Stories from Cypress, Ryder Cup gouging, more Walker Cup Crime files, and "Golf Channel Games"

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return with a mega-episode to kick off a big weekend in sports! Andy is especially excited about his trip to the Walker Cup at Cypress Point and previews some players to watch in the 50th playing of the competition. The two discuss golf's resurgence in popularity, using Sergio Garcia's decision to skip the Irish Open to play with tennis star Carlos Alcaraz as a prime example. After a lengthy Walker Cup discussion and an all-time story from a trip to Cypress, Andy and Brendan dive in on the first round of the Irish Open. Rory McIlroy found himself on the clock on Thursday and was quite upset, but not as upset as Pablo Larrazabal was at Marco Penge missing out on the Ryder Cup team. Larrazabal's tweet is a perfect transition into some Ryder Cup commercialization news on a slow week in golf. PJ is appalled that there will be an outdoor takeover of Rockefeller Center for Ryder Cup weekend and Brendan shares details of some very expensive "at-home" kits for those watching on TV. Following the Ryder Cup, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy will lead another set of teams at the "Golf Channel Games" in December. Andy is already excited for the potential of some takes surrounding any pro's performance in this made-for-TV exhibition. In a follow up from the legendary "Dunky" on Monday's episode, Andy shares another Walker Cup crime file - with this former player ending up absolved of any wrongdoing. To wrap things up, there's some brief NFL chatter before we send it to an old Flashback Friday segment from 2019 on the first-ever Walker Cup.

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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 Thursday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.7	It is September 4th.
0:45.5	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.0	Brendan, I'm doing great.
0:49.5	I'm looking for it.
0:51.0	I got a big weekend on tap.
0:52.6	I'm going to be at Cypress Point taking in the
0:56.1	Walker Cup. So it's not many weekends better than that. Pretty good. Pretty good setup. You're
1:01.5	driving down the coast from central to more central, California, I suppose. You're taking the Walker Cup.
1:09.4	It's a two pod week here this week.
1:11.7	We've got Labor Day Monday, just crazy schedules.
1:15.6	We want to jam.
1:16.5	Honestly, not a lot of stuff happening in the golf world, which we'll get to in the schedule for the week.
1:21.5	It's a big endorsement for people to listen to this.
1:23.2	Well, we got a jumbo boy episode.
1:25.4	We've got some funny stuff coming on Ryder Cup. I know PJ is very excited. We got to do our over unders. NFL? Yeah. Over unders? Let's do it Monday. Monday or Wednesday. It'll be after week one. That's fine. That's fine. I think that's good. Get a little field data. Data in the field. And then you can do it. Maybe PJ could cook some up by the end of the episode and have some overrunners.
1:50.9	Yeah, maybe we could do that. But yes, we'll get to that at some point before we get too deep into September.
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