Saturday at the 2026 PGA Championship: Setup changes and a giant pack still in contention

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This unforgettably unique PGA Championship goes to Sunday with an absolute boatload of players who could be considered “in contention” with 18 holes to play. Andy and Brendan break down a wild Saturday that saw birdie barrages early, a million different leaders, and a condensed leaderboard going to the final round. There is a beefy game of “Contender or Pretender” going through all the players from Alex Smalley out in front to some studs like Rahm, Rory, and down the board to Cam Young and Scottie Scheffler, who are six and five shots back. They discuss some storylines that nobody is talking about as well, from Big Potty to Brian Campbell, and close with Joseph LaMagna coming in with a glass of wine to offer up further discussion on the course setup quibbles and hollering about hole locations.

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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! Griddins and welcome to a Saturday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.7	It is May 16th.
0:45.6	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.2	Brendan, I am doing fantastic.
0:51.2	You know, I got to say, I got no clue what's going to happen tomorrow and I kind of love it.
0:57.0	It's incredible. Totally unique major championship experience, at least for me, for this podcast.
1:04.0	I haven't done it the longest time. I've certainly worked in the industry a little longer. We've done the podcast. We've done these daily podcasts since the Masters of 2019.
1:14.5	I think before everybody was doing these dailies, we were doing those in 2019.
1:19.6	I can't recall like a Saturday or Sunday, whatever, where it felt like a Thursday or Friday, like I had to be locked in at 10.30, 10 a.m.
1:33.4	Because I feel like I just watched eight hours of golf.
1:36.8	All of it was material to the championship, to the final outcome of who could win Sunday.
1:41.4	Totally unique experience.
1:42.7	I still think we're, you know, 30 guys could
1:46.8	technically win tomorrow Sunday night, Sunday night at Philly. Yeah, you know, I had like a little
1:53.9	self-care scheduled this morning and I was sitting in a sauna at 10 in the morning with my phone
2:00.5	on because I felt like I had to watch it.
2:04.2	Just like 160 degrees sauna with a phone.
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