John Deere shootout, Firestone leaderboard bloodbaths, and early Portrush reviews

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This Monday episode begins, apropos of nothing, with a story about Monty. Then we move to the heartland and weekend at the John Deere Classic. We discuss Dylan Frittelli’s career arc and the last player to win on Tour while wearing glasses. We also get into the JDC’s spot on the schedule and if it has been unfairly squeezed. We then move over the Scottish Open and the absolute pillowfight of a playoff, as well as one participant’s odd hat design. Beef Johnston’s last-minute qualification for The Open, as well as his recent disclosure that he’s been battling depression is discussed at length. The no-cut Senior Players meant there were going to be some big numbers at the bottom of the leaderboard, so we go fishing down there for some interesting stories and catch a few. To begin Open week, we go over some vocal critics of Tiger’s scheduling approach, Phil’s “reset” and consistently odd wardrobe, some early course intel at Portrush, and Brooksy perhaps feeling slighted by not being the betting favorite.

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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.
0:14.0	And here we go.
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:20.0	Gentlemen!
0:23.0	Start your engines! And the Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 15th.
0:54.6	Andy, how we doing?
0:56.3	Brendan, just do a great.
0:59.4	Last Major of the
1:05.0	open is here I think the open is I heard they might be going for glory's last shot
1:10.0	The rebranding as you know not the world's major the oldest major championship in golf the
1:16.8	open like the open they have they have zero branding problems what if they just
1:21.2	decided to you know every everybody can identify it with the style of golf, the look of golf, like it's just so it stands out from all the others, you know, masters is its own category because it's at the same course.
1:35.0	But it just has such a strong branding, I don't know,
1:42.0	foothold. Imagine if they just turned it all upside down I think it would work this is glory
1:46.6	his last shot I think it would work yeah you don't think it would upstage the
1:52.2	WGC FedEx-St Jude Invitational?
1:55.0	That might be, you know, a different type of last shot.
2:01.0	What's that mean?
2:03.4	It's just be, you know, humanity's last shot.
2:07.0	Oh my God.
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