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Was able to get a time for Sept 22nd at 9am. 2 spots currently open. A few months ahead but my booking lottery time required a decision yesterday.

List as little or as many golf course architects as you’d like (living and/or deceased), and write what you think is their biggest contribution to golf course architecture. It could be philosophy, a design element, their impact, whatever.

Hey Fried Egg Heads,

Some pals and I are going to be staying at Pine Needles on St. Patrick's Day. Was hoping to crowd source some leads on the best place(s) to find a quality pint of Guinness and a good crowd in Southern Pines / Pinehurst.

Any and all tips much appreciated.

https://x.com/mattracquet/status/2025970938014003309?s=20

Thought this was a great post, about the loss of variety in professional tennis driven by a combination of technology and playing surface homogenization. Don't really have a ton to add except that it feels like every part of this applies to the PGA Tour and professional golf.

Sorry to overlay this with a new post, but here's the latest iteration (with enhancements!).

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.cusick/viz/PGA_Signature_Events/Summary

The AON's are outperforming the Sponsors through 2 events.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/john.cusick/viz/PGA_Signature_Events/Summary

If there's a better way to post this, please let me know.

Lastly, thanks for the shoutout on the pod PJ!

Anyone notice the odd hue of the greens at the Siam CC for this week's LPGA event? Has anyone seen anything about it? I assume with the climate there they are some type of hybrid bermudagrass. If so, I've never seen greens look quite like this on a televised golf event.

Anyone heard any intel?

George Williams, GCA

It is a good thing the Tour's schedule changed. Puerto Vallarta is on lockdown over some major cartel activity. Vidanta has been between Riv and Palm Beach the last 2-3 years.

I am headed to Pinehurst for my second ever time in mid-March. We are playing Tobacco Road, Pine Needles, #5, and #3. The guy booking the trip did not book the Cradle ahead of time. I called this week and they're already booked up on the main afternoon we'd be able to play (3/14).

We should finish up our morning round around 1pm. I think our plan is to spend that afternoon just hanging around the Cradle area putting, hitting balls, people watching, etc.

I have read on various online forums that slipping the starter somewhere between $50-100 will get you on without a tee time. This may be a question for SGS golf advice, but should we try to grease some palms? Does that actually work? We can be flexible on timing since we're just hanging around that day. Thanks!

The NC Carton will assemble at the Asheboro Muni (421 Country Club Dr. Asheboro, NC 27205) on Sunday March 22 at 2pm. It's a 9 hole Donald Ross course with the original routing and most bunkers and greens still intact. We'll plan to loop it twice, playing different tees on the second round. Dinner and drinks to follow!

I'll book the tee times, so please let me know if you're planning to come. My email address is anderszwr@gmail.com. Looking forward to seeing you out there!

Hello All

My name is Mark and I am a PGA golf professional and a full time club fitter.

So, if any of you have any fitting questions I would love to help you all out. Especially with all the new drivers now costing well over $1000 if you get a fancy shaft.

Well, the one good thing about being a pga member is masters tickets. Going for the second time this year and want to get a good used dslr camera for the trip. The only thing I think I know is that dslr is what I should be looking for, I think.

So, what should I look for and what lenses should I bring as well.

Thanks

Our video on Andrew Green's Interlachen renovation is going to drop Monday on our YouTube channel. This one has been delayed a bit for various other projects but I think it's an interesting one. I was lucky enough to play it on opening day a couple years back and the site is spectacular. The routing does a really good job of working you on and off the high points and creating variety hole-to-hole.

This was a fairly extensive project for the club: irrigation, greens, tees, bunkers, chocolate drops, and generally trying to connect back to some of the Donald Ross roots. We don't dive too deep into the nitty gritty stuff (the club's YouTube channel actual has some great content they made throughout the project) but I think it'll be a good overview of the project and features interviews with Andrew as well as their Head of Grounds, Brian Boll. Would love to hear people's thoughts on the course, especially those that got to see it during our Minneapolis Road Trip last year!

And watch our channel for the video on Monday.

A question for Joseph LaMagna, or anyone else who can break down analytics. What were some key analytics for Morikawa that made him able to win at Pebble this year? This could be against the field this year, or compared to his own play from past years.

Fascinating survey and extremely cool project that the TFE Coop was able to pull together. Would be fascinating to see if types of survey takers tended to rate certain tiers/players differently - thinking do the current pros give their fellow players more/less slack in ranking someone like Brooks or Spieth, versus the broadcasters or caddies.

Was there a clear grouping of folks who took either the “Big Hall” or “Small Hall” approach with tier rankings (voting for more players in tiers 1/2, fewer up top, or more of an even spread)?

I’ll be in south Florida for a work/golf trip next week. Hoping to play Miami Lakes next Thursday 2/26 around 1 before heading to the airport. Would be fun to play with another FEGC member if anyone happens to be in the area. Will be making a tee time Friday night when they go live. Let me know if you’re interested.

Has anyone played there since it reopened? Just finished a Bruce Hepner/Kye Goalby renovation. Garrett has had some nice notes on it through the process. Notably cool that they cold called Bruce to do the project after hearing Garrett interview him.