"Players to Watch" at the RSM Classic, LIV hot stove, & more with The Boys

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Andy is joined by "The Boys" for this final Wednesday show of the 2025 PGA Tour season! Brendan is off at Pinehurst in protest of the RSM Classic, his least favorite PGA Tour event, so PJ and Joseph LaMagna step in to preview the fall swing finale. PGA Tour Comms put out an unhinged list of five "Players to Watch" for the RSM which prompts a guessing game to kick off the show. Andy then goes down the list of every winner of the event and wonders if this is the worst winner's list of any full-field PGA Tour event. Although he's not a "Player to Watch," U.S. Am winner Mason Howell is in the field and playing with Davis Love III for the first two rounds. The CME Group Tour Championship rounds out a big week of LPGA news. Every round of the 2026 season will be broadcast on live TV with more cameras and microphones on the course to help facilitate this. Andy issues an apology for misidentifying Brooke Matthews as the winner of the Lamborghini on Monday's episode and quizzes PJ and Joseph on whether they'd even want the car after an ace. 43 LIV golfers will tee it up at the PIF Saudi International for some coffee golf in the U.S., but they're all dwarfed by Sampson Zheng for the purposes of this podcast (and the soundboard). LIV's offseason is underway and the first PGA Tour defection is in the books with Victor Perez heading to the Cleeks. Martin Kaymer is ecstatic about this acquisition and gave some glowing quotes about how Perez will further elevate the Cleeks brand. The three pitch some other LIV hot stove transactions, including two offers for one of the brightest young golf stars in the world! In news, former LIV star Henrik Stenson paid his DPWT fines and will be back on the tour for 2025 in some capacity. Andy wonders if this is all a ploy to get a second chance at a Ryder Cup captaincy now that the Euro pipeline seems dry. The Augusta Hooters was demolished on Tuesday but PJ already has a plan for another interview with John Daly next year. Finally, there's some general sports chatter to round out this episode with notes on the Colts, LeBron James, and a takedown of WWE.

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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.
0:26.6	Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings. Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:45.4	It is November 19th.
0:47.5	Andy, how are we doing?
0:49.7	PJ!
0:51.0	It's great to be here.
0:52.9	Just great to be here with the boys. It's great to be here with you and Joseph. You're hosting. You're in the big chair. How's it feel to be in the big man's chair? This is the biggest, biggest possible chair. Joseph, how are you doing? PJ? You know, I don't think we can disclose, but you and I had a big morning. The boys were already
1:12.5	together for a little interview that will come out at a later date. So it's just a good day. Get to chat with, you know, a special guest this morning and then you and Andy this afternoon. What could be better? This is a, this is, this has potential to be a banner day for the boys. We got a good 16 minutes in the barn from the
1:29.4	boys already, so we'll see how the rest of this episode fairs, I guess. This is, I would just
1:36.4	like to say, I think this is terrible by Brendan. Brendan takes shots at the RSM, every opportunity
1:42.8	he gets, and here he is, he's not standing out business.
1:46.3	He's completely skipping out to preview the last event of the year.
1:50.8	Can you believe this?
1:52.5	Oh, I absolutely can believe this.
1:55.0	And I think that, uh, listen, Brendan's away.
1:59.0	This is the event of the week.
2:04.9	Without a doubt, this is it. This is a great event.
2:11.0	I know he hates it. I don't, you know, I don't love it. It's delivered some good memories, though.
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