Olympics optimism, Australia apologies, and Eastern elitism

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode begins with Andy bringing up the hot water Brendan found himself in with the entire continent of Australia. They transition to this week’s Olympics men’s competition in Tokyo. There is a fair amount of intrigue and optimism about an event that, if nothing else, is a moderate (moderate because it is clearly not on the format front) change-up from the week-to-week march on the PGA Tour. There are three things to watch, some nuts-and-bolts on Kasumigaseki, and picks. Then they move on to the U.S. Senior Women’s Open, where the Hurricane is being cited for insights and advice. On the European Tour and LPGA and LET, there is a mixed event with an extremely long title and superfluous exclamation points. The event of the week is a toss-up between two amateur events, with Andy’s bias for his hometown shining through. They discuss this as well, before signing off with news of Tony Romo playing the Texas State Open in a golf cart with air conditioning and doors.

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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!
0:36.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 28th, Andy, how are we doing?
0:43.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. You know, I know I'm doing a lot better than you.
0:49.0	You know, you've been putting your, you know, your feet have been to the fire on the coals hot coals of Australians coming at you left and right.
0:59.0	We're talking about this in public. That's not true. National headlines. That's not true.
1:06.0	I'm learning a lot of new words, a lot of new, I mean, I don't know if I'm learning. I'm just staying in the dark, but I'm being called a lot of mean things by Australians.
1:15.0	Look, I didn't know we were talking about this on the podcast. I made a joke tweet about the swimming coach was, you know, if I be honest, not joking, acting like a Yahoo.
1:27.0	Acting like a buffoon up there, overselibrating, but it's fine. You can do that. I don't have any serious criticisms of him.
1:34.0	I tweeted something about him as a disgrace to the game. Clearly that's a joke because swimming is not a game.
1:40.0	A lot of people are calling me an idiot for saying it's a game. This is a sport. Yeah, I know it's it's a golf joke. Sorry.
1:48.0	I mean, it got, it's in like the daily mail by tweet like about how Americans are mad at the like it was a joke.
1:55.0	I apologize to the continent of Australia. I mean, the coach, you know, whatever he could act however he wants.
2:01.0	I don't know that I agree with it, but the tweet was just a just and now I'm getting it's two days on. I just, we just say record.
2:09.0	It won't call me somebody just tweet at me. It sounds like a sore loser from a nation of sore losers.
2:15.0	If you're getting all these lectures, it's unbelievable.
2:18.0	And yeah, it's whatever. It's a little entertainment on the side during vacation week as Australia, the continent gets worked up at me.
2:27.0	I didn't know you were going to bring that up. All right. Let's move on.
2:30.0	Just imagine if you start if you start talking about Mark Leishman's style of play, you know, batting it around.
2:38.0	They're just going to get on you some more.
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