An incredible Butterfield watch, Rory passes Seve, and JT gets back surgery

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This is once again a Victory Monday episode of The Shotgun Start as Caleb Williams led a game-winning drive in Minnesota to push the Bears to 7-3 on the year. Andy is absolutely buzzing following the divisional win but was even more excited about the finish of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship on Sunday morning. Adam Schenk hung on against 40 mph winds to secure his first PGA Tour win and guarantee his status for the 2026 season. Andy and Brendan run through an incredible Sunday of television as Tour veterans and young players battled the elements on a small island in the middle of the ocean. They pitch that maybe the Butterfield should be a Signature Event to give fans a chance to watch the best players in the world try to figure out the wind patterns for four days of competition. Not to be outdone, the DP World Tour Championship went to a playoff between Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick. Fitz ended up with the win, putting a bow on a season that had him fall outside the top 80 in OWGR only to now have him back inside the top 25 heading into the new year. Andy and Brendan then take a look at the "Year of Rory" following his seventh Race to Dubai title, passing Seve's mark for second place all time. Potential Ryder Cup captain Stewart Cink chased down Steven Alker in Phoenix to become the first player since 2017 to win both the Schwab Cup Championship and the season-long honors. Champions Tour Minute also includes some Tiger Woods chatter following a Golfweek article published on Friday about his potential involvement on the senior circuit in 2026. This episode closes with a brief bit of news involving a back surgery for Justin Thomas that will keep him out of action for the first part of next season.

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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.4	It is November 17th.
0:45.2	Andy, how we doing?
0:46.8	Brendan, we're doing wonderful.
0:49.3	It is Victory Monday.
0:51.0	What a good day to talk about golf, too.
0:56.5	Why is it victory Monday?
1:05.3	Bears are seven and three. Another W. Caleb Williams now has five game winning drives.
1:10.9	This one, I laugh. You know, this is like a golf accounting game winning drive. They returned a kick a long way.
1:13.0	They ran three straight runs and he gets credited with the game winning drive.
1:18.9	I've been in the car most of the day.
1:20.9	So the pictures don't count for me.
1:22.9	You could just, I'll take the stats.
1:24.1	I did hear Cairo Santos put it right through the uprights. I did hear the jubilant call, but I don't know any of the stats. I did hear Cairo Santos put it right through the uprights. I did hear the
1:29.2	jubilant call, but I don't know any of the details. So congrats on your victory Monday. And then
1:34.0	the call was you might be in first place by the NFC North by the end of the night.
1:38.3	Maybe. Incredible. It's incredible. It's incredible. And Aaron Rogers is hurt. So next week we get, we get Mason Rudolph.
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