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The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode brings a game of Quote Roulette and the conclusion of the first-ever "Draft Week" to start your weekend. Brendan is ready to skip forward to Sunday afternoon's big Jets-Browns tilt at MetLife Stadium with rumors swirling that he may meet up with PJ to watch the game in-person. Andy and Brendan run through the early leaderboards for the HSBC Abu Dhabi Championship and World Wide Technology Championship before diving into press conference clippings from around the world. Rory McIlroy wasn't impressed by LIV's move to 72 holes and doesn't think they'll be getting too many OWGR points as things currently stand. Lee Westwood took exception to these remarks by the Masters champion, saying that Rory may change his mind next week on whatever he said anyway. Westy believes that the LIV fans are the biggest winners of this "innovation" as they'll be seeing an extra day of golf! Paul McGinley spoke to Bunkered about the impending DP World Tour fine decision on players like Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. McGinley believes there are larger things at play for the future of the DP World Tour's existence and acknowledges that making Ryder Cup players be members is one of few cards the Euro circuit has left. Perhaps most importantly, there was some late-night beef between Joe Mayo and the Short Game Chef on Instagram on Wednesday night. In a now-deleted Instagram post, Mayo started a grease fire in the Chef's kitchen, airing out some past texts and conversations and calling out the Chef's teachings. Andy and Brendan are giddy about this long-winded IG caption and lose it when Joseph LaMagna joins in to share a comment about "extra Mayo." Lastly, the President of the PGA of America spoke to the 31,000 or 34,000 or 37,000 members this week and apologized for "harming the association" in past months. We play the audio of this apology and have added it to the soundboard. "Draft Week" wraps up with a double whammy and a new guest: Joseph joins Andy, Brendan, and PJ to draft 2026 Pro Golf Venues AND the best players in the world age 28-and-younger.

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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. Goodings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.9	It is November 7th.
0:45.9	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.5	Brendan, we're doing great.
0:49.8	I'm ready for the weekend.
0:51.0	How about you?
0:51.7	I'm ready for the weekend.
0:53.0	Can't wait for Brown's Jets
0:55.3	Sunday night. Sunday not, definitely not Sunday night. Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. with the D.B.E or
1:02.3	whatever, E lineup from CBS, whatever. They don't even think this is the ones they scrabble.
1:07.0	Archiletta. We had Archiletta the other day. He's a disaster. Andy, I have great news for you.
1:13.7	It's Sparrow Dinas and Adam Archeletta, baby. Archeletta was just like basically like, I just don't
1:21.4	understand what Caleb, Caleb isn't just running. Like as soon as he, he's like, as soon as he gets out of the
1:26.7	pocket, you should just run.
1:28.1	Great news for Adam Archilletta.
1:29.7	That's all our guy can do.
1:35.5	Rumors,
	...

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