Woodland's triumph is the story of the year, DLF rumors, & the Tiger Ryder Cup question

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Golf's Preeminent Victory Monday Podcast! Andy and Brendan went LIVE on YouTube for this recording, with Brendan calling it a Victory Monday for everyone in the golf world after Gary Woodland's win in Houston. Andy is celebrating a Victory Monday for other reasons as the Fighting Illini are Final Four bound for the first time in 21 years. After some technical hiccups and debate about whether Andy is headed to Indianapolis ahead of the Masters, the two recap an emotional win for Gary Woodland at the Texas Children's Houston Open. The 2019 U.S. Open winner blitzed the field, winning by five shots at the conclusion of Sunday's round and setting the new scoring record for the tournament. Brendan declares Woodland's win the "Story of the Year" given the context surrounding his struggles with PTSD following brain surgery. Andy gives Woodland praise for going public with his diagnosis and commends him on helping not only himself but others in doing so. The two also discuss standout performances from Min Woo Lee, Johnny Keefer, Chris Gotterup, and Sudarshan Yellamaraju. Brendan shares some Substantiated Rumors from the Indian Open at DLF, where it seems as if the DP World Tour may be faking weather reports in order to ensure a fair course setup. Alex Fitzpatrick secured his first win on the DP World Tour, joining his brother, Matt, in the winner's circle following last week's Valspar Championship. In other results, the LPGA has its first repeat winner of 2026, Stew Cink is coming for a playing Ryder Cup captaincy, and the "Davis Zone" has hit the Korn Ferry Tour. Things wrap up with some news about the new player facilities at Augusta National and a brief bit of Tiger Woods discussion as more comes out about Friday's car accident and his ensuing arrest for DUI.

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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. Gridians and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.6	It is March 30th.
0:45.4	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.3	Brendan, I'm doing fantastic.
0:50.2	It's a victory Monday in my household.
0:54.7	Yeah, multiple reasons.
0:56.9	I mean, I think it's a victory Monday in every household in golf because of the Gary Woodland win, which we'll get to in a minute.
1:03.7	You have the additional cherry on top, a significant chair, the whole Sunday, the whole deal.
1:10.0	The fighting the lion eye of Illinois are going to
1:12.7	the final four very exciting very excited it's great times boom times first time in the final
1:18.7	force since my freshman year of college so that's that's amazing that's amazing yeah yeah lots of
1:26.4	chance about going I don't think i'm going yeah pull it off
1:29.7	um but you know as some of my friends pointed out the next time they go you might be a grandpa
1:36.6	yeah that's fair i mean that's the thing i uh should we disclose our upcoming, like what you have on your docket?
1:46.6	Or should we talk about that for a second?
1:48.2	You're obviously going to the Masters, Augusta National, next weekend.
1:53.5	Following that, did I just lose you?
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