One million tests, Mike Clayton on the glory days of the European Tour
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This Monday episode begins with a brief reaction to the news from a Guardian report that the PGA Tour is hoping to secure 1 million coronavirus tests in order to complete its overhauled schedule. Then we are joined for a fantastic and enlightening interview with Mike Clayton, a golf renaissance man who also played on the European Tour during the heyday of the famous five, currently a subject of the SGS Spotlight series. Mike regales us with stories of Seve, Woosie, Lyle, Faldo, and the yippy Langer. We let him go with thoughts on how they immediately burst onto the scene, antagonism with the stateside tour pros, Ryder Cup legends, drinking tales, and why they all succeeded at Augusta National. Mike never holds back and this is a great first hand account of what made the Euro Tour and these Spotlight subjects so fun.
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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! Start your engines! |
| 0:27.0 | Engage! And the Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 20th Andy how we doing |
| 0:54.1 | Brendan I'm doing good how about you I'm good I don't know if my volume's up for that was just an extra loud. |
| 1:03.1 | I just got done watching the first two hours of the Jordan doc. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm pumped up. |
| 1:08.6 | Fantastic. |
| 1:09.7 | Watching a documentary about the greatest grace of all time. |
| 1:14.0 | Sure. |
| 1:15.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:16.8 | That's debatable. |
| 1:17.5 | We're not going to get into that right now. |
| 1:18.9 | I want to talk about this. |
| 1:20.9 | There's a lot of good tweets besides, you know, LeBron being bigger, |
| 1:24.5 | faster, stronger, better shooter, all that, you know, sure, Michael's playing against, you know, |
| 1:32.2 | John Pat, you know, Craig E-Lah, just a different era, but we're not going to get into this yet. |
| 1:37.2 | We're not going to get into this right now. |
| 1:38.6 | We're going to have like a month. |
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