Love is in the air for Tiger, Lost Viktor clips JT, LIV boys get into The Open

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This recording was delayed until Monday morning because life is better with Andy by Brendan's side! Andy's in the dumps following the Illini's loss to Kentucky in the Round of 32, but his spirits were lifted by Tiger Woods hard-launching his relationship with Vanessa Trump on Sunday night. Brendan and Andy unpack all aspects of Tiger's post, from the bizarre caption to the posed photos prominently featuring the Sun Day Red logo. After a quick spin through Vanessa Trump's Wikipedia page, the two move on to the golf, where a "lost" Viktor Hovland ran down Justin Thomas to win the Valspar. Brendan is fired up about how great the PGA Tour's Florida Swing was and imagines Luke Donald is thrilled with back-to-back wins from European Ryder Cup stalwarts. Andy shares some appreciation for Viktor Hovland's openness with the media when discussing his struggles and compares how Hovland and JT played the final few holes down the stretch in different ways. It was a week of viral moments - Billy Boy showed off some ambidextrousness, making a birdie after hitting his approach left-handed, Adam Hadwin broke a sprinkler with a club slam, and Patton Kizzire perfected the "putter punt." Elsewhere in golf, Dick Mansell won on the DP World Tour, the Sunshine Tour is back in the Coetzee Zone, and Miguel Angel Jimenez secured his second Champions Tour win of the 2025 season in California. There's also plenty of chatter about the PGA Tour's DMCA habits, which are back and possibly better than ever! Things wrap up with some March Madness talk following Andy and PJ's trips to their respective regional sites to watch their teams lose in the second round.

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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.
0:43.7	It is March 24th.
0:45.5	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.1	Brendan!
0:48.5	I got to say, wasn't the victory Monday I was hoping for, but what a delightful golf tournament on Sunday afternoon.
0:57.4	A great golf tournament, a very good to great Florida Swain.
1:02.3	I wrote about it at length in the Friday Egg newsletter.
1:05.7	I don't know.
1:06.2	It just, that was before Tampa went the way it went.
1:09.7	I was worried.
1:10.9	Did you catch up?
1:11.8	You were, you went to Milwaukee.
1:13.6	You want, I urged you.
1:15.7	You were going to go back to San Francisco area.
1:18.6	And I was like, you got to stay.
1:20.0	You're already there.
1:21.0	I know it's, you know, 50, 50 proposition.
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