Friday at the 2026 PGA Championship: A golf course debate rages on in Philadelphia
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Do we have proper major setup or a total sham on our hands at the Aronimink for the PGA Championship? The golf course setup debates are raging in Philadelphia, as the PGA pushes pins to the corners and a leaderboard has condensed going to the weekend. Andy and Brendan get into some of the setup quibbles, what the data is saying, and just how enjoyable it has been to watch over the first two rounds despite some online chatter. Then they get into the stars like Scottie, Rory, Blockie, and the leaders like Smalley, Potty, McNealy, and Gotterup. Some missed cut disappointments like Bryson DeChambeau are called out before KVV joins late to discuss his impressions at the 36-hole mark in Philly, including some reaction to late Rory comments on the setup not being great.
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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. |
| 0:44.1 | It is May 15th. |
| 0:46.2 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:48.0 | Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. |
| 0:51.0 | I got to say, what a good day of golf. |
| 0:53.4 | Just lots of stuff percolating out there. |
| 0:56.9 | Percolating is a good word. Feels like could boil over, could bubble up, could be, you know, |
| 1:02.7 | everybody might turn, you know, the entire golf world might turn the guns on each other, |
| 1:07.2 | circular firing squad debating course setup, proper fair unfair data it's like we're |
| 1:14.7 | on a razor's edge right now just data data gambling analysis uh touts just i i mean you know what |
| 1:25.1 | andy at the end of the day, it's just golf. |
| 1:28.4 | It's just a golf course. |
| 1:30.2 | I think we try to have fun with this. |
| 1:32.5 | We try to call balls and strikes. |
| 1:34.6 | But at the end of the day, it's just a golf course. |
| 1:36.7 | We try to say what we think is interesting, fun, and proper, and good for consumers, good for listeners listeners and, you know, as a product. |
| 1:48.2 | And, but at the end of the day, it is just a golf course. But I think it's been great. |
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