The Shotgun Start
The Shotgun Start with Andy Johnson and Brendan Porath of Fried Egg Golf is a podcast waiting for you early in the morning that quickly blasts through a variety of topics (usually) related to golf and (ideally) relevant to the day. It covers news from the pro tours around the world, amusing and important topics from the amateur game the rest of us play, and some irreverent stuff in between. There will be short interviews, previews, reviews, and dives into the archives. It provides what you need to know on golf through a rapid and fun catch-up discussion.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 1003
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Answering Listener Questions and Year-end Golf Advice
Andy and Brendan reconvene after the holidays to catch up on all they missed during the break and settle up with a few listener queries before the end of the year. They opened up the floor for SGS Go…
01:16:36 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
The 2023 Year in Review, Part 9 - FIN
Andy and Brendan are back for the finale of the Year in Review, picking up with the PGA Tour’s visit to Congress for a hearing on its “merger” with the PIF and going all the way through to the last l…
02:51:37 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Tiger and Charlie, Browns-Bears, and The Year in Review Part 8
This monster episode wrangles with a perfect Browns-Bears mess of a game that Andy and Brendan wish they had attended in person. After debriefing on that for a bit, they move to the Catnip Carnival t…
02:29:37 |
Mon 18 Dec 2023
The 2023 Year in Review, Part 7: The June merger and Blockie-mania
This Friday episode continues the Year in Review, which is in the throes of major championship summer. But in 2023, those majors took a backseat to the summer bombshell of a PGA Tour and LIV, or PIF,…
01:35:15 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Mules on Parade, LIV rumors back, Year in Review Part 6
Well, the mules have slowed Year in Review progress to a crawl. Brendan and Andy react to a letter from a law firm signed by 21 PGA Tour players from the “mule” category, or maybe something else, dem…
01:47:03 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
PGA Tour's future and funding partners, and Year in Review Part 5
It’s Victory Monday! Andy and Brendan delight in their teams’ Sunday success before looking ahead to the highly anticipated Bears-Browns clash this coming week. Then they get into the memo from the P…
01:50:28 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Rahm heading to LIV, PGA Tour in “chaos,” and SGS Golf Advice
This Friday episode begins with the slew of reports that Jon Rahm is leaving the PGA Tour to go to LIV. Andy and Brendan discuss this rampant rumor in recent weeks becoming more “official” and what m…
01:02:25 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
More Rahm and rollback fallout, Year in Review Part 4
With a stomach bug raining hell down on one of their houses, and awful Comcast internet service shutting things down multiple times, the world continues to conspire against the progress of the 2023 Y…
01:34:09 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Rollback blowback, Rahm rumblings, Tiger’s return, and the Mule Uprising
Whew, what a weekend from the golf content gods! Andy and Brendan come primed and ready for this Monday episode, beginning with the report in Golf Digest that the governing bodies are now considering…
01:26:44 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Tiger returns, more Rahm-LIV rumors, and Golf Advice
It’s Friday! And the first of the month! And Brendan’s internet is absolutely awful. But Andy and he march on through the spotty connection to get to the weekend with some initial reactions on the fi…
00:58:45 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Tiger talks, Framework Deal gridlock and blame game, JT’s diet
Andy and Brendan pause the progress in the Year in Review for this “regular” Wednesday episode to celebrate the return of Tiger Woods at the Hero World Challenge. They discuss Tiger’s health and 2024…
00:50:53 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
The 2023 Year in Review, Part 3
Andy and Brendan are back from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend a little worse for the wear, but they jump right back into the annual favorite Year in Review series. After a few comments about curren…
01:33:21 |
Mon 27 Nov 2023
Rahm LIV rumors and Year in Review, Part 2
Andy and Brendan recorded this prior to the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA, planning for primarily a Year in Review episode. But news and rumors intervened, so they discuss Jordan Spieth joining the…
01:38:24 |
Thu 23 Nov 2023
The 2023 Year in Review, Part 1
Andy and Brendan are back for one their least favorite but also most enjoyable exercises of the year: it’s the SIXTH annual Year in Review! And they are maybe, kinda out ahead of it this time, althou…
01:27:21 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Azinger ousted, Ludvig arrives, and Tour wants tourneys to pay up more
Brendan begins this Victory Monday with a declaration that the Browns are going to the playoffs while Andy considers a potential visit to the midwest for the Browns-Bears game in December. Then they …
00:49:47 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Hit ‘Em Up Lanto, TGL Arena deflates, and Rory resigns from PGA Tour board
It’s Friday! Andy and Brendan are ready to get to the weekend and a short holiday week with plenty of Year in Review research awaiting. They begin with pictures of the TGL “arena” deflating due to a …
00:55:32 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
The Netflix Cup runneth over, A pro golf bubble of excess, Blockie makes an ace
It’s whiparound Wednesday, and Andy is confronting the possibility that he might have made a mistake adding a second dog to the house. Brendan begins with the Netflix Cup, an assault on the senses in…
00:57:14 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Camilo’s win, Rory pops off on Cantlay-LaCava tussle, and Victory Monday!
It’s a jubilant Victory Monday at the Shotgun Start with a totally unexpected Browns win over the Ravens and Illinois perhaps finding its quarterback of the immediate future. It’s also a victory Mond…
00:43:17 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Substantive TGL details splash in Wired article, #FBF on “South Africa’s major”, Golf Advice
It’s a stuffed November Friday episode for Brendan and Andy, who is dreading the Bears playing in national primetime yet again. They meander from that into the lengthy Wired article on the tech and p…
01:12:07 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Rory wants the PIF, In-Out-Alternate for Butterfield, and Ballfrogs visit Fenway
This Wednesday episode begins with one more travel tale for 2023 as Andy recalls a particularly egregious neighbor on his plane ride home on Tuesday. There’s also some cycling culture follow-ups from…
00:46:21 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
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