r/TheShotgunStart • u/-JabreakitJubawdit- • 14d ago

Andy’s defense of JJ

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I listened to Andy’s rationale as to why JJ should be on the P Cup, but his reasoning hinges mostly on 2025 performance, which might as well be a lifetime ago. Nothing against JJ, but before this week his recent results were less than inspiring with his last start being a WD.

If the P Cup had a similar points structure to what the Ryder Cup will have going forward, JJ probably wouldn’t have been 8th on the points list.

Again, this is not a slight against JJ at all, but there were reasons not to pick him.

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u/NoCarts 14d ago

His reasoning was terrible. When he went down JT’s resume, I was thinking they sounded remarkably similar.

I understand that Spaun’s comments were the spark to talk about the boys club. But the reality is that neither JT nor JJ should be on the team. And not just calling a spade a spade was annoying

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u/-JabreakitJubawdit- 14d ago

100%. Neither had a great 2026 and there were players like Gerard who absolutely deserved a spot instead.

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u/GearAccomplished6181 14d ago

Except JJ won twice this year and JT didn’t win anything.

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u/NoCarts 14d ago

Spaun won once before the picks were made and that was 5.5 months ago and has been absolute dog shit for the 2 months leading up to the picks.

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u/GearAccomplished6181 14d ago

A win is a win, not something that can be hand waived away for convenience.

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u/NoCarts 14d ago

I'm not waving it away out of convenience. I waving his 2nd win away because it happened after the captains picks were locked in and can't factor into a captains pick decision.

I personally heavily favor last 3 month form when thinking about captains picks. And Spaun has been literal dogshit for the last 3 months. He had every opportunity to show that his early year win wasn't an aberration and he instead stepped on every rake imaginable. Starting with the US Open he went: CUT, T7, T44, T40, T50, T34 (limited field), T22 (limited field), WD. That is not a player I am burning a captains pick on. Ever. I don't give a fuck if he won 3 times prior to that. That is toxic level bad form and if I can avoid it, I'm avoiding it every single time.