Quail Hollow falls flat, TGL rents out to Pro Wrestling, and Early PGA thoughts
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
SGS goes to the bullpen as PJ and Kevin Van Valkenburg slide into the big chairs for a late Sunday recording. The two aren't entirely sure how they got here, but they applaud Andy for taking the night off to celebrate the Bulls securing a top-four pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. Things stay on the rails to start, as PJ and Kevin quickly get into another "juice-less" week at Quail Hollow for the Truist Championship. Kristoffer Reitan broke through for his first PGA Tour win after getting into this Signature Event on the Aon Swing 5 list, defeating a smattering of European Ryder Cup hopefuls like Alex Fitzpatrick and Nicolai Hojgaard. Reitan successfully navigated the "Green Mile" to round out his Sunday and got to show off an unlikely sponsor during his winner's interview on CBS. Kevin is quick to jump on a runner-up finish for Rickie Fowler and suggests that a Rickie win at the PGA could be the best possible outcome for the sport of golf. PJ is concerned about a "Space Jam" situation unfolding after Justin Thomas bragged about stealing Cameron Young's putter and a tough Sunday on the greens cost Cam a back-to-back win. There's also plenty of Jordan Spieth discussion after he resurrected the "go get that" moment early in an uncompetitive week. In other news, Team USA's captain has won on the PGA Tour yet again! Brandt Snedeker took home the title at the OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic, his first win since 2018, but was quick to note that he has absolutely no plans to play in the Presidents Cup this fall. He is excited to play in his first major since 2021 this week, and PJ suggests keeping a close eye on who Snedeker tees it up with in practice rounds at Aronimink. Lucas Herbert went wire-to-wire at LIV Virginia, holding off a charging Anthony Kim on Sunday and securing his spot in the 2026 U.S. Open. In a very important installment of Champions Tour Minute, PJ recaps Boo Weekley's win at the Insperity Invitational and shares a special shoutout that Boo received from a famous friend on social media. Overseas, Yurav Premlall might've been the most unlikely DP World Tour winner of all time at this week's Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship, and Chris Wood returned to the winner's circle to round out this week of 2016 throwbacks. In news that we couldn't make up if we tried, professional wrestling company AEW held a show in the SoFi Dome on Saturday featuring wrestlers tackling each other into the very same bunkers that Kevin Kisner hit shanks in for Marty Smith's entertainment! Eamon Lynch also sat down with new PGA of America CEO Terry Clark to get the scoop on Don Rea's whereabouts (among other things) as we arrive at the year's second major championship. Andy and Brendan will return on Tuesday night for a LIVE preview of the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club!
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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 episode of the shotgun start. |
| 0:45.4 | It is May 11. |
| 0:47.9 | Kevin, how are we doing? |
| 0:50.0 | PJ, I'm doing so good. |
| 0:53.1 | Listen, I was a little bit jealous, uh, that the gang got together. |
| 0:57.6 | Uh, and I, I felt like the odd man out. So, uh, I wanted to come in and, and try to, |
| 1:03.3 | you know, at least audition for the role of, I, I feel like you and Joseph for like the |
| 1:06.8 | Ninja Turtles. And I'm like splinter. I'm the old wise one. And I want to to educate you however I can. |
| 1:14.4 | So at least I'm here to to BS my way through that audition. So are you saying you want to be a gang member? |
| 1:19.9 | Is that what I'm hearing? That is correct. Yes. I think we can I think we could. |
| 1:24.6 | I think we could. Baltimore. Come on. Let's go. |
| 1:45.9 | We're off to a riproar and start here on a Sunday. This is, uh, you know, if you've made it, you know, a minute into this episode so far and you want to stick with us for however long we're going to go here. You're more than welcome to Andy is off, you know, celebrating the the return of the Bulls. Big lottery result for the Bulls today. |
| 1:52.3 | The Bulls are in the top four. He's already, uh, wants to reunite the Caleb's. Caleb Wilson, Caleb Williams. He wants all of the Caleb's in the greater Chicago area. So we're here. |
| 1:58.7 | We're going to hear to recap, recap, you know, some of the biggest |
| 2:01.4 | stories in golf, comeback wins from past rider cupers, you know, Ricky Fowler's peacock and |
| 2:07.8 | around. What a great weekend of golf this was. I listen, you know that I'm going to peacock a |
| 2:13.6 | little bit about Ricky Fowler because you were on a podcast with the earlier today where |
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