Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 15, ft. Ian Andrew

Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 15, ft. Ian Andrew

Canadian designer Ian Andrew, Feed the Ball guest from Episode 14, is back to visit with Derek Duncan and Jim Urbina. The conversation turns to topics of:

–Choose Your Own Adventure golf architecture;

–The satisfactions of playing “unknown” courses;

–Golf as an emotional experience;

–The importance of “compression and release” in design;

–Creativity beginning with saying “I don’t know”;

–How the best architects “fight” for contours;

–and the genius of Stanley Thompson.

Listen to Derek Duncan discuss the book “The Match” by Mark Frost in the Good-Good Golf Podcast Book Club edition.

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Photos: Cover page, St. Georges Golf & Country Club, 1st hole, Clive Barber; above, Knollwood Country Club, 16th hole, Evan Schiller

2 Replies to “Feed the Ball Salon Vol. 15, ft. Ian Andrew”

  1. Why am I so confused on Stanley Thompson?? Quick research at StanleyThompsonSociety.com lists RTJ & RTJ/Sarazen courses.

    1. RTJ partnered with Thompson when he was getting started in the early 1930s. RTJ did a lot of the set-up and legwork on Thompson’s U.S. commissions and helped out with some Canadian courses like Banff. They separated in the late 30s and RTJ took credit for a number of their early courses.