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The Shotgun Start

Justin Ray on who made 2021 leaps, data walls, and other metrics

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Our Q4 Friday guest series continues with the great Justin Ray, perhaps the only *essential* follow in all of golf twitter. The premise of the chat was for Justin to edify us on some players who made significant improvements, or “leaps,” over the last year. We start with that, but then it quickly bounces around on a bunch of different, and interesting!, topics. We discuss the continued importance of distance, some strokes gained flaws, data walls at the majors, his beloved Houston Astros, the threshold for putting “proficient at Excel” on your resume, and much more. Thanks so much to Justin for his time and enlightening us.

Transcript

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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.

0:13.6

And here we go.

0:17.0

All right, all right, all right.

0:21.0

Determine!

0:24.0

Start your escape!

0:37.6

Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of Shotgun Start.

0:40.4

It is October 22nd, Andy, how we do it?

0:44.3

October 22nd, I feel like I'm in back to the future here.

0:49.5

Let me tell you, October 22nd, 2021 is my 10-year anniversary, and if we were actually recording this on that day, I'd be in some real deep shit.

0:59.8

So just to let you know, behind the peak, behind the curtain, this is Wednesday morning.

1:04.8

Again, similar to last week, we are recording early, whatever's happened to the Zozo has not happened at this moment, same with the LPGA, same with the Champions Tour Schwab Cup, which you know, doesn't start till Friday anyways, it's a playoffs, they start on a Friday, whatever, it doesn't sound like a playoffs to me, 54 holes.

1:23.0

But nothing's happened, we're recording early, we have another Friday guest, a little bit of a Q4 trend here, we're trying to get some guests that go in different directions.

1:31.0

We are joined by Justin Ray of the head of content, 21st group, you know, the stats was, he's your favorite Twitter followers, your essential Twitter follower.

1:39.6

We go in a bunch of different directions, Andy, what do you have to add, anything?

1:43.2

I got one thing to add, you're a smart man leaving your 10-year anniversary junior wide open.

1:49.4

That's true.

1:52.4

Yeah, smart, it's really smart, you could celebrate the junior of your 10-year anniversary with your wife just like you'd celebrate Thursday or Friday's junior, it just happens to fall on the same days.

2:07.6

That's just wonderful timing, just like when we record on the first of the month, I think the 10th year is going to be your best year because you get to celebrate the 10-year anniversary junior.

2:18.0

The 10-year anniversary, the 10-year anniversary, the 10-year anniversary junior is when we're recording, I guess, now that we're discussing time has no meaning.

2:27.0

Alright, let's kick it to Justin, he gave us plenty of his time and went in a bunch of insightful directions, really appreciate it, follow him at Justin Ray Golf on Twitter.

2:37.0

We now welcome in, Justin Ray, he is the head of content for the 21st group, among many other things.

2:45.0

He contributes to the action network, I believe, he contributes to PGA Tour.com, he is a Twitter addict.

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