Nick Faldo spotlight Part 1 with Sean Martin, Extra Thicc Bryson and Finchem makes HOF,
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode begins with a brief rundown of the scant news from the past few days. That scantness gives us occasion to discuss Bryson DeChambeau’s claim that he may play the maximum allowable length driver and that he also may bulk up to 270 (!) pounds. We also hit on the idea of a fan-less Ryder Cup and Tim Finchem getting in the HOF before transitioning back to our SGS Spotlight series. In this episode, we start the process of taking on the monster that is the career and life of Nick Faldo, and quickly realize it will need to be two parts. Sean Martin of PGA Tour dot com joins us in the effort after reading Sir Nick’s autobiography. In this section, we hit on Faldo’s upbringing and how he got into the game at a later stage of his childhood, his amateur days, his short stint at Houston, and some of his personality peculiarities that led to his reputation as a frosty pro. We also get into his decision to completely overhaul his swing under David Leadbetter just a year after winning the order of merit on the Euro Tour. Then we cover his first four majors in depth and the odd circumstance of his wins often accompanied by high profile collapses. It concludes with his 1990 Open win at The Old Course, arguably his greatest win at the peak of his powers.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen! |
| 0:23.0 | Start your engines! |
| 0:27.0 | Engy! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is April 22nd. Andy, how are you doing? |
| 0:54.8 | Brendan! I'm doing okay. How are you doing? |
| 1:00.8 | It's kind of a soft little Brendan there. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | It's on. |
| 1:07.0 | It's on. |
| 1:08.0 | I found out that sumo citrus seasons nearing an end. |
| 1:12.0 | It's almost, it's only two weeks of it left, which is, it's very bad news. |
| 1:18.0 | And, uh, and then, uh, governor of Illinois, say we might be shelter and place here in Illinois |
| 1:26.4 | till into June, which is just not good. |
| 1:31.6 | All right. Well, we have Earth this morning whenever you're listening to this we |
| 1:36.7 | have Sean Martin come on Nick Faldo and as we tend to deal with Sean and a big |
| 1:42.1 | subject like Faldo. |
| 1:44.6 | We went long, we're real long. |
| 1:48.3 | So it's going to be broken up into two parts. |
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