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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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?...

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Two Big Ways to Appreciate Golf Courses While You’re Playing Them | Designing Golf

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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?...

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How Trump Hijacks Courses for the People — for Himself | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Gotta talk about this with someone: the single most shocking thing to me is how poorly written that book excerpt is. Like what happened?

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Golf is just way more niche than baseball and football. I think it was always going to be easier to establish critical masses of baseball and football commentators/consumers here.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's a personal choice. So I appreciate that your response focuses on what you personally experienced. I'm a different guy, obviously.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I can answer for myself — of course I have those concerns. But a guilt trip isn't going to make me abandon the platform. I post in both places. I often find "X" pretty unpleasant, but I spent years developing relationships and readers there. I wasn't the one who sold the company to Elon Musk.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Pretty much nothing! Just being honest. Is what it is.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There are also some full-time media folks who pander to this set, sadly.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A lot of it comes directly to me via mentions. I can't mute people quickly enough!

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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?

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein." Are probably the two funniest sentences ever written.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

And "American Canto" is such a hilariously pretentious title for a book about your inability to stop boning 70-year-olds

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

No formal definition, as far as I know. It's really a colloquial term. I think it's only properly applicable to holes where the fairway forms a distinct angle, like a literal dog's leg. If you question whether it's a dogleg, it's probably not. My view, at least.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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?...

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Breaking Down Bethpage's Par 5 4th Hole | Great Golf Holes

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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...

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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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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

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Cypress Point | Site of the 2025 Walker Cup Match

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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."

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My review of Happy Gilmore 2: watch Hustle

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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...

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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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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

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Deep Dive: Royal Portrush | Designing Golf

YouTube video by Fried Egg Golf

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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)

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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...

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Olde Salem Greens Golf Course Review and Rating

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Apologies, I had my guard up a bit too much. I think golf is just a smaller sport with a smaller community of enthusiasts. It's not like the entirety of NFL or NBA Twitter came over here. There are just more of them, so they were able to establish a foothold on Bluesky.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

And if it's more helpful at this point for me to delete the starter pack, I'm happy to do so.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I made this starter pack several months ago. It was meant to feature golf media folks who had recently created accounts on Bluesky. I would definitely encourage someone to make a starter pack of golf-focused accounts that are actually active here. I wouldn't be the best person to do that, though.

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Garrett Morrison @garrettmorrison.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It sounds like you don't actually appreciate the leg work? Anyway, I created this seven months ago. I can take it down if people want.

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