US team picked for Bethpage Ryder Cup, Keegan Bradley stays captain and off roster

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode was recorded live right after the interminable dog-and-pony show announcing the final six captain’s picks to fill the 2025 US Roster for the Ryder Cup at Bethpage. Andy and Brendan are giddy coming off that show and dissect the six picks, who got snubbed, and the agonizing choice by Keegan Bradley to just captain and not play even though he is clearly one of the best 12 US golfers this year. They also outline some points of concern on the roster, potential pairings, and a laundry list of amusements for the one-hour show with all six picks sitting on a zoom. They ponder the notion that the Americans are on “the back foot” and the Euros are tap-dancing in their heads. The role of Tiger Woods, if any, in these decisions is also bandied about. They close with schedule for the week and some news on the Masters and Open switching up their exemptions into their fields, a Rory-Scottie skills challenge coming to TV in December, and the Tour Championship’s monster ratings.

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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 Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:44.0	It is August 27th.
0:46.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.9	Brendan, I'm doing awesome.
0:50.6	How can I not be doing awesome after the amusements of an hour-long press conference about Rider Cup picks where seemingly everybody who wanted to ask a question got to ask the same question.
1:04.5	And twice over. I mean, I'm all for media access. Please, these guys have become sort of tyrants with limiting their time and taking two bullshit questions.
1:14.8	But what? What is going on? It was great. I mean, some of the, that was amusing. It just, I couldn't imagine we would go for over an hour and Don Rea would not be involved in the proceedings, but we managed to do it.
1:28.3	But it was great.
1:39.0	It was a fabulous one hour full of amusements that probably ends up in a best case scenario for the American side in terms of competitiveness or preparation.
1:47.3	I don't know about entertainment and content and, you know, takes uh, the picks are in. It took an hour to get through it. They did at least go to it semi quickly. Uh, we had the good fortune of Cameron
1:53.6	Young spoiling the upcoming Sam's Burns pick. So I got to it even quicker than they plan. So I
1:59.5	enjoyed that. We have our six picks.
2:02.3	It's unfortunate that Burns was,
2:04.6	you know,
2:05.1	the last pick as they planned it out.
2:07.9	He was the,
2:08.7	the last pick.
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