Masters Saturday Recap: Rory, Cam, and a final round at Augusta
4/12/20261 hr 15 min
Andy and Brendan load in for an all-time round of Contender or Pretender as we head to the final round of the 2026 Masters. They discuss Rory McIlroy losing his six-shot lead with haste, as a host of talented chasers came and went at him on the leaderboard on Saturday, none more so than Cameron Young, much to PJ Clark’s delight. They run through the entire board, including sheriff of the fair police Scottie Scheffler, and debate who is game for Sunday. Should we be ringing alarm bells on Rory after the way he hit it in the third round? There is also some lengthy and emotional discussion about the setup of the golf course and the critique that Augusta National went too soft. They rip through some Storylines No One is Talking About for one final night before closing it out with an amusing story from under the tree and their picks to win it all on Sunday.
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First 90 secondsBrendan 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.
Speaker 10:13
And here we go.
Andy Johnson· Host0:16
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 10:19
Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings and welcome to a Saturday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 11th. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:46
Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. I gotta say, it is, um, eh, the Masters always delivers. Eh, here we thought we might have a sleepy weekend, and, uh, you know, 24 hours later, we're talking here. It's a dead heat. There are, uh, there are a lot of, a lot of, uh, names on the board that have a chance to, uh, get a green jacket tomorrow.
Brendan Porath· Host1:09
Yeah. It's a fabulous, fabulous moving day. Uh, you know, we talked about if this was gonna be, you know, everybody kinda stalled out trying to tri- track down Rory. Rory opened some doors, for sure, opened some big doors at Amen Corner, opened a door at one. But also, like, those guys just went and got it. There were some 65s from Scottie and most notably Cameron Young, who is now tied