Influencer invasion, DLF canceled, and a chat with CBS lead producer Sellers Shy
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This Friday episode begins with some amusing anecdotes from the ground about the influencers overrunning the Phoenix Open this week. Brendan calls for a complete and total influencer rollback. News hits on Stacy Lewis getting the nod for Solheim Cup captain and the Indian Open being called off yet again, but Andy vows to not let DLF fall victim to cancel culture. Then they are joined by CBS’ lead producer for golf, Sellers Shy, who chats about the evolution of broadcasting in golf and his career in the industry, and more specifically about his work at CBS after taking over the lead chair last year. Thanks to Sellers for his time and indulging our questions.
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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 | Ladies and gentlemen, start your engine! |
| 0:39.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is February 11th. Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:46.0 | Brendan, I'm hanging in there. I'm a little worn out. Big day. |
| 0:52.0 | Big day radio row? |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, yeah, radio row. |
| 0:57.0 | Hangin' out now. Big day, I saw a couple golf courses, a worn out. |
| 1:04.0 | Didn't watch any of the waste management. Didn't get to see lots of thirsty activations. |
| 1:14.0 | Didn't see much golf. |
| 1:17.0 | I mean, I've gotten multiple reports from the ground, players, caddies, people, they say it's out of control. |
| 1:28.0 | It's not like how am I supposed to work in this environment, dog or whatever that's happy to go more on it. |
| 1:34.0 | Like, you literally cannot, you tripping over influencers. |
| 1:38.0 | There's nowhere to go. They're everywhere. |
| 1:41.0 | Everybody's done it. It's gotten so far out of control. |
| 1:46.0 | We need a total and complete shutdown of the influencer infiltration to the 16th hall until we can figure out what the hell's going on. |
| 1:55.0 | We needed influencer rollback, complete rollback of the influencer overtaking the Phoenix outfit. |
| 2:01.0 | Go ahead. What do you got? |
| 2:02.0 | Here's a quote from somebody inside the ropes. |
| 2:07.0 | Maybe playing, maybe carrying a bag, maybe walk around enforcing rules. Who knows what they're doing? |
| 2:18.0 | Yeah, Phoenix is an operator. |
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