The 2025 Year in Review, Part 8
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 195 minutes
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Summary
This installment of The 2025 Year in Review does NOT contain any unforeseen interruptions but DOES start with a good, old-fashioned Football Minute! Andy is on the road but joins Brendan and PJ for a quick segment regarding a possible Bears move to Gary, Indiana. Andy cannot believe that Kevin Warren would sit awake in his bed and send this open letter on the week of the biggest game in years. The three also share some thoughts on the first-ever "Golf Channel Games" and find that the format might be the best "alt-golf" viewer experience yet. Unfortunately for the broadcast and its advertisers, no one was suckered into wagering on the event. Andy departs for his own mega-podcast session with Tom Doak, leaving Brendan and PJ to carry the baton for this look back at May and June. PJ begins with the Charles Schwab Challenge, a week where the olds took over both Colonial (on the PGA Tour) and Congressional Country Club (on the Senior Tour). He recaps his drive to DC to take in the Senior PGA in-person and provides plenty of Don Rea content for those wanting more from Part 7. Brendan then heads to "Jack's Place," now a proper noun on big letter hats, for the Memorial presented by Workday. Ben Griffin couldn't go back-to-back starts with a win as he was chased down by - who else? - Scottie Scheffler. Rickie Fowler also used his sponsor exemption for good, qualifying for The Open with a top-ten finish! Joseph LaMagna then joins the recording as PJ shares Cameron Young's triumph at U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying and his ensuing close call at the Canadian Open. The Canadian Open also featured the pro debut of Luke Clanton, who was being treated like Cooper Flagg by the PGA Tour ahead of this momentous occasion. Finally, Brendan, PJ, and Joseph recap the third men's major of the year, the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. They discuss the first-ever episodes of Lunch With The Boys, so much "Championship Rain," and J.J. Spaun's movies of choice, among other amusements from the week. Monday's episode will be a mega-recording as we attempt to finish the Open Championship ahead of Christmas!
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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. |
| 0:26.6 | Gentlemen, start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is December 19th. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:46.8 | Brendan, I'm doing all right. You know, I just got to an Airbnb and the Wi-Fi is GB Packers with the password Packers one. |
| 0:59.7 | My Bears might be moving to Indiana. |
| 1:02.4 | Things could be better. |
| 1:04.4 | My Wi-Fi cut out there and it came back and you said, my bears might be moving to Indiana. |
| 1:09.0 | But I think that's the only detail. |
| 1:10.3 | I heard something about Wi-Fi and Packers, but that's the only detail I needed. |
| 1:14.8 | You've, you know, you are not from, I believe, the Indiana side of Chicago. |
| 1:20.3 | So now I'm wondering, are you just a Milwaukee sports fan? |
| 1:23.1 | Are you closer to Milwaukee, closer to Green Bay? |
| 1:25.8 | Is that the home team now as you moved? |
| 1:28.6 | I love the governor of Indiana, |
| 1:31.0 | whoever's name is, you know, Mitch or Joe or whatever he is, |
| 1:34.7 | just some suit. |
| 1:35.8 | They know we'd welcome a second great team to the state of Indiana. |
| 1:38.9 | Just like the Bears and Colts being this like two peas in a pod. |
| 1:42.7 | It seems like a disaster. |
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