Open Championship Preview: Rory redemption, Bryson vs. links golf, and Tiger tales
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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It is almost here! The final men’s major of the year is nigh and Brendan and Andy are full of energy for this beefy but constantly entertaining Open, or British Open, preview podcast. They begin with some thoughts on what makes the Open special, relying on player testimony, their own interactions, and some of the challenges of Royal Troon that they cannot wait to see in action. They discuss some of their favorite and not-so-favorite storylines, including the heavyweight contenders like Rory, Rahm, Bryson, Ludvig, Xander, and of course, Scottie. Their usual major tradition of picking out best and worst tee times goes down a winding path on Tiger Woods being “too busy” to be Ryder Cup captain, Tommy Morrison, Dan Bradbury, Just-a-Guy statuses, and much more. A new set of games-within-the-game is drawn up pitting some titans against each other. Finally, and after a lengthy chat about the best berries, they pick winners for The Open.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | And here we go. |
| 0:16.6 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 17th. |
| 0:46.0 | Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:48.0 | Brendan, I'm doing great. It is the open. Maybe my favorite major, I, I you know I always say the masters is my |
| 0:55.5 | favorite when it's master's time this time a year I always say the open is my |
| 0:59.4 | favorite I don't really know what my favorite is but I I love this tournament I I don't really know what my favorite is but I love this tournament. I can't wait for it to kick off and for us to get another look here at Troon. |
| 1:09.1 | If you yeah if you give a take you know if you have a take three times a week on everything, you could literally take any position you want and every position at the same time by the end of the year. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, US Open is great depending on the year and time and place. This year was amazing. The |
| 1:24.9 | Masters when you're there at the Masters. God it doesn't get any better than |
| 1:28.3 | this and now it's Open Week and I've just feel like... When the PGA is at Valhalla you can feel that way too |
| 1:36.3 | Didn't feel that way that but I will next year at Quill hollow. I think that's when we'll kind of come back to, get back to appreciation. |
| 1:43.3 | One player will feel that way about. |
| 1:46.1 | We do, we do. |
| 1:48.0 | It's the best. |
| 1:48.8 | It's the best. |
| 1:49.4 | I feel like we're sort of entering this one, a little low- key. I don't know. There's a |
| 1:55.0 | million good storylines, million questions. Feels a little low keyish. The way, |
| 2:01.0 | you know, we used to have the PJ. it's like the last bite of the apple, right? |
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