Anthony Kim back!?, LIV signings and bunglings, and Dunlap goes pro
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan have left Orlando so they reconvene from separate coasts for this Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. They ramble around at the top about some PGA Show observations as well as Aldrich Potgieter’s big KFT win before jumping into the larger (but less burly) news item that Anthony Kim is planning a return to professional golf. It’s unclear where exactly that golf will be played, either LIV or the PGA Tour, but the return is predicated on a guaranteed payout upfront so they wonder how that might work on the PGA Tour. So will AK be coming to LIV? While they’re on LIV, they express some concern about many details seemingly up in the air with the season starting in about a week. Teams need to be filled and communication is scant. Also, there are some nuggets on the state of the deal, how far apart the PIF and PGA Tour might be, and whether Rahm went to LIV with the expectation that a union was much closer than it appears. Nick Dunlap’s announcement to turn pro is also covered, with some intel on the PGA Tour sweating a potential defection until the final minutes. They close with an SGS Golf Advice segment that tells the tale of another trip to the Golf Club of Lebanon, the infamous story from a prior Advice segment.
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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 Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is January 26th Andy how we doing |
| 0:44.1 | Brendan I'm uh I'm recovering I got to say I got to say that um |
| 0:50.4 | you know where the the most grueling events in golf are ranked |
| 0:57.2 | Number one or number two the Western am you know where you notoriously have to play 36 holes basically every day on your way to title for a week. |
| 1:07.0 | Number one, the PGA show. |
| 1:10.0 | Dude, I had never been. I may never go back now not because it was a miserable experience or |
| 1:17.8 | anything just I don't know if I will I was I was a dead man walking by like 3 p.m. I had I had I'm in adequate shape not good |
| 1:31.1 | adequate I think I've played golf in some extreme circumstances, 36 a day. |
| 1:37.1 | I had no legs. I was dead. Dead. I don't know if it's just like you feel like, you know, we're beaten with like partners and friends. I don't know. I mean, you got to be on the whole time. I was shot each day by about two or three o'clock. |
| 1:53.0 | And now you're back in California. |
| 1:55.0 | You did a cross-country flight. |
| 1:56.0 | Was the flight okay? |
| 1:58.0 | Anything all right? |
| 2:00.0 | Flight was actually great. |
| 2:02.0 | I popped up open the laptop, wrote a little bit, and then I tuned in, caught almost all of the Jokovich |
| 2:12.0 | Ciner Match. I've been a big center guy since his |
| 2:16.2 | marathon against Al-Karaz two years ago in the US Open. |
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