Garrett Morrison

In Bryan's defense, we don't have any widely shared folklore or cultural teachings about the folly of trying to cheat death. I'm pretty sure things always work out well for people who think they can live forever.

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf Breaking Down Bethpage's Par 5 4th Hole | Great Golf Holes

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.

FEGC Hole Design Contest: Breezy Point Resort For the first-ever FEGC Hole Design Contest, Fried Egg Golf Club members can submit concepts for a golf hole at Ace Valley, a new short course at Breezy Point in Minnesota.

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...

Thank you!

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf Cypress Point | Site of the 2025 Walker Cup Match

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.

I don't even see him as malicious. Just profoundly dumb.

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

Yes, I murdered that guy. But in my defense, I have a divergent life-preservation personality.

I see this as a design problem rather than an inherent golf problem. Golf courses can and should be designed to accommodate bike/pedestrian traffic through and around. There's also an important distinction to be made between private and municipal courses. We're talking about the latter here.

Right back at you, Charlie!

Oh yeah, I got where you were coming from. You just happened to hit a hobbyhorse of mine. 😂 These attitudes among well-meaning lefties are a big problem for urban municipal golf right now. It's a tough scene because golf courses are absolutely some of the last remaining vigorous "third spaces."

Also, after watching the Portland city council raid the self-sustaining golf enterprise fund in order to cover shortfalls elsewhere in the city budget earlier this year, I'm no longer going to countenance the financial arguments against municipal golf, either.

The environmental and land use arguments against public golf are often deeply unserious. It's one of those areas where I find myself very much at odds with people I agree with on almost everything else.

A pitch for watching Hustle or for watching Happy Gilmore 2?

My review of Happy Gilmore 2: watch Hustle

Mid Pines Golf Club Course Review and Rating Donald Ross’s use of the land is the primary source of Mid Pines Golf Club's challenge: in order to score well, players must hit precise approaches from all manner of uneven lies.

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 Design in Alabama Comes Back as Coal Club New owners plan to revive Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner's the Capstone Club in Alabama as Coal Club.

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...

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf Deep Dive: Royal Portrush | Designing Golf

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

I guess there's some ambiguity around WBYC's provenance, but I've always regarded it as primarily a Ross course.

That said, I think I get what you're driving at with "Belvedere/WBYC vibes" — old-school, modest design on good land — but not entirely sure.

Which vibes are you talking about? Cool courses, but pretty different (aside from the shared William Watson heritage, no longer really in evidence at WBYC)

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.

Lol I've heard that burn before, but no, I don't know which course he was referring to

Olde Salem Greens Golf Course Review and Rating Fried Egg Golf course review and rating of Olde Salem Greens Golf Course in Salem, Massachusetts.

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...

Beautiful film

Seems like it doesn't get talked about much. I think it's brilliant. Never seen anything quite like it.

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