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The Shotgun Start

Thursday at the 2026 U.S. Open: Shinnecock setup walks the line

6/19/202653 min

The winds and fog came in the morning, but the afternoon wave found themselves with a favorable draw on Thursday of the 2026 U.S. Open. Andy and Brendan record after a "golf nirvana"-type day at Shinnecock Hills, commenting on the setup discourse that is already dominating this installment of the national championship. They empty the notebook and look at both the real leaderboard AND Andy's "Actual Leaderboard" with most of the first round completed. Wyndham Clark is four ahead, perhaps signaling that Lanny Wadkins was on to something with his renovation of TPC Craig Ranch. Andy and Brendan also share their experience with some Thursday evening traffic in Southampton after a post-round coffee run.

 

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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. Joseph LaMagna· Panelist0:13

    And here we go.

  3. Andy Johnson· Host0:17

    All right, all right, all right.

  4. Joseph LaMagna· Panelist0:19

    Gentlemen, start your engines.

  5. Brendan Porath· Host0:28

    [upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Thursday night edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 18th. Andy, how we doing?

  6. Andy Johnson· Host0:47

    Brendan, I'm doing, uh, I'm doing great. You know, I didn't know if we were gonna make it, uh, to do this live show. We got caught in some wicked, some wicked Southampton, New York traffic, which, you know- Are we going right there, chew- crusty old media members- Well- ...

  7. Brendan Porath· Host1:06

    and complain about the traffic and the shuttle going- Well, listen, I was just trying to hurry back to our friends at, at Maxfly. Our friends at Maxfly.

  8. Andy Johnson· Host1:14

    Yeah.

  9. Brendan Porath· Host1:14

    Just to the warm embrace- [laughs] ... of the dozen golf balls on our dining room table.

  10. Andy Johnson· Host1:17

    Three dozen.

  11. Brendan Porath· Host1:18

    The, the three dozen. Yeah, we got Tour, uh, X, Tour... We got multiple- We got- ... Tour balls.

  12. Andy Johnson· Host1:24

    They got the Tour X, the Tour S, the Tour LS.

  13. Brendan Porath· Host1:28

    LS. Yes.

  14. Andy Johnson· Host1:28

    Which is super popular.

  15. Brendan Porath· Host1:29

    Yeah,

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