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The Shotgun Start

Friday at the 2026 U.S. Open: Wyndham's world & Bryson's missed cut streak

6/20/20261 hr 15 min

Wyndham Clark finds himself firmly in the driver's seat after two rounds at Shinnecock Hills. Andy and Brendan discuss Wyndham's bid for a second U.S. Open victory as he currently sits four shots clear of the field. They bring in Kevin Van Valkenburg to break down Xander Schauffele's impressive Friday round and KVV sticks around for the rest of the show. The three discuss missed cuts from Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, making this another disappointing showing for LIV Golf in what could be its major swan song. Andy presents some Storylines Nobody Is Talking About to send us into the weekend, focusing on a "Frenchman," a drone, and a nightmare scenario for Oakmont Country Club.

 

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Clips

Neiman's Misconduct Penalty Explained
Oakmont's Ban Backfires
In Defense of Wyndham Clark
Psychologist Presser Read
Drone Interrupts Media Center

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Brendan Porath· 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.

  2. Speaker 2· Soundbite0:13

    And here we go.

  3. Andy Johnson· Host0:17

    All right, all right, all right.

  4. Speaker 2· Soundbite0:19

    Gentlemen, start your engines.

  5. Brendan Porath· Host0:28

    [upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 19th. Andy, how we doing?

  6. Andy Johnson· Host0:47

    Brendan. I'm doing fantastic. I gotta say, it was, uh, it was delightful, delightful day in, uh, in Southampton.

  7. Brendan Porath· Host0:57

    I did 30,000 steps 'cause, like we talked- Look at you ... about yesterday. It's, like, just the day you wanna be out there watching golf shots. And- You jumped out of here.

  8. Andy Johnson· Host1:06

    You're usually a slow starter in the morning. You usually are- That is such- ... dragging ...

  9. Brendan Porath· Host1:10

    bullshit. [laughs] That is such a mischaracterization of, like, one week where I was, like, sick or something. I was slow in the morning.

  10. Andy Johnson· Host1:18

    And you just- I can't sleep past, like, 6:00 on the road. You were- I can't ... you were out, out like a cannon this morning.

  11. Brendan Porath· Host1:24

    [laughs] That's not true.

  12. Andy Johnson· Host1:25

    You got turned, turned around, and you're like, "I'm going to the course."

  13. Brendan Porath· Host1:28

    Well, everybody's asleep.

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