Friday at the Open: Rory’s emotions, illegal drivers, Fore fights, and Westy’s rise
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This special Friday afternoon edition runs through some instant reactions to the first 36 holes at The Open. Andy cannot contain his Lee Westwood excitement with the hard-luck Englishman rising near the top of the leaderboard again. We run down Westy’s chances, as well as the entire top 10, and look for some names outside that group to make a longshot, given the history, run at the Claret Jug. We review the contrast in Brooksy’s and Spieth’s rounds, and who should be the favorite at the midpoint. With the Pace Car in the lead, Flashback Friday goes down the rabbit hole of that one time the R&A handed out a slow play penalty, which Andy attempts to argue greatly helped Phil Mickelson’s career. We spend a segment reviewing Rory’s push to make the cut and his emotional post-round interviews. Tiger’s decision to skip the WGC Swampass is praised but the grading of his week at Portrush is not kind. We wrap with some late breaking news on Xander Schaueffele failing a driver test and Bobby MacIntyre getting into it with Kyle Stanley over his failure to yell “Fore!” We conclude with some quick hitters on the Meth-head uprising in the heartland, Dru Love’s admirable work in Canada, and Carson Daly returning to our golf lives.
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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 afternoon edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:53.4 | It is July 19th. |
| 0:55.0 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:57.0 | Brendan, what a day. |
| 1:01.0 | Day two of the open delivers. |
| 1:04.0 | Glorious, glorious, after glorious morning. |
| 1:07.0 | Afternoon got a little slow there |
| 1:09.0 | till Rory picked us up at the end, |
| 1:11.0 | but another great day. |
| 1:12.0 | The party had started already |
| 1:14.6 | West the island is in jubilation getting a late run from our our hero |
| 1:21.8 | lighting out fireworks on the beach, just a full out celebration on West the island, is it not? |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | I thought you know, it was exactly what we were talking about last night. |
| 1:32.0 | He's like, just just he plays par golf, totally stuck in neutral, |
| 1:37.1 | rips off 11 straight pars to start the round, |
| 1:40.4 | and then closes with the flurry. |
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