PGA Tour is back for ‘warm up’ at Kapalua for $20 million, plus free agent clothes and clubs moves

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Andy and Brendan went live on YouTube as the first round of the 2025 PGA Tour season wrapped. With round one of The Sentry (hard stop) over, they share their observations on both the on-course product and the shiny new features that the Tour's new billion dollar studio brought to the broadcast. "Walk and talks" returned in full force, with Peppy Peter getting the honor of the first interview of the season and JT confirming that Kapalua does go uphill. Will Zalatoris bulked up and finished his round at -8, good enough to be one off the lead, and Andy is impressed with his new look and reasoning behind the added weight. Tom Hoge is your leader heading into Friday and Brendan shares that Hawaii has absolutely nowhere for Tommy Tables to gamble tonight in celebration. The two discuss the big "free agent" moves off the offseason, with Max Homa signing with Lululemon and Cobra, and Akshay Bhatia moving to Travis Mathew. These partnerships are "redefining" what it means for brands to work with players and Andy applauds Homa's Thursday performance with so much change going on around him. Before getting into some news, Andy stops to rehash the Cheez It Bowl, won by the Illini, and Bret Bielema trying to fight Shane Beamer. In news, Brendan and Andy discuss Xander saying the US Ryder Cup team will be donating their pay to charity and Jonathan Wall's report that TGL players are toying with new, longer drivers in order to have better results on the giant screen. To wrap, Brendan shares a listener email about a magic show with a possible celebrity appearance.

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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.
0:43.8	It is January 3rd.
0:46.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.8	Brendan, I'm doing, I'm doing great.
0:50.7	I got to say the year's off to a great start.
0:53.2	And I'm just excited to talk about golf with you here today. I got to say the year's off to a great start and I'm just excited to talk about golf
0:56.2	with you here today. I'm excited to talk about golf with you as well. I think some of the most
1:01.3	fun we've had are these sort of loopy late Thursday night podcasts after a cap a little round.
1:07.2	I think that's when we discovered the season of championships and the sound button being
1:12.5	off, you know, three wood sounds for, you know, high loft to club.
1:17.5	I heard the three wood was a little off today a couple times.
1:22.3	Yeah, I think we have.
1:23.8	Players aren't the only ones rusty, you know, to the production.
1:27.3	Yeah. Nobody knows what goes to the production yeah nobody knows
1:29.1	a lot of knows it to the production a month off i mean people are talking about bye weeks in
1:34.9	college football playoffs the players are talking about being rusty out at capilua playing
1:40.1	for 20 million dollars i mean nobody talks about the production guys and what they go,
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