373: Presidents Cup Course Preview: Inside Medinah's OCM Redesign with Mike Cocking

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme sit down with Mike Cocking - the "C" in OCM Golf, the "O" belonging to International Team Captain Geoff Ogilvy - days before the OCM redesign of Medinah #3 takes the stage as the host of the Presidents Cup.

Mike explains how the closing stretch of the storied American venue was reimagined to better bring natural features into play, and what that means for strategy and entertainment as the world's best prepare to take it on.

Plus: OCM's origin story (including the "M" - Ashley Mead), inspiration from a childhood spent playing golf on Melbourne's Sand Belt, the Kingston Heath and Shady Oaks projects (including a Ben Hogan keepsake story), the agronomy issue that drove the Medinah rebuild, whether Ogilvy has a built-in edge as International Team captain, and Cocking's prediction for who wins at Medinah.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro & OCM's origin story

3:47 Sand Belt & UK inspirations

6:34 Strategy over penal golf

9:04 Kingston Heath project

11:21 Width over narrow fairways

14:04 Shady Oaks & Ben Hogan

17:03 Favorite Hogan story