Defending medalists, Schedule moves & playoffs tinkering, and Journeyman of the week
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode begins with a preview of the women’s golf competition at the Olympics, and a quick rebuttal to any notion that it’s unfortunate the course might play “harder” for the women one week later. There are three things to watch, including a theory about why we have all three medalists from 2016 playing this week when we had none last week. Then it’s on to the double dose of Tour golf, both at the WGC Swampass at TPC Initech and the opposite field boys trying their hand at stableford in Reno. This just leads immediately into reactions on the new PGA Tour schedule -- the courier cup incursion into Euro Tour events, the remaking of the Playoffs for August stops in Memphis and Atlanta, and the omission of some major American markets, among other things. Continuing with the instant schedule for the week, there’s a return to the incredulity about the Euro Tour event at the fake St. Andrews and some praise for the U.S. Women’s Amateur. They close with a new segment, the Journeyman of the Week, brought to you by our old spirits-making friends in Michigan. This week’s subject is “the other Bassy,” who might be the greatest golfer ever at Arkansas.
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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 | Determine! Start your engine! |
| 0:36.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of Shotgun Start. It is August 4th, Andy. How are we doing? |
| 0:42.0 | Brendan, I'm doing good. Just another week. More Olympics? Lots to be excited about. |
| 0:51.0 | Can I have enough Olympics? Olympics golf? Probably the more meaningful Olympics competition. |
| 0:58.0 | At least it carries more weight with the participants, the greater global golf world on the women's side. The Olympics certainly resonates more. |
| 1:07.0 | So, the stakes feel higher, the weight feels heavier. So yeah, more Olympics at Kasumikaseki Golf Club. So there was some combination of moaning. |
| 1:19.0 | Some people praising that they were hitting a lot of lawn irons and fairway woods and hybrids into a lot of the players, into a lot of the holes where players last week were just, you know, hitting flip wedge darts into greens. |
| 1:34.0 | I don't know. Maybe it'll be set up differently. Maybe that's just some practice running observation on the way. |
| 1:40.0 | I got to lean on Michael Clayton who replied to the tweet that just perfectly succinctly with the men's game should mimic the women's game, not the other way around. |
| 1:54.0 | The men's game. I don't know exactly verbage, but he said it just perfectly. Listen, the women's game is what we should be striving the men's game to be with hitting actual long irons and testing all the requisite skills needed to play around a golf. |
| 2:13.0 | So let's let's just stop this complaining. We don't want the women's game to be like the men's game where they only hit wedges. |
| 2:22.0 | One of the things that makes the women's game so compelling is the fact that it hasn't been overrun with power and there is a wide variety of skills, a wide variety of shots required to win golf tournaments. |
| 2:35.0 | It cannot be dumbed down to I drove it well. I wedged it well and I put well, which is why I won. You know, you need to do everything well. It's not just about wedges. |
| 2:47.0 | Yeah, absolutely. Kagi Huggin had some similar tweets like Bollocks might have been the term used. |
| 2:52.0 | They said the men's game has lost the plot. That's not changed anything about the women's. Don't make it, you know, if it looks too hard, scores too low, that's not the issue. |
| 3:02.0 | All right, let's get to it then. Our schedule for the week on the, let's start with Olympics. We might as well start with the Olympics. |
| 3:10.0 | This is the end of the week. Okay. Fantastic. Fantastic. That'll be, you know, overnight. Oh my God. Whoever wrote up schedule for the week didn't even put it on there. |
| 3:22.0 | What? NBC? I don't know. Maybe they got frozen out. I see PGA tour events. I see US women's amateur. I see European tour. I see corn fairy tour as no Olympics. Anyways, that is your overnight. |
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