Annual over-unders for 2025 in golf, TGL ratings boom, and alarming quotes from Sony

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

A January tradition unlike any other, it's the latest installment of over-unders for the upcoming year in golf. The episode starts on a solemn note as Andy and Brendan discuss the ongoing fires in the Los Angeles area and sending positive thoughts to everyone in southern California. From there, the two discuss the ongoing reactions to TGL's opening night as Tuesday's ESPN ratings were stronger than many expected, drawing almost one million viewers. With a TGL match without Tiger or Rory managing a higher rating than Sunday at Kapalua, Andy wonders what happens if the simulator league continues to beat out early-season PGA Tour events. A listener emailed in her thoughts from an in-person experience at the SoFi Center, complete with her own Hammer flag (not delivered by FedEx). Pro Shop announced a new series of Creator Classics for 2025, prompting Andy and Brendan to wonder whether YouTube golf is a more viable career path than being a Minor League Tour player. Meanwhile, there is non-screen golf being played this week at the Sony Open. Ben Griffin was leading at the time of recording and Brendan learns about Griffin's budding TikTok stardom. This week's field has Ryan Palmer and Brandt Snedeker playing on career money exemptions, leading Andy down the path of another rant about the PGA Tour and its fields. Webb Simpson is also at the Sony and he had some interesting quotes about his 2024 season that was full of exemptions into Signature Events. The episode wraps with an energetic over-under segment, as Andy, Brendan, and PJ make picks for 2025. Will a LIV golfer win another major? Is Bethpage going to be close? How many starts for Blockie in 2025? All of these questions are answered, and more!

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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.
0:43.5	It is January 10th.
0:45.4	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.0	Brendan, I'm doing all right.
0:49.4	You know, it's, uh, it's been a, uh, it's been a tough week.
0:53.1	I've, uh, my head's been kind of in, uh, Southern California and, uh, it's been a, uh, it's been a tough week. I've, uh, my head's been kind of in, uh,
0:55.3	Southern California and, uh, my thoughts and, and condolences and prayers go out to, uh, all the,
1:03.1	uh, Southern Californians that have been impacted by these awful, uh, awful fires. Uh, yeah. Yeah.
1:10.0	Yeah. I think that's, it's pretty's pretty occupying a lot of my brain space.
1:14.4	I have family there,
1:15.3	friends there,
1:16.3	cousins.
1:18.3	Yeah,
1:18.7	it's pretty,
1:19.6	as apocalyptic keeps the word that people keep using.
1:23.2	You just don't expect to see that in such a,
1:27.3	many areas with which we are familiar like I've driven down
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