The 2025 Year in Review, Part 1

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

It's time to be thankful for all that golf gave us in 2025. Andy and Brendan return for the always-dreaded (yet eventually enjoyable) exercise known as the Year in Review, back for its EIGHTH season! The two take a very quick look at this week's schedule and preview the return of the Skins Game as well as the first of two weeks in Australia before the long-awaited Year in Review gets underway. This installment, per usual, begins with The Sentry as Brendan remembers what may be the final PGA Tour event at Kapalua. He shares all the bits and pieces that come with the start of a new year, including equipment changes for Max Homa, the PGA Tour's new studio space, and Hideki's record-breaking week in Hawaii. Andy then jumps in to tackle the Sony Open, which ended in a playoff between two podcast favorites after J.J. Spaun fumbled in regulation. Andy also has the honor of introducing TGL to the Year in Review as the indoor league kicked off with an NYGC loss to The Bay. Brendan rounds out Part 1 by covering the "Tank Slam" at a glacially slow American Express and Tiger's TGL debut in the SoFi Dome. Stay tuned for Part 2 of the 2025 Year in Review coming Friday morning for your holiday weekend travels.

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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.
0:43.6	It is November 26th.
0:45.6	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.3	Brendan, I'm doing all right.
0:50.1	I got to say.
0:52.8	I got to say.
0:54.2	Last night hit me like a ton of bricks.
0:58.0	It felt like I was cramming for a college, uh, you know,
1:02.7	final where I've just sat down 9 p.m.
1:08.3	Let's get after this year and review research. I can't believe it's here again.m. Let's get after this year in review research.
1:11.8	I can't believe
1:12.6	it's here again.
1:14.7	I feel like
1:15.8	just like one of those
1:18.9	quarterbacks,
1:19.7	you just can't,
1:20.4	it just starts throwing wounded ducks.
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