LIV and the PGA Tour merge, Yasir and Big Jay make up, and the players get …?

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan record this “extra” Tuesday episode to discuss, well, the biggest golf news to ever happen, non-Tiger division? Including Tiger division? They react to the details of the PGA Tour and LIV merger announcement, which is still light on many of those details. They remark on just how secretive this process was with hardly anyone knowing what was coming, including most of the players and maybe Greg Norman. Saudi money is officially injected into the PGA Tour with a new, for-profit TBD “entity,” that has Yasir Al-Rumayyan as the chairman but without majority-PIF board control. They discuss how Jay Monahan navigated the last few years and the immediate player fury at the news of the deal. And what will the future look like exactly with a possible world tour? We will continue to discuss this massive story as more of the details emerge.

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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!
0:40.0	Greetings and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the shotgun start. It is June 6th, Andy. How are we doing?
0:47.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. I can't wait to go blow by blow on Blocky's qualifying round. I flew up to Toronto yesterday to catch it and excited for the special emergency pod where we break it down.
1:01.0	Hey, come on, Blocky. He showed well.
1:04.0	That's what everybody's coming for for this podcast. Block up.
1:08.0	Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I had a big day planned. I had a really busy day. I wasn't sure when we were going to be podcasting that day is shot that day. It's over.
1:21.0	This is wild. What a day.
1:26.0	All right. So here, break down here's a business order of business. We're just going to talk about this merger.
1:32.0	We're going to do. We're doing Canadian up and still tomorrow. I think about leading the pod with who haven't gone with the Canadian open.
1:42.0	So we're going to do another podcast that will do schedule for the week, what you're used to. This is going to be, I don't know, half informed. Look, every talking heads on TV talking less than half informed right now.
1:54.0	This is someone suggests to me is this the biggest golf non tiger golf news day in whatever since you know golf is bigger than tiger.
2:03.0	This and this.
2:06.0	I think the blindsidedness of this adds to that. Like there was zero hint of this, right. There was zero report rumor build up kind of their talk and this might happen.
2:18.0	So the general blindsidedness of this makes this such a monster monster story. It adds to its impact.
2:26.0	Obviously, the impact is what it is regardless of whether it was a surprise or not.
2:33.0	It's from what I'm on. The texts are coming a minute, you know, a mile minute.
2:38.0	For anybody listening that has my number that's texting me independently about what I think about this.
2:44.0	Just listen to the pod or read the newsletter.
2:48.0	I've got a text that live that Greg Norman had no idea, no clue.
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