Nelly’s career moment at Riv, Scottie gets testy with Ted Scott, and the Memorial model
6/8/20261 hr 37 min
After a "fabulous golf weekend," Andy and Brendan return to recap the best-case scenario unfolding at the U.S. Women's Open and a marathon Sunday at Jack's Place that ended up in yet another playoff finish. They begin with Nelly Korda's win at Riviera, her first U.S. Open title and another leg down on both the Career Grand Slam and Career Super Slam. The two are joined by former LPGA caddie Matthew Galloway to break down the weekend and what this monumental win could mean for women's golf moving forward. They discuss how to improve the broadcast experience on NBC as well as the impressive list of future host courses for the U.S. Women's Open. Andy and Brendan then move on to the Memorial, where The Postman delivered on Sunday! J.T. Poston took down Ryan Gerard in a Sunday playoff after playing 33 holes due to a rain-shortened Saturday round. Poston's win and Gerard's continued 2026 emergence are propped up as evidence that the Signature Event model is working as intended, with both Andy and Brendan criticizing the idea of "Track 2" players not being able to play their way into "Track 1" events on the new PGA Tour schedule. They also discuss Scottie Scheffler at length following a now-viral interaction with Ted Scott on Thursday afternoon and another disappointing finish at perhaps his best course-fit on Tour. PJ pops in to share that Ben Crane has FINALLY won on the Champions Tour, solidifying the quality reporting that he and Andy did earlier this year. Andy and Brendan also pepper PJ with questions about his upcoming 100 Hole Hike on Tuesday and how he's planning to survive the marathon day while staying sane while the Knicks have a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.
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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.
Andy Johnson· Host0:13
And here we go. All right, all right, all right. Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 8th. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:46
Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. A great weekend. How are you doing?
Brendan Porath· Host0:51
I'm good. I'm good. Had a great weekend. Did the typical youth sports stuff. Temperatures went up, had some pool time. It was good. Fabulous weekend. Fabulous golf weekend.
Andy Johnson· Host1:01
Amazing.
Brendan Porath· Host1:01
It was like a really strong golf- Amazing golf weekend ... consumer as a pr- golf watcher. I, I know some people probably got out and played too. It was just a great, great golf weekend. Um- I got a good story.
Andy Johnson· Host1:13
I got a little story time.
Brendan Porath· Host1:14
Okay, please.
Andy Johnson· Host1:15
So I've been, uh, I've been ... I, I went to the library the other day to do a little work, and my, uh, my daughter went, went with my in-laws, and they asked her, "Where, where's your dad?" She goes, "He's at the library."