Fitz clips Sheriff Scottie as fans chant USA, Bryson WDs, Rahm wins, and the LIV sinking ship
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Andy, Brendan!, and Kevin Van Valkenburg check in from Scotland, recording this episode from separate bedrooms in the same house overseas. Andy declares a "Victory Monday" despite not publicly submitting his "pick" of Matthew Fitzpatrick to win the RBC Heritage on Wednesday's episode. Constable Fitzy took down Sheriff Scottie Scheffler at Harbour Town after one playoff hole, securing his second win of the 2026 season. The three discuss Fitzpatrick's ascent to the top five of the OWGR after being outside of the top 70 at this time last year and how working with Mark Blackburn could be a perfect personality match for the Englishman. The crowd in Hilton Head broke out USA chants down the stretch on Sunday, leading to Jim Nantz dropping the word "jingoistic" on the CBS broadcast. Brendan also points out two other stories from the week in an ill-timed club toss from Max Homa and another disappointing showing from Tony Finau. Attention then shifts to a busy week at LIV Mexico City, where Jon Rahm won again and Bryson DeChambeau withdrew with a wrist injury after complaining about course conditions earlier in the week. What does this latest Rahm win mean? Will LIV actually be back in Mexico City next year? Will Scott O'Neil find funding to keep the league alive moving forward? All of these questions are discussed at length after Brendan, Andy, and Kevin missed out on Friday's newsworthy episode about PIF pulling funding from the league. PJ chimes in to recap a dominant win from Stew Cink at the Senior PGA Championship before this episode wraps with a smorgasbord of random news items from around the golf world.
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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. Griddins and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:43.5 | It is April 20th. |
| 0:45.5 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.1 | Brendan, it's Victory Monday. |
| 0:50.1 | I got to say, it is a little weird, though, hearing you murmur through the walls. |
| 0:54.8 | It's just heard. |
| 0:56.3 | Recording in the same house, but on different computers. |
| 1:01.0 | You know, this is a bake ship very late at night, Scotland recording here. |
| 1:06.0 | A little worse for the wear, not from alcohol, but lack of sleep the last few weeks for me. |
| 1:12.7 | We have been grinding to make the content machines run up early. |
| 1:16.9 | You were drone boy at 6 a.m. this morning in Scotland. |
| 1:21.3 | So here we are at 1130. |
| 1:23.7 | We're joined by Kevin Van Volckerberg who's in another room in the same house that probably dates back, you know, 200 years in Scotland. Kevin, thanks for joining us, KV. Thank you. I got the big room. You guys got the wee rooms. I feel a little bit like, I don't know, like it's unfair to give the new guy the big room, but too late now. You're good. You're fine. They're all big rooms. It's a nice, it's nice accommodations, I would say. |
| 1:47.2 | Much better than we used to have. We're an equal opportunity employer. |
| 1:51.1 | We aren't afraid to, you know, PJ and Joseph, the boys always have to bunk up, but, you know. |
| 1:59.6 | So that's just because not. Yeah. PJ, jump in. Thanks for taking over Friday. We're going four wide here at the moment. You just get, we're totally detached. Like, I left for Augusta, April 5th. I feel totally detached from the world. There's like things going on with Iran. I don't really know what. I don't know what's going on with the sports world, the NBA, NHL playoffs. There's just an update to a certain division rival in football that may be helping a unnamed reporter that you seem to be delighted about. That seems to be music to your ears. We're just discussing offline. Are the Mets, how are they doing these days? I've been disconnected. |
| 2:37.1 | The Mets have lost 11 straight games, Brendan. |
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