PGA Tour’s new billion dollar deal, PIF and LIV’s role, and player reactions
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This beefy Friday episode begins with some amusements from Andy’s time at Pebble Beach, watching and betting on the hapless Ams trying to play the 17th hole in brutal winds. Eventually Brendan steers the ship onto the major news of the week, the PGA Tour’s announcement of a new company with $1.5 billion in investment from SSG and the impacts of a new for-profit entity with player equity. They have some amusing inside intel from Jay’s meeting with PGA Tour staff, the players Zoom call, and reaction from multiple sides both “celebrating” and ruminating on what this means for PIF involvement. That's the elephant in the room they discuss -- can players take the next step and now unify? They also discuss what this money will go towards and what these private equity sharks will expect. Rory McIlroy’s frustrated comments from earlier in the week are given a full rundown, and contrasted with Jordan Spieth’s press conference. There’s also reaction to LIV’s announcement about “every shot” coverage and the reasoning for Jon Rahm’s team being named Legion XIII as their season begins at Mayakoba.
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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 setup 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. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is February 2nd. |
| 0:46.0 | Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:48.0 | Brendan, I'm doing all right, you know, I am, uh, my wife is saying that I'm run down. I've logged eight hours in the car |
| 0:56.4 | this week, but I have to congratulate you. I saw there's a list circulating on golf Twitter listing the worst the worst golf |
| 1:08.0 | media accounts I am squarely in the cross airs of this list, |
| 1:13.4 | but you are not a part of it. |
| 1:16.0 | So congratulations on not being part of the worst golf media. |
| 1:21.4 | This was a live, you you know proposed by a live enthusiast |
| 1:26.2 | of nameless live Twitter account is that accurate correct? I don't know if I |
| 1:31.3 | should be offended happy I slid under the radar there, I'm good, I'm glad, happy about that. But I'm glad you made the list, you know, getting popped. There you go. A lot of reaction to your appearance on TV the other day. |
| 1:44.8 | Unwitting appearance didn't know. You're just kind of prancing down the middle of |
| 1:48.7 | the 18th fairway next to a PJ Tour pro of note and golf channel picks you up so a lot of a lot of big |
| 1:57.8 | week for you you're on lists worst lists you're on TV unbeknownst to you. |
| 2:03.7 | So good week for you, Donville, eight hours of driving, |
| 2:06.3 | back and forth. |
| 2:08.3 | I was in a hospitality tent today. |
| 2:11.2 | So, how was that? |
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