A SGS Spotlight on Sleepy Sandy Lyle and PGA Tour plans to increase field sizes but keep pace of play
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode begins with news of a PGA Tour memo to players indicating that they should still plan to be back in action at Colonial in mid May. The memo also, per reports, outlined details of field increases and more opposite field events to maximize playing opportunities when the season resumes. The new pace of play policy, however, is pushed off to next year and this, along with a deluded memo that the Tour may resume in mid May, has us aghast. What also has us aghast is a Valero Texas Open all-time power rankings that put Charley Hoffman No. 1 ahead of Palmer, Snead, and others based on … all-time earnings. Then we get to our SGS Spotlight of the day, focusing on Woosie’s nearby boyhood rival, Sandy Lyle. This is a fun deep dive into Lyle’s upbringing, his hyped amateur days, his peak run at the top of the Order of Merit, and his quick-strike efficiency picking up two majors and a Players in an otherwise underwhelming record at those “big events.” A career intertwined with Nick Faldo is closely examined from their earliest days to their distinctly different personalities to their rise as two British legends. The quirks of the ‘85 Open and the improbability of the ‘88 Masters are discussed, as well as the circus atmosphere of his ‘87 Players. Some fun stories about his propensity for skipping range warm-ups, the late-career tiff with Monty over a Ryder Cup captaincy, and once drinking four glasses of wine before unexpectedly making a playoff are also among this reliving of the Lyle legend
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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 shotgun start. It is April 1st. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:55.0 | Brendan! I'm doing okay. Just okay. |
| 1:00.0 | I was trying to think about an April Fool's joke I could make. |
| 1:04.0 | No, no April Fool's jokes this year. |
| 1:06.8 | No April Fool's hoaxes, no mislead, just if you do... |
| 1:10.7 | Shackleford will do one. |
| 1:12.1 | He always does one. |
| 1:14.0 | He gets all excited about it. |
| 1:16.0 | They're bad in a non-pandemic year. |
| 1:19.0 | It's annoying. |
| 1:20.0 | And now I guess Shackleford. |
| 1:22.0 | Wait, was the PGA Tours email hoax? |
| 1:25.0 | Was that an April 4th day? |
| 1:28.0 | As we sit here recording Tuesday night, |
| 1:31.0 | so this just came to me now that we're flipping the calendar to April. |
| 1:35.0 | Three weeks ago this Tuesday night which felt like three years ago the |
| 1:41.0 | Chain Smokers just lighting up the 17th hole at TPC. That was three weeks ago. |
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