Morrrre majors, Joey Crawford Championship, and a chat with Cam Smith

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode begins with an unplanned discussion on the U.S. Open’s identity. Has some of the luster of the championship been taken away with the PGA coming right in front of it now? And is Jason Gore more or less helping set up controversy-free courses that have taken some of the sizzle out of it? Then Andy and Brendan move to the event of the week, the Women’s PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club, another Rees Jones renovation. There are three things to watch, revolving around the American drought and Olympics qualifying closing. For the Travelers, they delight in some “notables” categories in a field that’s completely loaded for the week after a major. To both of their surprise, there is a major on the Senior Tour this week, and it is perhaps the most extreme pushing of the boundaries on that term, “major.” They ponder whether having a KFT event in Maine will make people want to live and/or work in Maine, as the title suggests. News hits on the run of Olympics withdrawals on the men’s side as well as some intel from the ground on the Stella case of beer. Lastly, they are joined by Cam Smith for a rare guest interview from the Travelers.

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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	Gentlemen, start your engine!
0:39.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start.
0:42.0	It is June 23rd. Andy, how are we doing?
0:45.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. I feel just recharge ready to go another week on the PGA tour, another major championship on the LPGA.
0:56.0	You know, another packed week of golf, another corn fairy tour event, not televised.
1:04.0	Always, there is always that. I mean, at least it doesn't clog it up, right?
1:11.0	We did what? What do we have? Who knows what the Miralax tour is doing, but, you know?
1:17.0	So like, think about this for a second. Like the US Open early round coverage.
1:23.0	It's just tonnage. It was so pointless. I mean, I don't mean that.
1:28.0	Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. You're throwing a fit when the PGA didn't have, when we were watching Charmed and the PGA didn't come on till.
1:40.0	What I'm saying is if you could do a little more KFT tour, like do an early conclusion, as opposed to watching during wood bullshit on this.
1:49.0	Putter across the finish line to finish T62. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong.
1:56.0	I just think that, well, well, it's just, you know, there's not really much going on.
2:03.0	And I thought you were talking about the early rounds, like having all the shots in the early rounds.
2:09.0	I'm sorry, like Sunday at like 10 a.m. I don't know. It's still a major. It's still.
2:15.0	That's fine. Hey, has I forget who I, this is not my original thought and I apologize. I'm not crediting someone has like the PGA kind of like.
2:27.0	Snuck in and take a little looser off the off the US Open. I think like the conventional wisdom when that happened was that like well.
2:36.0	PGA is just like bearing itself to get out of the way. But has like now the US Open stature sort of been.
2:45.0	No, it's not like reduced greatly, but I don't know taking a little bit of a hit where there's a little bit of exhaustion or a little bit of just.
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