Disastrous TV ratings and How LIV guys could return to PGA Tour as talks stall

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This PACKED Wednesday episode wanders around for an hour on a variety of important and inane topics on what should be an otherwise sleepy stretch of the golf year. Andy and Brendan begin with news of some truly horrific TV ratings from Sunday’s PGA Tour event, which were beaten by LIV’s own paltry ratings. Then they get to a Bloomberg report that talks between the PGA Tour and PIF might be held up on the notion that LIV players must return or forfeit their money from that enterprise, along with Joel Beall’s reporting otherwise on what’s truly holding up the talks: how LIV players are re-integrated back into the Tour. They discuss how that might happen, and who is actually worth taking back of real value. There’s a lengthy Mid-Am digression with some notables and their incredible stories. There’s also a segment on the legend of Sunny Abacoa coming out of the swamp to reclaim his MLGT throne. Schedule for the week goes deep on Champs Tour chatter at Pebble, as well as the DPWT’s flagship event at Wentworth. They close with news on the Masters expanding coverage to Paramount Plus and a name for the Vegas match between LIV and PGA Tour stars.

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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 set up 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.
0:16.6	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is September 18th.
0:45.2	Andy, how we doing? Brendan, I gotta say, I'm a little bummed out, you know? A lot of things got me down.
0:57.1	Okay, what's that? I mean, one of them is our own Joseph Lamagna taking a run at the pod.
1:03.4	The shotgun start is stupid.
1:06.0	You hear that?
1:08.0	Audio.
1:09.0	Audio evidence.
1:10.0	Simi's talking about live I hope I think he was talking about the pot if this
1:17.2	that's that's neither a run nor a compliment it's just the state of play I
1:22.4	have no I've never people said much worse things sometimes have taken them as compliments.
1:27.2	People call us stupid and sometimes a good thing. We have no pretension about what we offer here.
1:33.0	Also, you know, I'm a little sad about the Procore.
1:37.2	Sad about the Procore numbers.
1:40.5	Are you?
1:46.0	I don't think they marketed the event the right way. Do you think General Patton takes it personally that no one gave a shit about him winning?
1:50.0	I don't think General Patton even knows about the ratings yet.
1:55.0	Can I give an honest minute of praise for General Patton Cozire?
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