Is golf vulnerable to a gambling scandal, Kapalua's out, & Black Desert delights

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Brendan! is joined by "The Boys" for a Friday episode recorded in the aftermath of the latest NBA gambling scandal. Brendan, Joseph LaMagna, and PJ run through an overview of the news involving Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier before wondering if pro golf is inevitably set up for a scandal of its own. Joseph suggests that player head-to-head markets for a single round would be the way that this would happen and PJ has already dubbed the FBI sting as "Operation Al-BET-ross." Joseph also details the difference between regulated markets and unregulated markets in sports gambling and how each could potentially lend itself to issues like the ones hitting the NBA. The three debate who would be the most surprising name to get caught up in a golf scandal before moving on to an update on the Bank of Utah Championship. Joseph believes this tournament is better than a handful of Signature Events and applauds the Tour for putting a "featured group" on the clock on Thursday morning. PJ shares an amusing comment from PGA Tour Live comparing Aldrich Potgieter to an all-time great as well. On the leaderboard, Thorbjorn Olesen found himself in the lead at the time of recording which provided plenty of joy for all involved in this recording. Brendan asks Joseph whether he's excited to attend the Good Good Championship in Austin next November after the announcement that the YouTubers will bring back "Big Break" to television. Joseph points out that Austin is "influencer city," so maybe Good Good has found the right market for its brand. The Sentry is officially canceled for 2026, but Kapalua is back open in mid-November anyway! The Sony Open will now kick off the 2026 season, and maybe rookies will actually make their way into the field. TGL unveiled its new green for the second season of the indoor league. Brendan is debating whether there's too much auxiliary golf content but The Boys are excited that Cameron Young has a chance to break his own record for the longest putt in TGL history. Brendan wraps up this episode with one quick Golf Advice question regarding a "Just A Guy" Halloween costume ahead of next week's costume extravaganza.

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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.
0:43.5	It is October 24th.
0:46.2	Joseph, how we doing?
0:47.9	Brendan!
0:49.2	I'm excited to be back with the boys.
0:51.1	It's been a while.
0:52.2	We usually do it on kind of funny events, silly events. So Black Desert Championship felt appropriate. Excited to be back with the boys. It's been a while. We usually do it on kind of funny events, silly events.
0:54.8	So Black Desert Championship felt appropriate. Excited to be here. PJ, how we doing?
0:59.9	Brendan! I'm doing great. This is a double Brendan, maybe for the first time in recorded history.
1:06.2	I'm doing great. It's been a great day and watched some lava rocks early in the morning here.
1:11.3	This is great. Totally unplanned. I'm coming in cold, hot, whatever you want to say. I've not seen a lot. I've not prepared much. I had an outline going. I got pulled aside and doing something else. And I don't feel prepared like I normally do. This is going to be a meandering Friday episode. I am leaning on the boys to pepper me with amusements, inanities, and occasional insight. And based on how we started, I was just shouting at you about a separate matter. I'm already worked up. I think we'll have a good, we're quick. I got a hard out. I got to pick up my kid from play practice.
1:46.2	She's Alice and Alice in Wonderland.
1:48.8	So I got to go, do that, and get her.
1:50.8	So we're going 40 minutes, literally.
1:57.1	Andy can't, you know, filibuster about Brewer's nonsense at the end of it and make 45 an hour.
1:58.3	I have to go.
2:01.4	But did you see the Utah Jazz last night?
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