Masters Friday: Rory McIlroy Races Ahead at Augusta National, Bryson Misses Cut
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Andy and Brendan are buzzing after a Friday sprint to the finish from Rory McIlroy, who set history with the largest 36-hole lead by making birdies in six of his last seven holes. They discuss the finish, how he’s elevated his game and brain at Augusta, a place that seems ready to give him it all now, and how far back is too far back with this margin. They run through the list of very game chasers and who might pose a problem should he stumble. Also discussed is the notion of Augusta going “soft” with the setup with greens that were less firm than the opening round on Thursday. Is the 13th hole back? They analyze a full day of momentous decisions and some water balls, including Scottie Scheffler, who seems stuck in neutral. They have a dose of shame to give out for the missed cut crew, including Bryson DeChambeau, who went out in a blaze of ignominy with a triple bogey 18th hole to tumble below the cut line. The notion of LIV preparing Bryson, Rahm, and others for major championship golf is also put to the test, with some quotes from the past coming back to haunt. They close it with some rapid awards from the day and several Storylines No One Is Talking About as this Masters goes to the weekend.
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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. |
| 0:43.5 | It is April 10th. |
| 0:45.2 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.0 | Brendan, I'm doing great. |
| 0:49.9 | How are you doing? |
| 0:50.6 | I'm fabulous. |
| 0:51.6 | Another awesome day at Augusta National. |
| 0:54.9 | Roy McElroy just wood shedding the field right now with an absolute catching fire in the last whatever, |
| 1:01.8 | hour and a half, two hours of his round, six birdies in those last seven holes, I think was the final number. |
| 1:08.3 | Doubled up the leaderboard. |
| 1:10.3 | Went from, you know know teetering from |
| 1:13.2 | one to two ahead to history to point tied to going from going you know 12 under uh to the next |
| 1:20.0 | closest to six under it was interesting like the story honestly about an hour ago was like this |
| 1:24.7 | incredible leaderboard rory Tommymmy lowry burns patrick reed rose |
| 1:31.4 | just like this amazing leaderboard at like seven to five and then honestly like an hour later |
| 1:38.1 | really fast in real time um it's rory has doubled up lap the field it's kind of it's kind of startling how it |
| 1:46.5 | happened you know chip in 17 we'll get to the not blow by blow but some of the specifics of it |
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