Get a Grip with Shane Bacon

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What's Get a Grip with Shane Bacon about?

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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05.26.2023

What a week it was at Oak Hill, and Shane opens the show talking about how impressed he was with Brooks Koepka and the Michael Block phenomenon. After that, Shane chats with his new podcast co-host, Marty Jertson, about their ...

Get a Grip with Shane Bacon episodes:

05.26.2023 Episode 108: Some PGA Champ. thoughts + A New Podcast! What a week it was at Oak Hill, and Shane opens the show talking about how impressed he was with Brooks Koepka and the Michael Block phenomenon. After that, Shane chats with his new podcast co-host, Marty Jertson, about their ...
05.25.2023 Episode 1: Welcome to the PING Proving Grounds In the first episode of the PING Proving Grounds podcast, our hosts, golf broadcaster Shane Bacon and Marty Jertson, PING’s Vice President of Fitting and Performance, give us a brief overview of their backgrounds before diving into the history, culture, ...
05.16.2023 Episode 107: Is the PGA Championship the most exciting major in golf with Kyle Porter It's easy to view the PGA Championship as the "other" major championship. The Masters is The Masters, the U.S. Open is the toughest test in golf and typically humbles the best in the world and the Open is the lone ...
05.05.2023 Episode 106: 5 Things You'd Like to See Changed in Golf with Claire Rogers On the latest Get a Grip, Shane welcomes Golf.com's Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) back to the pod for a fun conversation about the 5 things they'd each like to see changed in golf. Their lists are not specific to professional golf, ...
04.20.2023 Episode 105: Chatting Life with Sam Saunders It has been quite the start to the Korn Ferry Tour season for Sam Saunders, who stopped by the program today to discuss his 2023. Sam and Shane catch up on the year, Sam explains why this season is his ...
04.04.2023 Episode 104: A Masters preview with Scott Van Pelt We all know the tradition unlike any other is the actual Masters Tournament, but in terms of a podcast tradition that never stops, it's ESPN's Scott Van Pelt joining Shane to preview the Masters. Scott and Shane discuss the special ...
03.31.2023 Episode 103: Early Masters talk with three-time champion Nick Faldo The golf world's attention has turned to Augusta, Georgia, with Rose Zhang doing her thing at the Augusta National Women's Amateur, and the Masters just a few days away. Three-time Masters champion Sir Nick Faldo joins the program to chat ...
03.24.2023 Episode 102: The All-Flushers List with Andy Johnson You may be asking, what is a flusher? In terms of golf, it's near the top in terms of a compliment, meaning you can do things to a golf ball that even your peers aren't capable of doing. A flusher ...
03.08.2023 Episode 101: Diving into the Golf Sneaker World with Jacques Slade Sneakers have never been more popular and we are seeing more and more style sneak into the golf shoe world. Jacques Slade (@kustoo) joins Shane to talk about the growing popularity of golf shoes, the changing style, the most important ...
03.03.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 8: Everything Has Led To This We conclude our "Full Swing" recap series with Rory McIlroy at St. Andrews and Episode 8 of the Netflix show. Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers talk about the incredible history that comes with winning at the Old Course and just ...
03.02.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 7: Golf is Hard The penultimate episode of "Full Swing" is one of our favorites, as Netflix follows Sahith Theegala and Mito Pereira for a wild ride through the ups and downs of a professional golf week. Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers speak on ...
02.24.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 6: Don't Get Bitter, Get Better We continue our recap run of "Full Swing" with Episode 6, which focuses on two stars in the game of golf with very different resumes and at very different points in their respective lives. Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers dive ...
02.23.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Ep 5: American Dreams The recaps continue of the Netflix series "Full Swing," and Episode 5 is when we really get into the LIV vs. PGA Tour narrative that dominated the second half of 2022. Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers dive into the episode, ...
02.17.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 4: Imposter Syndrome A jolt to the system in today's "Full Swing" recap, as the focus of the episode, Joel Dahmen, joins Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers to talk about the episode, how he initially said no to "Netflix" when they came asking ...
02.17.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 3: Money or Legacy With Netflix's "Full Swing" officially out, Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers take on the start of the LIV discussion with the series. Ian Poulter is the focus of this episode, so the two break down their thoughts on Poulter, him ...
02.15.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 2: Win or Go Home With Netflix's "Full Swing" officially out, Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers dive deep into the second episode that focuses on Brooks Koepka and Scottie Scheffler. The two talk about their constant struggle with Koepka, some of the eye-opening moments from ...
02.15.2023 Full Swing Tonight - Episode 1: Frenemies The much-anticipated Netflix "Full Swing" series is out, and we are here to recap every episode! Along with our pals at Skratch, Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) dive into the opening episode, talk about the unique friendship of Jordan ...
02.08.2023 Episode 100: Waste Management Musings In honor of Waste Management Phoenix Open week, Shane recounts three of his favorite memories from the tournament in years past, including his first trip as a college kid, his first time with a media credential, and the 2020 tournament ...
02.02.2023 Episode 99: The disappearing golf villains with James Nitties After a weekend that belonged to the Nice Guys with Max Homa and Rory McIlroy winning around the globe, Shane has PGA Tour player turned commentator, James Nitties, on to discuss the golf villain. With LIV vs. the PGA Tour ...
01.18.2023 Episode 98: Host Reversal with Claire Rogers On the latest Get a Grip, Golf.com's Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) stops by and takes over hosting duties, asking Shane questions about him getting into golf and how all that happened. The two discuss plenty of early career moments, talk about ...
01.13.2023 Episode 97: Marina Alex (and Shane's buddy Rusty!) Shane is back from his annual January buddies golf trip and catching up with two-time LPGA winner Marina Alex. The two talk about the weird phenomenon that is getting older, Marina's ombudsman approach to golf Twitter, what men tend to ...
12.28.2022 Episode 96: The Five Moments of 2022 with Amanda Rose With just a few days left of a lengthy and exhausting 2022 in the golf world, Shane chats with Amanda Rose about the five moments that we’ll remember most from 2022. Not the most important, not the most combative, just ...
12.09.2022 Episode 95: Things We Can't Stop Thinking About with Claire Rogers This week's episode is an interesting one; Shane welcomes back the always-entertaining Claire Rogers of Golf.com (@kclairerogers on Twitter/Instagram) to talk about things that we can't stop thinking about. Maybe it's a golf shot, maybe it's an outfit, maybe it's ...
12.02.2022 Episode 94: The Scramble Podcast On this week's Get a Grip, Shane welcomes a friend of the program Brendan Porath (of Shotgun Start and Fried Egg fame) to the show to discuss something that is a big part of a golfer's life; scrambles. We discuss ...
11.23.2022 Episode 93: Claude Harmon The pod is back this week with Claude Harmon, who is fresh off a flight from Dubai to discuss a wild year in his life. From reuniting with Brooks Koepka to traversing the globe working a LIV-heavy schedule, Claude gives ...
11.18.2022 Episode 92: Scottish Golf + The Old Tom Morris Trail Golf historian Stephen Proctor joins Shane to discuss his summer in Scotland playing all 18 courses on The Old Tom Morris Trail, his move from senior editor at The San Francisco Chronicle to studying the history and birthplace of golf, ...
11.02.2022 Episode 91: Shane's new book + Mark Hubbard Get a Grip returns from a bit of a hiatus with news that Shane's new children's golf book, The Golfer's Zoo, is available to order and is shipping out right now. You can order at back9press.com/bacon, so do that right ...
09.28.2022 Episode 90: Presidents Cup hero Max Homa Returns! It is always a good day when Max Homa returns to the Get a Grip podcast. Max and Shane discuss the Presidents Cup, the perfectly executed post-birdie celebration on Friday, and plenty more from an epic week (and epic Max ...
09.15.2022 Episode 89: Napa Chats with Justin Suh After the best season of his career, Justin Suh is a full-time PGA Tour member. His reward? Joining Shane in person from Napa as the PGA Tour gets going once again. Justin talks about the change in how he thinks ...
08.26.2022 Episode 88: Football, golf and life chat with Joe Buck Our old pal and friend of the program Joe Buck of (checks to confirm this is accurate) ESPN joined the podcast to talk his career move, the job of Monday Night Football, saying goodbye to baseball, his sneaky low handicap ...
08.18.2022 Episode 87: From Baltusrol with Aaron Beverly & Kamaiu Johnson The APGA Tour is at Baltusrol this week for the Cisco Invitational and I was lucky to go out and play a little golf in the pro-am and chat with two of the rising stars on the tour, Aaron Beverly ...
07.29.2022 Episode 86: David McLay-Kidd on his new project, GrayBull On the latest Get a Grip, Shane opens the show talking about playing in the Connecticut Open and missing the cut by 1 before being joined by the great David McLay-Kidd to talk about his new project in Nebraska, GrayBull. ...
07.18.2022 Episode 85: Open Championship recap with Claire Rogers What a week at St. Andrews! Shane checks in from the Old Course with Claire giving her full rundown of an excellent week of Open Championship golf. The two discuss Shane’s club fiasco, the Max-Tiger pairing, Rory’s Sunday and the ...
07.11.2022 Episode 84: Caddy tales from St. Andrews With the Open returning to the Old Course, it made perfect sense to bring back an old Clubhouse episode that Shane published in 2020 with his good friend Will Froelich. Will and Shane, after college at the University of Arizona, ...
07.08.2022 Episode 83: The incredible efforts of Roger Sali You might not know the name Roger Sali, but after this episode, you most definitely won't forget it. Roger lives in Uganda and took to caddying when his father passed away and the family needed extra income. Starting in 2020, ...
06.27.2022 Episode 82: Lexi's collapse + Claire the Caddie On this busy Monday episode, Shane and Golf.com’s Claire Rogers talk at length about the Lexi Thompson collapse on Sunday at Congressional. They transition to Claire looping at the Northeast Amateur, her best and worst moments on the bag, some ...
06.06.2022 Episode 81: U.S. Women's Open Recap with Claire Rogers It was an awesome week at Pine Needles for the U.S. Women's Open with Minjee Lee taking home her second major title in as many years. Shane and Golf.com's Claire Rogers recap the week, talk about Minjee's trajectory, the awesome ...
05.23.2022 Episode 80: PGA Championship Recap (with Claire Rogers) From a snoozer to a playoff in a matter of minutes! The 2022 PGA Championship took a while to get going, giving us a meltdown at the end and an epic playoff with two of the best young players in ...
05.18.2022 Episode 79: PGA Championship preview with Gil Hanse It's another major week with another major guest. Gil Hanse, the incredible golf architect that was in charge of the Southern Hills restoration project, jumps on the podcast to chat with Shane about this week, what was the philosophy in ...
05.10.2022 Episode 78: Max Homa is back! Another awesome week on tour and another win for Max Homa. The legendary podcaster jumps on the phone to talk about the week at the Wells Fargo, how crazy life is right now, the confidence he feels now versus a ...
04.21.2022 Episode 77: The 10 Best Players of the last decade with Andy Johnson With the recent victory from Jordan Spieth (his 13th since 2013), Shane thought it would be a great time to look over the last 10 years of professional golf and rank the 10 best players of the last 10 years. ...
04.11.2022 Episode 76: 2022 Masters Recap with Claire Rogers Wow, what a week! The 2022 Masters Tournament did not disappoint and we have some instant reactions to the Scottie Scheffler win. Golf.com's Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) joins Shane to recap the event, discuss the moment we will remember in five ...
04.04.2022 Episode 75: Masters preview with ESPN's Scott Van Pelt Carrying over from the old Clubhouse podcast days, ESPN's Scott Van Pelt joins Shane to preview the 2022 Masters Tournament. The guys start off talking Tiger Woods before turning their attention to who needs this Masters title the most, how ...
12.31.2021 Episode 74: Best of Tour Winners Another "Best of" episode to finish off 2021. From The Clubhouse and Get a Grip archives, we've pulled interviews with players coming off big wins on the PGA Tour, including Max Homa, of course, Joel Dahmen, and Nate Lashley. Have ...
12.23.2021 Episode 73: Max Returns: A holiday miracle! Max and Shane catch up on all the happenings the last few months including the Fortinet win by Mr. Homa to kick off the season. Max then reveals the five keys to a solid ski vacation when you don't ski. ...
12.09.2021 Episode 72: Best of Broadcasters While we get the next season of Get a Grip ready for 2022, we've put together a few "best of" episodes covering some of the greatest interviews and moments from both Get a Grip and Shane's other podcast, The Clubhouse. ...
09.08.2021 Episode 71: Aces and pod adjustments On episode seventy-one, Shane Bacon opens up with confirmation that he finally accomplished the one thing in his life he was hoping to accomplish before death: a hole in one! Since it's been a minute, Max Homa dives into the ...
08.11.2021 Episode 70: Shanks for listening 2.0 On episode seventy, Shane Bacon opens up explaining to Max Homa why he's on the verge of quitting competitive golf after a horrific sequence of events happened in his previous tournament! Then Max dives into his week playing in the ...
07.20.2021 Episode 69: The anti-wet eggs podcast On episode sixty-nine, Shane Bacon opens up asking Max Homa about his first experience playing golf across the pond! Max shares his thoughts on links golf; the opening hole double-bogey and how he rebounded after that; and the biggest adjustment. ...
07.05.2021 Episode 68: Airplane mode On episode sixty-eight, Shane Bacon opens up asking Max Homa about his week in the Rocket Mortgage Classic and playing in the same pairing as Bubba Watson! Then the guys dive into the Bryson DeChambeau news and the value of ...

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