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The Shotgun Start

Elevated Status Slams, Alternate list fiascoes, and Flashback to “Mr. Icicle”

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode begins with an apology and some relief on the Bears dodging the Wentz bullet. Then Brendan and Andy debate what’s worse -- the narrative of an Elevated Status Slam now subtly being pushed, or the Tour Champ’s thirsty chase for the Happy Gilmore content train. Then they get to some initial thoughts on Riviera, which was playing quite firm and fast in the opening round. They discuss a few of their favorite holes, some “big names” taking their lumps, and Bassy Munoz’s new Flex Seal sponsorship. On the 2021 Web Tour debut, they discuss the alternate list fiasco that Mr. Golden Tee Andy Pope brought to light on Twitter. There’s a double helping of Precision Pro Flashback Friday, with Andy tackling a legendary duel that lasted more than a week before the next event at Pebble intervened, finished, and the Tour drove back to LA to finish up a playoff at Riviera. Brendan tackles Mr. Icicle, the four time LA Open winner, World Golf Hall of Famer, a war hero of the highest regard, and 11-time heart attack survivor. They close with news, which is a discussion on the pros and cons of Mike Whan taking the reins at the USGA.

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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!

0:24.0

Start your end game!

0:36.0

Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start.

0:40.0

It is February 19th. Andy, how are we doing?

0:43.0

Brendan, I am doing great. It's Friday, another week.

0:49.0

Another week in the books, spring approaches. I'm excited. It's staying light out. I mean, the weather's brutal here. We're under an ice storm.

0:57.0

But, you know, it's just being lighter at like 536. It made me happy the other day when I realized it dawned on me.

1:06.0

Yeah, it's late till like 630 down here. It's like 85 and sunny today. Another day. Just another great day down here.

1:16.0

Roughen it. Roughen it down there. It'd be great if you didn't poke everybody else for, you know, saying their winner isn't hard enough.

1:24.0

You know, your winner is fake and then you flood. Flood to the shore. It's amazing to be. I had some, you know, Texans reaching out asking me if this is what real winters like.

1:35.0

I think it was endangered species on, uh, species on Twitter. He said, uh, does it make you say, fuck, why do I live here every day?

1:49.0

I go, yeah, that's what real enter is except you feel that way for four to five months. It's not like four days.

1:58.0

That's fake winners when you feel it for four or five days. But I hope everybody's doing well. It's just a disaster down there.

2:08.0

And Texas said, obviously, I think, uh, you know, us northerners are a little bit more equipped for real winter bout.

2:17.0

I've been following that like super closely since early in the week. Yeah, I mean, they don't build homes for zero degrees.

2:23.0

They don't build, they don't have like justifiably not prepared for that. So, you know, the roads and municipalities, the power company probably should be, but, um,

2:32.0

that's a whole other can of worms there. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, I feel feeling for our friends and thinking of our friends in Texas. I have an apology.

2:41.0

I got to start with Paul. Yeah, just fairly pancake day has, you know, Catholic roots origins. It's a legit one. It's not like something that's made up legitimate, you know, that's a relative term. But legit compared to, I don't know, national like, you know, siblings day or national, whatever, talk. I don't know, whatever one pancake day has its origins in strove Tuesday, which I guess is the day before Ash Wednesday and everybody eats pancakes on Tuesday night.

3:10.0

So when I went off about these fake days, apparently this one is less fake. I didn't do it. I, I had Catholic Catholic school my whole life. I feel like you're bad, bad Catholic.

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