1/17/25

Cracking Eggs — The Week that Was in Fried Egg Golf

Highlighting a busy week of content

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Golf may be in hibernation in most parts of the world that are not Dubai or Hawaii or Coachella, but we are still off and running around here at Fried Egg Golf. It was a busy week, which may be another way of just saying it was a standard week, producing content and working ahead on some larger things to come.

Andy often notes that we are, by coincidence, a bunch of people from the Midwest who have trouble talking about themselves or promoting the work we’ve done. I’ll try to put some of it up in lights here, though subtly, and more of as a service ICYMI. Here’s a collection of stuff we published and produced this week as you try to spin the clock at the office or kill time over the weekend:

Club TFE

We do not take lightly your decision to support our work with a subscription and bust our ass to produce quality and rich content to affirm that decision. This was a two-profile week in Club TFE – don’t get too used to that if you want us to maintain our sanity but the Dunes Duo is up for your perusal.

Lost Dunes Course Profile by Matt Rouches.

Prairie Dunes Course Profile by Garrett Morrison.

Design Notebook continues in 2025, a singular style of content in a sea awash of the same. Garrett Morrison writes on his public course projects to watch in 2025 and his usual notes or Chocolate Drops on other design news.

Design Notebook: Public Golf Course Projects to Track in 2025

We’re going to experiment a bit with Design Notebook style news appearing in a shorter blog format, with the longer Notebook continuing to come to the Club and members’ inboxes via email format once a month. In one of those shorter blog posts, Garrett writes on Gil Hanse’s work and timeline for Spanish Bay and asks for your thoughts on past experiences there. 

Gil Hanse’s Spanish Bay Project Gets a Timeline

We announced the destination for our third annual Member-Guest, which will take place in June on Long Island. Will Knights provided some of the details around that for members considering the trip. It’s a unique day and most of the FE team will attend again in June. 

Details for 2025 Club TFE Member-Guest

Website Content 

There are not many people in golf who can blend a mix of voice, opinion, data expertise, and insight from said expertise like Joseph LaMagna. He now publishes a regular Wednesday column that showcases those skills. This week he tiered the young guns, went deeper on Nick Dunlap and some of his course management, and answered a weekly reader question.

LaMagna’s Weekly Update: Tiering Men’s Pro Golfers 25 and Younger

Joseph's tiers for his latest weekly column.

Joseph also published a lengthy Q&A with Ryan Ruffels about playing hickories at the Australian Sandbelt’s Victoria Golf Club, where he holds the course record. That record was NOT set with hickories, but he discusses the differences with several eye-opening quotes that will be red-meat for many golf sickos and instructive for casuals.

Ryan Ruffels Played a Classic Golf Course with Hickories

Meg will be covering women’s golf with her usual excellent voice but on a more comprehensive basis this year. She posted an early-season blog of “bits and bobs” centered around some format changes for one of the LPGA’s most unique events.

The International Crown Gets Creative and Other LPGA Offseason Bits and Bobs

Video

We released the latest edition of our Portraits series, with this one focused on Angela Moser of Tom Doak‘s Renaissance Golf Design. Angela’s story of getting into golf and a male-dominated industry is a fascinating one. The video explores that and some of her work, including at Pinehurst No. 10. 

We continue to post clips from the January Club TFE hangout that was an absolute blast making up our own wild TGL course. The full video is on YouTube, but here’s a specific hole we spotlighted this week.

Social Media

I’m not going to go through every social media post, but I did enjoy Andy’s spotlight video on the 14th Hole at County Louth, the Tom Simpson course north of Dublin.

“Maybe my favorite hole in the world” – Andy on the 14th at County Louth

We also continue to have some fun with (at the expense of?) the social gathering around Tuesday night TGL dates. Here’s our favorite Barry with a fake album cover that I enjoyed.

Newsletter

We posted three cracking newsletters flexing multiple muscles from the team. 

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Podcasts

For the Fried Egg Golf podcast, Andy Johnson opened with his assessment of Eugenio Chacarra’s critique on his time at LIV and what it means for younger talents opting for that route, hosted Augie Piza for a chat on designing holes “without limits” for the TGL and did his best to push on some of his philosophies, and closed it with an interview with William Carlson, a college freshman invested in protecting, and already having restored a piece of, Alister MacKenzie’s Northwood. A great episode with variety that will make you feel good, especially at the end.

Designing Golf with No Limits & Northwood’s Restoration Efforts

Apple | Spotify | YouTube

The Shotgun Start podcast bobbed and weaved for its usual three episodes, reacting to the Sony Open getting overwhelmed by equipment and free relief, Chacarra’s spicy comments, reacting live to a disappointing TGL night two on Tuesday night, and then hitting on some LIV Golf TV and executive movements and Golf Advice to close out the week.

A new LIV TV deal as Norman officially exits, Hovland in the blender, SGS Golf Advice

Apple | Spotify | YouTube

TGL takes a step back in Tiger’s debut, Rahm’s OWGR gripes

Apple | Spotify | YouTube Live Show

Chacarra’s criticism of LIV, Free relief party at the Sony, and clutch genes

AppleSpotify | YouTube Live Show

 

Events

We launched a new hub for Fried Egg Golf Events, and opened up two new events for registration – Club TFE preview play at Broomsedge, and our return to Lookout Mountain

We’ll be opening up more events here in the coming weeks.

Merchandise

Our Winter Sale is ongoing in the Pro Shop all weekend.

Job Postings

We also posted two new opportunities to join our team: Social Media Manager and Brand Creative.