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
- 1004
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
SGS Spotlight on Fred Couples and Masters qualifying clarified
This Wednesday episode begins with some brief news on Bryson releasing a fancy video with his Masters scripting despite the fact that there is no Masters this week. We also discuss the Masters field …
01:42:08 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
Eamon Lynch joins to discuss the new golf schedule
This quick pop-up podcast takes on the wave of schedule announcements that came from the various organizations on Monday. Eamon Lynch, a columnist at Golfweek and contributor at Golf Channel, reporte…
00:26:19 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
Have you ever been to the zoo? AMA Part 1
A break from the SGS Spotlight pace of the past couple weeks to follow up on a call for Ask Me Anything questions from the end of February. We tried this back around the holidays of 2018 with relativ…
01:15:54 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
SGS Spotlight on the great redass Curtis Strange and New makeshift schedule plans
This portly Friday episode begins with the latest news on what may come of a 2020 men’s golf schedule. We cover Golf Digest’s report that The Open will be canceled, and then review Eamon Lynch’s wide…
02:05:09 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
A SGS Spotlight on Sleepy Sandy Lyle and PGA Tour plans to increase field sizes but keep pace of play
This Wednesday episode begins with news of a PGA Tour memo to players indicating that they should still plan to be back in action at Colonial in mid May. The memo also, per reports, outlined details …
01:52:32 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
SGS Spotlight on the Wee Welshman Ian Woosnam and Phil v. Tiger match rumors
A delayed Monday episode begins with Phil Mickelson’s tease that he’s working on a potential The Match-type event with Tiger Woods. This gives us occasion to pass along a tasty and completely unverif…
01:43:41 |
Mon 30 Mar 2020
SGS Spotlight on Vijay Singh and Sunny Abacoa’s moment, Brandel-PGA tiff
This Friday episode begins with an appreciation of the great Sunny “Abacoa” Kim getting the stage he deserves after his MLGT win with the rest of the golf world on hiatus. Then we briefly discuss the…
01:44:37 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
A David Duval Spotlight with Sean Martin and the Olympics canceled but Rosey has a watch
This Wednesday episode disposes of some brief news before a lengthy dive into the life and career of David Duval with special guest Sean Martin, Senior Editor at PGA Tour dot com. The brief news is a…
01:25:26 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
A Mark O’Meara Spotlight, the commish works for free and TV programming wishes
A Monday episode begins with news that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan will forfeit his salary as golf is suspended. We briefly discuss this and also some of the numbers of positive tests coming ou…
01:24:32 |
Mon 23 Mar 2020
A SGS Spotlight on the legend of Halimony Sutton, MLGT Betting and a Sasquatch Flashback
This Friday episode begins with a reader submission on how a relatively middling player could use this layoff to then make a #brandactivation splash when golf does resume. Then we discuss the fact th…
01:24:41 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
A SGS Spotlight on Corey Pavin "the Bulldog" and Postponements, cancellations, new schedule possibilities
We begin this Wednesday episode with an update from our social distancing lives before proceeding to the major wave of upcoming schedule cancellations and changes. We discuss the PGA’s postponement, …
01:12:24 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
The inaugural SGS Spotlight on the life and times of Monty, the Masters postponed and PGL popped
This Monday episode will be the first of many with no golf results to discuss or recap. So first, we begin by revisiting the conclusion of The Players, reviewing Jay Monahan’s last press conference o…
01:28:10 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
The Gold Cancellation, Monahan’s moment, and Mudball Madness
We recorded this episode prior to news of the Players Championship cancellation, so there’s a 7-minute addendum at the front of it talking about the final decision to pull the plug on the remaining t…
01:01:53 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
The Carson Daly Invitational, TV deal rollout disaster, Andy’s TV reporter debut
Finally, major championship season has arrived. This Wednesday episode will be a rollercoaster of a preview without much nuts-and-bolts preview-y discussion. We start with Andy’s big debut as a walki…
01:00:10 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
Bay Hill beatdown, Hatton hangs on, Brooks stinks, and Gold Standard groups
This Monday episode begins with a discussion on the Florida swing brutalizing the best players in the world over the last two weeks. It got even harder over the weekend at Bay Hill, and we discuss so…
01:01:48 |
Mon 09 Mar 2020
Honma’s respect for Arnie, The Every-man, and PGA Tour University curriculum
Out of respect for Arnold’s event this weekend, there will be no official comment or notes for this Friday episode.
00:52:22 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
DJ’s out on Olympics, Holes in one are overrated, Bryson’s shaft con
This Wednesday episode begins with the schedule for the week and a discussion on the evolution of Bay Hill. But first, an Andy digression on how the hole-in-one is now overrated. We discuss how Bay H…
00:52:29 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
Sungjae takes dead aim, Azinger hates Europe, Bernie Anchor wins dump-in-a-box
This is March. It’s a new month and our first episode of the month goes into the Sunday shenanigans at the Honda Classic. We praise the extremely aggressive approach of Sungjae Im that paid off at a …
01:04:59 |
Mon 02 Mar 2020
Which Tour pros drive Hondas? Fan Philosophies for majors, and the legend of Jarmo
This Friday episode wanders around a bit at the beginning trying to get loose discussing weekend plans, Comcast outages, and the official new Shotgun Start coffee blend from our friends at Bixby Coff…
01:08:35 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
The Swamp classic, Dump-in-a-Box classic, and Muscat classic
It’s Swamp Week on the PGA Tour and we dive right in on this Wednesday episode. We begin with some earnest discussion of PGA National and how you can’t fake it around the hazardous bear-infested layo…
01:03:08 |
Wed 26 Feb 2020
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