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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Pro Golf Check-In Ahead of the 2026 PGA Championship

5/6/20261 hr 33 min

Andy Johnson is joined by Fried Egg Golf's Kevin Van Valkenburg and Joseph LaMagna for a roundtable discussion on the biggest risers and fallers of 2026 ahead of next week's PGA Championship. To start this episode, Andy shares some insight into what we'll see at Aronimink Golf Club, a Donald Ross design located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He discusses course strategy and in-depth details about the architecture of the PGA Championship's host venue. Kevin and Joseph then join in to break down the 2026 performances of players like Min Woo Lee, Bryson DeChambeau, and Viktor Hovland before giving one pro golf storyline they're excited to watch this summer.

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Clips

Gary Woodland opens up
Bryson labeled overrated now
Hovland’s driver in crisis
Eating crow on Min Woo
Lowry won’t win again
Rory’s historic year ahead?
Rethinking golf prospects

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. And when I find my ball in a fried egg. Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg. Fried egg. Fried egg. Fried egg. Fried egg. Fried egg lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf course.

  2. Andy Johnson· Host0:14

    [upbeat music] Welcome back to the Fried Egg Golf podcast. I'm your host, Andy Johnson. Uh, today I'm joined by Kevin Van Valckenburgh and Joseph LaMantia to kinda take the temperature of the golf world so far. Uh, we're gonna do a little exercise around our biggest risers and biggest fallers in pro golf, as well as a storyline we're looking forward to the rest of the year. Uh, a little housekeeping note, uh, you may have heard an ad leading into this podcast. Uh, just a, you know, kind of note about where we're going with Fried Egg Golf, we have, uh ... We will have probably a couple more ads, uh, going forward on this podcast than usual. We, um, are beginning to work with an agency that, that provides, uh, ads to the podcast. Um, really this is fueling

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