Eamon Lynch joins to discuss the new golf schedule
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This quick pop-up podcast takes on the wave of schedule announcements that came from the various organizations on Monday. Eamon Lynch, a columnist at Golfweek and contributor at Golf Channel, reported on the discussions between golf’s organizing bodies last week and that reporting came official on Monday. Eamon discusses the process of the PGA Tour, R&A, USGA, PGA, and Augusta National coming together to create a makeshift schedule for the rest of 2020 immediately after The Players was abandoned. We discuss the R&A’s decision to cancel The Open and how the delay in reaching that caused some tension at the end of an otherwise collegial process. We also discuss the USGA’s “creativity” in the process, from cutting down its field to considering Riviera as a 2020 venue, as Eamon reported on Monday. And finally we consider what further changes may be coming and how tenuous this current schedule may be for the rest of the year. Thanks to Eamon for joining us for this interview.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | 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 special Monday night edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:53.2 | It is April 6th, still. |
| 0:55.5 | Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:56.7 | Brendan, such a quick turn around here talking. |
| 1:00.3 | This is like it's Masters Week. |
| 1:01.8 | It's like we're doing daily. |
| 1:03.1 | That's true, a double dose of branded today. |
| 1:06.1 | So fantastic. |
| 1:07.2 | We just gathered around the dinner table here, |
| 1:11.8 | five o'clock Eastern |
| 1:13.0 | with Aeman Lynch to discuss the new schedule |
| 1:16.7 | that came out or schedule if that's your inclination |
| 1:21.6 | that kind of came out from in a wave this morning from the various |
| 1:26.4 | governing bodies I got the emails were popping almost like at a CBD PR type pace, |
| 1:33.6 | CBD oil PR relations type pace, |
| 1:36.4 | just non-stop from the PGA tour |
| 1:38.3 | from the USGA from Augusta National, |
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