Saturday at the Open Championship: Scottie Scheffler moves closer to fourth major championship

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In what may come as a surprise to no one, Scottie Scheffler's bogey-free 67 has him four clear of the field heading into Sunday at Royal Portrush. Andy and Brendan recap more excellence from the No. 1 player in the world and set the scene for what could be his fourth major win on Sunday. They play a quick game of Contender/Pretender with Haotong Li and Matt Fitzpatrick before Brendan unpacks a day walking with Rory McIlroy in Northern Ireland. The two attempt to contextualize what Rory means to the fans at Royal Portrush and what playing this event in his home country may mean to him coming off the career slam. They wonder if Rory has a chance of chasing down the Sheriff tomorrow, but are unsure if anyone can even reach Scottie's current mark of -14. In "Storylines Nobody's Talking About," Andy highlights Matt Jordan's everlasting battle against par, Georgia Bulldogs feeling right at home, and a new musical heading to Broadway in September. Brendan wraps this show up with tales from the pub with Dick Teder and an update on Joseph LaMagna's TikTok stardom.

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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 Saturday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:44.1	It is July 19th.
0:46.1	Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.9	Brendan, I'm doing wonderful.
0:50.5	I just, you know, nice to sleep in a bit, get some rest and then watch, watch just an incredible performance of golf, you know?
1:01.0	You just, you run out of superlatives to talk about this stuff.
1:05.3	But Scottie Shephler, I mean, just it's, it can be boring at times to watch and boring in the most complimentary way of how he how he makes the game seems so simple.
1:21.3	It's really, really incredible stuff.
1:24.8	It's almost like you thought he was sort of opening the door around here.
1:28.8	The way Rory went at the start and then Scotty's starting with six pars.
1:34.0	It felt like, oh, like this could be a thing.
1:36.8	Is that?
1:38.7	He's too good.
1:40.6	It's too machine.
1:41.4	Like there isn't like it's a full 18 hole examination.
1:44.9	His cold streak was six pars.
1:46.8	And that's like it's it's not it's not a three over around.
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