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The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Andy is off at sea, so Brendan! calls in "The Boys" for this Monday episode. Joseph LaMagna joins PJ and BP to discuss Kurt Kitayama's second career PGA Tour win and his continued dominance at Arnold Palmer designs. There's some chatter about Kitayama's excellent weekend at the 3M Open, tough Sundays from Jake Knapp and Akshay Bhatia, and some wild lines from the broadcast throughout the week. Brendan shares some takes from the beach as well before a quick look at the FedEx Cup standings heading into the last week of the regular season. Elsewhere in pro golf, a Korn Ferry Tour sponsor exemption has Brendan riled up, Lottie Woad was victorious at the Women's Scottish Open in her pro debut, and the Champs Tour Player of the Year race has heated up following the last major of the season. Rory McIlroy even stopped by the Senior Open Championship to take in the sights and sounds of the senior circuit. Joaquin Niemann won for a fifth time in 2025 at LIV London, an outcome which Joseph calls the "worse-case scenario" for the league. In news, Happy Gilmore 2 has taken over the golf world and a full review of the film will come later this week.

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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.5	It is July 28th.
0:45.6	Joseph, how we doing?
0:47.4	Brendan!
0:49.1	Doing well.
0:50.4	5.30 a.m. this morning off of a.m. last night that I was out late. So coming in sharp and full energy.
0:57.8	You are loud. You are hot. PJ, you are joining us as well. We have the boys here for a Monday episode.
1:04.5	Andy got caught on a boat somewhere. I think it's, I think it's still on course. I don't know, I don't believe it's a drift,
1:12.5	but he got caught. He got caught boatbound, boat boy at sea and got, I wasn't, I met the
1:19.9	beach with the family. We were just, we weren't, we weren't going late. And so blame,
1:24.8	you know, nautical, uh, mishaps for this, this Andy's absence.
1:29.8	But I think it is said anytime we get the boys together, I don't know that we're stepping
1:35.1	down.
1:35.4	We may be stepping up.
1:36.7	Stepping up.
1:37.4	This isn't like calling a corn fairy tour executive just playing the PGA tour.
1:43.1	These are bringing in professionals to do
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