The Signature Event model, Ludvig’s arrival, and LIV’s balance sheet

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday episode starts with a Sports Minute in which Brendan asks Andy to answer for Illinois hanging a banner upside down during Saturday night's game. There's also some chatter about the USA-Canada hockey game ad the Four Nations Faceoff. In a positive for golf, the Sports Minute closes with an agreement from everyone that the Presidents Cup has more juice than the NBA All Star Game! From there, Andy and Brendan discuss Ludvig Åberg's first win in a Signature Event at the Genesis Invitational. They talk through Ludvig's come-from-behind victory, chasing down Maverick McNealey at Torrey Pines. There's some intel from the ground that Ludvig skipped out on buying the media beers after his ace which leads to Brendan ranting about this ridiculous tradition. Andy has some critiques about the setup on Sunday and the two also discuss Tiger's appearance in the booth coming down the stretch on CBS. With the West Coast swing over and done, Andy, Brendan, and PJ give out some awards to commemorate the first six events of the season. After some internet issues due to cold weather, the conversation moves on to LIV Adelaide, won by Joaquin Niemann. Brendan dives into some reporting about LIV's ratings in Australia and their balance sheets from the past few years showing that the league is spending billions of dollars without much return. Champions Tour Minute checks in on the spread at the Chubb Classic to finish this episode. Justin Leonard won for the first time since 2008, but folks are upset about Papa and Zinger not being on-site for the call!

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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.
0:26.6	Gentlemen, start your engine! Greetings, Welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is February 17th. Andy, how we doing?
0:47.4	Brendan, I'm doing great. You know, it was a good weekend outside of, you know, a mishap at assembly hall what was the misshap
0:58.1	they hung that banner upside down
1:02.0	Terrence Shannon Jr.
1:05.4	I got to ask what was the rush to head to
1:08.7	the guy was playing on the Illinois team last year and they were
1:12.6	they hung the jersey celebration hung the hung the jersey and the rafters one year later why what
1:20.2	was the point of that right wouldn't you wait for like another year or something i mean illinois
1:25.6	having a having a fine season. They're good.
1:28.7	They're good enough. Like, wouldn't you save that for, I don't know, just you need a juice one night.
1:36.1	You need some juice. Our program isn't like Boston College. You know, we don't, we don't need juice night to night.
1:45.7	But they unveiled the jersey at halftime and it's upside down.
1:52.4	That was incredible.
1:53.8	All I opened my phone, some Illinois beat writer is like, well, somebody's about to get fired.
1:59.0	And then they trotted the AD out and he's like, it's inexcusable.
2:02.9	But then they got to get it up.
2:04.3	They got to play.
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