Rory vs. Spaun: Sunday drama, electric Monday playoff at The Players

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We are Sunday spitballing! Andy and Brendan are back home, but PJ is still at TPC Sawgrass and they hop on to discuss a wild Sunday at The Players Championship that is still unresolved. They discuss Rory’s finish after running out to a three-shot lead following a four-hour storm delay, and J.J. Spaun’s battle back to nearly clip him out of the playoff. The make some picks for that playoff and offer some theories why Rory should be an obvious heavy favorite.

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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 Sunday-slash-Munday-Monday edition of the shotgun start.
0:45.5	It is March 16th. Andy, how we doing?
0:49.3	Brendan, I'm doing all right. What a tournament.
0:52.8	We are, uh, this will be a truncated version of the shotgun start here.
0:58.3	A quick little guy here tonight, Sunday night, maybe 15, 20 minutes.
1:02.6	The player's championship is not over.
1:06.0	72 holes are completed.
1:07.7	We are going to a three-hole aggregate playoff, 16, 17, and 18, about as good
1:12.6	of a three-holes you can get for this kind of aggregate playoff between Roy McElroy and
1:19.5	JJ Spawn. Quite a contrast in resumes, achievement, status, so to speak. Awesome, awesome kind of thing that golf can produce.
1:32.9	I'm all here for it. So tonight we're just going to do 20 minutes, then do a full rundown.
1:37.5	I've got a lot of notes. I know you have a lot of notes. We're both back home in it with the
1:42.1	family doing family chores, but we'll be doing a full Monday show.
1:45.8	Tonight we're just going to do a quick, quick little setup.
1:48.6	I do have to shout out.
1:50.6	This is good as it's going to be for Monday morning golf.
1:53.7	Brew the Goodwock Coffee tomorrow morning.
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