The Tour’s Hard Knocks show, Masters momentum builds, and Rolapp’s new rights deal pickle
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Whiparound Fridays return as Andy and Brendan! record during the early window of NCAA Tournament Thursday. After a brief check-in on the Illini and Johnnies ahead of their first round games, attention turns to another tradition of spring: the reveal of the Masters Champions Dinner menu. Andy and Brendan share their thoughts about everyone else sharing *their* own thoughts on Rory McIlroy's selections, which seem to appeal to a wide audience. Dan Orlovsky was not pleased by the menu during an appearance on SportsCenter, giving PJ more fodder and another chance to remove him from the Cameron Young bandwagon. Andy and PJ trade reviews of the PGA Tour's "Hard Knocks" show, "Chasing Sunday," which premiered Tuesday night. Andy is thrilled to have a golf product made for golf fans about the actual playing of golf, but PJ isn't so sure that the "Hard Knocks" edit truly came through. As the Tour continues to make these shows, will players get a "bad edit," or will everything have a so-called "Disney ending"? Brendan and Andy then discuss some early Masters storylines with just three weeks until play in Augusta, including the strong crop of debutants at this year's tournament. Brendan has some first-hand accounting from the Hainan Classic in China where the first round lasted over five hours on Thursday. In other news, Phil is BACK for the HyFlyers (in dead last place), and Bryson DeChambeau had yet another press conference moment made for social media in South Africa. Lastly, Brian Rolapp spoke on CNBC about the changing media rights landscape for pro sports leagues and might've made it seem like the PGA Tour's deal will be going... down... when it's time to renegotiate. We'll see you on Monday after the Valspar and a weekend full of college basketball.
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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. Critians and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:43.6 | It is March 20th. |
| 0:45.6 | Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:47.3 | Brendan, I'm doing well. |
| 0:50.6 | It's one of my favorite days of the year. |
| 0:53.6 | What's that, Valspar, first round. |
| 0:55.3 | Belspar Thursday, the China tournament in European, on the European Tourth, Thursday. |
| 1:02.3 | These are the things I live for. |
| 1:05.1 | College basketball could take a backseat to this stuff. |
| 1:08.4 | But I was walking my daughter to school. |
| 1:11.6 | She's like, |
| 1:16.1 | well, you pick me. You know, she has like aftercare. Yeah. It's the school. She's like, |
| 1:22.6 | well, you pick me up at dismissal. And I was like, not today. Going to be, get me at home watching some college basketball this afternoon, trying to get my taxes done. Love it. Love it. It is one of the great days of the year. I mean, my wife was asking me about it last night. Like, you know, why do you like it? It's like all these things. It's like your own nostalgia. It's community, right? It's just like it's like it's set to a certain day and time that doesn't change. It's always Thursday. It's always at noon. It's just, I don't know. It's like it's set to a certain day in time that doesn't change. |
| 1:44.8 | It's always Thursday. It's always at noon. It's just, I don't know. It's just there's so much about it. Community, nostalgia, sports fandom that makes it so good. I'm going up tomorrow. I'm going to Philly with my kids. Oh, that tweet. We're going. My dad, I'm excited. you know they're asking me if jack golki's going to be there |
| 2:03.1 | but i've said no no he's moved on you know golki lives on and you know lore in our house for that |
| 2:09.5 | one time we went but the miami red hawks these days i mean selling insurance admission he's in the |
| 2:16.9 | he's in the he's in the g league he just came back from like Lithuania or wherever overseas, but he's definitely in the, he's an American-Aid. How did you have that on hand? Did you, why did you know that without- Just anticipated where we were going? The tip of your ton. I mean, if I know one thing, i know the poor ass kids love jack gulky |
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