How we define “choking” in golf, Akshay for Pres Cup, and Backboarding peaks
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It is a first of the month recording for the Shotgun Start, which means extra pep and enthusiasm. Brendan is joined by Joseph LaMagna to discuss the Rocket Mortgage Classic, specifically what “hypnotherapy” is and why it is working for the winner in Detroit. They also discuss how this could be the blueprint for a PG-B Tour event with its nice field mix and good Sunday leaderboard from it. They discuss Cam Young’s rough Sunday, snapping his driver, and the discourse around him being unable to win. They also hit on Akshay’s three-putt to lose and his current positioning for the Presidents Cup alongside many others outside the auto-qualifying spots. The odd finish on the DP World Tour is cause for a separate chat on what it means to be “choking” in golf, but that’s after they discuss what may be the greatest backboarding moment of all time, one so bad it’s good. The U.S. Senior Open will bring us Blandemonium Monday, which is a thing after producer PJ jumps in with his notes on the weekend in Newport. News hits on Nelly having to WD with a dog bite and Chambers Bay entertaining the idea of hosting a LIV event with the USGA perhaps leaving them out in the cold.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen! |
| 0:22.4 | Start! Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 1st. Joseph, how are we doing? |
| 0:48.0 | Wow, you just ambushed me. Brendan, first of the month recording. I don't think I've ever done one of these so I'm excited |
| 0:56.4 | Ambushed you how just I didn't realize it was the first of the month wasn't even on my radar |
| 1:02.0 | July 1st we're flipping the calendar. |
| 1:05.0 | I got a note today from Steve Ottabra. |
| 1:09.0 | It might be a mathematician of some sort, |
| 1:12.0 | or just normal, has a functioning brain. |
| 1:15.0 | Brendan, there's an 85% chance or 6 out of 7 that you're quote unquote recording on the first |
| 1:21.0 | because you can take credit for either recording on the first or airing the episode on the first. |
| 1:25.0 | Making the only time an episode won't be associated with the first is when the first falls on a Saturday. |
| 1:31.0 | Hope this helps with probability math inevitably enters the episode again. |
| 1:36.0 | All right, I take credit only for the announcement at the top. |
| 1:40.0 | It's only, it's not recording on the 1st. If I were recording on July 1st and I said it's July 2nd. I don't take credit |
| 1:47.3 | Andy is the one that's sort of principalists and just sort of bounces around and flip-flops and just includes everything as the first of the month. |
| 1:55.6 | But this is a true, in my estimation, first of the month's show and we flipped to July. |
| 2:01.2 | Andy has gone back to the heartland. He is in, I guess he lives in Big Ten Country |
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