Driver testing comes to the PGA Tour and Flashback to a media member forced to play in the Walker Cup
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This delayed Shotgun Start ends with a host plagued by hiccups but comes out of the gate discussing the Bears debut on Thursday night football. Is the season over or is the door ajar for optimism? Then we get to news that the PGA Tour has will put new driver testing in place for this coming season. We discuss what we like and where the policy leaves us wanting. Also, we plea for real-time public release of the results on a giant video board with some dramatics around the new tests. Then we preview the Walker Cup and how the conditions of Hoylake will be a significant departure for so many of these highly acclaimed young American studs. We also offer to fly to Liverpool to periscope it in lieu of the lack of TV coverage. A delightful Flashback Friday goes deep on the origins of the Walker Cup, touching on a variety of amusing details like the GBI team getting worse for the wear in New York and writer Bernard Darwin having to step in and actually play matches for the team as a reserve player. Flashback also goes into a legendary stymie from the early Walker Cup days that has us yearning for the return and legalization of the practice.
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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! And the Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is September 7th and oh, September 6th. |
| 0:57.2 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:59.0 | Brendan, not used to saying the exact date. |
| 1:05.0 | It's usually the night before and I just add one. |
| 1:08.0 | Not real sharp over here. |
| 1:10.0 | A little worse for the wear after a big fantasy draft last night. |
| 1:15.0 | Was it a fantasy golf draft? |
| 1:18.0 | Champions Tour. |
| 1:20.0 | Chase for the Home Stretch Schwab Cup challenge draft. |
| 1:24.4 | How you doing? |
| 1:27.6 | I'm doing okay, you know? |
| 1:29.4 | This, uh, hey, last night was, it was a culmination of like you know when your little brother |
| 1:36.2 | finally you know they'd be in ping pong and and you feel kind of good about it or a little |
| 1:42.4 | cousin you know and yeah so good and |
| 1:45.8 | deep down you're like you know what they probably needed this more than we |
| 1:49.3 | needed this are you calling the Packers the little brother? |
| 1:52.6 | Oh yeah, I mean, they're, I saw some step before the game, |
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