{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Bag Drop: Untold Stories in Golf","title":"Building the Gilroy: Old Barnwell's Second Course","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c860462a\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3907,"description":"What does a piece of land owe the people around it once the golf stops paying for itself?\nIn this episode of The Bag Drop: Untold Stories in Golf, host Matt Considine and co‑host Dr. Kevin Moore (a.k.a. “The Professor”) sit down with Blake Conant (golf course architect; co-designer of Old Barnwell and the Gilroy) to talk about the second course he is building in the dirt right now — and the master's thesis he wrote a decade earlier arguing that some golf courses should stop being golf courses.\n\nThe conversation dives into:\nWhy a painting degree and three months running equipment with Tom Doak at Dismal River turned out to be the right education for golf architecture\nBuilding the Gilroy next door to a course everybody already loves, and the Snoop Dogg rule Blake uses to keep from chasing it\nThe 90-acre parcel Nick Schreiber bought so the routing would work, and why Blake says architects are simply greedy\nA kids course with a tunnel and a ramp, built on Brian Schneider's premise that kids do not actually want to putt\nThe 2013 thesis on bankrupt courses: what Blake got right about supply, what he missed about demand, and why the courses that closed were the wrong ones\nThe arithmetic that decides whether affordable public golf gets built at all — roughly ten dollars of green fee for every million spent\nConnect with our guest\n🎨 Blake Conant — https://www.dundeegolf.com/ 🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/Dundee_Golf — | 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dundeegolf/ | 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-conant-90566a37/\n⛳️ Old Barnwell — https://oldbarnwell.com\n\nJoin the NewClub community\n🌍 Website: https://www.newclub.golf\n📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newclubgolf/\n🐦 X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/newclubgolf\n📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@newclubgolf\n💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newclub\n\nLinks & Partners\n🐝 NewClub: https://www.newclub.golf\n🏌️ Titleist: https://www.titleist.com\n🌐 Golf Blueprint: https://www.golfblueprint.com\n\nListen to The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UTWF4LINKJxQLEH-r1aPYxPmlXn5V5SbcsdRGBvWeuk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNTEx/NjJmODg0OWI2ZGU5/NmZlMDBhMDljZDFh/YmNkYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}