We're going to start turning some of my solo opening "essays" from the Designing Golf podcast into their own YouTube videos, with a bit of production and visual accompaniment. This one is on how to appreciate golf courses while you're playing them: youtu.be/UhzpZrgHzoc?...

I went on @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social to talk about the Trump administration's efforts to seize control of municipal golf in D.C. A real through-the-looking-glass moment for me. I'm a big fan of the show. youtu.be/8dJaDf3QJFM?...

There's nowhere else I can air this without sabotaging the rest of my day, so: The amount of cosplaying, posturing, fantasizing, and bloviating about exclusive private golf club "culture" on The Everything App by anonymous accounts is stunning. It's a whole thing. Who believes this stuff?

We profiled the maintenance crew at Bandon Dunes: youtu.be/HCQGg44I_Ew?...

Banging the old, crusty, scandal-ridden politicians you've been charged to do journalism about is objectively a very funny vice to have

Had a lot of fun filming this video about the "Great Hazard" fourth hole at Bethpage Black with my man @therealpjclark.bsky.social. youtu.be/YUGwwUYyVxU?...

Oh yeah, this is for sure better and easier than Googling "Natalie Portman Christian Bale movie"

Top 10 album for me. The A side of "Harborcoat," "7 Chinese Bros.," "So. Central Rain," "Pretty Persuasion," and "Time After Time" is insane.

It has been oddly cathartic to see @pablo.show do all of this to a bunch of guys who probably thought that the modern fourth estate, in its weakened condition, would never touch them.

Hey, we're running a hole design contest for Fried Egg Golf Club members. The winning entry will get built at Andy Staples's new par-3 course at Breezy Point Resort in Minnesota. A unique opportunity! www.thefriedegg.com/articles/feg...

We tried to capture in video form what it's like to play Cypress Point. Check it out: youtu.be/jeU9ZHi0594?...

I regret to inform the internet that the KPop Demon Hunters songs are stuck in my head. "You're my soda pop, my little soda pop," things of that nature. I don't mind it, but it might kill me.

The misuse of "literally" is just the cherry on top of this sundae of vacuous nonsense

My review of Happy Gilmore 2: watch Hustle

I used this profile of the great Mid Pines Golf Club as an opportunity to talk about elegance in design—potentially a declining art. www.thefriedegg.com/courses/mid-...

Gil Hanse's third U.S. design, lost in 2014, will soon be revived as a destination club. All about the former Capstone Club, now known as Coal Club: www.thefriedegg.com/articles/cap...

Today's Designing Golf episode is a Royal Portrush deep dive. Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/6DLxXJb0Ltk?...

Tomorrow morning @friedeggandy.bsky.social and I are recording a golf architecture mailbag episode. Send me any questions you have about golf course design, and I'll try to sneak them in.

Early in the Great Depression, the city of Salem funded the construction of municipal golf course as a form of unemployment relief. Today, Olde Salem Greens is one of my favorite nines in the country. And it could be even better. Full course profile here: www.thefriedegg.com/courses/olde...

I've halfway decided that Bluesky is where I'm going to 1) share work and 2) participate belatedly in overexposed "look at my taste in movies/music/books" activities

Long par 3s have taken a lot of flak recently from players, media, and people in my mentions on the other site. It's up to me to be the voice of reason. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/gol...

Who could have foreseen that the downstream effects of letting billionaires make unlimited contributions to political campaigns would be weird and bad

Our piece on Oakmont Country Club. I'm biased, but I think this one turned out really well. youtu.be/FSCP7NUcYII?...

The WNBA season is the perfect length. I'm sure capitalism will eventually force it to expand, but five months and 40-something games plus playoffs is 👌. If only the NBA (not to mention the PGA Tour) could get to that size.

"Soggy Quail Hollow" is such a laughably obvious spot for Rory McIlroy that I fear he's headed for a missed cut

"Grow the grass" is truly the dumbest possible anti-rollback slogan

It is Andor night

Pinehurst Resort announced today that Coore & Crenshaw will design Pinehurst No. 11 on a site adjacent to Tom Doak's recently completed No. 10 course. This will be a cool golf course. Details here: thefriedegg.com/coore-crensh...

One of my dad's friends got single-length irons a few years back. Basically ruined his life.

Cracking up at this for some reason

I choose hope

It says a lot about the Rory McIlroy experience that he hits a perfect tee shot on 18 and leaves himself a gap wedge in, and we all groan

Again, for the sake of accurate record-keeping

Just want to make sure this exists on Bluesky, too

Well, Mr. Rory McIlroy certainly is playing well. I'm sure nothing bad will happen from here on in.

Me, an absolute idiot, discussing Rory's first round

GodDAMMIT Rory

He's still young, but Nick Dunlap has an opportunity to become a generational "high highs / low lows" player. This man won two PGA Tour events last year!

Tyrrell Hatton leads The Masters. He would make an interesting champion, given that he openly despises the golf course.

Fred Couples just holed out with lumber from 191 on the 14th hole. People who complain about the presence of aging past champions in the Masters field simply do not know ball.

I love trying to come up with new angles on Augusta National every April. This year, Josh Pettit helped me view the course through the lens of what Alister MacKenzie was generally up to in the 1930s. He was experimenting with some pretty wild ideas. youtu.be/orl7m55RCfk?...

I choose hope

Today's Designing Golf tackles one of my favorite topics: how to make golf courses function more effectively as *places*. Beau Welling, who has designed both golf courses and downtown areas, has some terrific insights here. I loved this conversation. youtu.be/qH_nTZ0lZzw?...

Golf isn't cool, you say? Well, 49-year-old Tiger Woods, his body and mind hanging on by a single gossamer thread, just announced that he's engaged to (or maybe just boning?) the president's former daughter-in-law via a work of Dadaist poetry.

Hard to believe we've written 100 of these things, but here it is: my Club TFE Course profile of Pacific Dunes. thefriedegg.com/course-profi...

Some guidance regarding Phil Mickelson: it becomes easier to understand him when you realize that he just says and does whatever he thinks will make him richer / less in debt at that particular moment. There's really not much else to him.

For today's episode of Designing Golf, @josephlamagna.bsky.social and I talk about what makes Pete Dye's TPC Sawgrass an enduringly great tournament venue. Loved this conversation. youtu.be/EFRzdSG-2-o?...

Alister MacKenzie's 13 principles constitute a hugely influential framework for golf course design. On today's 101 episode of Designing Golf, @therealpjclark.bsky.social and I discuss whether we think the Good Doctor had good ideas. youtu.be/YPErccmbDBg?...