Flashback Friday with KVV, Rickie for Ryder Cup (that Scottie is sick of talking about)

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

As promised on Wednesday's episode, Kevin Van Valkenburg returns to discuss the 2021 BMW Championship at Caves Valley and the ensuing SGS episode that continues to live in infamy. Before KVV comes in, Brendan keeps PJ in the big chair to run through some press conference quotes and results from the first round of this year's BMW. Brendan unleashes a rant about the proliferation of the Little League World Series across ESPN properties, leading to a lengthy discussion about the state of youth sports and selling out to private equity. From there, early storylines from the BMW start to emerge including plenty about next month's Ryder Cup. Scottie Scheffler doesn't want to talk about the upcoming matches at Bethpage, but Rory and Keegan both had some thoughts about a playing captain in their pre-tournament pressers in Baltimore. Brendan and PJ also preview LIV Indianapolis, share some concern about Xander Schauffele in this lost season for him, and check in on match play at the U.S. Am. KVV then comes in to join Brendan as the two remember their time at the birth of "Patty Ice" against a villainous Bryson DeChambeau at the 2021 BMW Championship.

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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.
0:43.7	It is August 15th.
0:45.7	PJ, how we doing?
0:48.1	Brendan!
0:49.5	I'm doing good.
0:50.4	Two in a week.
0:51.2	How about that?
0:52.0	Back of the big seat.
0:53.6	How are you feeling? How how you feel it good good
0:56.5	reviews about your debut in the big chair i think so i think i hope i don't i don't know i didn't get too
1:03.4	much feedback but uh i was on the ground at caves valley valley all the fans were talking about it
1:08.3	there was just like a palpable buzz about PJ hosting or co-hosting on Wednesday.
1:14.3	Buzz in the air.
1:15.3	I mean, it's very, very, very, very kind of the people of Baltimore after I took a shout at their Orioles.
1:21.4	But, you know, happy to be back.
1:23.9	Good.
1:24.4	I'm glad.
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