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The Shotgun Start

The Scottie era levels up, Rahm’s winless LIV title, and Ryder Cup Lads Club drama

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

With Andy lost in an airport (not at sea), Brendan! once again called upon PJ to step into the "big chair" to close out the second round of the 2025 FedEx Cup playoffs. After he was unable to make history as the defending FedEx Cup champ last week, Scottie Scheffler fought back with a vengeance at Caves Valley. Scottie chased down Big Shot Bob MacIntyre in the final pairing, putting an exclamation point on his latest win with a chip-in on the 17th hole. Brendan shares some insight from his weekend on the ground, covering pace-of-play and a proper showcase of the top 50 players on the PGA Tour. One of those 50, Ben Griffin, had a rocky start to his Sunday and shared post-round that it was due to an "overdose" on creatine, sending Brendan and PJ into a tizzy. Jon Rahm was not in Baltimore, but he was in Indianapolis for LIV's individual season finale. He took home overall champion honors after a Sunday 60, but lost the weekly event to Sebastian Muñoz in a playoff. Brendan and PJ discuss the absurdity of Rahm - who did not win all year - beating out Joaquin Niemann's five-win season for the 2025 LIV title. LIV relegation is also a hot topic as big names now have to play elsewhere next season. The "Lads Club" is in full effect for Ryder Cup Europe with both Harry Hall and Marco Penge having big weeks despite seemingly having no shot at the 12th spot on the European roster. On the American side, Keegan Bradley had a nice Sunday at Caves Valley, but questions remain whether he should pick himself to play at Bethpage following a t-4 from Sam Burns. PJ then celebrates a long-awaited Victory Monday after Dick Green wins the Champs Tour event in Calgary. Brendan wraps up a great week of golf at Olympic Club for the U.S. Am, and shares an unsubstantiated rumor about next year's PGA Tour schedule to end this 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.

0:43.5

It is August 18th, PJ.

0:45.6

PJ, how we do it?

0:47.7

Brendan!

0:49.0

It's Victory Monday!

0:50.9

Again, can you believe it?

0:53.1

Can you believe it? All right. I think people are going to be less

0:57.1

in the know about this one than the last one. Cameron Young. How could you? How could you? How could

1:03.5

you be? Dick Green is a winner on a champion store. You're wearing your chance to a minute shirt.

1:12.1

There he is.

1:14.2

Your homemade chair.

1:15.1

There he is.

1:15.6

There he is.

1:16.3

Love it.

1:17.3

Love it.

1:18.5

Big week for T-shirts.

1:20.9

Big,

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