Local rule rollbacks, WMPO love, Saudi embarrassments, and burner denials

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This episode begins with a lengthy segment on the announcement from the USGA and R&A disclosing some notable “research topics” and “proposed equipment standards changes.” Andy and Brendan dissect the different areas of interest and proposals and the potential implications from a document on the distance issue. They ponder the PGA Tour’s response to a local rule option, whether this is language signaling a rollback or just holding the line, and then reasons for optimism as well as concern from this announcement. There’s also great amusement over the CT Machine page from 2004 in the document. After that opening segment, they get to the schedule for the week, praising the Phoenix venue, its conditioning, its finishing holes, and its loaded field this week. They discuss whether JT was put on some secret suspension based on the language of a recent tweet. On the Saudi International, they read Paul Casey’s statement on the reason for his flip-flop. News closes with some Reed follow-up, like the fact that his attorney had to deny ownership of a burner account and a sportsbook refunding bettors who didn’t have him to win.

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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.
0:13.4	And here we go.
0:16.6	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen!
0:22.4	Start! Gentlemen! Start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is February 3rd.
0:47.0	Andy, how we doing?
0:48.0	Brendan, I am doing great. It's in a way.
0:53.2	It feels like a victory Tuesday for me here today.
0:56.2	This is just, I woke up, I, you know, made some coffee and next thing I know I'm seeing tweets about a you know
1:04.7	USGA announcement on distance I'm checking my email I'd get the email and I'm
1:11.1	all sudden you know vindicated I feel joyous here yeah you are nothing's
1:18.8	firmly happening at this point but it seems like we're going into the right direction here.
1:25.1	Yeah we are we are moving towards something more concrete with stronger language
1:32.4	for sure.
1:33.4	The official, so just to be clear,
1:35.2	because time doesn't matter here.
1:36.9	It is actually Tuesday.
1:38.2	I announced earlier, it was Wednesday, the third,
1:40.0	but we're recording this early on Tuesday.
1:42.4	Get it out of the way. it's a snow day here.
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