Scottie’s desert debut, Rollback cowardice, LIV’s youth movement
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode was recorded early on Tuesday due to Keegan Bradley Bobblehead Night at Madison Square Garden demanding PJ's attendance. Andy and Brendan wonder what other St. John's legends have bobbleheads available, but PJ is most excited to see a Boston sports icon get honored at the World's Most Famous Arena. With a lack of press conference quotes from Palm Springs to discuss, Brendan immediately begins with the Schedule for the Week, beginning with the American Express. This event has a loaded field with many top players beginning their seasons including World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Andy believes that the Signature Event model has actually enhanced the non-Signature Events as more top-tier players are in need of FedEx Cup points. One-and-done picks are made as Brendan looks to stay hot off a runner-up finish at the Sony. Andy debuts a new segment, "5 Guys to Watch (For Reasons)" and highlights some players to keep an eye on this week. Attention then turns to the Dubai Desert Classic where European Ryder Cup stars will compete this weekend. After discussing some notables for this event, the two continue on and chat through this week's KFT stop at The Abaco Club and the return of the Champions Tour at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship. In news, NCAA Individual Champion Michael La Sasso has signed with the HyFlyers for the 2026 season. Andy and Brendan debate whether yet another young player taking a contract from LIV is the proper way to go vs. playing through a college season and trying to qualify through PGA Tour U. WTGL has also announced some of its initial rosters... including a retired Lexi Thompson. Finally, there's rumblings that the proposed rollback will no longer be going into effect in 2028, as the USGA and R&A are discussing a delay until 2030.
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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 Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. |
| 0:43.4 | It is January 21st. |
| 0:45.5 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.1 | Brendan, we're doing well. |
| 0:49.3 | We're just experiencing that long weekend come down today. |
| 0:54.1 | You know, getting back in the saddle. |
| 0:56.0 | We're recording early, full disclosure, peek behind the curtain. |
| 0:59.4 | We're recording extra early here on this Tuesday. |
| 1:03.4 | Scotty Schaeffler hasn't talked. |
| 1:05.4 | Will Zellatores is coming up at the MX. |
| 1:09.3 | The reasons why we're recording early on this tuesday have to do with |
| 1:13.9 | our producer young whippersnapper p j clark because he needs to get to madison square |
| 1:19.4 | garden for the st john's game tonight because it's kegan bradley bobblehead night uh which is |
| 1:25.0 | totally acceptable reason to record early and uh that's why we're going we're at noon |
| 1:31.1 | eastern as we speak recording this this wednesday episode hand up this is on me i appreciate |
| 1:37.6 | everybody working with me allegedly kegan's going to this game maybe i i can ask how it feels |
| 1:43.8 | as a boston sports icon to be honored |
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