Is this the worst field in PGA Tour history?

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It’s a light schedule for the week, but that does not mean there’s nothing to talk about on this Wednesday episode of the Shotgun Start. Andy and Brendan begin with a few notes on the East Lake Cup, including if Oklahoma has a recruiting advantage when it comes to burly recruits, like linebackers or QBs preferring a certain school. Then it’s on to the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, which boasts quite possibly the worst field in the history of the PGA Tour. Whether it’s cost of travel, vaccine requirements, or some other reason, it’s not even a full field with alternates dropping like flies. Andy combs the bottom of the field for a quiz game on whether or not a specific player in this field has had a *top 25* on *any* OWGR-eligible tour in the past five years. They ponder some potential SGS favs who could find a little rejuvenation ala Brendon Todd and Brian Gay, the winners here the first two years. It’s 30 minutes or so of laffs, incredulity, and analysis you didn’t know you needed, and may still not need, on the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

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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	Get the man.
0:24.0	Start your engine.
0:38.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start.
0:41.0	It is October 27th.
0:43.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:45.0	Brendan, I wasn't sure what we were going to talk about today.
0:50.0	I was kind of thinking, oh, there's not much going on.
0:54.0	I had been, you know, looking at the Bermuda stuff.
0:58.0	I knew that was a story, but then I carved out a little time to dive into the field, and now I know what we're going to talk about.
1:07.0	So I'm too delightful.
1:10.0	This is unbelievable occurrence.
1:13.0	I don't know who could say when the last time a full field PGA Tour event wasn't full.
1:21.0	Couldn't fill it, yeah.
1:23.0	Nobody with the access to the stats is going to tell us that.
1:27.0	Oh, no, they're just really trying to downplay this and disappear.
1:31.0	And Ronnie Bolton, they're Rob Bolton.
1:37.0	Rob Bolton, though, is just, he's shouting from the rooftops.
1:41.0	He's the Woodward Bernstein of this just complete catastrophe for the PGA Tour.
1:46.0	These field changes of the WD, WD, just, and he quote tweets, each one.
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