2026 U.S. Open recap: Wyndham Clark overcomes heckling fans, Shinnecock Hills test
6/22/20262 hr 4 min
Andy and Brendan are live from Southampton after a full day chasing the contenders around Shinnecock Hills on an exhilarating major championship Sunday. They debrief their day, and week, following Wyndham Clark, the villain for this New York crowd and now a two-time major winner. They discuss Clark’s status, his game this week, and the hate that seems to have flowed his way throughout the final round. They review the main challengers in Sam Burns, Tom Kim, and Scottie Scheffler, if you can call it that. Some winners and losers are coldly separated, focusing on the USGA, the golf course setup, Rory McIlroy, Joaquin Niemann, Miles Russell, and more. The rollback of the rollback is also discussed with some great frustration and skepticism about where we go from here. Then they bring in Joseph LaMagna and Kevin Van Valkenburg to offer their insights from the day on the Wyndham treatment, the notion that this was a putting contest, and much more. Thanks for listening throughout the week!
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First 90 secondsAndy Johnson· Host0:00
Now, the Shotgun Start in golf is full of mathematics. Um, there's a lot of, a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm gonna demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a Shotgun Start here.
Speaker 20:13
And here we go.
Brendan Porath· Host0:17
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 20:19
Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 22nd. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:46
Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. I gotta say, let me tell you, that was a great golf tournament. Honestly, phenomenal golf tournament. I think we come to a lot of these, and, uh, I thoroughly enjoyed the whole, whole week out there, and I thought Sunday really delivered.
Brendan Porath· Host1:06
Yeah. I think, you know, to quote my good friend, Paul Azinger, who was on the call last time. Not my good friend, it's a, a figure of speech. On the call last time at Shinnecock, control the controllables. You know that like little cliche he says. Like, when you control like where it is, how it's set up going in, who's in the field. Like, they did like everything they could to make it good, and then you kinda