Friday at the U.S. Open: Angry Boys, Big names bomb out, and Leaderboard unease

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan went live in front of a studio audience at Local Remedy Brewing in Oakmont to recap the second round of the 2025 U.S. Open. They discuss an... interesting... leaderboard heading into the weekend, headlined by Sam Burns after a Friday 65. The two share some worry about the current situations unfolding and debate what the best-case and worst-case scenarios are come Sunday night. They two then run through the big names who won't see the weekend, including Bryson DeChambeau, Shane Lowry, and Ludvig Åberg. There's some scuttlebutt from the grounds, some live audience interaction, and much more whimsy on this Friday the 13th recording.

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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! All right, greetings! Our greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start.
0:44.1	It is June 13th, Friday the 13th.
0:47.4	Andy, how we doing?
0:49.0	Brendan, I got to say, I lived all today knowing that, but not knowing it was Friday the 13th.
0:56.1	Likewise. I just lived the entire day, just realized now during our introduction that it is Friday
1:02.0	the 13th. Does that change your mind about what you saw out there?
1:05.4	I think it explains everything. It explains J.J. Spahn.
1:11.7	It explains Slam and Sammy Burns, 65.
1:15.6	It explains just the general pain and suffering out there.
1:20.1	I will say it was, you know, probably the best part of today was just watching the expressions on on the pampered
1:29.1	F's tours faces as they walked by walked off greens the T's nobody was having a good time out
1:35.0	there a lot of cursing going on a lot of incredulous looks uh apparently rory smashed a T marker
1:41.1	which we were just seeing on 17 Roryory safely into the cut line, though.
1:45.5	He's got a chance, and that's the thing I think about right now is there may be a lot of
1:52.2	people to pass, but who's ever out in front by a lot could quickly be behind by a lot quickly.
1:57.9	And that's what's interesting about, well, maybe, maybe interesting is too strong a word.
2:02.8	But I think anyone into the weekend at seven, six, which is going to be the cut line, eight, sevens are in, has a chance over 36 holes, maybe.
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