Fan-less south of the border, the design of Gary Player CC, and the purse suit
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode previews one of Andy’s favorite weeks on Tour, the event with no fans, the Mayakoba Classic. Brendan and Andy have a more-extensive-than-is-warranted conversation on the annual fall event in Mexico, reliving the glory of some past random champions, debating the course design, and receiving an education on mangroves. A short diversion on Aaron Wise and Joaquin Niemann leads to a larger discussion about the skills needed to jump up a level on Tour. On the European Tour, the Nedbank Challenge is previewed mostly with a dive into the Gary Player Country Club at Sun City. They also discuss the accompanying Lost City design with the famed “Crocodile Hole” and green in the shape of the African continent. With the year winding down, there’s a look at the OWGR Top 50 and the bubble boys who could claim a Masters spot, and some names prompt pondering about driver testing machines on every tee at Augusta. In news, they discuss the Chainsmokers playing a concert at The Players and an OWGR stat that illuminates the greatness and consistency of Rory McIlroy. They wrap with some fun about the lawsuit at Alpine CC over a waiter spilling wine on a $30,000 purse, recalling some of the more stupidly expensive purchases they made in their past.
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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. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen, start your Indian! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is November 13th. |
| 0:54.4 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:56.2 | Brendan, do good. |
| 0:58.5 | What a week of golf ahead? |
| 1:00.4 | We got a no-fan event. |
| 1:02.3 | And we got Westy defending his title from last year |
| 1:07.6 | Down under and the |
| 1:09.3 | The animal preserve Westy just roaming around with all the wildlife the baboons the giraffes |
| 1:16.3 | I don't know if this is the one though is this not the one now this is Sun City. This is Gary Player Country Club |
| 1:24.8 | This is the one with Multiple Island Greens? No, no, no, that's the other one down there. |
| 1:28.0 | Another Gary Player design. |
| 1:30.4 | This is one of Gary's 400 golf designs, but the only one that has his name attached to it. |
| 1:40.0 | Oh, it's a very Player, Gary Player Country Club. |
| 1:44.0 | All right, straight up GP. |
| 1:47.0 | I think it's over 8,000 yards too. |
| 1:49.0 | Did you see he like tweeted congratulations to McCarran and then like Donald Trump the president |
| 1:54.6 | where you tweeted it or something. |
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