A Conversation About Golf & Other Things with Shane Bacon
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
A jet-lagged Andy is back in America and is joined by Shane Bacon for this Wednesday episode about slightly more than nothing. This wide-ranging conversation hits on dozens of important topics, such as the core values of Talor Gooch's new OKGC team, TGL's choice for 2026 Player of the Year, a Newark airport review, and a dramatic reading of this week's Legends Tour field in Barbados. There is actual golf discussed at some points, as Andy, Shane, and PJ dive into the Zurich Classic and the ridiculous teams competing for 400 FedEx Cup points and a two-year exemption this week in New Orleans. Shane offers his thoughts on the new pool at Memorial Park ahead of this week's Chevron and throws the gauntlet down on Nelly Korda's recent performance in major championships. In non-pro golf news, PJ recaps his day with the USGA at Winged Foot and his new GHIN before Shane brings us home with the story of his latest hole-in-one. If you made it this far in the description, congratulations! Also... why? Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics. |
| 0:04.0 | There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. |
| 0:09.0 | So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:27.0 | Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings, everybody. Greetings and welcome to another edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:44.4 | Today is Wednesday, April 22nd. |
| 0:48.0 | Shane, how are you doing? |
| 0:50.4 | Andy, I wonder how many people turn the pot off right now. |
| 0:54.9 | They're like, no, Brendan, Andy's got to do the intro, done. |
| 0:59.0 | Nope, we'll skip to Friday. |
| 1:00.1 | I wonder what those numbers look like. |
| 1:02.5 | I get page on that at some point. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, the people that stick around know that podcasts with me and you on this feed tend to be |
| 1:14.0 | rambling um and just all over the place i i believe that we did do one that we titled a show about |
| 1:21.4 | nothing about five years ago maybe one of the worst episodes in the shotgun start history outside |
| 1:27.3 | of the one you guys recorded in the car, which is always going to be number one. |
| 1:31.3 | But I will say I was very proud of y'all that you, even in your advanced podcasting era, still do the thing where you're in different rooms in the same house doing the pod. |
| 1:43.5 | I got a good kick out of that. |
| 1:45.3 | Well, yeah, we didn't have PJ. |
| 1:48.4 | If we had had PJ with us in Scotland, |
| 1:51.3 | we would have been able to just do it all together. |
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