Is Bay Hill the best event of the year, A rousing In/Out/Alt for Puerto Rico, and TGL sadness

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Both Andy and Brendan are licking their wounds after the Ballfrogs and Jup Links became the first two teams to ever miss the TGL playoffs this week. The episode begins with some immediate TGL takeaways after a tough three matches to end the regular season. Brendan is miserable when describing the Jup Links performance from Tuesday night and runs down the final scores of all their losses this year. Andy is already on to 2026, where he believes the Ballfrogs need a roster shakeup and could stand to add more grit to their team for season two. It's a quick transition to actual golf this week as the PGA Tour's best field of 2025 will tee it up at Bay Hill for the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Xander is back from injury to play alongside top stars such as Ludvig Åberg, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McIlroy for this Signature Event. Andy and Brendan discuss Bay Hill as a test for professional golfers and remember some moments from API history. The hammer lock fire picks of the week are made but are unfortunately very much chalk for those looking to tail. After Bay Hill comes the 2025 debut of In/Out/Alternate, where Andy loaded up with 19 entries for the Puerto Rico Open. Brendan fights to the finish wondering whether names like Kevin Chappell, D.A. Points, and Johnson Wagner are headed down for this event. The two touch on this week's LPGA event in China, LIV Hong Kong, and the DP World Tour's Joburg Open before diving into the Dump-in-the-Box Classic. The Champions Tour returns with the Cologuard Classic, which is barely on television but PJ will find how to watch anyway and report back on Sunday. In news, Jay Monahan and Andy "Spitballin'" Weitz are doing the media rounds to tell everyone about the Fan Forward Research (please capitalize) and that a deal with the PIF is not imminent.

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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 Wednesday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.7	It is March 5th.
0:45.4	Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.1	Brendan, I'm doing all right.
0:49.3	You know, I was really down yesterday, real down, down and out.
0:54.5	My team got eliminated from the TGL playoffs.
0:59.2	And, you know, watching Jube stinks go out there and embarrass themselves.
1:05.2	Another time made me feel a little bit better today.
1:08.1	Your team was embarrassing, downright embarrassing tonight.
1:13.6	I mean, it's just completely uncompetitive, aside from that little nip and tuck match with the
1:20.7	frogs where they wanted over time, completely uncompetitive. It's a total tear down, complete
1:26.2	rebuild. You know, I, Kevin Kisner tweeted about how much fun he had. He's a total tear down, complete rebuild. You know, I,
1:28.2	Kevin Kisner tweeted about how much fun he had. He's a one and done. No way. He's done.
1:33.1	He's done. It's just a tear down. We were so bad. I mean, Tiger, Tiger, I feel bad for Tiger.
1:41.0	You know, he's taking timeouts, you know, just, just hitherither and yon he's got tom kim just trying to be
1:48.1	thirsty throwing flags when you know throwing hammers like worst possible reckless use of the hammer
1:55.2	tom kim's just throwing it after nick dunlap essentially almost missed the screen he hit it so far off
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