Notes from the ground at the BMW, Unsubstantiated rumors, and Golf Advice

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

With both Andy and Brendan on the road with substandard WiFi and equipment, this episode is a ramble between travel tales and some golf odds and ends to get us to the weekend. Andy has some scuttlebutt from Chicago and a few notes from his day walking around the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields. Then, a whiparound segment hits on the hideous Ryder Cup uniforms, Epson Tour product placement, TaylorMade’s absurd luxury resort, and Michael Block’s course-record setting round at Valhalla on a “scouting” trip some 10 months before the PGA. There’s also some discussion on LIV planning for a transfer and trade deadline for next season. They close it out with some SGS Golf Advice on a Chicago liquor, bringing your own cart, and a wedding conflict during a prestigious Mid-Am competition.

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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	Ladies and gentlemen, start your adventure!
0:39.0	Greetings, welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is August 18th, Andy. How are we doing?
0:45.0	I'm doing fantastic, I got to tell you, I had delightful day.
0:53.0	Why, you're out at the Olympia Fields?
0:56.0	You know, there was something, I haven't gone out, I feel like I've watched low stress Thursday golf in a while.
1:04.0	It just felt like there was nothing at stake out there, and I was just...
1:10.0	75 degrees, it was like there's a nice breeze, it was sunny, and it just felt so relaxing in comparison.
1:19.0	I guess the framework, when you mostly attend major championships, it just feels like a completely different world out there.
1:28.0	It's tight, yeah, it's tight.
1:30.0	Yeah, like there's no tension out there, today it was Lucy Goosey, and it was delightful outside, you know, the weather delay really helped me out personally.
1:40.0	I had an article that I had been procrastinating for probably about three weeks writing, and I could really sense the anxiety from one of our colleagues about me getting this article done.
2:00.0	You're at Morrison, three weeks, it's only July 25th to be precise, I believe it was the date that we were expecting, the Dairy Creek Course Profile.
2:09.0	You know who else was expecting it?
2:11.0	The hottest club in town, I mean there's people coming through the door, and they want that Dairy Creek Course Profile, and they said we thought it was coming July, and it's like we come, we come every night, it's a great scene, there's good music, good crowd, hot club.
2:29.0	But we want our Dairy Creek Course Profile, but you got it out today.
2:33.0	Yeah, the weather delay, the cause, lift claim of place, you know, there are so many levels of the weather delay that I appreciated, you know, that golf course is a really great golf course.
2:48.0	It kind of jammed you on your point about all the weather being great everywhere.
2:53.0	I mean, it's supposed to be like 72 and sunny on Saturday.
3:00.0	It's going to get to 87 on Sunday, and people are like, oh it's going to be hot.
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