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The Shotgun Start

The Annual Walk Up Music Episode, LIV’s outrageous spending, and Pool Party on the LPGA

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Brendan! is back stateside and returns just in time for the seventh annual Zurich Classic Walk Up Music Quiz! Before we get to that, Andy is eager to discuss a bit of their trip to Scotland as part of the first-ever segment of "Pillow Talk." Brendan shares some shopping woes when trying to get gifts for his family and Andy is still reeling from his 24-hour travel day earlier this week. Brendan then calls Andy out for his new TaylorMade Spider putter, supplied to him by Big Equipment after he called for them to be banned on Tour earlier this year. After missing out on Wednesday's discussion about the "Pool Seen 'Round the World," Brendan gets some takes off about the Chevron's new "water installation" and Andy wonders how the LPGA can allow this to be the main storyline of the one major championship they own. He also takes some (deserved?) shots at the city of Houston, as well! Ian Poulter did NOT miss Wednesday's episode and decided to take to X, the Everything App, to cement his status as an impending PROBLEM on the Champions Tour. The Boys are praying that he will be their next guest for Lunch to break down his big debut at the US Senior Open in July. Andy and Brendan also discuss the ongoing LIV funding saga and doubt if anyone can even come close to replicating the purses that the PIF has funded in the last five years. Lastly before this episode's main event, PGA Tour is out of Hawaii and announced dozens of layoffs on Thursday as a cost-saving measure as the for-profit business moves forward. Andy and PJ went to town on the 2026 Zurich Classic Walk Up Music Quiz, peppering Brendan with songs for perhaps the worst field in PGA Tour history. How do Shawn Mendes, the Eagles, Gordon Lightfoot, and Nelly all fit into this week in New Orleans? You'll have to listen to one of our favorite annual segments to find out.


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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.

0:43.4

It is April 24th.

0:45.6

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.4

Brendan!

0:49.0

I'm doing good.

0:49.9

I feel like I'm coming back to life here after a good few days of sleep.

0:57.3

Slowly working our way back in.

0:59.5

Back in, this has been a while.

1:01.3

I have my monitor here.

1:02.8

Feels like I'm looking at a movie screen just in my face after, you know,

1:06.9

essentially being on the road for the last two and a half weeks.

1:10.9

We're back in the saddle here.

1:12.6

First podcast where both of us are at home.

1:15.4

And I guess, you know, Friday of Valero, Texas Open Week, maybe.

1:20.4

Maybe that was it.

1:21.3

It's been a while.

1:22.2

So good to be back.

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