Monahan on legacy vs. leverage, Phil discipline, and PGA Tour gambling questions
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode serves as a Players Championship preview, but there’s not much on the instant event until late in the second half of the recording. Andy and Brendan begin by reacting to the rare Jay Monahan press conference, one of only a couple per year, in which the commissioner was peppered with questions about Phil Mickelson, who may or may not be suspended, the rival league threat, further transparency, and the The Players cufflinks. Jon Rahm’s comments on course setup, Rory’s comments on suspensions becoming public, and JT’s response to a question about Russia are also discussed. Player picks are made, and there’s weather talk about what’s coming the next five days. News hits on a lengthy Golf Channel segment on gambling with the PGA Tour exec on gaming, and a report on some changes made to Augusta National ahead of next month’s Masters.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup 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 | Determine! |
| 0:24.0 | Start your engine! |
| 0:34.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:37.0 | It is March 9th, Andy. |
| 0:39.0 | How are we doing? |
| 0:40.0 | Brendan, I'm doing great. It's a gold standard week. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm just feeling, I'm feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling groovy. |
| 0:48.0 | Just love the Monahan press conference on Tuesday morning where you know he was just peppered with fill questions and you know the responses even made my wife who was listening laugh out loud to some of them. |
| 1:03.0 | Why? |
| 1:04.0 | What about it? What about it? |
| 1:06.0 | Just the nod and isle the niles or the dance around the elephant in the room, so to speak? |
| 1:14.0 | It made my wife go, this guy is awful. |
| 1:17.0 | Why? What is he supposed to say? |
| 1:19.0 | I don't know. I kind of explained the situation to her. I said, you know, fill, fill call them a bad guy publicly, you know. |
| 1:27.0 | And she just, you know, kind of agreed that he might be a bad guy, you know, some of the answers. |
| 1:34.0 | And she doesn't even know the context. She never saw the CNBC interviews. |
| 1:39.0 | This is just a first impression, just off her listening to the answers to the questions. |
| 1:45.0 | I didn't think of that bad. |
| 1:49.0 | I didn't think it was terrible either. |
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