Hovland (+ others) bomb & carve Olympia Fields, Ryder Cup roster locks, and Blockie-gate

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It’s a loaded Monday episode with the Playoffs in full effect, team match play rosters taking shape, and American cities to debate and pit against one another. Andy relays a tale from a boiling hot sweaty round in STL and Brendan discusses his travels from DEN. They begin with the incredible scores from another one of Chicago’s venerable championship tests and the heavy dose of wedges involved in them. There’s great praise for an outrageous Viktor Hovland closing nine, his “leap” year, and his amusing if unenthusiastic quote about the coming week in Atlanta. There’s a lengthy discussion on the Sepptic Tank, the group of superfans in t-shirts with that moniker, and his valiant fight to get into the Tour Championship and nearly knock out just a guy in the process. There’s also plenty more confusion over the FEC standings and the constant shuffling on the various cut lines. There’s a follow-up on Michael Block’s course record round at Valhalla, with some disturbing allegations and a spirited defense from sources inside the round, and from this podcast as well. The Ryder Cup auto-qualifiers are discussed, with Koepka getting bounced at the last second, and what it means for the captain’s picks. There is ample praise for Nick Dunlap’s U.S. Am win and a question about how soon he should turn pro. The KFT finals are also set up and debated, as well as Alexa Pano’s first win over in Europe. Finally, they close with Walker Cup and Solheim Cup roster news to follow-up on the earlier Ryder Cup debate -- a month of team match play draws nigh!

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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!
0:24.0	Start your end game!
0:38.0	Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is August 21st. Andy, how are you doing?
0:43.0	Brendan! I'm doing, I'm doing all right.
0:48.0	I got to live a little bit vicariously through, I guess not vicariously, I got to a little slice of what the boys are going to face next week in Atlanta today.
1:00.0	You see that forecast?
1:03.0	I was out in St. Louis, I was out in the golf course, it was 100 degrees, it was like feels like 115.
1:12.0	It was hot!
1:15.0	You know, that's what Denver, I was like going there, I was like, I'll get a break from the mayor, I look up, it's like 93, 94, the whole week I was there, the whole time I was there.
1:27.0	That humidity, I'm not breaking any news here, it's a dry heat, I don't know, coming from Maryland to play St. Louis at Atlanta where they'll have it next week, it does make a difference.
1:38.0	It just feels like, you don't feel like Lucas Glover, you just don't, whereas you get to some of these other places, and it's that boil zone, it just really adds a lot.
1:50.0	It sounds like that's what you had with the index of 115, Denver was not that way.
1:55.0	I'm not gonna lie, I think I've peed twice in the last 36 hours between, I said this wedding slash engagement party, and I was drinking all day long.
2:10.0	I mean, I was drinking water or both, I was consuming beverages from maybe 1 p.m. till pretty late at night, and I realized I hadn't peed all day.
2:26.0	And then it's just sweating, yeah, it's just, you know, this is what people came here for.
2:33.0	You're about, yeah, often I'm taking a vacation scale.
2:37.0	Yeah, no, it's been tied out there, it's August, hopefully it turns out to be, but it's not gonna turn in Atlanta, I know that.
2:44.0	You found your AirPods.
2:46.0	I did.
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