A Conversation About Golf & Other Things with Shane Bacon
4/22/20261 hr 16 min
A jet-lagged Andy is back in America and is joined by Shane Bacon for this Wednesday episode about slightly more than nothing. This wide-ranging conversation hits on dozens of important topics, such as the core values of Talor Gooch's new OKGC team, TGL's choice for 2026 Player of the Year, a Newark airport review, and a dramatic reading of this week's Legends Tour field in Barbados. There is actual golf discussed at some points, as Andy, Shane, and PJ dive into the Zurich Classic and the ridiculous teams competing for 400 FedEx Cup points and a two-year exemption this week in New Orleans. Shane offers his thoughts on the new pool at Memorial Park ahead of this week's Chevron and throws the gauntlet down on Nelly Korda's recent performance in major championships. In non-pro golf news, PJ recaps his day with the USGA at Winged Foot and his new GHIN before Shane brings us home with the story of his latest hole-in-one. If you made it this far in the description, congratulations! Also... why? Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy this episode!
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
Now, the Shotgun Start in golf is full of mathematics. Um, there's a lot of, a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm gonna demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a Shotgun Start here.
PJ· Panelist0:13
And here we go.
Andy Johnson· Host0:17
All right, all right, all right.
PJ· Panelist0:19
[upbeat music] Gentlemen, start your engines.
Andy Johnson· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to another edition of the Shotgun Start. Today is Wednesday, April 22nd. Shane, how are you doing?
Shane Bacon· Guest0:49
Andy, I, I wonder how many people turn the pod off right now. Like, they're like, "No Brendan, Andy's gotta do the intro. Done. Nope, we'll skip to Friday." I wonder what that, uh, what those numbers look like. I'll get PJ on that at some point.
Andy Johnson· Host1:04
Well, they w- no, the people that stick around know that podcasts b- with me and you- [laughs] ... on this feed tend to [laughs] tend to be rambling, um, and just all over the place. I, I- Yes ... believe that we did do one that we titled A Show About Nothing about five years ago.
Shane Bacon· Guest1:23
W- maybe one of the worst episodes in the Shotgun Start history, outside of the one you guys recorded in a car, which is always gonna be number