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Andy Johnson

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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

There are tons of bunkers at Aronamink.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

Although there are a lot of them, I don't think they're that severe and that penalizing in nature.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

This is a member's course the vast majority of the time.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

I don't think you're going to see those...

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

Super severe, hard to advance it out.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

You know, there will be a lot of thick rough.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

You're not going to see a lot of short grass shots.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

So it's going to be kind of a typical PGA championship around the greens.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

But really, the stars of the show, a show at Arana Mink is the greens.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

They are heavily tilted as you would expect from a 1926 golf course, a lot of slope in them as they used to be played at much slower speeds.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

The thing that you, that really makes a Ron and make screen stand out are these kind of pronounced spines that Ross built in a lot of greens.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

And what they do is divide the green into really small pockets and sections.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

It's going to give Carrie Hague a lot of flexibility on where he puts the

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

pins and and how we can protect really scoring and in certain areas by you can really tuck away pins into tough spots.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

And these ridges are built up.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

So one of the things when you're putting or you're chipping across them, you're having to deal with the up and then over kind of putts where you're having to go uphill and then on the backside is downhill to the slope.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

These are just hard putts to gauge.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

Obviously, huge reward if you can hit it into the right pocket because then you get a lot of makeable shots and they're kind of like small bowls with these ridges.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

But if you miss outside the pocket, it makes it really hard to putt, not just because of that ridge, but also that pronounced slope.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

There's a lot of back-to-front sloping greens.