PGA Championship Recap: Splendor and Scandal in Charlotte

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Andy and Brendan are flying high after another strong major championship week of golf and daily podcasts. They get right to it with this recap marveling at Scottie Scheffler’s weekend at Quail Hollow, from the all-time Saturday finish that went right into the ugly Sunday start to a win that provokes thoughts of a multi-major summer to come. What’s left for him to solve and are there further questions that need answering? They get into the mental load he can put on his competitors, including Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau on the weekend. They discuss the joy of having Rahm back in the hunt and how it came undone on the back nine. They get into some amusing Bryson quotes about his equipment and needing to find a ball that flies straighter with over 190 mph speeds. Also, has his major play been more brilliant or sloppy lately? They grade out several more near the top of the non-Scottie leaderboard, including Joaquin Niemann’s first ever top 10. Rory’s week is given a review, from the scores to the media freeze out. Also graded is the CT Machine, the Quail Hollow major setup, and the PGA of America as a whole led by Don Rea. Then PJ jumps on late to debrief on a WILD Champions Tour scramble in the dark as well as a possible auction scandal at the PGA.

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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.
0:43.4	It is May 19th.
0:45.3	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.1	Brendan!
0:48.6	I'm doing great.
0:49.8	You know, I got to say, I was happy, happy to see, you know, the chief really bring order to Quail Hollow and lay down the law.
1:01.5	It was a good weekend for Law and Order. Restored at Quail Hollow, produced a great champion.
1:08.5	I would say a pretty good test of golf on the weekend.
1:12.4	And fair, above all, fair.
1:15.0	It was fair.
1:16.4	And that's what we want.
1:18.0	We want law and order and we want fairness.
1:21.1	And we have the best in the world taking home the Watermaker trophy at the PGA championship.
1:26.6	A good Sunday, a great champion, got tight there for a minute.
1:33.4	The Green Mile was rendered insignificant, moot, at least at the end.
1:39.7	It was, you know, could have putted the way as way up the airway for the, for, and he almost did on 18.
1:47.5	He dropped a shot there.
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