Épisodes

  • TGL's Start & Three Golf Courses Zac Blair Thinks About

    TGL's Start & Three Golf Courses Zac Blair Thinks About
    Feb 19 2025
    After the Presidents' Day marathon at the SoFi Center, Andy Johnson starts this episode by chatting with Roberto Castro about TGL's first season. Roberto was instrumental in the creation of the league's gameplay and shares insights into how the league is handling business aspects such as player buy-in, television broadcasts, and technology. Andy and Roberto discuss the week-to-week improvements by the players as they become adjusted to playing simulator golf and wonder what season two may look like for the league. After that, Andy and PGA Tour pro Zac Blair talk through the three courses that Zac's thinking about the most. Zac discusses what owning his own course is like, how he solicits feedback from members and guests, and the subjectivity of golf course rankings.
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    1 h et 16 min
  • Trevor Immelman on the West Coast Swing, Slow Play, & Equipment

    Trevor Immelman on the West Coast Swing, Slow Play, & Equipment
    Feb 12 2025
    Andy is joined by 2008 Masters winner and CBS analyst Trevor Immelman for a wide-ranging conversation about the PGA Tour's first events of 2025. Andy and Trevor discuss a standout performance from Rory McIlroy at Pebble Beach, Xander Schauffele's injury, and Scottie Scheffler's return to play. They then get into the pace-of-play issues on the PGA Tour and the best ways to penalize those violating the Tour's policy. Trevor also discusses his thoughts on the proposed rollback and how it could benefit players at both the professional and amateur levels. Finally, the two briefly preview this week's Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines South.
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    1 h et 5 min
  • Checking In on Brooks Koepka

    Checking In on Brooks Koepka
    Feb 5 2025
    Ahead of Brooks Koepka's 2025 season debut on LIV, Andy Johnson takes stock of one of the most accomplished players of his generation. Joined by Golf Channel's Brentley Romine and Fried Egg Golf's Joseph LaMagna, the three deep dive into Brooks Koepka's career, from his amateur career and unconventional route to the PGA Tour through his current status as one of golf's greatest major champions. They discuss his many major championship successes, revisit some of his best quotes, and offer predictions about the remainder of Brooks' career.
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    1 h et 10 min
  • The Tiger Slam, Designing Golf, and In-Person TGL Thoughts

    The Tiger Slam, Designing Golf, and In-Person TGL Thoughts
    Jan 29 2025
    Andy Johnson returns to the Fried Egg Golf feed after a visit to the SoFi Center for his first in-person TGL match. This episode begins with some observations from Monday night's festivities featuring Boston Common GC and Jupiter Links. Andy then introduces Garrett Morrison's new podcast, Designing Golf, and throws to Garrett's sitdown with Geoff Ogilvy. You can find more Designing Golf wherever you get podcasts. Andy is then joined by Kevin Cook, author of The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played. The two discuss Tiger's historic run in 2000 and 2001, holding all four major championships following the 2001 Masters.
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    1 h et 38 min
  • Davis Love III & Scot Sherman on TPC Sawgrass, Harbour Town, & More

    Davis Love III & Scot Sherman on TPC Sawgrass, Harbour Town, & More
    Jan 22 2025
    On the latest episode of The Fried Egg Golf Podcast, Andy Johnson is joined by Davis Love III and Scot Sherman of Love Golf Design. Before their conversation, Andy starts the show with commentary on the state of PGA Tour broadcasts following the marathon final round of The American Express and memo sent to players by Justin Thomas regarding broadcast improvements. From there, Andy, Davis, and Scot have a wide-ranging conversation covering Love Golf Design's ongoing projects, their experience restoring Pete Dye courses, and Davis Love III's playing career.
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    1 h et 25 min
  • Designing Golf with No Limits & Northwood's Restoration Efforts

    Designing Golf with No Limits & Northwood's Restoration Efforts
    Jan 15 2025
    Andy Johnson is joined by two golf architects on this week's Fried Egg Golf Podcast. Before the architecture conversations, Andy shares his thoughts on Eugenio Chacarra's comments regarding his experience playing on the LIV Golf Tour and his interest in obtaining a PGA Tour card. From there, Andy first chats with Agustin Piza of Piza Golf, one of the three designers of the holes for the first season of TGL. Augie and Andy discuss what it was like designing holes in a virtual landscape, how the TGL's one green hampered some designs, and what Augie's learned from his experience in the metaverse that he's now applying to his designs in reality. To close this episode, Andy sits down with William Carlson, a freshman at Cal Poly who helped lead a restoration effort tat Northwood Golf Club in Sonoma County, California. Will spent his summer restoring a bunker at the Alister MacKenzie course and plans on making a career in golf course architecture.
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    1 h et 58 min
  • Has Modern Golf Passed Kapalua By? Plus, Golf Architecture with Jaeger Kovich

    Has Modern Golf Passed Kapalua By? Plus, Golf Architecture with Jaeger Kovich
    Jan 8 2025
    In this two-part podcast, Andy Johnson is first joined by Fried Egg Golf's Joseph LaMagna to discuss the first PGA Tour stop of the 2025 season, Hideki Matsuyama's record-breaking win at The Sentry. With Matsuyama taking down the PGA Tour's 72-hole record for score-to-par, Andy and Joseph discuss whether the game has moved past the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort. The two debate whether changing the course to a par 72 as opposed to the current par 73 iteration would make things any better and how the PGA Tour could possibly add some teeth to a course that lacks defense when the wind isn't blowing. For the second part of this show, Andy chats with golf architect Jaeger Kovich about the most pressing issues for the golf course industry in 2025, such as rising building costs and the continued growth of resort golf.
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    1 h et 58 min
  • Top Pro Golf Storylines for 2025 & TGL Preview

    Top Pro Golf Storylines for 2025 & TGL Preview
    Jan 1 2025
    Andy Johnson kicks off 2025 an episode looking at the year to come in professional golf, both virtually and on actual courses. To start, he's joined by Gabby Herzig of The Athletic to talk through some major storylines for the game in the new year. Andy and Gabby discuss the potential PIF-PGA Tour deal, the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, how the LPGA can grow under new leadership, and more. With TGL kicking off next Tuesday, Andy brings on Fried Egg Golf's Joseph LaMagna and PJ Clark for a preview of the simulator league. The three share thoughts on the league's TV deal with ESPN, the gameplay, and the lackluster design of most of the holes found in the metaverse. Check back next Wednesday for a new episode as the Fried Egg Golf Podcast shifts to a new schedule in 2025.
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    1 h et 50 min