So we’re saying The Players is better than all 4 majors?, Phoenix Open goes into another Super Bowl, Pat Reed domination
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan planned to go LIVE on YouTube as part of "Golf's Favorite Pregame Show," but Hideki Matusyama had other plans. After a few too many wayward drives, Matsuyama could not make this a Victory Monday for Boston and coughed up the WM Phoenix Open to Chris Gotterup midway through the first quarter of the Super Bowl. Andy and Brendan recap a jam-packed week in the desert, hitting on Scottie Scheffler's t3 finish, Hideki's driver woes, and Chris Gotterup's continued ascension into the game's top tier. Patrick Reed could be the only player hotter than Gotterup right now, remaining undefeated in regulation in his last three starts with a win in Qatar. He is all but guaranteed a PGA Tour card through the DP World Tour now, but Brendan doubts his "lifelong goal to win the Order of Merit" is a real thing. Elvis Smylie immediately paid dividends for Rippers GC, staring down Jon Rahm in Riyadh for a win in his LIV debut. The two then run through results from the rest of the world and a bit of news before unpacking Brandel Chamblee's latest masterpiece of a take. Brandel made waves by suggesting that The Players Championship is ABOVE the four majors in stature and should absolutely be qualified as a major championship moving forward. Andy and Brendan are aghast at this statement and share some unsubstantiated rumors suggesting that the current PGA Tour membership does not share Brandel's personal opinion. Andy then previews Thursday night's live show in Chicago by reading some internet information about the event.
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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. |
| 0:43.7 | It is February 9th. |
| 0:45.6 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.2 | Brendan, I'm doing all right. |
| 0:49.7 | I got to say I took a full swing last night. |
| 0:52.9 | I attended a 40th birthday party and a little worse for the |
| 0:59.9 | wear. Flew in flew in came in hot to Chicago and tore up the town last night. That's great. The 40th |
| 1:07.4 | birthday party circuit is like the wedding circuit when you're whatever, 26, 27, 30, or whatever it is when you have like eight weddings in a year. |
| 1:16.0 | Then you do, you redo it except you don't have the stamina or shape that you did when you were 26. |
| 1:21.9 | And all of a sudden you're on this 40th birthday circuit. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm like kind of getting past it but i just went through it i had one |
| 1:28.9 | and then i had a coach a youth basketball game the next morning about 10 30 i was like shooter from |
| 1:32.9 | hoosiers like falling it like just coming on to the floor it was just a disaster that's that is a |
| 1:38.4 | that's a dangerous circuit that you're you're jumping into right now i uh i awoke, you know, I'm on the trip to Chicago. |
| 1:46.1 | I've got my daughter with me. |
| 1:48.2 | I got, I woke to my daughter punching me in the back at 7 a.m. |
| 1:52.8 | So it was quite, quite the way to wake up. |
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