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The Shotgun Start

Tour Champ and Courier Cup get bold new format, NCAA gamesmanship, and Charlie Woods wins

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Whiparound Fridays continue as Andy and Brendan cover everything from the quarterback room of the Cleveland Browns to the drinking water at the Austrian Open in this episode. After crowning the Austrian Open as his "Event of the Week," Brendan was swarmed with information about the tournament and its history. He informs Andy about the past "tee up" rounds where every shot could be played off a tee and shares that the drinking water may be causing some issues for players on the course. The main portion of this episode focuses on the changes to the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup Playoffs that were announced Tuesday afternoon. Andy and Brendan discuss the removal of "Starting Strokes" from the Tour Championship and whether these changes will be enough to fix what has become a broken playoff system. With the playing field evened out at East Lake, they then debate who the worst-case scenario winner of the 2025 FedEx Cup would be. Meanwhile at the U.S. Women's Open, slow play is once again the topic of discussion with rounds nearing six hours on Thursday afternoon. Andy and Brendan then recap the NCAA Championship and some gamesmanship by an Oklahoma State player that should have him in Ryder Cup conversations. In other news, Charlie Woods is an AJGA winner, Good Charlotte is headed to Bolingbrook this summer, Blockie's angling for Champions Tour exemptions, and Bryson may have some nice digs in Washington D.C. ahead of LIV Virginia next week. To wrap things up, Brendan shares an amusing story from his trip to a diner with PJ.

Transcript

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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 Friday edition of the shotgun start.

0:43.4

It is May 30th.

0:45.1

Andy, how we doing?

0:46.8

Brendan, I'm doing wonderful.

0:49.4

I've got to say, I've been just walking around with a shit-eating grin since last night.

0:56.4

Last night, I was perusing the athletic.

1:00.1

I was trying to read stuff, odds and ends about various sports,

1:05.0

what's going on in the world of sports.

1:07.7

I came across this headline.

1:10.2

There's so much golf. I don't want to get derailed here, but I came across this headline. There's so much golf.

1:11.5

I don't want to get derailed here,

1:13.1

but I came across this headline.

1:16.7

Brown's best quarterback after day one is Joe Flacco,

1:20.6

but who will start game one is complicated?

1:24.5

And it just stopped me in my tracks.

1:28.0

That's the athletic athletic it looks like.

1:30.5

Jason Lloyd, good columnist.

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