Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

By: Fried Egg Golf
  • Summary

  • Hosted by broadcaster Shane Bacon, Get a Grip is a golf-centric podcast making light of a rather stuffy sport with legitimate insight into the game. It’s essentially the public golf course of podcasts. The show will offer a look into the PGA Tour week in and week out and have some fun at both the players' and golf fans’ expenses.
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Episodes
  • Matt McCarty, Episode 4: Opening Drive of the 2025 PGA Tour Season
    Jan 8 2025
    Shane Bacon and Matt McCarty are back with the first Get a Grip episode of the new year! Shane has Matt recap his week at The Sentry, the PGA Tour's first tournament of the 2025 season. Matt shares his impressions of the Plantation Course at Kapalua and stories from his first week playing in a Signature Event on the PGA Tour. The two also discuss how Matt will fill out his schedule for the rest of the season, including Matt's first thoughts about this week's Sony Open.
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    28 mins
  • Matt McCarty, Episode 3: Offseason Plans Following a Successful Fall Swing
    Nov 26 2024
    On this episode, Shane Bacon is once again joined by Matt McCarty as the two wrap up the FedEx Fall on the PGA Tour. Shane and Matt discuss Matt's missed cut at the season-ending RSM Classic and his grouping with Luke Clanton and Ludvig Åberg before reflecting on the fall swing as a whole. Matt grades his initial performance on the PGA Tour which included his first win at the Black Desert Championship but also some struggles in other events. Matt details his takeaways from playing alongside a top player like Åberg at the RSM and shares his plans for improvement over the next few weeks before playing in the Sentry to start the 2025 season.
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    36 mins
  • Matt McCarty, Episode 2: What’s Next After Winning a FedEx Fall Event?
    Oct 24 2024
    Shane Bacon and Matt McCarty are back to recap last week's Shriners Children's Open in Las Vegas and look ahead a bit at Matt's 2025 schedule on the PGA Tour. To start this episode, Shane and Matt discuss their love for different golf courses as Matt is back in Chicago to play at Medinah this week. They touch on Matt's time in Las Vegas and how he and his friends celebrated coming off his first career win at the Black Desert Championship. From there, Shane asks Matt about growing up playing junior golf in Arizona and what led him to his college golf career at Santa Clara. Matt then shares some details on what the rest of his FedEx Fall will look like as he begins plotting a 2025 schedule that currently includes three majors and a number of PGA Tour Signature Events.
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    41 mins

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