PGA Tour’s new CEO from NFL, Monahan’s LONG goodbye, and U.S. Open apologies?

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are back home after a week in Pittsburgh (which some have called the No. 1 city in Ohio) and begin this episode with some U.S. Open cleanup. They double back on some takes from Sunday's show regarding J.J. Spaun possibly being a "flukey winner" and the Sam Burns rule situation on the 15th hole of Sunday's round. After closing up shop on Oakmont, attention turns to Tuesday's announcement of Brian Rolapp as the first-ever CEO of the PGA Tour. Andy and Brendan run through Rolapp's background as a longtime NFL executive and discuss the plan to "sunset" Jay Monahan at the end of 2026. Picks for this week's Travelers Championship are made, with the added bonus of new headset microphones in rotation! There's some Don Rea chatter ahead of the KPMG Women's PGA in Frisco and more men's major championship golf is on your televisions this weekend at the Kaulig Companies Championship at Firestone. Be sure to tune in to CBS Sports Network on Wednesday for the debut of "Eye on Golf" at Noon ET!

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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.
0:43.5	It is June 18th.
0:45.6	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.7	Brendan!
0:49.5	I got to say, I'm, uh, I'm doing all right.
0:52.7	I, uh, I've been having to having to practice uh
0:57.6	pronouncing a word for a while also you know I got to say that our producer extraordinary
1:06.7	kind of jam me kind of completely jam me I just it in, let the world laugh at me as I struggle through.
1:15.8	I don't know. I was, I got like two hours of sleep. I took a flight back and I'm reading
1:21.8	spawns quotes that I can't pronounce academies on the pod on the fried egg pot of Trevor.
1:27.7	I haven't gotten to it.
1:29.5	I will hand up.
1:32.4	I tried very hard to cut everything out, but at the end of the day, you did not even pronounce
1:39.0	the word correctly at the end of the struggle.
1:42.6	So I couldn't really do that much.
1:45.2	I thought you could have just at least cut it to me saying something, some semblance of the
1:50.4	word.
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