Reacting to early Players action and Rolapp’s plan for big PGA Tour changes

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

We got a live rollicking one! Andy and Brendan went live after leaving the opening round of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. They react to some early mover and shakers, Collin Morikawa’s instant WD, and how the course changed, evolved, and punched back at the players early in the championship. They react to Rory McIlroy giving it a run with his injury and Scottie Scheffler’s somewhat middling round with some struggles off the tee. They make some predictions for the next three days and also discuss some storylines that no one is talking about here. They spend the last half of the podcast reacting to Brian Rolapp’s grand rollout of some major plans to change and tweak the PGA Tour as announced on Wednesday in a theatrical setting at the Global Home. Can he actually get this proposal across the line facing increased pushback from players and other stakeholders in the game?

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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 Friday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.6	It is March 13th.
0:45.4	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.0	Friday the 13th.
0:49.1	Brendan!
0:51.0	Spooky.
0:52.5	I'm doing all right.
0:54.6	I feel like there's just a Friday the 13th recently.
0:57.8	There might have been.
0:58.9	Who's going to have a freaky, scary Friday the 13th out on the golf course?
1:02.9	Can we predict anything?
1:04.5	Well, the smother man has a putt to take the solo lead, 15 footer with the birdie.
1:14.0	Anyone out there? Is Jordan Speed? who could be a house of horrors for tomorrow out there i mean there's a lot of guys i'm worried about my guy
1:20.1	rico hovey i definitely worried about him uh but the uh i would say would say, what a good first round.
1:31.1	One thing we're not worried about is our picks.
1:34.3	Gambling pod, check, ch'ching.
1:37.4	Every now and then you just need to throw people off the center,
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