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The Shotgun Start

LIV’s disastrous December, Koepka coming to TGL, and 2025 over-unders audit

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan! are back! After an extended break to end the year, the first episode of 2026 has plenty of news to catch up on and is, of course, a Victory Monday celebration. Andy is still rolling after the first-ever Ballfrogs win on Friday night, claiming that this victory lasts all weekend. Michael Thorbjornsen was a star in his TGL debut, but much of the conversation was on a star who was not yet present in the SoFi Dome: Brooks Koepka. Andy and Brendan unpack Koepka's departure from LIV and Talor Gooch's upcoming captaincy of Smash GC. The two debate where Brooks will play in 2026 and agree that it's unlikely that he'll play on the PGA Tour this year. His PGA Tour standing will apparently impact his TGL candidacy as well, but Rory, SVP, and other major names in the virtual golf universe all made it seem like Brooks's indoor debut is imminent! Will he be the savior Jup Links so desperately needs? In other LIV Hot Stove news, Pat Perez is angling for a return to the PGA Tour before his 50th birthday and Kevin Na has unfollowed the league on Instagram. What does this mean for the Ironheads? Nobody knows! With no golf to preview this week, PJ leads an audit of last year's over-unders, looking back at Zatch moments, destruction of property by international superstars, and missed cuts at majors by many big name stars. As it turns out, all three football minds nailed the under on the 2025 Bears/Browns/Jets total, ushering a Football Minute to close this show. PJ is thrilled with the chain of events leading to the Jets obtaining the second overall pick in April's draft, Shedeur led yet another win for the Browns as Myles Garrett broke the NFL's sack record, and Andy is already preparing for a playoff matchup against the best quarterback on the Packers, Jordan Love. Stay tuned as we preview more and more of the 2026 golf season before the Sony Open kicks off next Thursday.

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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 Monday edition of the Shotgun Start.

0:43.5

It is January 5th.

0:45.6

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.3

Brendan!

0:48.7

I'm doing great, I got to say.

0:50.7

It's a victory Monday, you know?

0:53.4

What's the victory? The Bears lost's the victory the bears lost to the lions

0:56.0

illinois frogs the frogs we're carrying it over just friday night buzz it all weekend the frogs get

1:06.2

off the shine win a tight one you know take it to l LA Golf Club, you know, and banquished Justin Rose,

1:13.1

you know, even though he did Justin Rose things.

1:15.9

Friday night in the SoFi Center.

1:17.9

I was in a car ride getting texts from people watching from people in attendance that just,

1:23.9

yeah, it lit up the sports calendar, I guess, this weekend.

1:27.4

Who needs the NFL? Who needs the CFP when you got TGL's returns? just, yeah, it lit up, uh, lit up the sports calendar, I guess, this weekend.

1:29.7

Who needs the NFL? Who needs the CFP?

1:34.1

When you got TGL's return, uh, to the main stage. I got to say, I, I wasn't locked in. I was watching it passively, but, you know, I was, uh,

1:40.4

I was in Chicago, I was in Chicago, spent some time with friends and family.

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