Thursday at the U.S. Open: Who's the real leader, Rough laments, and Early disappointments

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After a day on the ground at Oakmont, Andy and Brendan went live to share their thoughts from the first round of the 2025 U.S. Open. J.J. Spaun is in the lead at -4, so the two first debate who the "real" leader of the tournament is. Andy settles on a resurgent Brooks Koepka, sitting at -2, and is eyeing Jon Rahm at -1 a bit further down the board. Brendan shares some takeaways from following Spaun's second nine before transitioning to some course talk. The two discuss Thursday's pin placements, the setup "begging" for a fluke winner, and have some rough thoughts percolating already. Scottie, Rory, and Bryson are covered, with each finishing the first round over par. Games Within the Game are updated after some early commanding leads as well. Big Shot Bob MacIntyre had some critical quotes following his even-par round and Brendan loved what he was hearing. To close things out, the two look ahead to Friday and where the cutline might end up.

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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.
0:43.7	It is June 12th.
0:45.9	Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.4	Brendan!
0:49.0	I got to say, I'm doing well.
0:51.3	It was a great day out there.
0:53.4	Nice for the tournament to start. I always love when the majors start. Yeah, it was a great. It was a great day out there. Nice for the tournament to start.
0:54.9	I always love when the majors start.
0:56.9	Yeah, it was a great.
0:57.6	It's a full day.
0:58.5	I mean,
0:58.8	it had star notable groupings out before the 8 a.m. hour, several of them in the 7.30, 740 window.
1:06.9	It's a long day.
1:07.8	We've got players still on the course as of this recording.
1:14.0	A lot of the hay is in the barn, though, as we speak.
1:19.3	I know your guy, Rasmus Neargard, Peterson, who's 2T2.
1:20.4	Big boy.
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