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The Shotgun Start

LIV down bad postponing events, Trump Doral returns to Tour, and the Signature Event bubble

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Still reeling from last weekend's garage sale, Andy joins Brendan for this "efficient" Wednesday episode while on hold with an AI chatbot. The garage sale tales continue to begin the show, with Andy explaining the latest wrinkle in furniture sales around the Bay Area: the existence of toll bridges. After cleaning up the remaining fallout from Andy's weekend, Brendan transitions things to the ongoing LIV funding saga. It seems like more and more information comes out each day regarding the league's future, which Scott O'Neil reiterated was set for the remainder of 2026. That may be true, but the much-anticipated LIV New Orleans event scheduled for the end of June has now been postponed. This means that LIV will play zero events from June 7 to July 23, leaving players on their own to prepare for two major championships in between those dates. Andy and Brendan read through the press release from the State of Louisiana regarding the postponement and wonder what the rumored "exposition" LIV event coming to the Big Easy in the fall could possibly be. Andy settles on an idea that he thinks could salvage LIV and actually allow the tour to become somewhat financially viable, but doubts whether this will be put into practice. Speaking of financial viability, there's plenty of discussion about a possible Signature Event bubble on the PGA Tour with five top players skipping out on this week's Cadillac Championship. Despite the spotty attendance, the Tour returns to Trump National Doral's Blue Monster in Miami, now adorned with a "Gold Man" statue overlooking the driving range. Andy submits his list of 5 Guys to Monitor This Week, keying in on some players who might be extra comfortable with the amount of gold on the premises. One-and-done picks are made, as always, with Andy looking to stay hot after back-to-back wins at the Masters and RBC Heritage. A look at the remaining events on the Schedule of the Week brings us to Dick Teder's DP World Tour debut, yet another Champions Tour major, and Michael Block's continued domination at the PGA Professional Championship.


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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.

0:43.6

It is April 29th.

0:45.6

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.3

Brendan!

0:48.7

I'm doing all right.

0:49.8

I actually am a bit confused today.

0:53.0

Oh, gosh.

0:54.0

What are you confused about? Well, I got in, uh, I needed, I'm a bit confused today. Oh, gosh. What are you confused about? Well, I got in, I needed, I had a question. I entered an online queue right before we, we got on. And it said, there's a quad or one of these things? No, no, no, no, like, you know, one of those chats, since people don't have any people anymore. You can't

1:12.8

pick up a phone and call. You have to do the chat.

1:15.6

I hate it. So I was

1:16.6

I was, there was three people

1:20.6

that said

1:22.8

there's three

1:23.7

chats in the queue

1:26.9

but my place in line was five okay i don't understand so there's three

1:35.2

people ahead of me but i'm in the fifth place who's who else is in there one of my kids math

1:40.4

problems that i'm supposed to figure out but there may just be no answer. I hate those bot things. They're terrible. Worst. They always take so long. It's like, what are the chances of me just sitting in front of my computer? Like, it holds you hostage to being in front of your computer. That's terrible. So if I lose my, if I lose my train of thought ever, you know that I finally got up. What's your question? Are you allowed to disclose what? Garage sale tactic? It's not garage sales. It's not garage. God, you know who has? One of those things that it pops up drives me insane is the DP World Tour. Why do they need a chat bot? Why do they need a chat bot?

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