The Ryder Cup Preview Live from New York

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are back at the Ryder Cup — this time, not in an RV but a hipster Brooklyn spot — to record their first episode of the week together. It’s a wide-ranging preview episode that begins with some instant reactions and amusements from the Opening Ceremony, featuring Don Rea and essays about New York being considered gritty. They discuss some of their insights from the ground walking around, talking to some players and getting the lay of Bethpage again. They read the tea leaves and discuss some of the pairings that could be coming and how Bryson DeChambeau, and a potential partnership with Justin Thomas, may prove to be the tipping point for great success or great disaster. They discuss the potential for crowd troubles and how the golf course sets up as “so American” for taking the teeth out of a place that’s supposed to have a warning sign. Then they bring in KVV for his “KVV Three” notes from the ground on some amusing subjects and an SGS RC Fantasy draft with Andy, Brendan, KVV, and “The Boys.” They finish it out with some picks for top points earners, winner, and most likely to get in a tussle.

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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. It is September 24th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.2	Brendan! I'm doing wonderful, you know? I'm enjoying my time in the big city. The big city. At the moment, we're in Brooklyn. We've been all over Long Island, which I guess Brooklyn is a part of. We learned today. That's technically on the land form, but they don't claim it. Neither claims it. I don't know how that works. It feels like we're on the, you know, you go out to Montauk, you're on the east end. We're on
1:13.0	the west end right now. I'll tell you what, wherever we are, it's better than where we were the last
1:18.3	time there was a rider cup on American soil. I was looking at pictures the other day. You're huddled up
1:23.8	like a little, just like this little groundhog on the sleeper above the camper, above the driver's seat and the camper and in some parking lot in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
1:33.2	Nothing against Wisconsin where they read, you know, letters from dead people to motivate, you know, fake letters from dead folks.
1:38.9	Nothing against Wisconsin at all.
1:40.7	But we've come a little bit of a ways.
1:42.8	I don't know about a long way, but we've come a little bit of a ways. I don't know about a long way, but we've come
1:44.3	a little bit of a ways. We've taken a few steps. From the RV.
1:48.4	Two small steps. What we will learn is if the European away game operation has taken big steps,
1:55.3	because they need to take big steps, given the margin the last time they played in America.
2:01.5	This is great.
2:02.5	It's great Rider Cup week.
2:03.8	We had our first day.
2:05.2	We came later, I guess, you would say.
2:07.7	I don't know.
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