Friday at The Open, where there’s a new Big Jon Thomson

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode begins with the obvious: is Barbasol sponsoring an opposite field event changing people’s shaving cream purchasing habits? Andy and Brendan then get to the main event, covering another eventful day at Royal St. George’s. They discuss the Mattress King’s smooth 65 and where it goes from here with 36 more holes to play. They discuss Collin Morikawa’s continued press conferences loaded with catnip for the assembled Euro press. Jordan Spieth’s day is debriefed and debated -- which leads to a discussion of proper on-course snacks after he suggested he didn’t have enough food in his bag and sputtered near the end of his round. Frugal Frittelli and Grumpy Grillo also get an assessment, as well as Rory, somehow, some way finding time in the discussion. An All-English segment focuses on the Bumble Bee, Big Jon, Westy, and Temperamental Tyrrell. A lengthy round of contender and pretender closes it out as we head to the weekend at the Open.

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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! Start your engine!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 16th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. I mean, what a day. Lots of fireworks out there. Lots of stuff going on.
0:57.0	A lot of fireworks. Hey, I've turned my mic volume up. I hope that's better. We've forgotten several complaints that have been too faint. Something got screwed up in traveling last week. Hopefully this is better.
1:09.0	Great day. I have one major pressing question. I've been pondering and bouncing around my head all day after watching.
1:18.0	Do you think does anybody change their shaving cream, consumption habits, purchasing habits based on Barbosol sponsoring an opposite field event on the PGA tour?
1:32.0	No. I don't. What are they getting out of that? I just like popped into my head. You know how much Barbosol you have to sell to merit like a $10 million sponsorship too?
1:46.0	Like Barbosol costs like a dollar. I can't. I've just wondered what a shaving cream company gets out of an opposite field event in Kentucky during a major championship.
2:01.0	Here's the other question. Where are they going? So a lot of cheap either probably like still still got a PGA tour rate.
2:10.0	So here's the other question. Like a lot of these companies do it for the big corporate hospitality.
2:16.0	Yeah. Who's Barbosol bringing out? Like what do they have VIP customers? Or is it like what's their big client?
2:24.0	This guy's really hairy. Super hairy. So he shaves a lot. So this is our VIP customer. This is probably going to be just like Dell.
2:37.0	And people are going to light us up about what we don't know about Barbosol to our client base.
2:43.0	I'm Googling right now. I was concerned it was like proctor and gamble brand. There's like some subsidy, you know brand of the bigger company.
2:51.0	But I think it's its own little thing plugging a lot. I just I don't know like of all the things to market an opposite field event during the open.
2:59.0	I wonder and shaving cream being the product. I've always wondered about that. But they've been around a lot of time.
3:04.0	All right. Hey, I got an issue of apology right off the top here. Oh God.
3:09.0	Okay. Like Bryson. Bryson at his own big apology. Oh, actually, he did not apologize. He regretted his words.
3:17.0	I should say there's a distinction there. But go ahead. What's your apology?
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