The 2025 Year in Review, Part 9: The End...?
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 218 minutes
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Summary
It's time to sprint through the finish line... kinda. Andy, Brendan!, Kevin Van Valkenburg, and PJ return for what may be the final installment of 2025's Year in Review, spanning from the Travelers Championship through Scottie Scheffler's win at The Open. Before the five-event recap begins, Andy is given ample time to celebrate a Victory Sunday (and Monday!) following the biggest Bears win in years on Saturday night. He talks plenty of smack about a Packers team that the Bears may see again in a playoff game very soon and anoints Caleb Williams as the best quarterback in the NFC North. Fear not, as there is a Nico Echavarria Minute to even things out later in this episode! Part 9 of The 2025 Year in Review begins with KVV handling the Travelers Championship, which was a triumphant week for his man Keegan Bradley and yet another collapse by Tommy Fleetwood. Brian Rolapp also burst on the scene with the official news of his hire as the PGA Tour's new CEO. Brendan picks things up at the Rocket Classic where podcast favorite Aldrich Potgieter won a never-ending playoff at a bomber's paradise in Detroit. LIV Dallas also ended in a playoff, won by Patrick Reed, but Bryson DeChambeau managed to be the star of the show anyway at his hometown event. The John Deere Classic featured another playoff at the end, but PJ instead focuses on a group of "olds" complaining about equity stakes in PGA Tour Enterprises as the biggest news of the week. Patrick Roy's son, Kevin, also provided what may be this podcast's Tweet of the Year! Andy then slips in a "Nico Minute" while discussing Chris Gotterup's breakout win at the Scottish Open. He also shares some enlightening quotes from Scottie Scheffler on links golf and Rory McIlroy's public detonation of PGA Frisco. The Open Championship is a team effort, with KVV handling the pre-tournament days of "Nihilist Scottie" and yet another newsworthy caddie-player breakup. Andy researches Thursday and Friday in Portrush, reminding folks of some early leaders like Jacob Skov Olesen and other Storylines Nobody's Talking About from that week. Remember when Matthew Jordan defeated par? Finally, Brendan brings us home as he walks through Scottie Scheffler's coronation and an emotional weekend for Rory McIlroy in his home country. That'll do it for Andy and Brendan on the feed in 2025, but "The Boys" have been tasked with giving Mr. 1,000 his just due after the powers that be decided to end their 2025 Year in Review at Royal Portrush.
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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. |
| 0:43.4 | It is December 22nd. |
| 0:46.0 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:47.6 | Brendan, I got to stay. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm, I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:53.2 | I think it was victory Sunday, |
| 0:56.0 | rare victory Sunday yesterday. Um, I traveled to Northwest Indiana, got the pulse there to see, |
| 1:03.4 | you know, my fellow bear fans there to see what they thought. Stadium buzz, uh, but now is victory |
| 1:09.9 | Monday. I think tomorrow's Victory Tuesday. |
| 1:13.2 | We clenched, the Bears clenched a playoff spot. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:18.5 | It was fun Saturday night in the city, the great city of Chicago. |
| 1:23.3 | It lots to cheer about. |
| 1:25.1 | I was, |
| 1:25.5 | I was very happy for you. I was, you know, I was bummed, like these playoff games stink, like those two back-to-back playoff games. It was basically there was not good football on after like 3.34. And I didn't know Saturday night, like totally forgot that game. I knew it was coming. I just thought it was Sunday. I was like, oh, my God, this is wonderful. I don't have to watch this like James Madison Oregon game anymore. |
| 1:48.1 | And like had to be the perfect, like a Saturday night, you can kind of let it rip if you're a fan, |
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