Predicting 2026 major winners, Blockie’s new clothes, and VICTORY MONDAY!
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Apologies to all of our Nico Echavarria fans, but this is the biggest Victory Monday episode to date. Andy is on cloud nine following an improbable comeback win for the Bears over the Packers in the Wild Card Round, leading to an extended Football Minute to kick off the show. He attempts to subdue his emotions to be respectful of the many angry Packers fans in his mentions, but Brendan quickly eggs him on into an outward celebration. PJ is called in to defend Jordan Love's actions (323 yards, 4 touchdowns, 0 interceptions) after the loss and Andy once again suggests that Malik Willis (injured hamstring) would have been a better option for Green Bay. All three commiserate over their historically-hapless franchises firing a coach as good as Matt LaFleur, but it seems like that's on the table for the Packers following this defeat. After displaying a chart showing the likelihood of PJ losing his job with a Packers win, Andy then transitions to golf and the biggest news of this NFL-centric weekend: Michael Block's new clothing deal. Brendan can't help but laugh at Blockie linking up with Malbon, giving the brand a roster of Champions Tour stars. Blockie was sure to star in a ridiculous announcement video posted on Saturday afternoon, leading to plenty of social media fun ahead of the Bears game. Andy and Brendan then recap the Jones Cup and LIV's Promotions Event after a light week of competitive golf. Richard T. Lee will be LIV's first Canadian golfer and Malbon athlete Anthony Kim held on to earn a spot back on the tour for 2026. To finish off this final week without the PGA Tour, Andy, Brendan, and PJ make their 2026 major picks and highlight some breakout and bounce-back players for the upcoming season. After a long, long wait, the Opening Drive finally begins on Thursday!
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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. |
| 0:43.6 | It is January 12th. |
| 0:45.7 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.4 | Brendan, I'm doing all right. |
| 0:50.7 | You got to say? |
| 0:52.1 | What do you have to say? |
| 0:52.9 | Anything? |
| 0:54.1 | You know, I just want want to i want to be really |
| 0:56.5 | respectful to the packers fans um i i i've seen there's a lot of discourse where the bears |
| 1:04.2 | fans are being you know they're being unkind and you know i just want to make sure that i'm respectful that i you know i would hate |
| 1:15.2 | for any of the packers fans to feel offended by me you know the gentleman the gentleman |
| 1:20.8 | packers fans to feel offended all right you know you would think that uh you know with back-to-back |
| 1:27.3 | generational quarterbacks, |
| 1:29.0 | and for the four years of my existence, really, we'll call it the 35 years of my consciousness, |
| 1:38.3 | the bears have been getting their ass kicked by the Packers. |
| 1:42.4 | And finally, we can put up a fight. |
| 1:46.0 | We have, |
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