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The Shotgun Start

PGA Tour fall foibles, Rahm’s ‘inhospitable’ Ryder Cup, and silly season announcements

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return with plenty to discuss as the golf world finally moves out of the Ryder Cup's blast radius. Naturally, this episode kicks off with a Baseball Minute due to a disappointing start to the NLDS for Andy's beloved Cubs and Pete Crow-Armstrong. Things quickly transition to "Don Watch" as Brendan is hearing rumblings that the "Lose Yourself" karaoke video may surface in the coming days. The PGA Tour moves from Jackson, Mississippi to Tokyo, Japan this week for the Baycurrent Classic. This event and its various changes in the last five years leads to a wider discussion about the PGA Tour schedule and the ultimate question of "how many tournaments is too many?" Elsewhere on the schedule this week, the Korn Ferry Tour finals are set to go off in French Lick even though most of next year's Tour cards are locked up. On the DP World Tour, many LIV stars are at the Spanish Open contending for a 2026 Masters invite. Jon Rahm is playing his home event and spoke to the media to somewhat re-ignite the Ryder Cup crowd discourse a bit, as one does. After running through the rest of the Schedule for the Week, Andy and Brendan parse through a bunch of golf news including the return of the Skins Game and the 2026 TGL schedule release (with accompanying content!).

Transcript

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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.

0:43.4

It is October 8th.

0:45.0

Andy, how we doing?

0:46.9

Brendan!

0:48.3

I'm doing wonderful, man.

0:51.1

I spent great.

0:52.1

I'm in the greatest city in the world

0:55.2

and the city is buzzing

0:58.1

they're buzzing

0:59.4

the uh

1:01.0

it's just it's like a

1:03.0

just a intoxicating atmosphere

1:06.2

everybody wants to chat

1:08.4

everybody's striking up a conversation

1:10.6

and it's about two things

1:11.7

what's that everybody wants to talk don rhea and about this is about chicago's new

1:19.8

lpGA bar lottys good good day or two in Chicago you've had?

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