Rory re-emerges in Canada, The Clanton hype train, Early reports of Oakmont brutality

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are in high spirits for this "Victory Wednesday" recording focused on the Canadian Open. The two discuss the results from "Golf's Longest Day" of U.S. Open qualifying. Amateurs lit some sites up, Cam Young advanced in a playoff, and Zac Blair found his way in at Springfield yet again. There's some LinkedIn chatter after "dental coach" Matt Vogt advanced to Oakmont from the Walla Walla, Washington site. Andy and Brendan ponder whether big-name players that failed to qualify at east-coast events should have flown out to the west coast to play different competition. The two then move to the RBC Canadian Open, where Luke Clanton will debut as a pro and Rory McIlroy re-emerged after his interesting week at Quail Hollow. Andy and Brendan discuss Rory's pre-tournament press conference and his comments about his driver failing testing at the PGA and the ensuing decision to not speak with the media after any tournament round. PJ pops in to preview the American Family Insurance Championship, a Champs Tour team event, before Brendan gives his "Event of the Week" to this week's DP World Tour stop in Amsterdam. In news, the Fireballs have a new signing and Scottie Scheffler is officially headed to Bethpage!

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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.
0:43.7	It is June 4th.
0:45.1	Andy, how we doing?
0:46.7	BP, I'm doing great.
0:48.9	I got to say, I am, though, a little disappointed.
0:52.9	You had the bucket hat on and he swapped out for the regular hat.
0:57.4	I got to ask what happened in the intro music.
1:01.2	So it fell a little tight, starting to get a little lightheaded, going honestly,
1:05.1	which could be a problem.
1:07.4	I was like, I'm going to be live, so I can't pause.
1:10.4	And I was like, I'm going to fall over and faint I can't pause. And I was like, if I'm going to fall over and faint here,
1:12.9	I might as well just get comfortable in the head.
1:15.3	My wife tells me I have a big head.
1:17.3	And now I was turning to realize it might actually be true.
1:20.4	If a normal size bucket, honestly, I was getting lightheaded during the intro.
1:25.8	I was like, it's a bucket hat too tight.
1:27.9	Should I just go?
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