Phil Mickelson’s Late Career Spiral, LIV’s contract ‘clusterf*@%’, and PJ’s Knicks moment
6/12/20261 hr 29 min
We are four wide on this busy Friday with a lot of news to discuss as the week closes before the U.S. Open. Brendan is joined by KVV, Joseph, and PJ. They begin with the Golf Digest report on allegations against Phil Mickelson of nonconsensual and inappropriate physical contact with a female employee at his home club that led to his removal from said club. They discuss the late stage spiral of Phil, and the seriousness of this now most recent allegation, the mess he’s made of his career, what could have been, and what will never be now. Then they get into a spate of LIV news from reports on the future of its remaining four events in the Financial Times, to a report on confusion about the contracts for players like Jon Rahm, to one more about the Australian Open perhaps becoming the “death knell” of LIV’s reimagined plans. Joseph brings some provocative comments about the TPC Toronto test for the Canadian Open and the PGA Tour putting bumpers up for the highest level of pro golf. KVV has a Flashback segment on a former rules kerfuffle at a U.S. Open that had players tweeting angrily all through the evening. Then they close with a wide-ranging PJ minute on the Knicks, an all time win, and an all time rant about Carmelo’s place in franchise lore.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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.
Kevin Van Valkenburg· Guest0:13
And here we go.
PJ Clark· Panelist0:16
All right, all right, all right. Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 12th. Kevin, Joseph, PJ, how we doing?
PJ Clark· Panelist0:48
Bring it in.
Speaker 10:50
Bring it in.
Brendan Porath· Host0:50
[laughs] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That was a lot. I, uh, did a little bit of change up here. Uh, we're going Friday four wide, uh, down the stretch like the, uh, disgraceful Canadian Open with whatever it has, six people tied at the top. [laughs] What's that face, Joseph? Are you, you here to defend the Canadian Open at Osprey Valley?
Joseph LaMagna· Guest1:10
Yeah. Uh, it's Toronto Mink is what I've been deciding on- Toronto Mink [laughs] ... to call it from here on forward. [laughs] I like TPC Toronto. Are, are good friends up north.
Speaker 11:19
We're gonna start a tariff war, Joseph, you know.
Brendan Porath· Host1:22
You like it? All right. Well, we're going four wide, which, you know, would be- I like it ... th- that is not... Th- there's, there's six tied for first,