Joel Beall on his Augusta reporting, Ryan Nanni on LIV Orlando and Golf Advice

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last episode before we officially hit Masters week, and Brendan consults with two talented experts for two very different segments. Golf Digest's Joel Beall joins first to discuss his fantastic and lengthy recent story on Augusta National and its tension between continued expansion and its history and identity. Beall describes the reporting process of talking to 70-plus sources, including several members, what surprised him about ANGC’s plans, the DOJ antitrust probe’s impact inside the club, and what he thinks a future there might look like. There’s also a good section devoted to the potential second course at Augusta -- how far along are discussions and who might be consulted for it. The second half of the episode brings in Ryan Nanni, of Shutdown Fullcast, bloomin onion, and Florida expertise fame, to discuss LIV’s descent on Orlando, and if anyone will notice. He then joins BP to answer some SGS Golf Advice questions on a fake hole in one, losing a long drive contest to a 13 year-old, paddle tennis fraud, and taking lessons with a spouse.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, 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.
0:21.0	Get to men!
0:24.0	Start your Indian!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is March 31st, just Brendan here. Sorry, that was a little anticlimactic. No Andy here to join me at the start to shout my name.
0:51.0	Andy is on vacation, we will be together Saturday by Saturday night in Augusta, Georgia, ready for a full master's week, pretty new daily podcast during tournament play as usual.
1:03.0	This was the original sort of going on the road show, I think 2019 and that yielded a pretty good master's.
1:09.0	And obviously when we're together, we feel like it generates some pretty good podcast and some pretty good fun amongst the two of us.
1:17.0	So we're looking forward to next week at the Masters, but before that, we have this Friday episode.
1:23.0	For this, I did sort of a panel with two very divergent topics and two very esteemed guests for very different reasons.
1:34.0	I'm joined first by Joel Beale, former colleague of mine when I was at golf digest there for a year, but obviously another friend in golf media just published this larger piece on Augusta National Golf.
1:46.0	And sort of its plans for future expansion, some tension about that.
1:52.0	It was really a lightning piece. He gets into the process of reporting that he talks about.
1:58.0	I'll leave it from the interview. How many people talk to it's a staggering number.
2:02.0	Some of the things you've learned about the new course or the potential second course they might design, as well as all the other sort of tension and future of the club and what was like getting to talk to a lot of members for the reporting of this piece.
2:15.0	So I think Joel for the time. And then on the second half, I'm joined by Ryan Nanny, also a former colleague of mine at Vox Media,
2:23.0	coast of the shutdown forecast. And he is a, like a real comedic genius, also just a really smart person who I lean on a lot for content ideas and thoughts.
2:33.0	And I had him on for golf advice. So we talk a little bit about live Orlando as a Floridian, a former Floridian with lots of insight on that culture.
2:42.0	Lives dissent on Orlando. And then we answer three or four golf advice questions. So thank you guys for your continued support.
2:48.0	I'm going to jump right now into the interview with Joel.
2:51.0	All right. I now welcome in Joel Beal, who is a senior writer for golf digest friend of mine, friend of the program.
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