Ryder Cup Friday: Europe puts USA in a headlock

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are together on Long Island after a full day at Bethpage Black taking in the Ryder Cup, where the USA is in a significant hole to Europe at 5.5 to 2.5 points. They discuss the late attempts by the US to close the gap and how they were held off yet again by the Euro stars like Rahm, Fleetwood, and Rory. They offer up some MVPs and LVPs, which brings Keegan Bradley’s strategy for the whimpering leadoff four-ball session that put the USA behind from the jump. How much of Scottie Scheffler is to blame? Or did Keegan set them up to fail? Was Bryson done in by his partners? Is the US cooked? They also cover some of the crowd effects, the first tee scene that might have been underwhelming, Trump’s visit, and some of the heckles heard throughout the day. Also, has the golf course been set up in a way that’s actually neutered some their strongest players.

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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 Shotgun Start.
0:43.7	It is September 26th.
0:46.1	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.6	Brendan!
0:49.0	I'm doing wonderful.
0:50.5	What a wonderful day out at the Ryder Cup.
0:53.1	I mean, a long day, but a, what a great day.
0:56.3	Rider Cup is, uh, is fun. It's, writer cup is fun. Agree. A full day left at about, uh,
1:04.1	well, left here about 5 a.m. Not as early as some. I don't know. There's, there seems to be like
1:08.2	a thirst bucket challenge for like, how early can you get there and send a screenshot like a timestamp shot.
1:15.0	But I don't know.
1:15.7	We left here early.
1:16.9	We, you know, not as early as others.
1:18.5	And yeah, just wrapping up.
1:20.5	618 local time.
1:22.5	Roy McElroyd just missed a put to, I don't know if we want to say steel, but just add to the margin,
1:28.0	the European margin of day one with the Americans crowded around the room,
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