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The Shotgun Start

Lessons from Ryder Cup disasters past, Golf Advice on extremely weird rounds

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This Whiparound Friday episode might as well be a show about nothing with not much going on in golf this week. Andy and Brendan start with a quick rundown of an early leaderboard at the Procore with players like Mackenzie Hughes and Matt Kuchar leading the way. They then move to the BMW PGA on the DP World Tour where auto-qualifier Rasmus Hojgaard struggled on Thursday. Andy takes that baton and runs with it, explaining that the Ryder Cup captains need to be more cutthroat and sit struggling players until Sunday singles if that's what is best for the team. This leads into an impromptu Flashback Friday on the 2018 Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in Paris, France. Andy and Brendan remember some crazy decisions made by the American side, such as making a "celebratory" Tiger Woods play four times that week and pairing a rookie Bryson DeChambeau with a wild Phil Mickelson. They bring up supporting characters such as Thorbjorn Olesen playing with Rory McIlroy and the European team of "Moliwood" that effectively won the event on their own. As for the 2025 event, the Americans are out in full force in Napa and Keegan Bradley is calling this the "closest team he's ever seen" - despite only seeing two teams prior to this. After a bunch of winding Ryder Cup chatter, some legendary Golf Advice emails send us into the weekend. A #HedgeBoy story from Cypress jogs Andy's memory about a horrendous round in the area before Brendan reads an email about a member-guest caddie's interactions with nature.

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 Friday edition of the shotgun start.

0:43.6

It is September 12th.

0:45.5

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.2

Brendan, I'm doing wonderful.

0:50.0

I got to say, I'm getting pumped.

0:53.2

I'm prepped.

0:53.9

I'm ready to go.

0:55.2

Big weekend on tap of football.

0:59.0

What are you pumped and prepped for?

1:00.6

What's the weekend?

1:02.4

Got my line eye.

1:03.8

First big test of the year.

1:06.3

Duke wasn't a big test?

1:07.7

What kind of feels like you're minimizing Duke?

1:27.6

Who do they play? We're at Indiana. Oh, okay. That's this weekend? Yeah. I thought it was next weekend. Maybe, no, it's next weekend. Never mind. So you're not prepped. You're not pumped and prepped at all. I thought that was next week. It is next weekend. You're right.

1:34.3

My weekend's mixed up. I just was so excited. I got my dratty package. Yeah, we got which I believe is for a next week dratty week too as well. You're excited. You're ready for

1:41.5

your line. Who did they play this week? I guess I'm ready for the Bears versus the Lions too.

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