Has Golf Passed Kapalua By? Plus, Golf Architecture with Jaeger Kovich | The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
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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Kap is a great test… lots of shot making required to succeed… making pros hit approach shots that aren’t stock for them is always entertaining to watch, greens with real slope. Elevation change galore…. The guys playing the best are able to separate themselves from the pack… which isn’t the case at alot of other tour venues
Great episode. Stop with the TGL. It’s awful
The PGA TOUR has acknowledged that they are trying to reach a younger more casual audience than your typical listener. Their data shows that those people want birdies and eagles. A PGA TOUR course that is a 70 for members they have as a part 72 for the tour. They cut the rough and water the greens more too. They would rather have 35 under than 15 under.
Jaeger is a difficult listen. People who raise the volume of their voice to continually talk over others, who have no sense of self and the give-take of good conversation, are hard to listen to. I don’t mean to be mean, but that was bad.