Andy’s pro-am with Blockie, PIF-PGA Tour drama, and Valhalla fallout
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode is punchy, and it begins with a travel tale from Andy that had him quickly tucking his tail between his legs in Fort Worth ahead of his big pro-am round with Michael Block. Brendan has a lot of questions about his prep, what tees he’s playing, and what he expects to ask him. They also talk about some of the Valhalla fallout with a few amusing player testimonials about just how easy it was. Then they get to a lengthy and rambling schedule for the week that includes Andy clearly being corrupted again for Event of the Week honors, leaving his stand-up mixer on the curb for a round with Blockie. There’s also a story about Kevin Na and the Challenger he won. There’s some scuttlebutt on the continued PGA Tour board chaos, with another resignation in Mark Flaherty and a New York Times report that the deal with the PIF “is not dead.” The factions are at war. What’s next and where does the DP World Tour fit into it?
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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 decision to the shotgun start. It is May 22nd. |
| 0:44.0 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:45.6 | Brendan, I am doing great. |
| 0:47.9 | I am, uh, I'm down in my, one of my favorite places, Fort Worth. |
| 0:52.0 | It's, it's blocky pro am Eve. Are you playing with |
| 0:56.2 | blocky tomorrow? Is that confirmed? Yeah 830, 830 off the first tee. |
| 1:01.6 | Got 9 holes with blocky, nine holes with blocky, nine holes with ZB. |
| 1:06.5 | Comfy parent. |
| 1:07.5 | The same person, you know, a similar conversation I imagine. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, similar driving, driving distance. imagine. When you play with them, if Blocky had ZB short game, or if ZB had Blocky short game, |
| 1:25.0 | who would be better? Could ZB actually be something, make something of himself? |
| 1:30.0 | If you had Block, you know, when you're playing back to back like that they'll be amusing |
| 1:34.1 | you uh can I give you a travel tale today yeah kind of one of those, put your foot in your mouth moments. |
| 1:47.0 | What would you say? |
| 1:50.0 | Yes, sir, and it's a ma'am and they're looking at you. |
| 1:53.0 | Like an Augusta. |
| 1:55.0 | I just remembered that. |
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