Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

About Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

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.

Publisher

Fried Egg Golf

Category

news · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jan 2020

Latest episode

8 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

153 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Jan 2025

   Matt McCarty, Episode 4: Opening Drive of the 2025 PGA Tour Season

   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.

2. 

   26 Nov 2024

   Matt McCarty, Episode 3: Offseason Plans Following a Successful Fall Swing

   Shane Bacon is joined by Matt McCarty to reflect on his fall swing performance, grade his initial PGA Tour season, and outline offseason plans for improvement ahead of the 2025 season.

3. 

   24 Oct 2024

   Matt McCarty, Episode 2: What’s Next After Winning a FedEx Fall Event?

   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.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

5,619,931

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

1,365 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

82 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

76

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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