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The Shotgun Start

2025 Open Championship preview: Rory, Scottie, Rahm setting up for good one at Portrush

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Brendan! made it across the pond (without some luggage) and has taken in two days of practice rounds at Royal Portrush. He joins an injured Andy, who found out that Crocs aren't built for basketball the hard way on his Monday evening walk, to preview the 2025 Open Championship. The two run through all of the major storylines, such as Rory's homecoming to Northern Ireland, Scottie's media comments on "fairness" and Jon Rahm looking like he's back in form. They choose favorite and least favorite tee times, calling out which groups to wake up early for on Thursday and Friday if you're operating from the United States. Joseph LaMagna joins Brendan from the Portrush media center to discuss going viral on Northern Ireland TikTok, as well! Andy shares five under-the-radar storylines for this week, touching on a Holywood native playing at home after a top-five finish last week and the best player in the world without a major returning to major golf. To wrap things up, PJ submits 12 Games Within a Game for the year's final men's major before four Lock-Hammer-Fire picks are made.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics.

0:04.0

There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.

0:09.0

So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.

0:14.0

And here we go.

0:17.0

All right, all right, all right.

0:27.0

Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start.

0:43.6

It is July 16th.

0:45.5

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.2

Brendan, I'm doing great.

0:49.6

I got to say, actually, okay.

0:52.4

I'm doing all right.

0:53.4

I better, but how are you doing? How are you?

0:56.7

You're so far apart. Similarly, but I don't want to be negative Nancy's here at the start.

1:02.8

It's been a challenging, challenging few days to get this trip started. As Paul McKinley would say,

1:09.8

we're on the back foot, Andy.

1:14.5

We're on the back foot coming into this week, but we're ready to be on the front foot.

1:16.5

We're going to switch and we're going to get there.

1:20.5

So it's been a challenging couple days, but I'm so excited.

1:21.6

We're in Port Rush.

1:23.4

We've walked the course the last couple days.

1:25.4

We've been in town a little bit.

1:28.2

I've been reunited with one of two bags.

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