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The Shotgun Start

Golf's most popular player draft & McDowell's dumb LIV comments

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

It's "Draft Week" here at The Shotgun Start! Andy and Brendan went LIVE on YouTube for this Monday episode, kicking things off with an NFL Minute celebrating a miraculous win by the Bears on Sunday afternoon. Andy is riding high while Brendan is down in the dumps about his Commies and the latest Jayden Daniels injury. Having just re-signed with Smash GC, Graeme McDowell is NOT down in the dumps and instead is positioning himself for a run as the European Ryder Cup captain in 2027. Speaking to Bunkered, McDowell said that he'd like to be the "olive branch" that brings European golf back together and that the divisiveness in the game has come from the top players and not guys like him trying to "eke out a living." Andy and Brendan go off on these quotes, citing McDowell's LIV earnings and reported signing bonus and wondering why he's no longer a DP World Tour member, which seems to be a disqualifying factor in being the next captain. In other LIV/DP World Tour news, Tom McKibbin went wire-to-wire in Hong Kong to secure an invite to the 2026 Masters and an exemption into the Open Championship. Brendan suggests LIV should prop McKibbin up as the prime example of playing a worldwide schedule that still allows pathways into the major championships that do not involve OWGR points. Andy then debuts the much-anticipated 2026 TGL Power Rankings as the league approaches season two. Who does he have ranked first? You'll have to listen to find out! "Draft Week" then gets underway as Andy, Brendan, and PJ draft players as if they were handing out sponsor exemptions to their own tournaments. This popularity-focused draft goes for more rounds than expected, allowing for some insane picks to come into play by the end. To close things out, the "Internet Invitational" is briefly discussed after Andy watched the first week's episodes on Halloween night.

Transcript

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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 Monday edition of a Monday edition of the shotgun start.

0:44.0

It is November 3rd.

0:46.3

Andy, how we doing?

0:48.0

Brendan, we're doing fantastic.

0:51.2

It is Victory Monday.

0:52.9

What a, what a weekend. Victory Monday for your bears. I assume that's

0:59.0

who we're referring to. I mean, there's every, every day's a victory of some sort of feels like

1:02.6

lately if you're doing victory Thursday, victory Friday, figure it out. But Victory Monday,

1:07.6

are we referring to your Chicago Bears? Yeah, the Bears.

1:11.3

I mean, what a game.

1:14.0

You never know when Joe Flacco and Caleb Williams meet on a random Sunday in November, what's going to happen.

1:21.4

But it's always going to be greatness.

1:23.9

So, you know, we came to the day.

1:25.3

Everyone's talking about Alan Mahomes, Part 10 or whatever, Alan Mahomes, but really what we should have been paying attention to was not Alan Mahomes, but Flacco Williams.

1:34.9

Is that what we were led to believe by the end of the day?

1:38.0

That's right.

1:38.5

They weren't dealing.

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