2026 Players Championship Preview & Fried Egg Stories: Making TPC Sawgrass
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Andy Johnson is joined by Sean Martin of the PGA Tour to preview the upcoming 2026 Players Championship. Andy and Sean discuss the quest for a third win at TPC Sawgrass for both Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, breakout players to watch like Jacob Bridgeman and Chris Gotterup, and make their picks for who wins the PGA Tour's premier event. They also preview PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp's Wednesday press conference as rumors swirl regarding the 2027 "Scarcity Schedule."
The second half of this episode is a re-airing of Garrett Morrison's "Fried Egg Stories" episode on the making of TPC Sawgrass. Originally airing on March 13, 2020, Garrett tells the story of how commissioner Deane Beman and architect Pete Dye turned that land into a new kind of golf venue—and how the pros reacted when they competed on it for the first time. This episode features interviews with Beman, U.S. Open and Players champion Jerry Pate, architect Tom Doak, TPC Sawgrass project manager Vernon Kelly, and journalists Adam Schupak and Sean Martin. It includes music from Assaf Ayalon, Avi Goldfinger, Maya Johanna, Ian Post, and Swirling Ship, and Kevin McLeod.
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| 0:00.0 | I misogreen, for example, I'm already upset. |
| 0:02.0 | When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. |
| 0:05.0 | And when I find my ball in a... |
| 0:06.0 | Fried egg. |
| 0:07.0 | Friday egg. |
| 0:08.0 | The dreaded fried egg. |
| 0:09.0 | Friday. |
| 0:10.0 | Friday. |
| 0:11.0 | Fried egg lie. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm about ready to run off the golf course. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm your host, Andy Johnson. |
| 0:43.2 | Today, I'm excited. |
| 0:45.3 | This marks the beginning of our really kind of big tournament. |
| 0:51.6 | Big tournament season, championship season. You can say March is major. |
| 0:57.5 | The players is starting off now. I'll be it, you know, there are claims that they're a major. |
| 1:04.0 | I do not, I do not consider it a major. And thus, instead of five things, we do four things for the players. |
| 1:13.8 | I am joined, as always, not as always, but hopefully as always, for the players by Sean |
| 1:20.6 | Martin from PGATour.com. |
| 1:23.0 | He is a longtime regular guest of this podcast, uh, has been way back since, |
| 1:30.1 | since the beginning days. Uh, so always nice to chop it up with Sean, one of my favorite |
| 1:35.3 | golf minds, favorite, uh, golf people and, uh, talk about the players, his hometown event. |
| 1:41.7 | Uh, so we will talk about the players. |
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