An interview with John Ourand of SBJ on PGA Tour TV rights negotiations
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Friday episode begins with a check-in on the leaderboards from across the golf world. We lament PGA Tour Live’s decision not to cover The BfB’s run at 59 when they gave Cam Champ that treatment in Detroit. A special Flashback Friday begins with a spotlight on the Monday qualifier and Tiger Woods confidant that once won in Greensboro, and ends with a deep dive on a former U.S. Amateur champ who missed the top 125 by a spot that same year. Then we’re joined by media reporter John Ourand of Sports Business Journal. John recently reported on the PGA Tour accelerating their pursuit to come to terms on new rights deals with TV and media partners. He’s an authority on these rights deals and plugged in on the subject, laying out the Tour’s reasons for aggressively doing this now and who the players are vying to broadcast it to you. Could CBS and NBC be out? Could Amazon join the fray? Is a second dedicated golf channel coming? Ourand provides a primer and some educated guesses based on his early reporting. We end with some quick news on the ThunderBear’s ugly flight home to Europe.
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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! |
| 0:23.0 | Start your engines! And the Britain's and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is August 2nd. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! What a day is Friday. |
| 0:59.1 | We made it. Made it to the end of the week. |
| 1:04.4 | It's just a glorious feeling. |
| 1:06.9 | Hey, late breaking news. |
| 1:08.8 | Did you see a friend? |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know if we can say it on the record. |
| 1:12.0 | Just send us that at the Wyndham, |
| 1:14.6 | if you make an ace on one of the part three is |
| 1:16.4 | you get a million, you get a million |
| 1:18.2 | you get a million Wyndham reward points. |
| 1:20.9 | Unbelievable. What do you, what do these pro golfers do with that? |
| 1:27.0 | I just don't get it because like a Wyndham is like, |
| 1:30.0 | you're giving all these reward points to millionaires. |
| 1:35.2 | I mean this is not to make fun of like not to crack on a window. |
| 1:38.0 | I love I use Windham. |
| 1:40.5 | I got a Windham but it's just like I don't know that that's that's like it's like |
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