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The Shotgun Start

The Masters goes Amazon Prime, Tour bounces Kapalua, and Ryder Cup oversaturation

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It sure seems like everyone is just counting down the days until the Ryder Cup at this point. With minimal golf news and no PGA Tour event to discuss, Andy instead starts this episode with a tale from his latest round of golf. Playing at one of America's great championship courses, Andy decided he wanted to recreate an iconic moment and ended up almost hitting some folks enjoying a Tuesday afternoon lunch on the patio. It's been a big week for paying homage to iconic figures, as Brendan shares the latest Bob Uecker tribute from the Milwaukee Brewers. Brendan is aghast at the team reading and posting a fake letter from the deceased Uecker, which leads into a discussion about which ghosts this year's Ryder Cup teams should (allegedly) hear from. The Europeans have made it to Long Island and dressed in some... interesting... clothing for their first practice rounds at Bethpage Black. Justin Rose thinks that New Yorkers will become "caricatures" of themselves in the crowd and thinks that the VR preparation is a sign that things have gone too far. In actual golf being played this week, the ultimate Game Within a Game is underway on the LPGA circuit: can the unique winner streak continue at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship? With 18 of this year's winners in the field, the odds are in favor of this incredible streak living on. Andy is fired up about the Stephens Cup and the U.S. Mid-Am, both of which are already underway as of this recording. The Celebrity Ryder Cup rosters have been released with big names such as Toni Kukoč, Pau Gasol, and Brooklyn Beckham facing off against Eli Manning, Colin Jost, and "Sticks Boy " Noah Kahan. In substantive golf news, Amazon Prime has acquired some Masters streaming rights for Thursday and Friday and - as first reported on this podcast - the PGA Tour will not open the season in Kapalua due to the water issues in Maui.

Transcript

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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.

0:43.4

It is September 17th.

0:45.4

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.0

Brendan, I'm doing all right.

0:49.6

I got to say, I'm a little shook, though.

0:52.9

I'm a little shook from golf. are you shook by? From golf.

0:54.8

I'm fresh off the golf course.

0:57.2

Played one of the iconic championship courses of our country today.

1:04.3

So what are we supposed to be sympathetic for your shookness?

1:08.6

Well, on 18 of this course, there's a there's a famous plaque, the Hogan plaque.

1:15.6

One iron.

1:16.4

For a one iron.

1:17.2

So I brought a one iron across the country.

1:20.2

You did?

1:21.2

Yeah.

1:21.8

Yeah.

1:22.0

The activation?

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