Wyndham slaughters at Lanny's Craig Ranch, silent Don Rea dismissed, and the Blades Brown dilemma
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Brendan and The Boys return for a Monday recording recapping perhaps the biggest content week of the year! Now armed with a weekend of data following Friday's bonus Happy Hour episode, the three further unpack the absolute domination of Lanny Wadkins' $25 million renovation of TPC Craig Ranch by this week's field at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson. Wyndham Clark shot a final-round 60 en route to his first win in over two years, edging out Si Woo Kim and Scottie Scheffler atop the leaderboard. Joseph comes armed with stats showing that this might've been the easiest PGA Tour event ever and PJ is basking in the glow of a week that provided some of the most insane quotes possible regarding a host venue's ability to test the best players in the world. Brendan ponders whether Wyndham is back on track for a spot at this year's Presidents Cup as he seems to be in a better place after a "year of adversity" as was so often referenced on the broadcast. Blades Brown felt right at home during this week's birdie-fest, claiming that his time on the Korn Ferry Tour prepared him for tournaments like this. He secured his Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour with his top-15 finish, leading to a perplexing situation where he'll have to sacrifice much-needed KFT points in order to continue playing PGA Tour events. Brendan and Joseph argue that this should not be the case and wonder if this pathway will be adjusted moving forward. The three whip through the rest of this weekend's results, with PJ providing some exclusive on-the-ground nuggets from the Champions Tour stop in Morocco. They foray into a brief bit of news reporting from Eamon Lynch regarding the "Tier One" and "Tier Two" events on the 2028 PGA Tour schedule and whether the top-tier of players will be allowed to "move down" for a week and play "Tier Two" events. To close things out, Brendan, Joseph, and PJ follow up just a little bit on Friday's breaking news that Don Rea was dismissed from his post as President of the PGA of America. Don has stayed silent to this point, and so has the PGA despite promising a formal announcement on Friday afternoon. How long will this silence last? This podcast pledges to provide the most in-depth coverage possible regarding this ongoing situation.
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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. |
| 0:43.6 | It is May 25th. |
| 0:45.6 | PJ, how we do it? |
| 0:47.9 | Brendan! |
| 0:49.2 | We're back. |
| 0:50.2 | Event of the year. |
| 0:51.8 | We're ready to go. |
| 0:52.7 | The boys are back. |
| 0:53.7 | We're rumbling around around we got a bonus episode |
| 0:56.0 | on friday and here we are to discuss one of the events of all time the 2026 CJ Cup byron |
| 1:03.5 | nelson we've got joseph here as well your fellow boy uh one of the great up and coming analytical |
| 1:10.4 | minds and all of golf media just to butter |
| 1:12.7 | them up joseph how are you doing after a long weekend oh i'm doing great i mean a memorial day |
| 1:17.7 | weekend friends are out and about joseph want to come out with us you know what i've got to lock in |
| 1:24.2 | c j cup bairn nelson tell you what they said what they wanted to double the spend to secure the long-term future and make the sponsor happy. I think long-term future secured. That was one of the best golf tournaments I've ever watched in my life. You know, I was thinking about it this morning, Monday morning, which is just where you want your head to be on Memorial Day. |
| 1:44.7 | Just like thinking about C.J. Cup, Byron Nelson. I think, you know, and maybe it's just in places |
| 1:53.0 | like this where we sort of delight in some of these things, amusements. I think they've hit the so |
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