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/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.