Medinah tamed, Teens invade the U.S. Amateur, and an homage to the Western Open

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We head into the weekend with a lively discussion on some of the early action from Chicago, Prague, Columbus, and Pinehurst. At the BMW, we lament the modern game overpowering what is a beast of a course in Medinah. We also discuss BMW’s stunning decision to reverse course and stay on as title sponsor. At the Czech Masters, we praise leader Gavin Green’s pre-tournament prep of “eating and sleeping a lot.” With the U.S. Amateur down to the quarterfinals, we go over some of the match play results and the junior presence in the final eight. The decision to also hold the finals on two courses -- Pinehurst No. 4 and No. 2 -- is given critical review. Flashback Friday is a gripping journey from the last days of the “dick sponsored” Western Open to some of its earliest blue-blood origins and eventually to a Chicago event that had the irate loser in an Allenby-esque fit of rage wandering aimlessly around the Chicagoland area.

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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 Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is August 16th. Andy, how we doing?
0:55.0	Brendan doing swell back in the Chicago land area.
1:01.0	Just back from the dream that was the upper pit. area just the
1:05.0	the dream that was the upper peninsula.
1:06.0	Just the Wi-Fi free paradise, utopia.
1:10.0	I'll tell you what, I think I'm gonna go there every year for the rest of my life.
1:14.0	What's so good about it? I mean we I think we we have a basic understanding what's so good
1:21.6	about it but what did you find so impressive what did so good about it, but what did you find so impressive?
1:23.6	What did you like about it?
1:24.8	It's just, it's so much different. It's like the way life should be.
1:30.4	Huh. All right. It's just pure, I mean, Lake Superior is by far the best Great Lake. It's not even close.
1:41.5	It's just an awesome spot.
1:43.0	Okay, good.
1:45.0	Glad, uh, glad you enjoyed it.
1:48.0	I'm in the Midwest on the Great Lakes as well, up in Ohio.
1:52.0	Maybe the worst Great Lake. Oh oh get the fuck out of here like here he's a
1:56.2	solid like really solid like Huron I think it might be the worst great lake if we're going into this discussion.
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