<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://feedtheball.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Diablo-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-4500" srcset="https://feedtheball.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Diablo-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://feedtheball.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Diablo-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://feedtheball.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Diablo-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://feedtheball.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Diablo-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> <p>Golf architect <strong><a href="https://www.originsgolfdesign.com/">Todd Eckenrode</a></strong> has built and re-built golf courses up and down California and knows the work of historic architects like Alister MacKenzie, George Thomas, William Watson and Max Behr as well as anyone. He joins the Feed the Ball podcast to discuss working at and learning to play at <strong>Pasatiempo</strong>, when to try to &#8220;restore&#8221; original architecture and when to make alterations, how his outlook on design has changed through time, if public courses can close the conditioning gap on private courses and how the early courses of California evolved into what they&#8217;ve become today.</p> <p>Photos: Cover page, Sharon Heights Golf &amp; Country Club (Channing Benjamin). Above, Diablo Country Club.</p> <p>Music: &#8220;Los Angeles,&#8221; Phosphorescent.</p> <p>Watch Derek Duncan break down <a href="https://www.golfdigest.com/story/cypress-point-the-hole-at-how-the-greatest-golf-hole-in-america-was-made">the 16th hole at Cypress Point</a>.</p> <p><strong>Subscribe to Feed the Ball on <a aria-label="Apple Podcasts (opens in a new tab)" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed-the-ball/id1278405987" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Podcasts</a> and </strong><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7g8WA04gMnufTe1l0NuchV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Spotify</strong></a>.</p> <p><strong>Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/feedtheball" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@feedtheball</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/feedtheball/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@feedtheball</a></strong></p> <p>The post <a href="https://feedtheball.com/episode-98-todd-eckenrode/">Episode 98: Todd Eckenrode</a> appeared first on <a href="https://feedtheball.com">Feed The Ball</a>.</p>