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The Shotgun Start

Russ Bus rolls at Colonial, Bryson talks to AI for swing tips, and NCAA week

6/1/20261 hr 3 min

This First of the Month recording has everyone in a great mood off the jump, with Andy immediately taking a victory lap for a big weekend from Pete Crow-Armstrong against the Cardinals. Brendan quickly transitions things to Russell Henley's playoff win at the Charles Schwab Challenge, the sixth PGA Tour victory of his career. Henley birdied the final three holes in regulation to tie Eric Cole before making another on the sole playoff hole. Andy brings up some other six-time winners in an effort to contextualize Henley's career and his chances of winning a major championship. Brendan calls Henley a likely Presidents Cup lock despite believing the U.S. should look to build some younger stars ahead of Adare Manor. The two discuss Colonial's continued run as a challenging Tour stop and suggest that this should be the main Texas event on the new schedule. Andy and Brendan then run through results from the rest of the golf world, starting with yet another Joaquin Niemann win for LIV Golf. Despite the individual win for Niemann, the Crushers still took down the team title in Korea, aided by Bryson DeChambeau's use of Google Gemini to help fix his swing. Nobody can fathom any player other than Bryson needing to use AI in order to help figure out swing woes, but Andy thinks this may HELP his chances at Shinnecock. This episode wraps with a recap of the Men's NCAA Championships through Sunday, with the final individual round and the team match play still to come early this week.

 

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Clips

Bryson’s AI Swing Coach
Flagging Golf Rule Violations
LIV Star Wants NCAA Return
Stat Math: Wins vs Majors
Making Ryder Cup? Nearly Impossible

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. PJ· Panelist0:13

    And here we go.

  3. Andy Johnson· Host0:17

    All right, all right, all right.

  4. PJ· Panelist0:19

    Gentlemen, start your engines.

  5. Brendan Porath· Host0:28

    [upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 1st. Andy, how we doing?

  6. Andy Johnson· Host0:47

    Brendan, all things are right. What... [laughs] What a nice surprise. That is a first of the month recording.

  7. Brendan Porath· Host0:55

    Wake up, wake up, wake up. It's the first of the month.

  8. Andy Johnson· Host0:59

    First of the month.

  9. Brendan Porath· Host0:59

    What a, what a good one. We're back. It's- That's, like- Oh ... maybe two in a row. I don't know. A couple recently I feel like after a dry spell.

  10. Andy Johnson· Host1:06

    I mean, we were... It was a cold, cold December. [laughs] Cold winter.

  11. Brendan Porath· Host1:09

    [laughs] Um, all right. We're g- What a great weekend. Great weekend.

  12. Andy Johnson· Host1:14

    I, uh, I'm just happy PJ's here. I thought he was in the stands in St. Louis this weekend. [laughs] I thought he was in the outfield chanting overrated with the Cardinals fans- [laughs] ... at PCA before he hit the hardest ball of his career- It

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