A U.S. Open preview from the Ecco House in Pinehurst
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan are together again, this time in the Sandhills of North Carolina for the 2024 U.S. Open. They are posted up at the Ecco House after a full day walking around Pinehurst No. 2, acquiring scuttlebutt about the course, USGA, conditions, and other miscellany. They discuss some early-week alarmist comments from the players about the course already being “borderline” and players shooting over 80 en masse. They wonder if Putterboy needs to be canceled. As per usual for these preview episodes, they pick out their “favorite” and worst tee times for the first rounds. They react to comments from Scottie, Bryson, Tiger, Rory, Viktor, Rahm, and more. There are multiple games-within-the-games proposed. There is some angst about ample paywalled Peacock coverage. They close with some “smoking gun” reporting on the Sandhills Screwjob that had people falling out of their seats in the media center. Finally, some picks are made, both for winners and darkhorses.
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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, start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is June 12th. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:44.4 | Brendan, it's doing our, I'm doing all right, you know? It's been a, all right, up and down. |
| 0:51.6 | Why up and down, what was down about it like I had a running with the long arm and the law |
| 0:59.1 | You got you got Gillis I don't know if I got Gillis Gillis Gillis got you. I don't know if I got a skill. Gillis got you. I will say it seems rather |
| 1:09.0 | like a like a severe punishment for the infraction. |
| 1:13.2 | I won't say that. |
| 1:14.9 | You're trying to, you got this, you know, out of town or carpet bagger coming in for California. |
| 1:20.0 | It's this Monday night. |
| 1:21.2 | And your backpack trying to come to North Carolina and you're |
| 1:24.9 | flying down here to find it the only thing in my backpack from California was |
| 1:28.8 | Granola. Yeah. The lawn arm of the law. |
| 1:34.0 | I looked even more disfavor of him. |
| 1:36.0 | All right, so you're blowing into town, |
| 1:39.0 | and you get pulled over. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm cruising. |
| 1:41.0 | What was the fraction of you're so you think I've been traveling all day and I got on a phone call with with will |
| 1:48.5 | Who's been hard at work trying to solve a major tech issue great Great week, great week for, you know, |
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