It is U.S. Open week on Long Island, and the Fore Play boys are operating at full throttle. Shinnecock is the backdrop, the preview pod is live, and somewhere in between they found time to recreate one of the most famous trick shots in Barstool golf history. This is the kind of week the pod was built for.
A cinematic Shinnecock flyover to set the stage for the week.
Before the pros took over the property, the crew got their own loop in at the host course, cruising the links in proper East End weather with Sun Cruisers in hand. It is the kind of access most weekend hacks would sell a kidney for, and they know it. Riggs even chimed in with the obligatory "must be nice," which, yeah, it is.
Birdies for the boys at Shinnecock, hooded up against the chill.
The actual preview pod went up Monday with Kiz dropping some genuinely interesting inside-baseball on how the USGA sets up Shinnecock. The best clip of the bunch was the bit on how a simple drop — the kind weekend players don't think twice about — can swing an entire round at the pro level. It is the type of detail that separates a Fore Play pod from regular golf media noise.
Kiz on why pro-level placement is its own skill.
And then there is the headline stunt. Nearly a decade ago, Paige Spiranac and Trent shot a now-legendary clip of Paige knocking a Dunkin' cup off Trent's face with a driver. They got the band back together, added a Dunkin'-branded cart, a production rig, and one very brave volunteer lying flat on the grass. The slo-mo is, in fact, incredible.
The cinematic slo-mo of the coffee-cup recreation.
Stack it all up — Shinnecock content, the Paige reunion, a preview pod with real insight — and the schedule still has another lane opening tomorrow. Episode 2 of the Ireland Travel Series drops next, and based on the tease, the weather is doing exactly what Ireland is supposed to do. Big week for the pod, even bigger week for anyone who follows it.
