A non-conforming “non-story,” the Korean Bird suspension, and a US Open rota
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The usual Wednesday segment running down the week’s schedule is promptly de-railed by discussion of the news that five players failed the new PGA Tour driver testing at the Safeway Open. Brendan and Andy react to the news being broken by a non-golf entity like Reuters and posit that it might be time for more outside voices to get involved in the regulation of this issue. They react to the player reaction that it’s a “non-story” and the Tour holding the line that this is simply a club issue and not a player problem. How did names leak already just three weeks into the new season? Will anything come of it as we get further into the season? Then they move to the schedule for the week, introduce the nickname “Tommy Tables,” crown an event of the week, and hand out a few random names to research for Friday. In news, they hit on the three-year suspension for the Korean Tour money leader flipping the bird to fans and ponder what kind of action it would take to get a 3-year ban on the PGA Tour. Physical harm to another player or a Jeff Gillooly style hit on a fellow competitor? They wrap with a discussion on the idea of a U.S. Open rota based off some Mike Davis comments to Golf Digest.
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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! |
| 0:23.0 | Start your Indian! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is October 2nd. Andy how we doing |
| 0:56.8 | Brendan I'm doing great on to quarter four this is that you know this is the best time a year for sports. We got, we got basketball gearing up now. |
| 1:07.0 | What's your favorite month of the year? |
| 1:10.0 | Not necessarily for sports in general. |
| 1:14.0 | Probably September. |
| 1:15.0 | September is up there, I think. |
| 1:18.0 | October is nice because you get the baseball element. |
| 1:20.0 | If your team's in it, there's no better post-season. |
| 1:22.0 | October is very strong. if your team's in it, there's no better post-season. |
| 1:22.8 | October is very strong. |
| 1:24.6 | September this year is a little hot for my liking. |
| 1:27.2 | The thing with September in Chicago is the best month, |
| 1:32.0 | and then October gets a little dicey but if you're a little |
| 1:35.2 | south of us like you are in DC October is probably like our September. |
| 1:41.0 | So you know like the thing it's kind of sad because like I'm now like I see the end and I'm about to be just in purgatory for six months where I literally won't be able to do anything. |
| 1:57.0 | That's, you make that sound much more depressing than it is. |
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