Ryder Cup crowd and Rea discourse continues, & SGS Golf Advice

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan! went LIVE on YouTube for this Friday episode to kick off the post-Ryder Cup weekend. We've received word that the "Lotte at Lottie's" challenge is off to a roaring start, with two listeners finding each other at the bar on Wednesday watching tape delayed coverage of an LPGA event from across the world. As you could probably guess, most of this episode focuses on the continued fallout from the Ryder Cup crowd fiasco and Don Rea's various responses. Andy and Brendan dig into the Don's LinkedIn post responding to criticism, something he's experienced since his days as a Minor League Baseball umpire. "New level, new devil" has now become a staple in the podcast's vocabulary as well. Andy got duped by a photoshop of Rea's potential resignation being discussed on ESPN's "First Take," but Brendan can't imagine a golf world without Don moving forward. Elsewhere in the crowd discourse, PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague spoke to The Athletic about "not hearing" what happened from his luxury box on Saturday. Matt Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton spoke out prior to the Dunhill, unsatisfied with Don's trophy presentation and ensuing apology. In non-crowd Ryder Cup cleanup, Furyk & Friends has become a bevy of content! AssCap Jim Furyk was unhappy about the green speeds being off at Bethpage and wonders if that was to blame for Team USA's poor putting performance. Stewart Cink also revealed that he interviewed for the 2025 captaincy, only to get ghosted by "special agent" John Wood afterward. Moving on from the Ryder Cup, LIV has reported its financial losses and the numbers have Andy and Brendan wondering where the league goes from here. Things wrap with Golf Advice, including Andy's passionate defense of poker chip ball markers.

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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 Shotguns Start.
0:43.8	It is October 3rd.
0:45.7	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.4	Brendan!
0:49.2	I'm doing greatest victory Friday.
0:52.4	And, you know, I guess the victory. What are we celebrating? What victory?
0:56.3	The Cubs. Oh, there you go. Congrats to your Cubs. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize for your guardians.
1:02.3	Oh, no. That's fine. That's fine. We made it, September to remember team stinks, but it's great.
1:08.6	That's great. I mean, happy for it comes.
1:12.6	I don't want to get into it.
1:13.8	That's going to come across the sour grapes.
1:16.1	I don't want to get into it.
1:17.6	I'm happy it's Friday.
1:19.4	But we talk about the FedEx Cup playoffs.
1:23.0	We just played approximately almost the exact same schedule as the team we lost to for 162 games.
1:28.9	They're in our division from April 1st to October 1st.
1:33.3	And like a Wednesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 1 o'clock, three game series is the whole deal.
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