2025 PGA Championship preview: Quail Hollow discourse, Rory expectations, and rollback rebuttal

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This is a beefy Wednesday episode with Andy and Brendan previewing the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club. Two days of rain in Charlotte might've stopped some practice rounds, but it did not stop anyone at the microphone as Tuesday pressers provided incredible quotes for discussion. Andy and Brendan kick things off with some course discussion after players such as Justin Thomas and Scottie Scheffler admitted to the media that Quail Hollow doesn't require much thought off-the-tee. It's debated whether the hate on Quail Hollow has gone too far and the impact of weather is a hot topic as we get closer to the tournament beginning. The favorites are discussed at length, with full segments on Scottie Scheffler (making his tournament debut at Quail), Rory McIlroy (storied history at this course), and Bryson DeChambeau (hit a hole-in-one over his house this offseason). Picks are made from the premier golf gambling podcast with no one overthinking the second major of the year. PJ joins in to discuss best and worst tee times, of which there are many, before the attention turns to the PGA of America presser from Tuesday afternoon. Andy and Brendan do a deep dive on the topics discussed by PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague, PGA of America President Don Rea, and Chief Championship Officer Kerry Haigh. We're fired up for another week of daily shows after each round, so stay tuned throughout the week.

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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.
0:43.7	It is May 14th.
0:45.6	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.3	Brendan, I got to say, I am doing great.
0:50.5	My morning started with a little Jordan Speeith and Don Rea,, I didn't know the ladder was going to be part of my morning, didn't know I needed it to be part of my morning. But the day's ending now with PJ's wonderful intro music addition to the live show. That was calming.
1:08.8	Quite a little preamble. It's great. A nice little twist. Maybe we're getting, we're up in our game here for the P show. That was calming. Quite a little preamble. It's great.
1:10.9	A nice little twist.
1:12.1	Maybe we're getting, we're up in our game here for the PGA championship.
1:16.4	I'm excited to talk about it with you here.
1:19.4	Preview it.
1:20.7	A championship you said lacked juice last week.
1:23.3	But I think we're, I think we're ready.
1:25.4	I think we're ready for four days.
1:26.9	We're ready for the show.
1:28.7	It's kind of, it's kind of the championship that, I don't know if it has juice.
1:35.7	I get that a lot of best players are playing well and have won.
1:39.8	So maybe it's just, it's one of these things.
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