Bay Hill carnage, Rory flip flop on PGA Tour needing a deal with PIF?, and a PGA Tour pension trick

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode starts with some football whimsy - Andy is pumped about the Bears acquiring two high-priced offensive guards to start their offseason! The whimsy continues into golf talk as Aldrich Potgieter topped his drive into the lake on the sixth hole at Bay Hill, providing a must-see moment for Andy and Brendan on Thursday morning. High winds in Orlando led to a brutal first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. TGL stars Max Homa, Cam Young, Min Woo Lee, and Tom Kim were among the many players well over par after round one, leading to questions about whether these players are better suited for the SoFi Dome vs. outdoor golf. Elsewhere in pro golf, Andy shares an unsubstantiated rumor about a PR Open participant who may be playing games with his PGA Tour pension. This episode is mostly news-based as Andy and Brendan discuss recent comments from Rory McIlroy and Jay Monahan surrounding the current state of the PGA Tour. Rory says he isn't sure the PGA Tour "needs" a deal with the PIF at this point, which brings back memories from last year's comments from Jordan Spieth in a similar vein. Jay was interviewed by Eamon Lynch about a potential deal, the Tour's search for a new CEO, and more, with plenty to unpack for Andy and Brendan. Following this lengthy news discussion, Brendan dives into a Flashback about Jerry Heard, a two-time winner of the Florida Citrus Open (now known as the Arnold Palmer Invitational), whose successful pro career was derailed by a lightning strike.

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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. It is March 7. Andy, how we doing?
0:47.1	Brendan, I'm doing great. I got to say, um, my Chicago Bears are just making me happy.
0:55.7	Well, that's, this is the time. March is the time for your football team to make you happy.
1:00.2	We know this cycle.
1:01.8	We are just winning the offseason.
1:05.7	March enthusiasm brings November, what, wins?
1:11.1	Is that what? We're not used to that.
1:13.0	We're used to November, just dejection, doom, gloom, existentialism.
1:20.1	But we do know, all of us know the cycle of March and April,
1:23.4	just being high times for our football team.
1:27.6	So, congrats to you on the moves here.
1:29.6	If you can't get excited now with our franchises, then you're in trouble.
1:35.7	You know, this isn't the time.
1:37.0	We have to be excited now.
1:38.6	Or else you just question what are you doing?
1:40.5	Like, this brings me no joy.
1:42.1	You have to have joy at some point, right? The Browns are in a
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