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The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It's a TGL ratings Thursday on The Shotgun Start, as Andy and Brendan unpack the latest numbers coming out of ESPN headquarters after Tiger's debut. Before getting to the numbers, the episode starts with a Bears-focused Sports Minute, with Andy already upset at the potential hiring of Mike McCarthy. Once things get to golf, it's time for everybody's favorite topic - ratings! - as TGL gained viewers this week, pushing the total number over one million. Andy and Brendan debate whether the slight uptick for Tiger's debut is a positive or a negative for the league, and talk through Rory McIlroy's comments about TGL not being meant for the traditional golf fan, but for the younger, TikTok generation. Speaking of Rory, he also commented on Greg Norman's departure as LIV CEO while in Dubai. LIV announced today that former 76ers and Devils executive Scott O'Neil would be joining the league as its CEO. Andy and Brendan discuss what's next for LIV following this announcement, as well as the league's new multi-year TV deal with FOX Sports. Viktor Hovland also spoke to the press in Dubai, sharing some details about his recent struggles that Andy finds easy to relate to. Brendan shares some leaderboard updates on events across the world, with an American amateur leading the way on the DP World Tour event through day one. The TikTok generation comes up again later on, as Andy and Brendan are giddy to share that Michael Block and Joel Dahmen, among others, have signed to be the newest GoodGood pros for 2025. This episode ends with a combination of Golf Advice emails and a Tosti Tale from the Sony 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.
0:27.1	Gentlemen, start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is January 17th. Andy, how we doing?
0:47.3	Brendan, I'm doing well. I'm just doing some mental gymnastics over here. Oh, what's that? Just trying to wrap my head around,
0:57.8	trying to wrap my head around Mike McCarthy and the distinct possibility of him being the next
1:03.9	Bears coach. Is that happening? Are movements afoot? Well, I think like the crazy thing that I've gotten myself to a point and I never anticipated
1:16.8	myself getting myself here.
1:18.6	It was like with all the other other garbage that we've been interviewing, it seems like
1:25.0	this is not a bad outcome for us.
1:28.9	I mean, it's a terrible outcome. It's, it's, it's, it seems like this is not a bad outcome for us. I mean, it's a terrible outcome.
1:30.9	It's just like a very bold kind of move.
1:33.9	Like, I mean, realistically, you're getting professional, but like, what is the ceiling?
1:40.1	Are we talking like 10 and 7 and a first round miss once in four years and then we just kind of move along?
1:49.3	I get the potential for disaster with Cliff, but I mean, at least it'll be interesting and there's some maybe of ceiling.
1:57.1	I don't know.
1:57.6	I'm going to read off some people that we've had formal interviews with.
2:01.5	Ready? Arthur Smith, Ron Rivera, David Shaw, Anthony Weaver. These are disasters. I need I need Arthur
2:11.1	Smith to get hired. So FedEx is just more involved in your life than it already is. He might get
2:15.7	hired by the jets. It's coming for your football i i i do
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