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The Shotgun Start

Saturday at the 2026 U.S. Open: Can Wyndham be caught at sleepy Shinnecock?

6/21/20261 hr 12 min

The Long Island fans skipped out on Saturday of the 2026 U.S. Open, so Andy and Brendan have to recap everything they missed! After an even-par 70, Wyndham Clark now has a six-shot lead heading into the final round over a gaggle of players at -1, including Scottie Scheffler. How likely is it that Scottie can complete the Career Slam on his 30th birthday? Is Sahith Theegala live to run down Wyndham? Will Deputy Sam Burns finally earn a promotion with a strong Sunday shift? Andy and Brendan run down the leaderboard and look at the (few) contenders and (many) pretenders. PJ shares some observations from his day on the grounds and defends the Long Island fans for leaving due to a disastrous train schedule. Joseph LaMagna chimes in at the end to set up the third major Sunday of 2026.

 

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Clips

The Drop Rule Rant
Birth Control Comment Resurfaces
Enough About The Locker
70-Yard Club Toss Tale
U.S. Open Reality Check
Coffee Catastrophe On Clubhouse Stairs

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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. And here we go.

  2. Andy Johnson· Host0:16

    All right, all right, all right.

  3. Brendan Porath· Host0:19

    Gentlemen, start your engines. [upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Saturday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 20th. Andy, how we doing?

  4. Andy Johnson· Host0:46

    Brendan, I'm doing fantastic. You know, I gotta say, what a delightful day out on the golf course.

  5. Brendan Porath· Host0:54

    Lovely day. It was just, uh, you, me, and a few of our friends, apparently. That- Intimate ... [laughs] seems to be the talking point. Like, you know how... I mean, it just gets so simplified. The narrative gets so simplified. All of a sudden, we went from just talking about Windy as a one-dimensional person, Wyndham Clark. Literally, the only thing he's done in his life is destroy a locker. I think that's, that's what we've reduced Wyndham Clark to. The U.S. Open's been reduced to there were no fans there tonight. It seems like it, it's true. There weren't. There weren't. We were out there. It got very quiet. Uh, it was empty.

  6. Andy Johnson· Host1:27

    Well, yesterday, yesterday it was reduced to

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