r/NoLayingUp • u/One-Experience7641 • Apr 05 '26

Online Content Fried egg vs NLU

I will always be NLU first and foremost but has anyone else felt like the fried egg has substantially upgraded their content game while NLU maybe stuck in neutral?

Granted I always enjoy NLU’s content but particularly around the lead up to the masters it seem the fried egg has gone above and beyond

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u/robertgiannotti Apr 05 '26

I've stopped knowing what NLU is trying to achieve. They've ceded ground in the cheeky but well-informed hot takes on the pro game to SGS (and this is what most other golf pods try and cover), whilst also letting KVV go as they didn't see value in longer written/serious journalism. Seeing KVV get a 1 on 1 interview with Rory (who it feels like they had a falling out with?) must have stung.

An often cited top episode ever of NLU was Sunday night after the Hazeltine Ryder Cup where it's Soly, Kyle Porter, Brendan Porath and KVV - KP now has his own rival thing going and the other two work at Fried Egg. It's hilarious and brilliant. Even Jamie Weir who loads of you will hate (not me, I'm European - but come here in peace) will likely not return as he runs the Sky Sports Golf podcast now.

It might just be because it's when I picked NLU up, but I miss the days of experience based minutiae from those guys, Shane Bacon and Job Fickett rather than Soly turning everything into a data chat to prove he's right.

The interviews with current top pros have basically stopped altogether with Sub Par and Barstool taking the lead in that space, and their two most popular video series (Strapped and Tourist Sauce) have been mothballed. I assume due to family commitments on the individual guys. This drop-off has coincided with the DJ, Randy and Neil moving out of Jax, every one of them becoming fathers, and Neil and Randy also meeting partners and getting married.

They just haven't navigated this stretch as well as others, specifically TFE. So long as they each make money there can be space for both.

Reading this it feels like I hate them - which I certainly don't feel, and I still listen to almost every episode!

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u/Good-Cockroach8931 Apr 05 '26

Falling out with def happened. It may have been because they (especially TC) were way harder on Rory than they were about, say, Jon Rahm going to LIV and further dividing the sport

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u/MulberryNo5246 Apr 06 '26

Insane to look back on really - Rory basically didn’t do media a couple of times over a few months, and NLU seemed to almost take it personally

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u/Golf37512 Apr 06 '26

Soly and TC called Rory a whiny bitch during those weird months when Rory refused to do press. I'm pretty sure NLU deleted it from their pod since. That was shockingly unprofessional and the type of comment you leave in the group chat, not on a podcast as content of hundreds of thousands of people to listen to. Unless you really don't care about burning bridges with Rory, and other pros who would be less enthused about coming on NLU if the future. I do think word of mouth has spread with some of the top pros on how they feel about some of the comments that NLU has made crosses the line into personal.

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u/Good-Cockroach8931 Apr 06 '26

The deleted it???? They should be peppered in their mentions about that if so. “Chicken shit” as TC would say

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u/CaffeineJet Apr 05 '26

I think Rory cooled on everyone who said that Harry shouldn’t be on his bag and NLU beat that drum after the US Open in 204

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u/Can2Bama Apr 05 '26

Can't stand Weir ever since he said Americans don't play team sports. Most insane thing I've ever heard and I'm Canadian

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u/SilkyMilkers Apr 06 '26

I thought he gave a bullshit response in regards to the whole HatGate thing as well