Designing Golf
Designing Golf
Fried Egg Golf
The History of the Idea of Fairness in Golf
1 hour 4 minutes Posted Sep 11, 2025 at 8:00 am.
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Building off of our latest Golf Architecture 101 episode, Garrett Morrison sits down with golf historian Bob Crosby to discuss the historical roots of the notion of fairness in golf course design. Garrett and Bob explore how two major figures of the game in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Laidlaw Purves and John Low, came to represent opposite sides of the fairness debate—a debate that still rages today.