Shane Lowry's Florida meltdown, PGA National setup issues, & the U.S. Open returns to the midwest
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan! went LIVE on YouTube for a Victory Monday morning recording following a Ballfrogs win over Jupiter Links late Sunday night. Andy is buzzing now that the Frogs have locked up the number one seed in the TGL playoffs despite the best efforts of "Tom Sim" and Max Homa. This turned out to be a loaded weekend of pro golf with national opens across the globe and a Cognizant Classic that absolutely delivered. Shane Lowry found the water twice in "The Bear Trap," blowing a four-shot lead on the final three holes at PGA National. The Salty Boy, Nico Echavarria, came up with a birdie on the 17th to take the lead and eventually secure his third PGA Tour win. Andy and Brendan discuss Lowry's collapse and debate whether he'll find himself in another position to win on the PGA Tour any time soon. Lowry, who hasn't won a solo event in the U.S. since 2015, had a win probability of over 96% standing on the 16th tee before being the first player to hit it in the water on Sunday. Brendan gives him props for speaking to the media immediately after his round and sharing that he wanted to win in front of his daughter for the first time. Following an epic finish - and despite a poor setup at PGA National - Andy runs through the Tour's schedule and puts the Cognizant in a tier above many Signature Events and all three playoff venues this year. PJ shares an update on the yearlong "Brooks Koepka vs. Mules" contest after Koepka's first top ten finish of the season. Is the money deficit already too big for the Mules to make up? Andy and Brendan then run through results from the rest of the week, hitting on the South African Open, New Zealand Open, and the Argentina Open, where winners and top finishers earned a spot at Royal Birkdale later this year. In news, the USGA had a massive Saturday news dump in which they awarded the 2045(!!!) U.S. Open to Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Who knows if this podcast will exist in 19 years, but these two midwesterners are excited for the national championship to return to America's heartland. Things wrap up with some TGL chatter recapping the first overtime match of 2026 and plenty of Jason Kelce exposure on the Worldwide Leader in Sports.
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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is March 2nd. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.5 | Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. I got to say, it's victory Monday. There's nothing quite, you know, this is, I guess the second, |
| 0:56.5 | the second sports team of mine that went from worst to first in the division. |
| 1:01.7 | The Bears the first one? Yeah. We're the first. Okay. Bears, the Bears went in the division. |
| 1:07.5 | Now the Boston Common, frogs, going from worse to worst to first. Are they, they're in the |
| 1:14.9 | playoffs, but they're not to confirm number one seat. They're not the number one seat. |
| 1:18.5 | I clinched the number one seed last night and a thriller with your team. Jube Sting. |
| 1:23.0 | Thriller with Jube links. I mean, I was, you know what? i have zero criticism for tgl this morning i thought |
| 1:31.5 | it was great sunday turned my brain off sunday night my kids are putting my kids to bed i had it on |
| 1:37.5 | kids couldn't fall asleep because i kept wanting to watch uh i mean of course there's some goofy |
| 1:43.7 | elements i don't want to go too deep into it but i thought it was just great i thought it was watch. I mean, of course, there's some goofy elements. |
| 1:44.3 | I don't want to go too deep into it. |
| 1:46.1 | But I thought it was just great. |
| 1:47.8 | I thought it was a great Sunday night watch. |
| 1:50.5 | I didn't have a lot of alternatives. |
| 1:52.4 | I wouldn't say there was Sunday night football or something else. |
| 1:54.6 | Like an NBA game I needed to see. |
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