An SGS Spotlight on the inimitable and eccentric Mac O’Grady

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Following the typical episode on Sunday is this bonus Spotlight episode on Monday and the subject is the legend of Phil McGleno, aka Mac O’Grady. Andy and Brendan spend nearly two hours relaying their research on the life and career of Mac and it still seems insufficient. They begin with his rough upbringing, how he found the game at Rancho in LA, how he lived in a storage box in a garage, and how he turned pro with a network of backers in the LA area. The 16 Q-school failures over a decade are recounted, as is the final moment of triumph when he broke through and it’s described through the colorful prose from Mac’s journals. His talents and eccentricities, too numerous to list here, are given a full account, including the ambidexterity and obsessive search for every piece of information on the golf swing. The many conflicts and controversies, including his years-long feud with PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman, are also a major part of the story. O’Grady is a nonpareil figure in the history of golf and thanks to Rukket for sponsoring our attempt to dive into at least a portion of his story.

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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 set up 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.
0:16.6	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen!
0:22.4	Start! Gentlemen! Start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is November 30th.
0:44.0	Andy, how we doing? Brendan, I am doing wonderful. How are you?
0:50.0	I'm well. I'm doing well, Brown's bronze just won it's a victory Monday
0:54.2	Bears are played a night you said you're hopeful or optimistic about Mitch Trebiski something like that
0:59.4	I mean it's not really but you saw did.
1:05.0	Who knows what's gonna happen?
1:08.0	All right.
1:10.0	Pepi Peter. Well, Pepi Andy, enthusiastic Andy.
1:14.6	All right, well, just as an order of business here, just to clarify, we had a Sunday episode,
1:19.8	November 29th that discussed the match discussed what the strategic alliance
1:25.6	to between the PJ tour European tour more of our regular show show news of
1:29.6	the day
1:30.3	order golf stuff for the day. Talking about Dick Blans, Finnish, and South Africa, things like that, you know.
1:36.8	Regular show.
1:37.8	This Monday episode will be a spotlight on Maco Grady, Phil McLellano, aka Maco Grady, Philip McClelland O'Grady,
1:46.2	Mac O'Grady, he's most famously and infamously known.
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