Early Masters excitement, Spaun the Texas king, ANWA Heartbreak and disaster
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan! have made it to Augusta and are ready to hit the ground running for the first major of 2026. After a long travel day, there's still plenty of excitement for this year's Masters as each shares what they're looking forward to the most this week. Brendan suggests that a certain Guy may be the only player with enough juice to really energize the crowd late on Sunday, while Andy is just waiting to hear Joseph LaMagna's first impressions of Augusta National. Before all of that, they recap the Valero Texas Open, where J.J. Spaun officially became the King of Texas with his second win at the event. Spaun's comeback win in rough weather marks his first since last year's U.S. Open, with Brendan suggesting he may be "The Rain King." Andy runs down the list of "Worst Major Winners This Decade (or Century)" and applauds Spaun for further removing himself from this list. He then launches into a crusade against Bob MacIntyre's caddie for using an iPhone to find the wind direction on the 72nd hole with a chance to make a playoff or even win the tournament. Asterisk Talley had a historic collapse at Augusta National on Saturday during the final round of the ANWA, clearing the way for Maria Jose Marin to win perhaps the biggest event in women's golf. More results follow, with Andy and Brendan discussing a runaway with for Lauren Coughlin at Shadow Creek and an opera singer's big week on the Korn Ferry Tour. After wrapping up with yet another Masters Fact of the Day, the two announce that they will be LIVE on the Fried Egg Golf YouTube channel for the 2026 Masters preview episode at 3:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, April 7th.
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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:43.5 | It is April 6th. |
| 0:45.5 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.1 | Brendan, I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:50.5 | I got to say if I was going to describe myself one way, I'm a little road weary. |
| 0:57.2 | Road weary. Yeah, well, we had a nice comfortable drive over. We were, we drove with comfort. It's a nice |
| 1:05.6 | little scoot over from Atlanta, but a long day of travel. We've come a long way from driving a car |
| 1:13.5 | where we couldn't get the convertible top to go back down and freezing our butt off on the way |
| 1:18.5 | into Augusta. We had a nice drive over. More on that later. But yeah, road weary, long day of |
| 1:24.6 | travel. We're recording this late Sunday night. So you know what? This isn't |
| 1:29.8 | going to be the ultimate table setter for the Masters. This is usually what this Sunday night |
| 1:33.8 | episode is. It is going to be a great table setter for the Masters. I'll say, I'm just going to |
| 1:39.5 | put my hand up, did not watch a ton of the Valero today. I couldn't get the coverage to go on the |
| 1:48.4 | plane. And thus, you know, I then drove in great comfort across the way. But I got, you know, |
| 1:57.8 | I watched enough. I caught the very end of it. Got something that would really chat my ass from it that we'll talk about later. |
| 2:04.7 | But we're a big weekend in golf. |
| 2:07.0 | Great, great weekend of golf. We had the ANWA, Augustin National Women's Amateur, |
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