BMW PGA trimmed to 54 holes, FBF to the grand World Match Play at Wentworth

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This is a meandering Friday episode that touches on tennis, the grim prospects for the Bears and Browns, and the death of the Queen. That last bit of news has altered the plans at the BMW PGA at Wentworth, where play was suspended on Thursday and Friday and the flagship event has been reduced to 54 holes. There will be jokes, probably from Sharky. They discuss the early sniping from the grounds and how everyone looks like a loser. Then it’s on to Flashback Friday, which is a longer trip on a host of memories from the grand World Match Play event that used to take place at Wentworth. They start on a specific edition that had Isao Aoki walking away “winning more money in one week than any golfer in history.” That broadens out to the origin of the event, its death, how it could be re-born today, and the themes of its start that feel relevant to today’s battles. There are also some specific stories about Gary Player with a sketchy drop and Greg Norman vowing “never to return.”

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, 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.
0:21.0	Ladies and gentlemen, start your evening!
0:37.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is September 9th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:43.0	Brendan, I'm doing okay. I mean, it was, what a day for 54 whole tournaments, right?
0:52.0	Oh, we're starting out of the gate here.
0:55.0	Everybody's getting their 54 whole jokes in. I figured I'd, you know, just get it out of the way.
1:02.0	Just that, the joke about the queen conspiring with, you know, big J to sort of like rob these guys, live guys of their OWGR shots, points.
1:14.0	Just a lot of, a lot of, like, kind of layups there yesterday.
1:19.0	Yeah, I guess I, what's the over under on Greg Norman commenting on 54 whole being the standard at the European Tour event this week on social media?
1:29.0	Do you think he shows restraint and does not post about that? Or do you think he brings that up?
1:36.0	Nothing would, nothing would, I just don't believe that restraint is in his body right now.
1:43.0	I don't think he has the capability to restrain himself.
1:47.0	Yeah, there's a lot of, there's some who like to mix it up and some who don't.
1:54.0	I have a bit actually on flashback Friday.
1:58.0	It didn't mean to go down the Norman path at all again.
2:00.0	You know, last week was about how he was the center of the watch wars and was precluded from like press conferences and stuff.
2:07.0	Somehow in my research on a past Wentworth event, I have a bit about him pledging to never come back.
2:13.0	After another tip with some, you know, drama at Wentworth.
2:18.0	Speaking of the watch thing, I had numerous people message me.
2:26.0	Numerous trusted sources, you know, not your moaks say that he threw a Rolex on the desk at a Rolex meeting.
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