Friday at the Open Championship: Scottie separates and Rules controversies

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return to recap the second round of the 153rd Open Championship following Scottie Scheffler's 64, the best round of the day at Royal Portrush. Most of this episode is focused on another brilliant round from the Sheriff, allowing him to take the outright lead by one shot over Matt Fitzpatrick. Brian Harman popped early, firing a 65 in the morning wave to have the lead for most of the day until the two policemen got hot. Shane Lowry was also discussed at length after cursing at Royal Portrush, the site of his lone major win, and being handed a two-shot penalty for causing his ball to move with a practice swing. Andy and Brendan run through notable missed cuts, including LIV stars Cam Smith, Brooks Koepka, and Patrick Reed, and American "stars" Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa. Andy wraps up with some more "Storylines Nobody's Talking About" and is sure to mention Matthew Jordan's career-high Open round, the Sepptic Tank's first major made cut of 2025, and a retired golfer who found his way to the weekend.

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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.
0:44.0	It is July 18th.
0:46.0	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.7	Brendan, I'm doing all right.
0:50.0	I got to say I was a little slow out of the gate this morning.
0:54.6	The second, you always, you always forget that the second morning on a back to back
0:59.6	3 a.m. is the tough one.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:03.0	Yeah, it is tough.
1:03.9	Like, you kind of, the sort of anticipation and enthusiasm surges you through that first day.
1:10.9	And then,
1:11.2	you know,
1:12.1	the amusements of,
1:13.1	you know,
1:13.8	Sandy Lyle showing up on the first tea or Darren Clark's puff and smoke,
1:18.7	um,
1:19.2	or Todd Hamilton,
	...

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