A Jumbo Ozaki Spotlight and do The Match’s high ratings matter?
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
With both hosts worse-for-the-wear, the Part 2 Spotlight on Ernie Els is pushed to Friday. This Wednesday episode begins with some debate on the excitement over The Match’s astronomic TV ratings. Does that number matter as a proof of concept for something more or is it just indicative of a one-time windfall in a unique moment? This leads to some further debate over mic’d up players and if we’ll ever actually see that on the PGA Tour. Andy also relays a hunch about one tournament on the upcoming PGA Tour schedule perhaps not being played. The second half of the episode is devoted to Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki. Brendan relays some notes from a day of reading and researching the Japanese legend. His dominant career on the Japan Tour is covered in depth, as well as his ambivalence to playing outside of that Tour. His flamboyant style, allegations of cheating, playing with illegal “hot” equipment, and rumors of ties to organized crime are also discussed in detail.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics. |
| 0:03.0 | There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. |
| 0:08.0 | So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen! Start your engine! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the ShotCon Start. It is May 27th. Andy how we doing Brendan I'm doing good how about you I'm good |
| 0:58.3 | fantastic beautiful beautiful day weather talk here more weather small talk |
| 1:02.4 | quarantine small talk beautiful day here more weather small talk quarantine small talk beautiful day here |
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| 1:15.9 | a sauna built on a swamp but so we're in a nice little like middle trial period and my |
| 1:21.7 | vow to not turn the air conditioning on very like dad like dad shit type |
| 1:27.6 | stuff I refuse to turn on the AC before we get to June this year and I think we're |
| 1:31.8 | going to make it you You know, it's just against |
| 1:34.5 | principle to turn it on and often we can't make it around here. But lucky you. So I think we're getting there. This week could get |
| 1:40.8 | dicey. We might touch 90 but that but that's the big drama of the week. |
| 1:45.0 | That's we were 87 yesterday. |
| 1:48.0 | Did you turn on the air? |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:50.0 | Do you have air? |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.0 | You did. Oh. Soft little millennial over there. Turn it on the air. Yeah. You did. Soft little millennial over there. Turn it on the air. You know what? |
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