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The Shotgun Start

An SGS Spotlight on Frank Stranahan, “Muscles” at the Masters

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a Spotlight appetizer for the 2020 Masters, where the Thicc Boi Bryson and his protein shakes will be a headline story at Augusta National. The subject is Frank Stranahan, often thought of as the first great weightlifter and physical fitness obsessive in the game (and also someone who claimed he would live to 120, 130, and even 150 years old). Brendan and Andy discuss Stranahan’s world class bodybuilding career, his marathon running career, and his golf career, where he’s often characterized as the greatest amateur on the lengthy bridge between Jones and Woods. Aside from his play, he was also a lightning rod figure as a trust fund kid out of Toledo. This episode covers not only his wins as an amateur and close calls at the majors, including a runner-up at the Masters, but also those controversies, most notably when he was expelled from the Masters during a practice round just a year after finishing second. This tension and outright conflict with the Masters, Clifford Roberts, and Bobby Jones is discussed in depth -- the rumors behind it, the expletive laced arguments that led to his invitation being yanked during a practice round, and the continued Roberts antagonism even after the Augusta National co-founder’s death. This Spotlight is made possible thanks to Rukket, which is giving away two SPDR portable driving ranges to SGS listeners and 20 percent off a next purchase -- enter here.

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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!

0:22.4

Start! Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start.

0:42.5

It is November 6th.

0:44.5

Andy, how we doing?

0:45.8

Brendan, it's Victory Friday.

0:49.0

Mitch's MRI came back negative, no surgery needed on his right shoulder.

0:55.6

Mitch who? Tribiski.

0:57.8

I didn't even know there was an injury, an issue.

1:00.0

Yeah, you got injured like the one play played last Sunday.

1:03.2

Oh, I didn't even see that. I didn't even know that was an outstanding issue.

1:07.0

Victory Friday.

1:08.5

MRI results.

1:10.7

All right, there we go.

1:13.8

So this is a little bit of a delayed Friday episode,

1:16.6

but we're going back to our pandemic quarantine days.

1:20.7

We're doing a little spotlight. Oh, I think a lot of Masters' themes, certainly a lot of Masters is the subject throughout.

1:29.0

We're going to do a spotlight on Frank Strannahan.

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