A U.S. Open preview and the LIV undercurrents at Brookline

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are live from the Precision Pro House in Boston, where they’re on site after a full day at the U.S. Open. They begin with Brooksy getting pissy with the press for talking too much about LIV, but relay how that battle for pro golf’s future is dominating every conversation with different stakeholders on the ground this week. That may change once the balls are in the air on Thursday, and they go long with a full preview of how the course has looked so far this week, some potential trouble spots, and why the USGA might be fearful of actually pushing the envelope. They also discuss the reception Phil’s received and might receive during the championship. The usual “favorite tee times” segment of major week yields some laughs about a few peculiar trios. Lastly, they close with reports of the DP World Tour possibly turning on the strategic alliance with the PGA Tour to get in bed with the Saudis.

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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	Get your men!
0:23.0	Start your Indian!
0:35.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is June 15th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:42.0	Pleasure to be here. Wonderful to be here in Boston, a town you're very familiar with.
0:51.0	You know, we're here in the precision pro house. This is a great week, a major championship.
0:55.0	Very excited, very excited. Obviously, live golf in the first PGA tour is a constant continuing topic as it has been on this podcast in the world of golf for basically the first six months of this year.
1:09.0	But like, it's possible to consume, have to engage that very real news story that's going on and also be extremely excited for the competition at hand, for the characters in the competition, for the stage that they're playing on.
1:27.0	Yeah, it was awesome. Obviously, I have an affinity for Boston having gone to college here, but it was beautiful out today.
1:34.0	It's such a cool town. It feels like, you know, we're grateful obviously to be in the precision pro house. Be back on the road for the US Open.
1:42.0	The house, the rangefinder is built. We're here.
1:45.0	The house, the rangefinder is built. So it just feels like a really good setting for the national championship, right?
1:54.0	Like this, this town, this market, this club kind of given its history as a founding member, the aesthetic of it.
2:02.0	I'm not suggesting it should be the host every other year or anything like that, but it just is like a real sort of scene befitting the national championship.
2:11.0	How about one of the founding clubs of the USJ, one of the most instrumental clubs in golf hosting the first major championship post live?
2:23.0	Interesting. Not sure what that means, but it's an interesting observation.
2:28.0	Just thought about it. Interesting. Yeah, no, it's been, should we dispense with the live talk for?
2:34.0	Yeah, I think just in general, like general commentary, I haven't been doing this that long, but I have been a golf fan for a very long time.
2:47.0	And I cannot remember any major championship where a non like obviously like Tiger coming back from things became big stories, but that you're talking about a player, a dominant player in the competition and coming back to the competition.
3:05.0	This tournament on the ground has a really different atmosphere, a different feel, a different energy than I've ever been a part of where, you know, it's just the golf's kind of second to the circus that's happening with the political power grab in professional golf.
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