A Post-Super Bowl 20-event PGA Tour Schedule and Saudi International amusements

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Brendan! returns to host this Friday episode and begins by picking Andy's brain about a morning spent at the DMV. This conversation quickly evolves into a debate about different kinds of gasoline and why the "middle" level of gas even exists. If anyone out there happens to own a gas station, please let us know your thoughts on this matter. Speaking of "gas", Rico Hoey is continuing his fall swing heater with a share of the first round lead at the RSM Classic. Andy does some Big J Journalism and investigates whether Hoey will be eligible for the International Presidents Cup team and finds out that he is, in fact, eligible to take down Scottie Scheffler at Medinah in September 2026. The two then run down the Top 100 Bubble Boys as the FedEx Cup season finally comes to a close, mentioning that podcast favorites like Matt Kuchar and the "Beau-rista" may be on the outside looking in for full status. "AI Minute" returns with Andy reading off the Google Gemini suggestions for someone googling Matt Kuchar's age. They then check in on the Tour's "Players to Watch", most of whom are struggling after Thursday's round. Brendon Todd was not one of the five highlighted by the Tour, but "Todd Watch" returns anyway for a quick minute. Brendan then shifts to the biggest news coming out of the RSM, some comments from Harris English about a potential PGA Tour schedule change. English claims that the Tour is discussing starting after the Super Bowl and running a 20-event season. Andy and Brendan discuss the impact this would have on the "A Tour" and "B Tour" setups, as well as major markets that would likely host a new tournament under this structure. Andy brings in a "former NFL executive" (PJ) to share some thoughts on a move to an NFL-like schedule under Brian Rolapp, another very famous ex-NFL exec. PJ is also prompted to preview an upcoming "Lunch with The Boys" episode featuring recurring guest Cameron Young. Through two rounds, Caleb Surratt is doing Caleb Surratt things at the Saudi International, but Anthony Kim is close behind him on the leaderboard! Brendan and Andy then unpack a bit of the LPGA's 2026 schedule changes before wrapping things up with the latest from Notah on Tiger's future competitive plans.

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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 Friday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.5	It is November 21st.
0:45.4	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.2	Brendan, I'm doing, you know, not great.
0:51.8	I had a morning at the DMV.
0:54.2	So, you know, that's, that's never the way to start, start a day.
0:59.3	And, you know, also, also my child's in half, half days all week.
1:07.5	It's like, the school is committing fraud when they do that.
1:11.3	It's committing fraud.
1:12.7	They're, you know, they're proposing they provide a service.
1:18.9	They're holding themselves out to provide a service that will cover this amount of hours and this amount of it.
1:23.7	And then all of a sudden they pull it out from on your like, actually, you get out of noon every day this week. It's fraught almost. It's been tough, it's been tough, but we're
1:32.6	persevering. I feel like we kind of go to the, go to the DMV now as a cliche, bad experience
1:38.0	when it might not actually be as bad as it used to be. Like people just say it's like going to
1:42.3	the DMV. It was like, you know, my last five DMV experiences have been quite pleasant.
1:46.8	Maybe my Maryland taxes are going towards, you know, effective, effective overhauls there.
1:52.4	But how was your experience?
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