Embracing the fall series, and writing a Ryder Cup book with Shane Ryan

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We are joined by the estimable Shane Ryan for this Friday episode. Shane is at the RSM Classic this week in Sea Island, and jussssst finished a 40-day sprint writing a much-anticipated Ryder Cup book. We begin first with that project -- the arc and elevator pitch of the book, his overarching takeaways from a decade immersed in the Ryder Cup, what it was like to write in such a short span after the conclusion at Whistling Straits, and one especially despairing moment during that writing process. Then we transition to his view from Sea Island, what he likes about the event that some might argue shouldn’t exist, and what he’s seen this week so far. Shane is also a defender, mild albeit, of the fall series and expounds on what he finds acceptable and endearing about a portion of the schedule that is often an easy target of the misanthropes. Thanks to Shane for the time, and you can preorder his book here.

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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!
0:44.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is November 19th. Shane, how are you doing?
0:54.0	I'm good man, so happy to be on here.
0:57.0	All right, it is Friday morning, mid-morning release. We have Shane Ryan. He is a writer. You're probably familiar with him.
1:04.0	If you're a listener of this podcast, you're familiar with Shane. He's a writer for golf digest. He has a book coming out.
1:10.0	Do we have a time of one that will be released? I assume late this year, early next year?
1:15.0	Oh, I wish that were true.
1:19.0	Yeah, I had to record to write it to submit it by, you know, mid-November, but it's not coming out to May.
1:27.0	They target it for, you know, when the major start, but you know, compared to what we do on the internet, it takes so long for a book to come out.
1:34.0	I was going to say, I was surprised that it's already available for pre-order, right? It's called the Cup.
1:39.0	They couldn't lose. You were tweeting about it this week. You are officially done writing the first draft.
1:46.0	What's that process like? Are you going to have to write a lot more?
1:50.0	It's kind of, I don't know the answer to that question. I think every editor is different and I have a new one this time.
1:55.0	I really like it, but like my last editor for slaying the tire, the first book I wrote, didn't do anything.
2:00.0	It was just fine. You know, it's like, it's kind of like their role sometimes is more marketing and PR.
2:05.0	But yeah, so that book, I turned in a draft that was way too long because I thought that Microsoft Word pages were the same as book pages.
2:14.0	This is true. I turned it in. I turned it in and the editor came back and said, as it stands, your book is over 800 pages.
2:23.0	He was like, we're not going to publish that. So he's like, go back, go back and literally take half of it out. And I did that.
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