A Masters preview live from Augusta

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Andy and Brendan! are buzzing and ready to preview the year's first major from the Draddy House in Augusta. The two return from a day at the course to discuss the biggest storylines entering the week before sharing their favorite tee times and making one-and-done picks. They start with Rory McIlroy, wondering if this will be the year he wins a green jacket to complete the career Grand Slam. From there, Andy commends defending champion Scottie Scheffler, who will enter this week without a win in 2025. They also dive into fellow contenders Xander Schauffele, Ludvig Åberg, and a LIV contingent featuring Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm, Joaquin Niemann, and more. In favorite tee times, Brendan is excited about a grouping for a young player getting a lot of love this week and sets up a lengthy discussion about Jordan Spieth. Andy and Brendan empty their notebooks with notes from the ground before bringing PJ in to recap his first-time experience at Augusta National to close the show. Enter B. Draddy's giveaway for a FREE Andy hoodie here! Click HERE to enter the Fried Egg Golf Pool for this week's tournament.

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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 April 9th.
0:45.5	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.1	Brendan, I'm doing fantastic.
0:50.1	I got to say, nothing beats a sunny day at Augusta National.
0:55.7	They made us work for it a little bit, right?
0:57.5	We got a quick pop in the face on Monday, which is good.
1:01.7	Every or answer, you know, you need a little like Bill's character, right?
1:06.3	And even the folks, even the folks who were there, they didn't hit their threshold where they get totally jammed and you get not refunded and not an option to buy Monday tickets for the subsequent year.
1:18.1	They just came in below the threshold.
1:20.4	So we built a little character on Monday, came back Tuesday with a glorious, glorious practice day at the Masters. We are so, so happy
1:31.4	to be here. I got to say, I was morning, I was kind of like, all right, I got to sleep in,
1:38.0	not bad. Like, you know, it was pretty. Monday? Yeah, I was like happy, you know, this is a
1:43.7	selfish happiness. And then, then I was like happy, you know, this is a selfish happiness.
1:45.8	And then,
1:46.3	uh,
1:46.6	then I realized like,
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