FEGC Early-Access Registration Dates (Noon ET)
January 13 - Soule Park (CA)
January 14 - Lookout Mountain (GA) & SW Michigan Lottery (MI)
January 20 - Philadelphia Country Club (PA)
January 27 - Moraine Country Club (OH)
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me directly or review an article I named What FEGC Members Need to Know About Fried Egg Golf Events.
I'm copy/pasting some information from Sunday's email here but wanted to provide a place for questions/concerns as we head into event registration season! Pumped to launch Soule Park today and can't wait to get through the rest of our schedule soon.
Member Passcode: FEGC2026
We begin registration season with a string of events this week. Our events at Soule Park and Lookout Mountain open on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively and FEGC lottery entries for our Southwest Michigan trip also open on Wednesday. We'll also open registrations for our Philadelphia Country Club and Moraine Country Club events this month. Add-on opportunities are also being added to trips where applicable so please check those out on each individual event page. You will also receive a reminder email from me on registration days should you misplace the early-access code. open at Noon ET
January FEGC Early-Access Registration Dates (Noon ET)
January 13 - Soule Park (CA)
January 14 - Lookout Mountain (GA) & SW Michigan Lottery (MI)
January 20 - Philadelphia Country Club (PA)
January 27 - Moraine Country Club (OH)
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me directly or review an article I named What FEGC Members Need to Know About Fried Egg Golf Events.
cam smith getting invited back along with rahm brooks and Bryson. What do people think?
cam smith getting invited back along with rahm brooks and Bryson. What do people think?
