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The Shotgun Start

The latest on LIV Golf: Will Saudi PIF continue funding after 2026?

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Mr. PJ finds himself in the "Big Chair" once again with Andy, Brendan, and KVV in Scotland this week! He's joined by Fried Egg Golf's Garrett Morrison, also known as his Golf Architecture 101 professor, for a deep dive into the last 48 hours of LIV Golf's existence. Starting late Tuesday night, rumors began swirling that LIV would be shutting down after the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia decided to pull its funding from the tour. PJ and Garrett run through a detailed timeline of the last two days, parsing through various reports to drill down to the facts as we currently know them. They then discuss some of the various questions that come with the PIF potentially shutting off the unlimited money faucet, such as will LIV Golf exist moving forward and how will they keep up with high-dollar purses and guaranteed contracts? These reports are a winding journey, featuring some of golf's preeminent journalists, a former ESPN NFL anchor, and even Rich Lerner dipping his toe into the prediction market sector. To end this Friday episode on a lighter note, PJ shares an unsubstantiated rumor with Garrett about the golf course "renovations" underway at the site of this fall's Good Good Championship.


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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.

0:44.8

It is April 17th.

0:47.1

Garrett, how are we doing?

0:49.3

PJ!

0:50.5

We're doing great.

0:52.2

So what are we doing here?

0:54.4

Is this the shotgun start or is this golf architecture 101?

0:57.7

Well, it could be either if you're,

0:59.2

if you're into that on the designing golf feed.

1:01.7

Andy and Brendan are,

1:03.3

you know,

1:04.1

playing,

1:04.7

playing 36 holes a day,

1:06.2

grinding out there in Scotland right now.

1:09.0

Joseph is on his way to a wedding.

1:11.0

I've been left to my own devices.

1:13.0

I thought no one better.

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