2025 Open Championship Recap: Scottie's historic run and Rory's homecoming

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Scottie Scheffler is the 2025 Champion Golfer of the Year after securing his fourth major title with a Sunday 68 at Royal Portrush. Andy and Brendan spend the first half of this episode putting Scheffler's run into some historical context following his win, placing him a U.S. Open win away from the career slam at just 29 years old. The two break down his round and the skills he showed throughout the week that enabled him to separate from the rest of the field in Northern Ireland. The back half of this recap touches on basically the rest of the field, as Andy's "Storylines Nobody's Talking About" include Rory McIlroy winning "Low Holywood," a Sunday storm hitting Westy Island, plenty of Wikipedia Top Tens, and Kevin Kisner blaming the UGSA for Wyndham Clark's Oakmont incident. There's also plenty of course takeaways from Royal Portrush, and Brendan ends this week of coverage with a little game from his time on the grounds at the 2025 Open.

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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.8	It is July 21st.
0:45.7	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.6	Brendan!
0:48.9	I'm doing great.
0:50.1	You know, I just just was thinking about that pigeon.
0:56.4	I got, you know, I just, just was thinking about that pigeon. I got, you know, I tried to get pigeon, pigeon shamed by, you know, people from across this side of the, well, it's actually dove and it's a delicacy.
1:05.7	You know, I was told it by Aeman Lynch.
1:08.0	I'm sorry, he's, you know, from your side of the Atlantic.
1:11.8	He said pigeon, threaten his pigeon. I'm sorry. He's, you know, from your side of the Atlantic. He said pigeon,
1:19.2	to write in his pigeon. I'm not even pigeon, whether it's a delicacy or not. They got all these different pies. Anyways, we're flying into the recap show. Last men's major recap show of the year.
1:28.4	Rider Cup still to come.
1:29.7	We are very, very excited about that deal.
1:31.9	Hey, I was thinking, we got a lot of great stuff ahead.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.5	We got the Walker Cup coming up at Cypress Point.
1:40.2	We do.
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