Justin Thomas gets picked and Captain Zatch stumbles through Zoom

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s a last-of-the-month recording for Andy and Brendan, who are working with spotty wifi after a day of travels from beautiful Northeast Ohio. They begin with some commentary on a recent Twitter poll on various Ohio cities, and the wonderful people we met at the event in Canton. Then they get to the news of the day: the USA Ryder Cup team rounding out its roster with six captain’s picks. They begin, and go and go and go, on the Zoom performance of Captain Zach Johnson, who really struggled answering questions and reading from a brutal set of prepared notes. They pick apart some of his justifications and stumbling and bumbling answers that give them pause about what could be coming in Rome. They also get to the picks, eventually, like Justin Thomas and Sam Burns getting in over Keegan Bradley, Cameron Young, and others. They discuss the big JT question and the notion that he’s the “heart and soul” of the team or the preposterous trend of the “American Ian Poulter.” There’s also a brief chat on some potential pairings to come.

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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!
0:38.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is August 30th. Andy, how are you doing?
0:45.0	Brandon, I'm doing great. Now that I know Friday is the first.
0:52.0	Oh, I was just, oh, that's right. We're going to have a first of the month recording. There we go. Very exciting.
0:59.0	Bear with us folks. We've got a bad delay a little bit. Maybe a bad delay. We'll see. We may work it out.
1:06.0	You're on a mobile hotspot because your parents are not, you're literally a little blog boy, maybe recording from your parents' basement.
1:13.0	I worked from my parents' basement with Willie, basically, all last three days. Like we were living up to the sort of the blog stereotypes.
1:21.0	I'm not going to lie.
1:22.0	Which are full travel days. So this is good. Go ahead.
1:25.0	I am a, this is the last road game. I can't wait, can't wait to get back to the shed. There's going to be spiders everywhere in the shed.
1:35.0	Oh, that's a good, but that's a good point. You might have a bear.
1:40.0	You might have a bear.
1:41.0	Possum is just take, take enough residents in the shed. I love that. That's good. We'll be back in the shed.
1:49.0	So bear with us. Could be a quick Wednesday episode. There's plenty to talk about with the Ryder Cup.
1:54.0	You're traveling and I drove back to DC this afternoon. So, you know, maybe a little worse for the wear.
2:01.0	But tell you what, we were hot to drop this morning during a team meeting trying to watch Zash mumble and stumble and fumble and bumble in his way through that zoom with his picks, which we'll get to here in a minute.
2:13.0	But we had a, we had a great day in Canton, Ohio, at Brookside for the event, the gold jacket, great job by Will pulling it together.
2:22.0	Like amazing. I haven't done a lot of these. I've done two now in consecutive weeks, more or less.
2:30.0	And we're just very fortunate to get like the people we get to come out. We're very fortunate to get the courses we get to like kind of host us. Brookside was amazing as you'd expect from Northeast Ohio folks.
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