Alternate lines at Oakmont, over-dramatizing the Top 125, and KFT card watch
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This Monday episode reacts to a full and diverse weekend of golf offerings, starting with the U.S. Amateur. Andy and Brendan review the revolving door of tv channels that the final visited, the Greaser-Piot match, the limited coverage earlier in the week, and yes, the alternate lines down different venerable Oakmont fairways that got plenty of action on Twitter. At the Wyndham, there’s a rant on the overselling of what it now means to *not* make the top 125, as well as some thoughts on the six-man playoff format, Chesson Hadley’s push, and Roger Sloan getting family time. In Europe, there are two segments dedicated to Ryann O’Toole facts and Calum Hill facts, which devolves into research on the Western New Mexico University mascot. They close with what turned into arguably the most compelling conclusion of the day, the regular season finish on the KFT, where David Skinns burst through for a win and a Tour card, Austin Smotherman held on for dear life, and Taylor Montgomery got screwed thanks to a well-worn old scheduling gripe.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of set up 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. |
| 0:15.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:21.0 | Get to men! |
| 0:24.0 | Start your engine! |
| 0:39.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:42.0 | Here it is, August 16th. Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:46.0 | Brendan, we're back. |
| 0:49.0 | Take two. |
| 0:50.0 | Take two at the start. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, it didn't get very far. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm worse for the wear, and apparently my computer is also worse for the wear. |
| 1:01.0 | As Joseph's birthday party, we don't need to rehash the comments about that, but one year old birthday parties are just caused for parents to probably celebrate themselves. |
| 1:12.0 | And here we are, Sunday night, we shake it off the cobwebs. |
| 1:15.0 | You made a few comments about how you're optimistic about Justin Fields, but we'll be lost to history. |
| 1:21.0 | You are not on the record about that, you're guarded, you seem excited. |
| 1:25.0 | You might have had a text on Saturday that was toning cheek that he's already better than my homes. |
| 1:29.0 | I don't know, but it's best that we just not let you comment about Justin Fields for fear of jinxing anything. |
| 1:34.0 | I think that was a sign that we're going to... |
| 1:37.0 | I'll relay any Fields comments as an unbiased or I'm sorry, as a neutral observer that can't have hope or doesn't need to have hope. |
| 1:45.0 | And we'll just let you remain silent on the second attempt. |
| 1:49.0 | We'll just let the bear spams bask away. |
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