A Friday episode about nothing
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Some of the of things discussed on this Friday episode by a combination of Andy, Brendan, PJ, and KVV:
- Rory McIlroy's belief that Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton should just pay their DP World Tour fines
- Alejandro Tosti flying planes
- The Navy Pier Ferris Wheel
- New Mets ace Freddy Peralta
- The "Under the Influence" Award
- Bob MacIntyre's youth golf career
- Country music star Riley Green
- Comparing Angel Cabrera to Brooks Koepka
- Comparing Brooks Koepka to Eli Manning
- The TGL hole "Cenote"
- Scottie Scheffler's lack of "fire emoji" on the PGA Tour app
- Colin Montgomerie's 17th hole on Sunday of the 2006 U.S. Open
- Jeremy Schaap
- The 2010 Billboard No. 1 hit "Break Your Heart" by Taio Cruz (ft. Ludacris)
- Champaign, Illinois
- "Hoop Dreams"
- Kevin Kisner's ball speed
- Garrett Popcorn of Chicago
- TGL Power Rankings
- Virtual Bob Parsons
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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 and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. |
| 0:43.5 | It is January 23rd. |
| 0:45.6 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.2 | Brendan, I'm doing wonderful. |
| 0:49.6 | I've got to say, I've been enjoying this 65-, the 65 degree weather out here in central California. |
| 0:55.5 | And, uh, I'm just ready to lock into some dome golf. |
| 0:59.3 | It's dome golf all right out there at, uh, Palm Springs. |
| 1:03.4 | Five under through five, Tommy tables. Uh, are there casinos in the, in Palm Springs down there? |
| 1:09.4 | I think there might be, if I'm not mistaken. |
| 1:12.2 | So 500 through 5. |
| 1:14.0 | The leaderboard is just that flames icon, whatever, the hot streak everywhere. |
| 1:17.8 | Flames, Flames. |
| 1:19.1 | Scotty's 4 under through 5. |
| 1:21.0 | Bobby Mack, your surly boy from Oban, is 400 through 5. |
| 1:27.1 | Everybody's 4. You know, I, I pulled up that sheet and |
| 1:30.4 | stuff starting to come out, you know, getting, getting reports. You pulled that thread a little |
| 1:37.0 | bit. Can you report? Can you report? There's a, there's a lot of casinos in, in the Palm Springs area. |
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