PGA Tour change coming with Rolapp rollout, LIV’s team title format, and Bridge Men report for duty

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return to unpack Brian Rolapp's presser at East Lake ahead of the 2025 Tour Championship. Brendan is in especially high spirits following a strong start from Jacob Bridgeman who has found himself in contention to win the FedEx Cup after one round in Atlanta. The bulk of this episode is spent recapping Rolapp's press conference and discussing his first orders of business as CEO of the PGA Tour. It sounds like major changes are coming and Andy, Brendan, and PJ wonder where Rolapp and his newly formed committee will begin. Whether it's taking a piece of revenue from majors, various media rights deals, or shrinking the Tour even more, Rolapp seems eager to shake things up. The back half of this show previews the LIV Team Championship in Plymouth, Michigan. The event will be LIV's 50th tournament, leaving Andy and Brendan to wonder whether the league will make it to 100 events. Brendan runs through some all-time LIV stats, as this golf entity actually has accurate bookkeeping - a rarity these days! Jon Rahm has come down from Mt. Everest and made an interesting draft choice when choosing his first-round opponent, drawing comparisons to his beloved Arizona Diamondbacks. We will be back on Monday to break down golf's Super Bowl in full after a new FedEx Cup champion is crowned at East Lake on Sunday night.

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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.
0:43.6	It is August 22nd.
0:45.9	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.9	Brendan, I'm doing okay.
0:50.7	I'm sleep deprived, had an unexpected late night in the emergency room last night and just picking up the pieces today.
1:02.1	Everyone okay?
1:03.0	Everybody's okay.
1:04.6	You know, we're wondering what cause of the alert, we're contemplating whether it might be the,
1:12.7	the most expensive, uh, uh, case of, have struggling to get a fart out of all time.
1:19.5	It's just for your, for your five-year-old thought.
1:21.7	Yeah.
1:21.9	Not, not for you or your wife.
1:23.4	Just so I don't think we clarified that, who in the ER just so we know all right we aren't
1:28.8	sure what caused it but there was there was quite substantial amount of relief after after
1:35.0	passing gas and uh but that was you know then we were there for four more hours and you know
1:41.4	check testing everything so not a not a not a not a fun situation but we're through it
1:48.1	and we're moving forward i was just going to complain about you know the browns being already
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