A.Q. Shipley talks how Pat McAfee helped jumpstart his media career, his first experience playing Shadow Creek

Subpar

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Sports, Sports:golf, Golf

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by former NFL center A.Q .Shipley for an exclusive, in-studio interview. The new radio analyst for the Arizona Cardinals talks what he learned from Tom Brady during their Super Bowl run in Tampa, turning his kids play room into a simulator after catching the golf bug and how a night out in college with Pat McAfee eventually led to his media career.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz.
0:13.9	And speaking to who's back, our friends over to Fanatic Sportsbook are back, and we wanted to tell you about their offer for new customers.
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0:22.0	Every single football game game day now until October, new customers get up to 100 bucks back
0:26.8	in fan cash if your football bet loses.
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0:30.3	If you're betting with Fanatic Sportsbook, you're either winning or winning money back in fan
0:33.7	cash.
0:34.3	Your old sports book, they're out for the season.
0:36.8	Go check it out yourself. Download
0:38.1	the app, Fanatic Sportsbook. Winning hits different here. Must be 21 years and older. Gambling
0:42.8	problem call 1-800-800-Gambler in Connecticut. Call 888-8-9-7777777. Massachusetts call 800, 327-50,
0:50.7	New York. New York, visit MD Gamblinghelp.org. Not available in all states. Terms apply. C-Fanatic Sportsbook app. All right, since we've been on last time, we now know all 24 players that we're heading up to Beth Page teaming it up this year at the Rider Cup. 12 from Team USA, 12 from Europe. First, the captain's selections for the Americans, which the big question going in was,
1:14.4	is Keegan Bradley going to be a playing captain or is he just going to be a captain?
1:19.1	Well, after Cam Young kind of slipped a little bit there at the press conference and talked about him and Sam Burns,
1:24.6	teaming up once again like they did at the Junior Rider Cup back in the day.
1:28.2	That kind of told the old audience, Kagan will not be playing at this year's Rider Cup.
1:32.5	He decided to go with Sam Burns, Cam Young, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Colin Moracawa, Ben Griffin.
1:41.5	Yeah, the slip-up.
1:42.4	Maybe from now on we don't interview the guys until after all the names have been announced.
1:46.7	I actually didn't even catch it.
1:47.9	I was like kind of weird on radio, taking some notes.
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