Brooksy’s big payday, the Wyndham con job, and Evian course conditions
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Brendan and Andy return from the weekend to discuss Brooks Koepka bagging the WGC Memphis, Wyndham Rewards and AON Risk-Reward Challenge in one fell swoop. We get into why Sunday seemed to fall flat, Rory’s no-show, and Brooksy’s motivations to earn elite status at Wyndham hotels. We also holler about why his Sunday arrival time was a non-story. In the interest of equal time, we also present a counter argument against all the WGC Memphis critiques. Is it a Southwinds problem or just a WGC problem or both? Wyndham’s investment in the season-long rewards chase only to have no one show up for the finale in Greensboro is discussed and adjudged as a five-alarm fire for the Tour. Then we move to Collin Morikawa’s big win in Reno and the raging Rookie of the Year debate now. Andy breaks some news with a leak of the new schedule for next year and how the Tour will work around the Olympics again. Jin Young Ko’s second major win of the year is given praise and Lexi Thompson’s shot at the course conditioning on her way out is not given praise. Sergio’s continued course destruction and petulant antics are panned. Andy then wraps with a rant on the complexities of the playoff system.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen! Start your engine! Oh, Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is 29th Andy how we doing Brendan just |
| 0:58.2 | Cellin you know just I thought I was gonna have have a sleepy Sunday of golf. |
| 1:05.4 | Did you have got a sleepy Sunday? |
| 1:08.7 | I was amped up to watch Rory and Brooks |
| 1:12.4 | and, but there's just all kinds of other just |
| 1:16.8 | Shenanigans going on you know all kinds of stuff. It's kind of larded up they They larded up the broadcast a little bit, right? It's just too many things. Not really focus on the golf. And also, I think there's a little, I don't know. We talked about this like last week there's a lack of kind of |
| 1:37.3 | competitive element these late season WGC's I don't think it exists in Mexico. I think there's still kind of people trying to get in shape, get in form for what's to come. |
| 1:49.0 | I think you saw this last year at the Akron. |
| 1:53.4 | These guys know they're gonna make six figures probably |
| 1:56.1 | or you know high five figure, just a good fat paycheck |
| 2:00.6 | for showing up. |
| 2:01.8 | And they're doing it because it's free money and free world |
| 2:05.5 | rankings points but like come Sunday when there's just there's not a lot of |
| 2:10.5 | motivation anymore you just hope you get kind of a shootout |
| 2:13.7 | or at least a couple guys near the lead |
| 2:16.1 | in that last group or two groups. |
| 2:18.7 | And we didn't get that today. |
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