Flashback to the WGC origin story, Senior Open absentees, and the Wyndham dilemma
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This Friday episode is recorded with Brendan on a beach house porch with beer in hand and Andy stowed away in a remote location working through some red wine. It’s a predictably winding road that begins with a late declaration for Event of the Week. They discuss early scores from across the world of golf, beginning in Memphis. News that this WGC Swampass event may be scheduled opposite the Irish Open is given a review. Andy provides some amusing intel on Westy’s whereabouts in lieu of playing the WGC Swampass. They get to Brooksy’s troubling quotes that he might play the Wyndham, and then discuss the viability of this entire side pot of cash really drawing the top players to that historic Greensboro stop. Then they take a closer look at the Senior British Open, where a handful of Americans at the top of the Schwab Cup Standings did not show up, which they find disgusting. Flashback Friday gets into the origin story of the WGCs coming into existence, featuring an anecdote with Greg Norman cussing out Tim Finchem. They wrap with news of a new Ryder Cup venue, the Walker Cup roster, and Andy’s soft spot for Tony Romo, who got another PGA Tour exemption.
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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! And the Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is July 26th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! Doing fantastic. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm at the site of this week's event of the week. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, what could that be? |
| 1:07.0 | The WGC FedEx St Jude Invitational? |
| 1:10.0 | It is the Wisconsin State Golf Association's par three state championship. |
| 1:17.0 | The best men and women amateur golfers gather at Sandbox and they play the sandbox see who's the |
| 1:28.5 | best par three player for the state. What a great contest do a lot of state golf associations have that I wonder? |
| 1:36.4 | No nobody else does this is a one of a kind thing. What are the yardages? |
| 1:44.0 | Like how, what's the longest hole at the sandbox? |
| 1:46.0 | The longest hole is about 165 yards. |
| 1:50.0 | Oh man. |
| 1:51.0 | So it's not, it's not about power. It's all about |
| 1:53.6 | sure. |
| 1:54.6 | Of course. |
| 1:55.6 | You know yeah. |
| 1:57.6 | Last year a like a 55 56 year old guy won it who's like a five handicap. |
| 2:05.9 | Never qualified for a state am. |
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