Masters Thursday: Round One Recap from Augusta
4/10/20261 hr 5 min
Andy and Brendan are live in Augusta to recap a full day on the ground at the first round of the Masters. It’s early, but the course is in exquisite condition and primed for a stupendous final 54 holes. They ponder if the course conditions, which are firm with no real moisture on the horizon, could prompt some player complaints or a become a situation worth #monitoring over the next three days. Then they get to the leaders at the top of the board, like the defending champ Rory McIlroy and how the very plausible title defense somehow flew under the radar. They discuss Sam Burns’s impressive first round, Scottie hanging tough in late conditions, and how the P in Pat Reed stands for “PROBLEM.” Grumpy Bob MacIntyre is also dispensed with following a tough first day, and the two LIV pillars of Bryson and Rahm are put in the crosshairs. They hand out some awards, like the Good Guy Gerry award, Best and Worst shots, and more from day 1. They close by emptying the notebook with some amusing odds and ends and then go over Storylines that No One is Talking About.
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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 10:13
And here we go.
Andy Johnson· Host0:16
All right, all right, all right. [cheering] Gentlemen, start your engines!
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 9th. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:46
Brendan, I am doing fantastic. I can, I can safely say that I am doing better than Bob McIntyre.
Brendan Porath· Host0:54
[laughs] Yeah. If you're not a Bobby Mac fan, then, you know, shame on you. There's no reason to not be a Bobby Mac fan.
Andy Johnson· Host1:04
I think he- Or at least an indifferent ... I think he might've showed some reasons. [laughs] He's, he's kind of a pouty, acting like a pout- Bratty Bob is back ... yeah, he's being a pouty boy out there.
Brendan Porath· Host1:11
[laughs] The birds were, birds were just, you know, present at Augusta National. He's flipping off inanimate water hazards.
Andy Johnson· Host1:20
More than just Jason Day's- Curse words ... uh, apparel.
Brendan Porath· Host1:23
[laughs] Yeah, curse words. There you go. Cheeky. Uh, curse words, you know, just disgust generally. Yeah, you