JT torches Medinah, did the U.S. Am upstage the FEC, and Todd’s revenge

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return from the weekend with much to discuss and begin with results -- from JT’s win on the dartboard in Chicago, to Pieters’ return to the winner’s circle, to some cards secured at the first KFT finals event, and finally to Doug Barron, the longshot monday qualifier who won on the Champions Tour. In the not-playing-for-cash department, they review the finals of the U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst, comparing the conditions and style of that championship to the FedExCup event at Medinah. Is the core golf fan tuning out the FEC in favor of something like the two amateurs the last two weeks and if so, does that even matter? The comments from Adam Scott and Tiger Woods on distance and the one club that’s become most important while also easier to hit than ever are given full review. A painful “dump in the cup” segment does not play favorites, but on the KFT, they reconnect with an old friend and prepare for a full year of #ToddWatch. They wrap by discussing the auto-qualifiers for the Presidents Cup teams and the USA Walker Cup roster.

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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 setup 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! Start your engine! And the Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is August 19th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! Just another day, another weekend. I could, the tension that the atmosphere is playoff time.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:07.0	We're down to business.
1:09.0	We've reached the finals.
1:11.0	Two or three playoffs are down. We have 30 men standing for East Lake. So how was it out at Medina this weekend?
1:19.0	It was that there was a lot of shock and awe at a once considered vaunted championship test just being absolutely dismantled
1:31.5	carved up.
1:33.0	Were you out there?
1:35.0	Friday?
1:36.0	Yeah, Friday and I snuck out there on Saturday morning.
1:40.0	Okay.
1:42.0	Interesting. So. yeah, that seems to be the biggest takeaway. Well,
1:46.6	scoring. Six, you know, course record set twice by Hadeki Matsieama and then broken a third time by Justin Thomas.
1:56.7	On Thursday they tied it, two players tied it.
1:59.4	Oh, that's right.
2:00.4	Hadeki beat it by two, then JT beat his one day later by two more, and then Heede shot 63 again and finished five shots back with two 63's 63 twice I should say yeah sorry
2:16.3	Cool that that was the main storyline coming out of Medina we'll get to that in a minute but just to let's cover our basis here.
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