All About Medinah No. 3 & a 2026 Presidents Cup Preview
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What is the preview for the 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah?
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Welcome back to another edition of the Fry Dog Golf Podcast. I'm your host, Andy Johnson, and we're here, President's Cup Week. Uh it is in Chicago, the great city of Chicago. It'll be hosted at Medina Course Number Three, which uh received a an extensive overhaul in recent years at the hands of uh the Australian design outfit OCM, which is Short for Jeff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking, and Ashley Mead. Uh very cool project uh in the sense of reimagining a what was like considered a historic championship golf course. Um I think there will be a lot of discourse around this uh project uh you know for years to come. And I think it's You know, it's one of the more interesting projects that that we've had. Um, you know, for everybody wondering the impetus of this project, you have to go back to the year it hosted the BMW Championship.
It was a wet week in Chicago. They had thick rough at Medina. Um, and day after day, new go course records were shot at Medina course number three. Um the same week. the US Amateur was being held at Pinehurst and I think there was just a dazzling display of shop making and uh you know thought and questions really that the golf course was asking that Medina three was not asking, frankly. Um Medina Three is a golf course for those that don't know, uh you know, in Chicago is the big property originally designed by Tom Bendelow. Um over the years it received a lot of different redesigns Um most recently, uh two Reese Jones redesigns. And over the years the the golf course got narrower and longer um with more bunkers.
It's kind of like a very similar story to a lot of the championship golf courses uh in our time. I think what's interesting about Medina was you know, they looked at the golf course and and they they kind of put their foot in the ground. And I think this is one of the things that I respect about it is They said they were, you know, there you could look at various rankings where Medina was a top ten course in the country in the nineties. Um, you could look at, you know, the championships it's hosted, and they said, listen, this version of our golf course is not as good as it can be. And they enter they welcomed uh a a number of architects to the property. At the end of the day, they chose OC. OCM and we'll go again into that story um with Mike Cocking later in this podcast.
But they put their foot in the ground and they said, We think we could use this property better. It's one of the best properties in in Chicagoland for golf. Um it is a huge property. It's got some really nice movement for for Chicago, um, movement that you often see in other like really great places for golf. like your Philadelphia's New Yorks in certain parts of the property. It has that type of feel, not a Chicago flat feel. Um so they put their foot in the ground and they said, hey, we think we can we can have a golf course that is is better than the one that we we have grown accustomed to. And it's a hard decision and it could, you know, twenty years from now people might say that this was a bad decision.
But I respect Yeah. the hell out of the club and the people involved with the project to choose something bold. It I think this era is an era of projects that are fairly similar. It's take a revered championship golf course and you know restore it to its original design. And it it has led to a lot of great golf courses becoming better. Um you think of the Pinehurst number twos, the L A C C's. There have been two projects in Congressional and here that have said, hey, we're gonna reimagine what this golf course is. And in Medina's case, It is a lot more fun a a golf course that's a lot more fun to play. It's a lot more thought provoking. And it uses the property and the features of the property better, in my opinion, than the previous version of the golf course did.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the preview for the 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah?
0:00–15:19
2
How did the OCM redesign change the layout of Medinah Course #3?
15:19–29:28
3
Why did the designers add an out‑of‑bounds fence on the first three holes?
29:28–44:45
4
Which holes are expected to be the most exciting for the Presidents Cup?
44:45–58:13
5
What challenges does the new drainage system solve for the course?
58:13–1:10:49
6
How does the club plan to prepare the turf for tournament week?
1:10:49–1:22:20
7
What are the biggest upsets in sports history that could happen at the Cup?
1:22:20–1:37:49
8
What are the key takeaways for players and fans from the course redesign?
1:37:49–1:53:43
Speakers
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