Rory McIlroy joins The 2025 Year in Review, Part 7
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
In a plot twist that absolutely no one saw coming, Don Rea is somehow NOT the star of this episode recapping the 2025 PGA Championship. Masters winner Rory McIlroy joins Andy, Brendan!, KVV, and PJ to share some thoughts about his own historic year. Rory discusses the Masters win that made him a grand slam champion, his recent travels to Australia, the 2025 Ryder Cup, and much, much more. He even breaks some HUGE TGL news that may lead to one (1) Ballfrog win in 2026! After committing to a future appearance on "Lunch With The Boys," Rory departs and sets the stage for a look back at the 2025 PGA Championship: The Rise of Rea. Andy is tasked with researching the early-week festivities, including dumping rain and a sparsely-attended champions dinner. He then transitions to the main event: Tuesday's press conference featuring Derek Sprague, Kerry Haigh, and Don Rea Jr. Andy reads quotes from our live show from that very day, remembering when PGA members were referred to as "first responders" and recalling his own investigative journalism from a phone call to Augusta Ranch. Kevin Van Valkenburg picks things up for the first two days of play, detailing a leaderboard that prominently featured Jhonattan Vegas, Cam Davis, and Ryan Gerard. Mudballs run rampant after days of rain at Quail Hollow and players like Xander, Scottie, and more are very unhappy! KVV also has the honor of presenting on this year's installment of Blockie-mania, as Michael Block missed the cut after a decent first round. Brendan brings this episode home as he chronicles Scottie Scheffler's dominant Saturday performance that resulted in his third major championship. The 2025 Year in Review, although delayed, will continue on Friday!
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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 December 17th. |
| 0:45.6 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.4 | Brendan! |
| 0:48.8 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:49.9 | I got to say, there's nothing like sitting up late at night, cackling during research |
| 0:59.2 | about your review. |
| 1:02.3 | But we've made it. |
| 1:04.1 | We've made it. |
| 1:05.7 | The main event is here. |
| 1:08.1 | It's not a master's. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm going to steal PJ's line that he had before this. It's the Don of Don. The Don of Don. The Dawn of Don. The Dawn of Dawn. The Rise of Rea. Here we are. |
| 1:24.0 | There was, there, there's a world before we knew who Don Rayo was and that was |
| 1:28.3 | precisely Wednesday of PGA week, whatever that was May 15th, I'll say. And then |
| 1:34.1 | there's a world after. And that's the big line of demarcation. I, I, we did know who he was. |
| 1:40.0 | I clearly couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Name didn't resonate at all. |
| 1:45.3 | And then there was the world that happened after that press conference Wednesday at Quill Hallow, which we will get to in this part of your in review. |
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