Ryder Cup Lineups are here: Best matches, Worst, and surprise benchings?

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are playing with a half-set as they locked their recording equipment in the wrong car ahead of this unplanned Thursday live chat reacting to lineups for the opening session of the 2025 Ryder Cup. They discuss the strategy of both captains in setting their four alternate shot pairings for Friday morning, and get hyped for the banger of an opener between Bryson-JT and Rahm-Hatton. They also discuss any surprise pairings and players, pondering weaker choices against someone left on the benches. They close it out with some predictions on matches and the overall session before we dive into the chaos of some of the best three days in golf.

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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 special Thursday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:44.1	It is September 25th.
0:45.9	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.3	Brendan, we're doing our right.
0:49.6	You know, we're overcoming some adversity early.
0:52.2	You know, this is what you have to do great teams of
0:55.7	the rider cup you get obstacles thrown at you in this case you know we got we had the we had all
1:02.0	of our equipment in the wrong car so we're having to play a little uh little with without all the
1:07.9	tools that we usually have at our disposal uh yeah we locked everything in the wrong car that we didn't have keys for.
1:13.6	So we're just ham and egging it with whatever microphones we got here.
1:18.4	Our fault, our fault.
1:19.9	This is part of tradition.
1:22.0	These are PJ's Gen Z mics.
1:24.5	Influencer mics are Gen Z mics.
1:26.5	We don't do any influencing. This is the closest we'll get. We just have, this will be a quick little guy. Short little boy. Get it out there in the world. React to a match. My mic etiquette might be terrible having to hold this, turn in my head without turning the mic with me. I've gotten used to my headset. So the matches are out lineups are out. We're going to
1:46.3	react to that real quick. It has a shelf life of, I don't know, 15 minutes. So we're going to
1:50.6	talk about that real quick. I'm sure there's going to be some microanalysis of this. I,
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