A "Reed Day"

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The new month starts down a path we’ve been before: Patrick Reed engulfed in a shady rules controversy of his own making and the PGA Tour covering for him. This Monday episode jumps right into the drama from the weekend. Andy explains why this wasn’t nearly to the level of the sandcastles Reed built at the Hero Challenge. Brendan argues that this seemed to be an M.O. for Reed, his behavior indicating that this is part of some usual decision tree for getting better lies. They react to all the condemnation, even from some of the most down-the-middle voices in the game, like the analysts at CBS. The larger point, however, is that this illustrates yet again the vast unregulated gray area that the PGA Tour now lives in and how that seems untenable with gambling now becoming such a large part of the operation. After that lengthy discussion on the rules drama, they get into the actual brilliance of Patrick Reed’s play and how lamentable it is that all of it is overshadowed. Andy has some numbers showing how lofty the company Reed keeps from a resume perspective, and how he might have more staying power than all of them.

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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.
0:13.4	And here we go.
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen!
0:22.4	Start! Gentlemen! Start your Indian!
0:27.0	Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is February 1st.
0:40.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:41.0	Things are back to normal, Brendan.
0:43.7	February 1st, recording on a first.
0:48.0	I didn't give you your Brendan off the top, but...
0:51.3	I mean, what the content gods just gave us a January, late January
1:01.2	snowstorm per se as most the country has been just blanketed and
1:06.4	snow I wouldn't know it's oh yeah 75 and sunny every day where I am but yeah you're
1:11.9	a soft little millennial you fled your natural habitat for
1:15.2	warmer climes because you couldn't hang hey you know now you're down in the
1:19.6	swamp and as people saw on the Instagram Live show today, you are, you might have been in the swamp too long.
1:26.0	You've taken on this pro golfer mindset. You may be filing articles for PGA Tour.com here this week.
1:32.0	Change your Twitter handle to the PGA Tour Andy. for PG-Tour.com here this week.
1:32.6	Change your Twitter handle to the PGA Tour Andy
1:35.0	or something like that.
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