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End of season, set out this year to tackle Golf Magazine’s T100 and got through 22 in the U.S. + 2 from GD
Let’s rank by most FUN I had:
🥇Essex County (MA)
🥈Maidstone
🥉Oakmont
4 Shoreacres
5 Sleepy Hollow
6 Castle Pines Golf Club
7 Boston Golf Club
8 Oak Hill (East)
9 The Country Club
10 Somerset Hills
11 Creek Club
12 Cal Club
13 Ballyneal
14 Piping Rock
15 Eastward Ho!
16 Plainfield
17 Sankaty Head
18 Bethpage (Black)
19 Kittansett
20 Ridgewood
21 Cherry Hills
22 Old Sandwich
23 Olympic (Lake)
24 Baltusrol (Lower)
FUN =\= design ranking ; Just purely how much I enjoyed my round that day!
Final one of the season - The Bridge
NR in U.S.
A Hamptons delight on a beautiful morning to end the season in record pace, a 2 hour round at 8am with no one else in sight! Had to pay homage to the old BridgeHampton race track that occupied this land with a fast, low round.
This early 2000s Rees Jones course is pure fun. And it should be at an eye watering $2.2M initiation fee. Lots of art sculptures on course, fun music while you call their phone number, and a friendly staff. It’s curated towards more than golf, just a good overall experience.
The golf itself? A pleasant walk with incredible views. No hole in particular really stands out from a GCA perspective, greens are relatively flat but slick, and the variety in holes is rather limited.
But that doesn’t really matter because you can’t not have fun at a place like this; especially when you get a near 70 degree day in almost November!
Golf Twitter could never do something this cool to doxx themselves.
“Anthropic is acquiring my 1 man company focused on nabbing as many elite logo’d tour visors as possible” 😭
Surprise 1: Anthropic acquired a one-person biotech
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Surprise 2: that person is me
Surprise 3: I’m here to tell you all about it
Yes, this is what you think it is; after 6 yrs of increasingly loose anonymity: the Professor Oak reveal post
…and yes, it has gotten so boring around here that I’m literally doxxing myself to spice up the timeline
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Ok, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cody Tranbarger. I mostly tweet, but occasionally find time to dabble in drug dev & starting/building biotechs. My past lives span the VC, crossover, startup continuum; Prof Oak has been my way of keeping a digital foot in those worlds, despite having my physical feet planted elsewhere.
The past 18 mo, ‘elsewhere’ was Mithril Medicine, a co. I founded to develop bsAbs for LAMA2-CMD & other ECM-related genetic diseases.
Mithril was born out of hands-on building with @MikeNGladstone, @JasonPaulRhodes, @LifeSciVC, & team @atlasventure. Somehow, I made enough half-decent calls along the way (even a broken clock is right twice a day, eh?) to convince them Mithril/I warranted a small seed. While I can hardly rationalize such an outrageously cavalier bet, I’m grateful for it, & I'd partner with Atlas again in a heartbeat.
In typical AV fashion, Mithril’s primordial form was virtual, decentralized, & ultra-lean. This stage tends to be short-lived, but for Mithril, it worked surprisingly well, for surprisingly long, thanks in part to the rapid maturation of the AI tools I used liberally.
Eventually, Mithril became a bit of an experiment itself - to find the upper bound of how far it could scale as a single operator + a bunch of Claude (+ a stellar bench of part-time consultants).
In parallel, I started spending time with @nc_frey, @an1lam, & @CoefficientBio team; and promptly experienced, for the 1st time, AI at the frontier. Soon thereafter, Mithril stopped looking like an experiment, & started looking like a preview of an entirely new operating model.
From that spark came “Pipeline-in-a-Person.” The idea immediately resonated when we shared it here back in April; and it was central to the shared vision that led to Anthropic’s acquisition of Mithril, & my joining the team.
Why join Anthropic? Three reasons.
(1) For Mithril, the programs continue, with more resources & infrastructure behind them, and as much Claude as I can put to work.
(2) For me, the chance to start several more programs, & find out how many one person can actually run in parallel - an almost unprecedented luxury for a curious drug hunter.
(3) For our mission, a path to institutionalize & scale this new way of working, then put it in the hands of all of biopharma, all over the world - which, candidly, I find the most energizing.
Will AI x Bio cure diseases? Unequivocally yes, imo… but not by the route that gets the most airtime. Rather than timeline acceleration & compression, I see orchestration & parallelization as today's low-hanging fruit.
Most drug hunters see a handful of go/no-go calls in a career, & spend entirely too much of the rest trading emails (my inbox can attest).
Give them the bandwidth to run several programs at once, and the time to focus on scientific judgment, and I’m willing to bet they’ll make better calls. And at scale, better calls translate to more drugs, higher hit rates, broader patient impact, & likely, a disease or 10 or 100 cured. I couldn't be more excited to build toward that future @AnthropicAI.
Finally, a heartfelt thank you to BioTwitter/X. The end of anonymity is bittersweet, but if anyone’s earned a proper introduction, you all have.
It’s difficult to overstate how much this app has done for me: a decade of education, plenty of friends, many job opportunities, several mentors, a few investors, even a co-founder (fmr). It was the generosity of this community that inspired me to start posting 6 years ago, after just as many years lurking. I hope I’ve been able to pay it forward, in my own small way.
But, to be clear, Prof Oak isn’t going anywhere. Same beat, same themes, and now, a front-row seat to drug development at the frontier. Stay tuned for dispatches from the trenches; and remember...
Gotta Cure 'Em All
Home club fall ball 🐢
Delivered a generational ass whooping to my opponents, may they rest in peace.
Very special one today
#63 in 🇺🇸
What do you get when a bunch of ANGC & other elite southern club members get together to create a home away from home to escape the summer heat? This place.
Faz gets a lot of hate, but honestly it feels pretty dang similar to Castle Pines Golf Club. How so?
- Target tee shots with big elevation changes
- [insert water feature] on most holes, especially par 5s
- Downhill par 3s
- Over the top conditioning, and greens running at a 14
Growing up in castle pines I’m not going to lie I have an affinity for this kind of golf, it’s a lot of fun. But I get it, if you are off your game this place can become nightmare fuel.
Anyways, I feel very privileged to have gotten to play here. Lovely membership and staff and I can see why they keep this place well protected. An absolute 10/10 mountain oasis.
Mountain golf today - Burlingame CC
This 1980s Tom Jackson design is sure to pack a punch in only 6,600yds from the tips in the mountains of Sapphire, NC.
This is extreme mountain golf at its finest. Including the par 3 pictured last which is 220yds playing hundreds of feet down to 140yds!
Plenty of amazing courses with caring memberships in this region outside of the known big boys. A delight with their recently renovated back nine. Hope they reno the front soon as well and it’ll be in top shape!
Excellent one today - Broomsedge
Well, we did it. We got the Golf Twitter meetup out of the group chat! And what an epic place to do it. Minus the hurricane rains, we had an epic Twitter 20 man Ryder Cup event that ended with Team Appel beating Team @GolfnNBAnJokes. This also helps me prove my point that meeting up with internet strangers isn’t weird to my wife 😭.
All jokes aside this place rocked. Lovely mixture of par 3s with multiple green complex options, solid par 4s, and risk reward par 5s make this the perfect environment for a 2 day Ryder Cup.
In terms of new SC golf courses, it’s one of the best, and I have it behind Old Barnwell and ahead of The Tree Farm.
They do offer some public play tee times so I highly recommend getting down here this winter!
Sessionable one today - Carolina GC
Located right outside Charlotte, this Donald Ross course was a delight to play. Classic Ross bunkering weaving through a parkland environment with solid variety in the par 5s.
Fun membership and definitely a place that isn’t going to kick your teeth in like Championship Ross designs, but rather is a course you’d want to play a match against your buddies at on a weekly basis.
The best of MA today - Myopia HC
#43 in U.S. ; #77 in World
Excited to have now seen all the ranked MA courses with this beauty, and maybe hot take, it’s my new #1 in MA.
My prior T3 was 1. TCC 2. Eastward Ho! and 3. Essex County ; now it’s Myopia, TCC, and Eastward Ho!. Essex is great but in a battle of the north shore giants, this is a KO.
This feels right, these 3 courses are in a tier above other heavyweights like BGC, Kittansett, Essex, OS, Sankaty, etc.
Why did it catapult to #1? To me, it embodies hole variety and memorability better than any other course in MA. So many fantastic half par 3s and par 4s and while often par 5s get discounted at classical designs, I found these ones to be very engaging. Yes the land movement isn’t quite as good as Eastward Ho!, but the sheer quirkiness of fantastic holes here is outstanding. And the land movement here is still very sporty.
It’s so cool to see a match play style course such as this be the “template” for what rating organizations look for in hole variety today, and I’m not so certain Herbert Leeds even did this on purpose when he built the course.
Bonus points: it’s also the best clubhouse in MA and one of the best logos
What’s your top 3 in MA, and why?
Old one today - Kebo Valley Golf Club
NR in U.S.
Founded in 1888 and played by numerous influential people like President Taft (taking a 27 on the 17th hole - second picture), this Herbert Leeds design (guy who did Myopia) is sure to impress.
Old school courses like this leveraged other tactics than Nicklaus Bunkers™️ to force thoughtful shots such as hummocks / chocolate drops and incredibly small yet versatile putting surfaces.
First time playing in Maine and what a treat it was to get to play here boarding a National Park on Mount Desert Island.
Sorta pricey for what you get so if you haven’t been all the way to Bar Harbor, Maine - I’d recommend doing some of the famous hikes first before venturing over here.
Great time hosting some sticks from X at the 🐢
@golfclubenjoyer @EgbersTom
To put this in more reassuring terms, senior Anthropic staff think the chance AI kills all humans within the next decade is roughly the chance Scottie will complete the grand slam by 2028
The #walkercup is frankly set up better for Americans than the Ryder Cup is via singles matches, which we dominate.
- Walker Cup: 18 singles matches worth roughly 70% of points
- Ryder Cup: 12 singles matches worth roughly 43% of points
Maybe the Americans can lobby for more singles matches in the Ryder Cup 😅.
@WalkerCup @RyderCupUSA
One of the best - Lahinch
#37 in World
In honor of the @WalkerCup, my favorite course in Ireland
The heavyweight Old Tom Morris designed this course with a redesign by Dr. Alister MacKenzie in the 1920s and it shows. Such great usage of the natural Atlantic sand dunes. While the blind shots of the par 5 4th and par 3 5th take the show, the par 3 8th was my favorite (first picture here) - absolutely breathtaking.
Good luck to Team USA 🇺🇸!
#walkercup
Hard one today - Aronimink GC
#84 in U.S.
Home of this year’s PGA Championship, this classic Ross design messed me up man. Maybe I should have worn two gloves and used a martini tee to go low 😭.
In all seriousness, Ross was out for blood with this design. Legend has it he was upset he didn’t get the Philly Cricket job and decided to take aim at folks with Aronimink and it shows - even in the 1920s the tips stretched out to 6,600yds!
More on the course though - compared to other championship Ross designs like Oak Hill / Plainfield / etc. I felt the course did an excellent job in forcing thoughtful tee shots. Miss it in the wrong part of the fairway and you’re contending with rough you’ll have to basically hack out 60 yards to advance. I can’t overstate enough how much of a premium it was to hit fairways. Even from the fairway you have all world par 4s like the 11th where a slight mishit into the green will put you in double or triple territory.
Firm & fast (even after flash flooding for a full day), original greens, a great routing, and a true test of skills is how I will remember this course.
Philly has so many excellent courses, it’s really hard to say this is necessarily deserved of a T100 and others are not. All this to say, Philly folks are blessed with the options they have, so many good places!
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