Monahan tries to “quiet the noise” at Players, a diminished field, and overly green Sawgrass
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan record this Players Championship “preview” from the shore of Portrush in Northern Ireland and they have many questions about Jay Monahan’s state of the tour (and pro golf?) press conference at TPC Sawgrass. They wonder why everyone was so worked up about it and if he was as poor and bumbling as portrayed. They also discuss the lack of pop around this Players, and how only some of it relates to the loss of talent in the field and how this event cannot even begin to argue it approximates a major now. They also discuss the overseeded and soft conditions they’ve been informed of from the ground, and whether it’s fruitless to hope for anything else. The back half runs through some favorite tee times and not-so-favorite tee times, leading down the path of examining one player’s recent resume that sort of brings to light Rory McIlroy’s comments about a more “cutthroat” tour last week. Some one-and-done picks are made before they push off with an event of the week nominee they encountered in Northern Ireland.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen, start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is March 13th. |
| 0:46.0 | Andy, how are we doing? Brendan, I am doing great. It's Victory Wednesday for me. |
| 0:52.8 | Why is it Victory Wednesday? What happened? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, I don't know why. I'm a I guess I'm an arsenal fan. I've just decided to become an Arsenal fan. |
| 1:02.6 | And they won a match last night on Pete K's. |
| 1:06.4 | Champions League. |
| 1:07.9 | Something Porto, FC Porto, I believe. |
| 1:11.0 | We were watching in the Harbor Bar here. |
| 1:12.4 | Anything that was going on. You didn't know anything. |
| 1:16.0 | The people who were in the bar might have been annoyed that your sudden enthusiasm for |
| 1:20.8 | Arsenal while also not knowing anything about Arsenal, |
| 1:23.6 | Champions League or soccer in general, |
| 1:26.4 | might have perturbed some of the other bargours, |
| 1:28.4 | or amused a few of them. |
| 1:29.9 | Apparently being an Arsenal fan |
| 1:31.6 | makes me a Gooner. because their names the gunners right or their nicknames the gunners but their fans are called gooners is that what was explained to us. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, yeah we have to sound so uninformed right now, but we're idiots. Yeah, yeah, but it's been great. We're over in Port Rush. It's been fun. It's a victory Wednesday for you. I'm glad. |
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