Jaime Diaz

Carbon and its derivatives are going to be really the next great commodity that the globe's going to trade.

Well, it might be a little bit romanticism on my part, but the first one was 86.

And I'd just come off the first Masters I'd been to at 86.

And, you know, arguably that was the best Masters.

And arguably 86 was the best Open, at least for me, that I've seen for many reasons.

And one of them was Shinnecock itself.

You know, there was a lot of skepticism going into that tournament about the site.

It was really sort of this kind of fever dream by Frank Hannigan, who ran the USGA in the 80s and was a great thinker of the game.

He did a lot for golf architecture as far as bringing awareness about the great architects.

He did the first really long and very informative and thought-provoking feature on an architect.

It was on A.W.

Tillinghast.

And nobody knew who Tillinghast was.

I shouldn't say nobody.

I mean, a lot of historians did, but the general public did not even really know.

put architects first when they thought of the golf courses.

They just thought of the tournaments that had been held there.

Uh, but it just opened up the world for people learning about Ross and McKenzie and everybody else, the golden age.

Nobody talked about the golden age.

Suddenly you're talking about, Oh, the best golf courses in the best land was, and you guys at Friday know it better than anyone, you know, how golf exploded because of, uh,