Hello friends!

I'm looking for some questions for this month's TFE Mailbag, both the sacred and the profane. I had a lot of fun with the last one, which you can read here:

https://www.thefriedegg.com/articles/golf-mailbag-karaoke-gary-player-friday-night-lights

Hit me with your weirdest, smartest, funniest questions and I'll try to get em answered. Either here or email if you prefer. kvv@thefriedegg.com

KVV

Howdy!

Next Wednesday, we're gathering for this month's hangout with Brendan, KVV, and Garrett to discuss our 2026 Fried Egg plans across the content front. The recording will be at Noon ET on January 21. Link will be posted both in here as well as the article in the Clubhouse.

What questions do you have for the group? It can be about our content plans, travel plans, personal plans, Jordan Spieth's season outlook, etc.

Coming to our event at Lookout Mountain on May 18? Jump in here and show yourself! Feel free to hit the "+ Follow" button at the top right of this post to get email updates when someone else posts in here.

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Coming to our Spring Festival at Soule Park on April 25? Jump in here and show yourself! Feel free to hit the "+ Follow" button at the top right of this post to get email updates when someone else posts in here.

You can also join the group WhatsApp Chat

Coming to our event at Belleair in February? Jump in here and show yourself! Feel free to hit the "+ Follow" button at the top right of this post to get email updates when someone else posts in here.

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I'm copy/pasting some information from Sunday's email here but wanted to provide a place for questions/concerns as we head into event registration season! Pumped to launch Soule Park today and can't wait to get through the rest of our schedule soon.

Member Passcode: FEGC2026

We begin registration season with a string of events this week. Our events at Soule Park and Lookout Mountain open on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively and FEGC lottery entries for our Southwest Michigan trip also open on Wednesday. We'll also open registrations for our Philadelphia Country Club and Moraine Country Club events this month. Add-on opportunities are also being added to trips where applicable so please check those out on each individual event page. You will also receive a reminder email from me on registration days should you misplace the early-access code. open at Noon ET

January FEGC Early-Access Registration Dates (Noon ET)

January 13 - Soule Park (CA)

January 14 - Lookout Mountain (GA) & SW Michigan Lottery (MI)

January 20 - Philadelphia Country Club (PA)

January 27 - Moraine Country Club (OH)

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me directly or review an article I named What FEGC Members Need to Know About Fried Egg Golf Events.

Hello friends.

Will shared this yesterday to your inbox, but I wanted to also put the information for The Shotgun Start's first live show here.

On Thursday, February 12, Andy, Brendan, and PJ are heading to Chicagoland for their first ever live theater show at Space in Evanston, Illinois. The show will feature all your favorite segments, audience Q&A, and almost certainly a soliloquy on the Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears. Come for the laughs, stay for Champions Tour minute, and help make sure the mics are plugged in before they start.

Tickets for FEGC members are on sale now and are released to the general public on Friday, January 9. You can use code FEGC2026 to purchase your tickets during the pre-sale period this week.

Hope to see you there!

Abby

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you're all gearing up for a nice holiday season and get to spend a little time with the ones you love.

If, on the other hand, you want to ignore the ones you love and find sanctuary with fellow golf sickos at the hottest club in town, boy do I have some good news for you! We just added a couple of small enhancements to the forum to ensure you can stay on top of the latest and greatest activity in the club.

Topic Following

If, for instance, you're an architecture junkie and want to be notified every time someone creates a new post in the Architecture topic, you can follow topics in our forum and we'll shoot you an email every time a new post is created. To do so, go to the topic page (ex: Architecture) and click Follow (as seen in the screenshot below).

Once you've done this, the button will update to Unfollow (as seen in the screenshot below). This will allow you to come back at a future date and unsubscribe from those notifications if you'd no longer like to receive email updates.

The same pattern is available for Post following if you want to be notified each time someone comments on a post you care about.

Comments Feed Available on Mobile

Okay, back to avoiding conversation with those special people in your life. Let's say you're at a holiday party, a spouse's work party for example, and you're really curious if there have been any new comments in the FEGC forum—boy do I have even more good news for you. Thanks to the coding elves in our north pole workshop, comments are now easily accessible on the mobile version of our site. When you load the Forum home page, you should see a toggle that will allow you to go back and forth between posts and comments. It looks like this (screenshot below).

Alright, I think that's all I've got for today. Maybe if I'm feeling cheeky, I'll drop a very heartfelt post in here before the holidays that moves you deeply and simultaneously gets you to spend more of your hard earned money with us! ;) Just kidding! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and close to your year.

Cheers!

Ladies and germs,

It's time for the final Virtual Hangout of the year! This month, I've got what we refer to as the "Architecture Team" on tap to review the courses they saw in 2025 and the holes that made an impact on them this year. Andy, Garrett, Cameron, and Matt will hop in studio on Monday, December 15 at 1:00 p.m. ET and their discussion will be posted in FEGC afterwards.

In addition to their talk, we want to answer a few questions from you all. Please feel free to drop a question in here and we'll have them answer a few during the hangout.

Details

Date: Monday, December 15

Time: 1:00 p.m. ET

LINK TO JOIN AND WATCH LIVE

I wanted to pop in and thank all of the FEGC members for their support over the years, many of you are among our earliest and biggest fans. We wouldn't have been able to do any of this without you and I am eternally grateful for you support.

I hadn't really thought much about the 10 years until yesterday afternoon when I sat down to write the newsletter and have been surprised at how many memories and emotions have flooded in. It has been a dream to build this company and community to the point we have today and I CANNOT wait for some of the projects we have been working on to come to light.

I'd love to hear your favorite memories and content from the past 10 years and things you would like us to explore the next 10 years if you have time or thoughts.

Howdy FEGC friends,

We pushed out a few forum updates today and hopefully you've already noticed but if you haven't:

1. We added the comments feed that has historically lived in the Clubhouse to the homepage of the Forum. (note: we have not finished this update for mobile yet but should have it done in the next day or so at the most)
2. We added a new Sort By options for posts. If you'd like to sort posts by the ones with the most recent comments you can do so by opening the dropdown near the search bar in the forum home page and selecting the option for Recent Activity. This will sort order posts based on the timestamp of their most recent comment (sorted newest to oldest).
3. We're almost done with Post and Topic following. If you click on a specific post now you'll see a + FOLLOW button in the upper right hand corner of the page. Clicking this will subscribe you to email updates of comments made to that post. Topic following will follow shortly. Additionally, there was a small bug in this feature this morning that should be remedied but if you follow and don't get emails know that we'll squash the bug in short order.

Aside from that, I'll most likely make a change to the Clubhouse later today to make it more focused on members-only articles and course profiles and remove the thread of comments as they now live on the forum home page. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

Cheers!

P.S. We're still working on many other forum enhancements (most notably being able to add images to comments) but as always I'm happy to hear any and all feedback.

I wanted to offer a sincere thanks for a wonderful year, even though it's not quite over yet. I started at Fried Egg Golf last October and, while very excited, was a little unsure what I was stepping into. What I've found has blown me away, and I wanted to share a little gratitude for that.

Everyone I work with is sincere, passionate, and curious—I cannot tell you how much that matters on a daily basis. And on the flip side, everyone I've met who is a member of FEGC has been a delight. It's so fun to have a job where people are excited about what you're doing because it truly brings them happiness. To that end, I wanted to recap a fun year and preview what could be in the future.

This year we built and launched some really fun features:

• A new website (that came along with a very fun process of membership and content migration—thanks to all who patiently stuck with us through a few bumps in the road)
• Major hubs to elevate our coverage of the year's most exciting events
• A member clubhouse to house member articles and a feed of comments
• New category pages for Architecture, Competitive Golf, and Eggstracurriculars
• A new travel planning service
• Travel and region guide articles
• A community forum that has allowed members to chat more freely amongst themselves

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but when I list them off, I'm pretty happy with the year we've had. Andy and I talk about our product a lot, and one thing we continually focus on is the process. Obviously the output matters, but we remain steadfast in our commitment to continually improve and deliver new and exciting features.

Looking ahead, I'm so excited for what 2026 will bring. It feels like the possibilities are almost endless. From my point of view, I continue to focus on how we can make your days just a little bit brighter by injecting some fun and insightful commentary into your lives (thankfully we have a world-class team of writers, podcasters, video producers, and social media savants to do the real work). To that end, we sincerely focus on bringing a true and earnest point of view and experience that we hope is unique and fresh. In addition to this, I've been so inspired by the community and fun I've witnessed at our events. Will does a tremendous job planning and hosting, and one thing I would like to do is capture a bit more of that magic in our membership's digital community. Obviously we have our forum, but I hope to make some additional strides in this area. Areas that I hope we can improve are our members ability to discover fun and interesting new places to play based on other members’ recommendations as well as continuing to help our members meet, connect, and play together.

If you ever have feedback, please share it with me. I sincerely want to know what we can do to make your golf more enjoyable.

To wrap this up, I want to reiterate how grateful I am for all of you. You truly allow us (and me) to do something we love. Cheers to a happy and safe holiday season!

Howdy folks. One of the goals of our community is to get members together on golf courses, enjoying each other's company and exploring new courses or revisiting tried-and-true favorites. To that end, I've created a new forum topic dedicated to housing playing opportunities: Filling Foursomes. We will greatly improve the process of posting playing opportunities and finding partners in our product over the long haul, but for now I hope this minimal change can help bring a little structure to the forum if you're trying to find a game.

As for posting in Filling Foursomes, please just be clear about when and where the tee time is and if there are any booking considerations (e.g., cancellations within 24 hours may incur a fee from the course). Additionally, I believe that everyone in our community always has the best intentions, but I'll state the obvious: this is not a place to resell or mark up tee times for a profit.

Cheers!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Let's do it live.

Today at 4:00 p.m. ET, we are going to reveal our 2026 FEGC and FE Events calendar. I'll include as much detail as possible but feel free to jump on and ask questions if you have them.

Join link here

If you are unable to join live, we will have all details emailed out and posted on the website this evening.

Get excited!

Ladies and gents,

Our little Instagram journey that is Design Disasters is officially one year old. To celebrate the anniversary, I'm having Joseph LaMagna and Brendan Porath join me for a lunchtime hangout this coming Friday. If flights go according to plan, we may have another guest as well. Another boy perhaps.

Either way, join us for some fun and merriment as we relive the first year of Design Disasters.

November Virtual Hangout Details

Date: Friday, November 21

Time: Noon ET

Link to Join