Kevin Van Valkenburg

Joe Flacco has become something better than ‘elite’ Flacco is 40 now, near the end (presumably) of a tortuous career that has somehow led to him being one of our most liked athletes.

Joe Flacco has become something better than ‘elite’

Fried Egg Golf's Favorite Content from 2025 A list of the Fried Egg Golf staff's favorite articles, podcasts, blog posts, videos, and other odds and ends we’ve enjoyed in 2025.

Need something to read, watch or listen to this holiday season? We gathered up our favorite non-Fried Egg content in golf media this year and linked it all in one place. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/con...

"Collecting that experience" is an incredible euphemism for "Asking a guy about the fact that more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct"

I often wonder what the ceiling is for coaches who are incredibly soft when it comes to media. It just feels like such a red flag when they are constantly crying about how mean reporters are.

This is how our boy finally gets that gold statue.

Mailbag: Friday Night Lights, Karaoke, and Gary Player In Kevin Van Valkenburg's latest mailbag, he answers questions on golfers as Friday Night Lights, the best karaoke songs, and Gary Player.

In this week's KVV Mailbag for @friedegggolf.bsky.social I picked my Top 5 karaoke songs, compared golfer to FNL characters, and contemplated a world where Rory didn't win the Masters.

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I do not want to believe this was 10 years ago.

In Praise of the Golf Buddy Sometimes you need a golf buddy, and other times you need to be the golf buddy, and it's an important role to play in a friend's life.

This week in @friedegggolf.bsky.social, I wrote a few words about mental health and in praise of the golf buddy. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/in-...

What's the Best Halloween Candy? The Fried Egg Golf staff got together to make their impassioned cases for the best Halloween candy on the market.

Gary Player declaring himself the third best golfer of all time is cool, but you know what's really cool? The Fried Egg staff each declaring our GOAT Halloween candy. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/bes...

The PGA Tour's Good Good Championship Is a Good Thing The PGA Tour's partnership with Good Good Golf to sponsor a FedEx Cup Fall event is a good thing for golf.

I think people being upset about Good Good sponsoring a PGA Tour event is mostly performative, but even if it's genuine, the idea that we suddenly have standards for sponsors in golf is a lie. I wrote about for the @friedegggolf.bsky.social newsletter. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/pga...

So good.

What Tiger Woods' Latest Surgery Means for PGA Tour Career Tiger Woods underwent yet another back surgery, adding to his long list of injuries and bringing into question his future in professional golf.

How many swings does Tiger have left? I pondered the question in today's @friedegggolf.bsky.social newsletter. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/pga...

Staying Cool at the Dunhill Links Championship On Robert MacIntyre and Dustin Johnson at the Dunhill Links Championship, where one player is maximizing his talent and the other is coasting on his.

For this week's Monday @friedegggolf.bsky.social newsletter, I wrote about Dustin Johnson and Robert MacIntyre and different kinds of cool. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/dun...

2025 Ryder Cup Final Thoughts Touching on what could have been for Justin Thomas, press conferences, who wasn't there for the United States, and the rowdy Bethpage fans.

I had three final thoughts from the Ryder Cup, but No. 3 is probably the one that will linger. The fans who screamed vile stuff about Rory and his wife? In the Hall of Fame of Losers. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/202...

U.S. Ryder Cup Team Needs Major Change After Bethpage After a rough showing for most of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, the United States team needs to make a major change to its operation to compete with Team Europe.

The data people involved with the U.S. Ryder Cup team need to resign. Either they're being ignored or they're being outclassed. My latest for @friedegggolf.bsky.social www.thefriedegg.com/articles/usa...

I don't disagree with any of that. Euro *golf* fans are almost always very playful and fun. What we saw at Bethpage is what it would be like if Euro football fans who didn't really follow golf started coming to football games and hurling abuse at golfers.

Will do!

You bet I did.

Fridays @friedegggolf.bsky.social Shotgun Start flashback was amazing. Full support for @kvanvalkenburg.bsky.social curating these purely for opportunities to do silly accents

Kevin Van Valkenburg joins Fried Egg Golf We're proud to announce the hiring of Fried Egg Golf's newest staff member, Kevin Van Valkenburg, who will serve as our Director of Content.

Hey friends, I'm very excited to start a new gig today. Hope you'll follow along as I continue to tell stories with the awesome @friedegggolf.bsky.social team. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/kev...

This is so wonderful and somehow hopeful in the face of despair.

It made me smile a lot that such good sentences get to exist, and cry a little that I'm still moved by words with the world on fire.

In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod: 9780375400391 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hi...

We are honored and thrilled to share the cover of @tomjunod.bsky.social's upcoming memoir: IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN. Preorder your copy now:
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New installment in Lenny’s Book Club: AMERICAN KINGS: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE QUARTERBACK by @sethwickersham.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read this. Preorder now:

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Sadly I can't wake up Art Modell, but I think he's the only one.

Stupid TV, Be More Funny This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative team th...

The Ringer's Hollywood bureau chief @alansiegella.bsky.social has a new book out about The Simpsons that you need to buy right now.

So many amazing nuggets about what the show owes to ('60s) Batman, the feud w/ Barbara (not just George) Bush, and more. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

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For this week's @nolayingup.com narrative podcast, I wrote a love letter to my local muni (but really, munis everywhere). Neil and Randy and I also have a fun discussion about what makes a great muni in the back half of the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/1lv6...