Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, so I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.

And here we go.

All right, all right, all right.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engine!

Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is April 5th. Andy, how are we doing?

Brendan, I'm doing wonderful. I had a great day out at Augusta National the day, had a great day at Augusta National yesterday. Extremely excited for this year's masters.

I am too. I feel like the last, at least I don't know how long I've been doing this, five, six masters. I've been doing it longer than that, but it feels like the last five or six masters.

It's like this is really the most anticipated masters ever. Like I don't know that that's the case this year. A lot of people are saying it because of like the live players and PGA tour players being under the same umbrella amplifies it.

I don't know that that's the case. All the masters are very big. There have been recent ones where like, you know, obviously Tiger was playing well before 2019. There was one year like Phil was playing well, Rory, the slam and all this stuff.

It feels like every year, like you do those calls with, you know, ESPN or CBS and it's like this is the most, this is probably the most anticipated masters of like our lives. And as people are saying that again, I don't know that's the case, but I am, I am as fired up for this one as I've always been. It's like always the same.

So I think like it's not a bad time believing that especially last year when you had the live undertones already, but you had Tiger coming back from like a crazy.

It's an injury. Yeah. Yeah. Like this is like not to me, it doesn't it pales in comparison to last year. The one makes I'm actually like kind of excited about compared comparatively the last year because I feel like Tiger had sucked the oxygen out of everything else.

Yeah. And this year there is a little bit more balance in the storylines going into the tournament and I like that.

Yeah. I like like Tiger's still going to be the main attraction when he tees off on Thursday. And when he plays practice rounds, you're going to have a huge gallery or patrons following him.

But the reality is that this year there is a little bit more talk about Shethler. There's a more talk about Rory. There's more talk about, you know, other guys fills here at least maybe he might play.

The field thing is is I don't know we'll get to him later. He's like he's kind of on his own here with this whole he's a whole the whole different ball of wax. The one thing for me.

Like walking around the last couple days. And it's not like my first masters, but and this isn't the most profound thing. But the one thing that's really hit me is how much.

Like the masters means to so many like different kinds of people that are just golf fans or different or sports fans, right? Like it's the rare golf event that kind of I don't know butters the bread of the hardcore golf nut because you can start talking about like really in depth stuff at the 13th hole.

Like really in depth like the hard core golf nerd and obviously it means a lot to people who are just you know just understand it for like the brand of this sporting event that they love that that is very very distinguished like kind of brand of way it looks the way it usually plays the way like even if they don't know anything about golf, right?

And they're just there to watch tiger like the way that can appeal to such a different cross section of both die hearts and casuals and people who are barely interested in golf is pretty unique to me and though and that for me is just hit me over the last couple days is it's so fun for us as like golf nerds to really get in the weeds of all these little holes and going through number five with you today.

You were kind of talking about the angle and how the bunkers come out too far and and there's so much of that because of it's the same place that we come back to as golf nuts, right?

And we know all these holes pretty well by heart and we can identify so much about them and what's happened there and then like kind of the random club who doesn't know what a cut or a draw is like let's go to the most rudimentary stuff.

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