Andy Johnson and Garrett Morrison are back to empty out the mailbag and answer golf architecture questions submitted on social media. They discuss their favorite university-owned golf courses and the continued evolution of college golf facilities as the game grows with NIL value for players. Andy and Garrett also touch on the best value golf trips in the United States, mentioning places such as Grand Rapids, Michigan and Ventura County, California. The two talk through the ongoing Poa invasion at Bandon Dunes and what the resort can do to keep up the courses before debating some of the worst holes in premier golf courses worldwide.
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I have experienced and recommend the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama. The course conditions are always perfect and each course is unique.
Poa makes Bandon just another excellent, expensive West Coast resort. They HAVE to re-grass them to maintain true links. Having played Pebble…poa is not links golf.
Denninson is awesome!!!!
Dukes been redone by Rees & it’s great
Great job, PJ !
Not the sexiest part of the country, but I’d be interested in your ideas on some of the public golf courses in NE Ohio. In particular, the Donald Ross designed 36 holes at Mill Creek Metropolitan Park in Boardman/Youngstown, Ohio. Some nice ones in Cleveland (Manakiki) and the Akron area as well. Prices overall are much nicer than my current residence in Alexandria, VA.
I'd love to see two collaborations :
1) Fried Egg with BryanBros on Solina GC
2) Garrett with Grant Horvat on course picked by Garrett
A neat way to get into course architecture is via the PGA 2K video game series. The games have a course designer in them, allowing you to build pretty much any kind of course you want, and then virtually play it and share it with everyone else who plays the game. Along with reading Anatomy of a Golf Course by Tom Doak, that's how I really started to get into the hows and whys of course architecture.
22:50 Grand Rapids is great, the Devries trail they're talking about it The Mines, Diamond Springs, and Pilgrims Run. Add in Angels Crossing in Kalamazoo and/or Stoatin Brae at Gull Lake, and you could even stop by Kaufman (local yokel muni in Grand Rapids), and you would have a great time at very affordable quality public courses.
I’m watching the Australian open …. Every time Jason Day is about to tee off I play “day-man” on my phone …. The clubhouse is pissed 😠