Golf’s lengthiest couple of days

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This special Tuesday episode recaps U.S. Open Final Qualifying, whipping around from site to site with some amusing anecdotes. They begin with a #scoop on how this 2021 U.S. Open may have to be played under protest thanks to an indiscriminate slow play penalty handed out at one qualifying site that cost a Tour pro his spot in the championship. Then they praise, somewhat, Rickie Fowler’s approach to qualifying, sticking around an extra day in Columbus and playing in a 12-man playoff for a second alternate spot. There’s debate over the players who WD and if there should be a penalty for not riding it out. With several hot KFT pros qualifying, an old but angrier take is rekindled after Brendan and Andy discover there’s a Korn Ferry Tour event opposite the U.S. Open. They conclude by picking a few qualifiers they think could actually contend and some potential alternate sites that could be put in the rotation in the future.

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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	Gentlemen, start your end game!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to this special Tuesday edition of the shotgun start. It is June 8th.
0:43.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:45.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. I'm watching as a true performance and parenting is happening before my eyes with the kids out on the slip and slide, yelling out the window.
0:58.0	You know, looking out the window right now.
1:02.0	The water's just spraying everywhere, flooding the yard, no one's used it in 10 minutes, I'm shouting out the window, where is everybody?
1:10.0	Flooding the yard for no reason, while nobody even uses it. I can't even see them out the yard, yeah, I'm getting bothered here as we try to record this.
1:20.0	This is a special sectional, I guess now it's known as Final Qualifying, brought you by.
1:27.0	We're going to do a separate normal Wednesday show later, talk about all this PGL, talk about this Paul Meadow Championship, where the field is decidedly not a meritocracy, like the qualifying.
1:42.0	Not at all, you got Mark Hensby coming in the back door, a lot of things going on there, maybe the pancake, maybe the filet, so we'll do the usual Wednesday show a little later.
1:51.0	This is going to be a quick wrap, sort of on a sectional qualifying, final qualifying, it's brought to you by the US Open Victory Club.
1:59.0	They've returned as a supporter of the Friday and the shotgun start. It's the official flan club of the US Open.
2:06.0	Are you fan of the US Open?
2:11.0	Yeah, I'm a fan of the national championship.
2:15.0	You think you should join the fan club, right?
2:18.0	Yeah, I did join the fan club and I got early access to ticket offers for the US Women's Open, which I got from my cousin.
2:24.0	And they were sold out quickly and he had a day, so to be pictures on Saturday, before Lexi kind of tanked it.
2:31.0	He got the good Lexi, I suppose, with his daughter.
2:35.0	You have early access to tickets, you have limited edition merchandise, you get upgraded experiences and prizes with the Victory Club contests and sweepstakes.
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