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The Shotgun Start

Bay Hill as the Tour’s “major,” Rahm-Rory kerfuffle, and Masters tales

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

After a trip to the eye doctor, Andy is locked in for this Friday episode and is immediately thrilled by an unsubstantiated rumor from Brendan! about an ill-timed tattoo. PJ is out on a trip with his fellow Boy, leaving the two to recap Daniel Berger's stellar Thursday at Bay Hill by themselves. Andy and Brendan discuss signs of life from DB and Ludvig Åberg before debating whether the Arnold Palmer Invitational should replace The Players as the PGA Tour's "major." They agree that the setup is closer to a major championship test than March at TPC Sawgrass with Brendan claiming something can't be a major if they're playing ball-in-hand every year. After a brief bowling interlude, Andy decides that Luke Donald's third consecutive Ryder Cup captaincy is NOT an issue, much to PJ's dismay. In (potentially) related captaincy news, Brendan is still on cloud nine following the big Jup Links win and Tom Kim's ace that sent Tiger's team to the TGL playoffs. Will Tiger tee it up in the first round against the Ballfrogs? We have two weeks to find out. Jon Rahm will be teeing it up in South Africa soon, which Rory McIlroy seemed to think he may not be too happy about. Rory was asked to comment on Rahm's ongoing fight with the DP World Tour and we may have a beef breweing between these Ryder Cup teammates! Finally, Andy and Brendan share some college football tales from Augusta in honor of legendary coach and broadcaster Lou Holtz, who passed away on Wednesday evening.

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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.

0:43.6

It is March 6th.

0:45.4

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.2

Brendan, I'm doing our right.

0:49.7

I got to say, you know, I had to go in for my annual eye doctor checkup today.

0:58.1

What a racket the eye doctor is?

1:01.2

I got to say, I didn't know annual was a thing with that.

1:05.0

I don't think I offend in 10 years, maybe.

1:07.6

They hold you hostage because you don't have glasses.

1:13.1

I got the LASIC. I got the LASIC. I mean, I'm talking like 20 years ago at this point before law school. Are you supposed to go or only if you

1:20.3

have glasses, contacts, you have to go. This is the racket. It's like we can't give you more contacts

1:27.4

until you come in and you get your annual

1:31.0

checkup.

1:32.4

And every year I go in and they're like, how are your contacts?

1:36.7

I'm like, great.

1:39.1

And then they're like, all right, it looks like it's the same prescription this year.

1:44.1

And then I leave and they're like, you I was 200 whatever dollars for the checkup.

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