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The Shotgun Start

A Mark O’Meara Spotlight, the commish works for free and TV programming wishes

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A Monday episode begins with news that PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan will forfeit his salary as golf is suspended. We briefly discuss this and also some of the numbers of positive tests coming out of Florida about 10 days after The Players went on at TPC Sawgrass. One person reportedly likely positive for Covid-19 is Pete Cowen, world-renowned coach who was on the range at TPC Sawgrass and undoubtedly interacting with a number of players and staff. We also hit on the uncertain future of the Olympics despite organizers saying it’s not postponed or canceled yet. The new USGA rules adjusted for the new realities of playing golf are also mentioned before we transition to some angst about the lack of classic programming during these golf-less days. The SGS Spotlight for this episode focuses on Mark O’Meara. We highlight his U.S. Amateur win as an underdog, his penchant for winning “B” events, his Tiger friendship that went south, and his amazing late career run at the majors in 1998. Some amusing anecdotes about Johnny Miller playing at Cypress in the Bing Crosby, ‘98 Open runner-up Brian Watts losing it on the Japan Tour, and the Mark-it-Nearer nickname are also included.

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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 set up 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 engines! And the Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is March 23rd. Andy, how we doing?

0:55.0

Brendan! I'm doing all right. I got my like 10 days of isolation at this point.

1:01.0

10 days.

1:03.0

Yeah.

1:05.0

Hmm.

1:06.0

Maybe the first 10 of many.

1:09.4

Handfall.

1:10.4

What does isolation mean?

1:12.2

Like in your basement just in her house? I'm kidding just

1:16.9

grinding down in the dungeon I'm looking at Google Earth images of golf courses and things like?

1:23.4

Today I went upstairs.

1:24.8

Today I worked upstairs.

1:27.0

I'm back down in the basement to record,

1:29.2

but I had to go upstairs.

1:30.6

I needed the light.

1:32.0

Good. All right.

1:34.0

How are you doing?

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