Why Aren’t There More Stadium Golf Courses? | Designing Golf In the 1980s, the concept of a stadium golf course seemed poised to take off. The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass and the PGA West Stadium Course, both designed by…
2026 Golf Course Openings We’re Excited About | Designing Golf It’s the new year, so we’re looking ahead. First, Garrett talks about whether modern golf architecture is running low on fresh ideas. Then he is joined by his Fried Egg…
The 10 Defining Golf Courses of the Past 15 Years | Designing Golf In the future, when we look back on the years between 2010 and 2025, what will we see as the golf courses that defined the era? Andy…
What Makes a Good Match-Play Golf Course? | Designing Golf The writer cup at Beth Page Black is approaching, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about the intersection between match play and golf course design.…
In this installment of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett introduces his Fried Egg Golf colleague PJ Clark to C.B. Macdonald’s “ideal holes.” They discuss how Macdonald came up with the notion of “templates” based on famous British golf holes,…
Can Golf Courses Help Us Be More Human? A Conversation with Beau Welling | Designing Golf Beau Welling is the founder and CEO of Beau Welling Design, and in addition to collaborating with Tiger Woods and designing courses like Bluejack…
If you want to learn more about golf course design, which books should you read? Garrett Morrison fields this question pretty frequently, so for today’s episode, he brings on writer and historian Stephen Proctor to discuss the 10 most essential…
For the first episode of our Golf Architecture 101 series, Garrett Morrison talks Fried Egg Golf producer PJ Clark through the so-called “schools”—that is, philosophies—of golf course design: penal, strategic, and heroic. If you want to learn more about golf…
Geoff Ogilvy is the 2006 U.S. Open champion, one of the sharpest minds in golf, and an architect whose firm, OCM, is making waves in the industry. In this episode, Garrett Morrison asks him about the four golf courses that…