A Tour Champ rotating out of ATL, Trump Doral joins schedule, and questions about the Payne Stewart Award

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

At long last, Andy has returned from sea (and air!). He joins Brendan and is fired up off the jump, coming in hot to defend the city of Chicago after last week's "slander." Andy's back just in time for golf's Super Bowl - the Tour Championship at East Lake. Brendan shares some quotes from an Adam Schupak article about the event possibly heading out of Atlanta sometime soon, only to find that Tim Finchem might've promised the event would stay there "in perpetuity." The winner of this week's event, which is now being played without Starting Strokes, will win both the tournament and the FedEx Cup for the 2025 season, unlike Jon Rahm's LIV title that came with zero victories. Rahm compared his win-without-winning to climbing Mt. Everest, sending Brendan off the rails at the preposterousness of that comparison. After running through the Schedule for the Week, Andy and Brendan then get into the 2026 Schedule for the Year after the PGA Tour announced its dates for next season. Trump Doral will host a new Signature Event in May, making it nearly impossible for rookies and those without signature status to play between the Masters and the PGA Championship. In other news, Paul Azinger will receive the Payne Stewart Award this week and Andy has a few questions about how the committee chose him as the 2025 recipient. TGL has announced the start date for its second season, going head-to-head with an NFL Sunday in December. This leads into an NFL Minute to close out this episode - Andy loves what he's seeing from the Bears, Joe Flacco is starting for Brendan's Browns, and PJ is already apathetic about Justin Fields and the Jets.

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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 August 20th.
0:45.9	Andy, how are we doing?
0:48.1	Brendan!
0:49.9	It is great to be back here.
0:52.7	I am battling some adversity.
0:54.8	I feel like everything that could go against me the last 48 hours is going against me all the way down to my daughter's spilling apple juice on my keyboard on the plane.
1:06.0	Like the worst thing you could spill on anything.
1:08.8	As far as beverages go, I think that's like
1:10.9	got to be number one. There may be something as bad, but I'm not sure there's anything
1:14.7	worse. And me also leaving my keyboard that I usually use to type on vacation. So I'm just,
1:23.4	I've just basically got half a keyboard at this point. Oh, no. What a disaster. Travel, travel, it could have been worse. You could have creatine
1:33.6	overdosed. Did you get, did you see that? The Ben Griffin story? I'm using that now just,
1:39.5	you know, if I have any adversity. I'm just saying my wife was yelling at me about not taking
1:43.7	the trash out. I said I overdosed on creatine. I couldn't get it. I forgot. I'm just saying my wife was yelling at me about not taking the trash out. I said I
1:44.7	overdosed on creatine. I couldn't get it. I forgot. I'm just using that, just making stuff up,
1:50.6	throwing that out there. But we missed you. The apple juice, I'm sorry you're having a tough
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