A Spotlight on the what ifs of the 2005 U.S. Women’s Open

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return to an old favorite format, the SGS Spotlight. The subject of this episode is the 2005 U.S. Women’s Open at Cherry Hills, won by the relatively unknown and extreme longshot, Birdie Kim, who pulled off one of the greatest shots in major championship history to clinch her only LPGA win. They set up how that historic venue played (hard) for this Women’s Open and if it’s due for another one. They discuss the trio of amateur phenoms in 15-year-old Michelle Wie, 17-year-old Morgan Pressel, and 19-year-old Brittany Lang all contending on Sunday to become the second ever amateur winners of the championship. This was also where Annika Sorenstam’s bid to win a calendar year slam came undone and Lorena Ochoa’s really started to take off. Ochoa also hit one of the worst shots you will ever see, which gets ample coverage here with citation to some humorous one-liners from Johnny Miller. They conclude with some of the larger themes on what happened to Birdie and the expectations (and burdens) that were then set for Wie, Pressel, and Lang.

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0:00.0	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.
0:14.0	And here we go.
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:21.0	Determine!
0:24.0	Start your escape!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a spotlight edition of the shotgun start.
0:42.0	It is late May, early June, something, whenever you're listening to this. Andy, how are we doing?
0:48.0	Brennan, I'm doing, I'm doing great. I'm excited to be here on a Friday night.
0:58.0	These are the exciting Friday night plans of 35 year olds recording a podcast.
1:08.0	The job calls, and here we are. We are recording a spotlight. This one, we're going to do a few on U.S. opens or characters that had a significant history at the U.S. open over the next month or so.
1:22.0	This first one, with the U.S. Women's Open at Olympic Club, bearing down on us quickly. This one will be on the 2005 U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills, which Birdie Kim won.
1:35.0	It is brought to you by and supported by the U.S. Open Victory Club and the U.S. Women's Open.
1:42.0	Join the Victory Club. We talked about this last year. The U.S. G.A. came on. They make some of these spotlights possible. There are a lot of work. There are a lot of extra work and somehow we end up recording this on a Friday night.
1:54.0	But the U.S. G.A. support makes them possible. With the Victory Club, it costs of whopping $0.00 to join.
2:05.0	What?
2:08.0	$3.99.
2:11.0	That's terrible. It got me good.
2:15.0	You get latest news on the Women's Open and the U.S. Open. You get early access to ticket offers and packages. I actually got my cousin tickets.
2:25.0	I think I talked about this to this Women's Open at Olympic. He lives in Northern California. He has a couple daughters. They're going to go up.
2:32.0	It was a ridiculous price. I know some of this is brought on by the pandemic and limited fans and parking and all that stuff.
2:39.0	It's honestly one of the better deals I've ever seen and I was happy to hook them up.
2:45.0	You get early access to ticket offers. You get virtual experiences. Limited edition merchandise. They're working on a couple of different play U.S. Open courses and things like that.
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