Europe’s best Ryder Cup team ever, Ernie wants Tiger on Champs Tour, and Walker Cup flashlight

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan! get this First of the Month recording in under the gun, chatting late on Labor Day about the latest news in golf. They run through Monday's announcement of the European Ryder Cup team as Luke Donald finalized his roster with 11 of the 12 players from Rome. The two debate whether this is the best Team Europe has ever been and wonder who, if anyone, will be looked back on as the "random" member of this 2025 roster. The picks were made following the Omega Masters on the DP World Tour, won by pod favorite Thriston Lawrence after a year of struggles in the United States. In honor of this week's Walker Cup, Brendan shares quick flashlight about a player from the last time the event was held at Cypress Point. This flashlight has twists and turns and ends up with an extradition, if that's your thing. PJ quizzes Andy and Brendan on some SEC backup QBs or SEC golfers following Week 1 of college football and all three take some joy in North Carolina's loss to TCU. Things wrap up with a Champions Tour discussion after Ernie Els publicly challenged Tiger Woods to tee it up on the senior circuit in 2026.

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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.
0:43.5	It is September 1st.
0:45.9	Andy, how we do it?
0:47.8	Brendan!
0:49.3	I'm doing well.
0:50.5	I got to say September 1st.
0:53.0	It's probably my favorite day in the Midwest.
0:55.0	We've been treated a heat wave where I am.
0:57.7	It's one of the, you know, 10 to 15 days that I lament not having air conditioning in my house.
1:04.9	I'm battling the elements today.
1:06.1	What are we talking about?
1:07.2	How hot when you say you need?
1:08.9	Oh, God.
1:09.9	Okay.
1:14.9	Substantial. Not like 86 okay all right a hundred battling the elements i i i you know this is like uh this is like when the ac goes out in
1:22.3	the gym it is uh it might might be you know perspiring during this podcast, but I'm going to tough it out.
1:30.3	And I got to say, you know, one way that you can control the elements,
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