JT returns to the winner's circle, windy finish at Puntacana, and Brendan sends in Disney tales

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

With Brendan still waiting on lines at Orlando theme parks, Andy calls in Shane Bacon from the bullpen for this Monday morning recording. To start, the two discuss Justin Thomas's playoff win over Andrew Novak at the RBC Heritage, his first win since the 2022 PGA Championship. Andy and Shane unpack an almost wire-to-wire win for JT and look at his improved putting and elite iron play that has bounced back to almost peak form. Shane shares some optimism about the rest of 2025 for JT, while Andy takes away that sometimes playing good golf is the most boring thing a player could do. The two debate where JT stands in a historical context with 16 PGA Tour wins to his name, comparing him to players such as Jordan Spieth and Zach Johnson. From there, things go a bit off the rails as Andy shares some Disney reports from Brendan's trip ongoing trip to Florida before PJ provides an update on where the "ins" finished at Puntacana. Shane and Andy talk through Joel Dahmen's bogey-bogey-bogey finish to his final round, allowing Garrick Higgo to win his second career PGA Tour event. Andy highlights Neal Shipley's playoff win on the Korn Ferry Tour and Ingrid Lindblad's first LPGA win before wrapping this episode up with some news. Will Scott Stallings beat Andy's marathon time? Stay tuned to find out!

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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.
0:27.1	Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings. Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:45.1	Today is Monday, April 21st. Shane, how are you doing?
0:51.2	You know, there's a joy in knowing that like, uh, 40% of people listening to
0:56.2	this just immediately turn off the podcast when they realize it's not you and Brendan. So,
1:00.5	um, when you crash one of the shotgun starts, it's, it's part of the, the job. But it's been
1:04.8	a minute, happy to be here, happy to chat a, a really good week of golf. It felt like a good
1:09.4	weekend for sure. Incredible weekend of golf, actually felt like a good weekend for sure.
1:12.9	Incredible weekend of golf, actually.
1:17.8	I thought it was, you know, I think Heritage shows an interesting spot.
1:19.9	Like, I think it's preposterous.
1:31.1	It's like this signature event that's like high stakes in a way for the PGA tour and the in PGA tour sense of high stakes, not a major, obviously not the players, but like one of their bigger events.
1:36.4	But then like come Saturday and Sunday, I'm always like, oh, you know what, I'm pretty happy
1:40.3	this is on.
1:41.7	Yeah, I mean, I was thinking about it's like if somebody had a nice dinner planned the week after your wedding.
1:49.0	You know, so it's like your wedding and you have all the family there and you've been thinking about it for months and you're kind of on the come down from that.
1:56.5	And then somebody's like, do you want to go to this steakhouse and get dinner, you know, with me and my wife? And you're like, I don't know, man.
2:01.6	Like, I don't really think I could do anything.
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