The Bridgeman arrives, Riviera vs. modern equipment, and Rahm won’t pay his fines

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It is Victory Monday for Golf's Preeminent Gambling Podcast! Andy returns from vacation and immediately gives Brendan his flowers for picking Jacob Bridgeman to win the Genesis Invitational. PJ issues an apology for laughing at Brendan's belief in The Bridgeman, who cashed 100-1 tickets for bettors everywhere. Andy and Brendan recap the weekend at Riviera and shine a light on Bridgemans path to the PGA Tour and his first career victory. Kevin Van Valkenburg joins from the on-site media center in LA to share some observations from the ground, touching on Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Aldrich Potgieter, and more. Andy, Brendan, and Kevin also discuss the online pushback against Riviera after the pros tore up a soft course this week after all the rain on Thursday. After debating whether there should be a "Shotgun Start Book Club," there's a brief Tiger Woods conversation amongst the group, with everyone believing that he will, in fact, play on the Champions Tour in 2026. Brendan is convinced that Tiger will be playing the Masters, too! Andy moves to ban Spider putters on the PGA Tour before recapping the rest of the week in pro golf, including the Magical Kenya Open and Jeeno Thitikul's first-ever win in Thailand. In news, the DP World Tour has settled its fines with almost all of the eligible LIV players... except for Jon Rahm. Andy and Brendan wonder if this means his 2027 Ryder Cup status is truly in doubt as even Tyrrell Hatton decided to cut the check. PJ and Andy are both in Florida for the big Ballfrogs match on Monday night, but it remains to be seen if Brendan will make it down south through the snow. Stay tuned for some in-person TGL takeaways on Wednesday's episode!

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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. It is February 23rd. Andy, how we do it?
0:46.7	Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. I got to say, it's Victory Monday. The gambling pod strikes a gun.
0:55.8	I was, you know, I was listening to the episode.
0:59.1	I was running on a beach, listen to the episode, heard PJ's reaction when you took the bridge band.
1:06.5	Sure enough, O.W.
1:08.9	Victory Monday.
1:10.4	Victory Monday. PJ tried to GM me. Try to call me out, call me on the carpet. He took Rory McElroy, went out of a limb, took little Rory McElroy. I went Bridgeman, and you tried to make fun of me. We've been around this block. Hand up. You were out there on Todd Limbs on Todd Corner, Todd watch when no one else would be.
1:30.7	We were doing Martin Laird.
1:32.4	We've been doing this a long time here.
1:34.7	And Bridgeman comes through again.
1:37.1	You know what I'm disappointed about?
1:39.7	The gambling community has been like it's crazy.
1:44.5	Nobody's nobody was on Bridgeman this week.
1:48.0	Nobody was on the Bridgman this week.
1:50.4	That's the buzz of the gambling community.
1:53.8	There was the preeminent gambling podcast was all over the bridge van.
2:00.3	PJ, you're just shaking.
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