Hideki’s tour de force, Billy Ho’s masterpiece, and contender/pretender for Sunday
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 11 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A lively virtual Bixby House results in this punch-drunk Masters table-setter for Sunday. Andy and Brendan react to that outrageous inward 30 from Hideki Matsuyama, but not without first pondering a preposterous rules hypothetical related to JT. Then they run through the leaderboard with a manichean contender/pretender judgment for each player. Two of the four players at 7-under are dubbed pretenders, while the head and the heart battle for a Spieth assessment six shots back. Jose Maria’s valiant fight is praised. Billy Ho’s absolutely ridiculous circus act is re-told, with a full notebook of details on the hole-by-hole indignities (pardon our language but it’s not ours, it’s his). They close with their picks to win and some rambling about a section of the English language that befuddles Andy.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of set up 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! |
| 0:24.0 | Start your escape! |
| 0:29.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Saturday edition of the shotgun start. It is April 10th. Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:49.0 | Brendan, I am, I'm too great. What a Saturday. |
| 0:54.0 | There was one mover, one big, big, big mover on that Saturday, actually two. One moved down, one moved up. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, I'm not going to ask you what brought you more joy, but there were two big moves for moving day. |
| 1:09.0 | Hideki, certainly, the toast of the town. He is 11 under. The other mover, would you suggest I want to make sure I know where you're going with that. |
| 1:19.0 | One Justin Thomas. |
| 1:21.0 | One Justin Thomas. |
| 1:23.0 | He did most of his moving on the 13th hole. |
| 1:27.0 | Shot of 75. Sorta, I mean, he looked kind of like a junior golfer. Once he hit the one bad shot, it was just compounding. He was over. |
| 1:35.0 | He chipped it, then hit a bad, I mean, there were all very hard shots. It's just kind of really compounded. |
| 1:41.0 | He was checked out after the shot in the tributary to raise Creek, although they showed the ball. |
| 1:47.0 | It might have started on the short, short event on 10. He just got a little bad attitude going, you know? |
| 1:55.0 | The three putted 11 right from the Tiger Alley. He got out of there. He found a nice soft landing. Then he three putted a bogey to 11 birdie 12. |
| 2:04.0 | But the ball was, they showed it, right? Trickling down tributary to raise Creek. |
| 2:09.0 | I was like, that ball is going to make its way out to sea and find Geronimo somewhere out there. |
| 2:14.0 | It's going to wash up on shore somewhere Geronimo. They will reconnect via that ball the way it was floating downstream like that. |
| 2:21.0 | I saw a note of golf historian Anthony Piafie asking a very valuable question. |
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