LIV “innovates” to 72-hole tourneys, Drafting the best events of 2025

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

"Draft Week" continues on this Wednesday episode as Andy, Brendan, and PJ pick their favorite PGA Tour events of 2025. Speaking of draft picks, the show kicks off with Andy immediately having PJ answer for an explosive trade deadline for the 1-7 Jets. The Jets choosing to stockpile future draft picks rather than have actually good players on the current roster is quickly tied into golf and the constant need to find "who's next." Michael Brennan could be "next," and he's back in action this week as the PGA Tour heads to Mexico for the Worldwide Technologies Championship. Andy and Brendan briefly discuss the field for the event, including Brennan, Ben Griffin, and U.S. Open champ J.J. Spaun. The DP World Tour playoffs begin this week with Rory, Tommy, and more teeing it up at Yas Links for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Brendan mentions the event's defending champion, Paul Waring, which leads to a guessing game on Waring's 2025 PGA Tour earnings. There was some real, substantial golf news on Wednesday afternoon as it was announced that LIV Golf will begin playing 72-hole tournaments in 2026. Andy and Brendan find great humor in the fact that this is being spun as "innovation" and the next phase of growing the game, despite now being the same as the PGA Tour. They discuss whether the top players will start to separate themselves even more given another 18 holes at every event, and also mention some new trademarks filed by the league for potential team names. The back half of this episode contains a bit of a Year in Review appetizer in the form of a Best 2025 Events Draft. The three briefly look back at the year and select their favorite highlights from the PGA Tour schedule and a few wildcards.

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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.
0:43.5	It is November 5th.
0:45.6	Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.5	Brendan!
0:48.8	I'm all right.
0:50.4	You know, just, I'm bummed out.
0:53.5	What do you bummed about? i'm bummed for bump for everything
0:57.0	everything i knew that was supposed to be 54 you know all that was no more 54 holes the 54 league
1:08.1	the 50 the prize for shooting 54 under you get 54 million from his excellency.
1:14.6	I think if he shot 54 and a round, right?
1:17.1	Was that, yeah, that's what it was.
1:18.4	Not 54 under.
1:19.9	It's all over.
1:21.1	It's all gone.
1:22.5	I don't know what to do.
1:23.7	But I know I feel better than our producer, PJ, who is mourning the loss of his jets.
1:33.5	What the loss of what jets? They didn't play. You know, we got golf loving sauce Gardner gone.
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