Thursday at the Open Championship: Portrush punches, Olds fight back, & Scottie finds a likeminded partner

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Andy is joined by a Portrush-based Brendan to recap the first round of the 2025 Open Championship. They unpack an incredibly fun day of golf and leaderboard full of SGS favorites like Lee Westwood, Jacob Skov Olesen, and Matthew Jordan. Brendan shares insights from walking the course all day, including a substantiated rumor about Scottie's warmup on the range during a practice round. The two chat through Matt Fitzpatrick's resurgence, Scottie's potentially "meaningless" 68, and the benefit of experience at Open Championships with many Olds in the red after day one. Andy runs through more "Storylines Nobody's Talking About," including the Sheriff finding a partner with jurisdiction in the United Kingdom, 19-year-old Dick Teder "aura farming" with his mullet, and Calamity Corner casualty in Cameron Young. Wyndham Clark's ban from Oakmont is discussed at length before Andy enlightens Brendan on what happened with the TV broadcast, including a star turn for a former major champion! Check back in tomorrow as the two go through all the missed cuts for the final men's major of 2025.

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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 Thursday edition of the shotgun start.
0:44.2	It is July 17th.
0:46.5	Andy, how we doing?
0:48.2	Brendan, I gotta say, I'm doing phenomenal.
0:52.3	I got to bed a little later than I wanted to last night.
0:57.2	Woke up was was groggy, opened up the leaderboard and quickly turned to ecstatic.
1:05.2	I mean, it was a shotgun start fever dream this morning.
1:09.7	Oh, Westy. Yeah. It was incredible.
1:12.8	Obviously had PVJ, Matthew Jordan.
1:16.7	Phil?
1:17.3	We'll throw Phil in there.
1:18.7	Get him in there.
1:19.5	I have to do my lives to run out to, you know, the 50 and write about Phil.
1:24.7	We had the whole thing, Westie, Pisspare Jr.
1:27.5	It was just a great morning.
1:29.6	I feel like this always delivers for early,
1:31.8	that first couple hours.
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