PGA Tour’s sluggish start, Pavon stomp-gate, and Signature exemptions gripes
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan get together in the middle of NFL conference championship Sunday to debrief on the weekend that was in golf. They bounce around on a variety of subjects both related and unrelated to golf, including the Ravens, Nelly Korda vs. Lydia Ko, the LPGA’s stringent Hall of Fame regulations, and more. Then on Torrey, they discuss the lumbering start to the PGA Tour season that now counts Mathieu Pavon among its winners. They discuss a troubling social media video of Pavon appearing to stomp around in the rough before hitting his shot-of-the-year style approach into 18 for the winning birdie. They also discuss the exemption roulette for Signature events, with some categories double dipping to keep two HUGE names out of the Pebble field for the Swing 5 category. The close is a mishmash of chatter on the Pissbear’s win, some swing teacher legends mad about the teacher rankings, their favorite 4A guys, and a new Masters ad without the music.
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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is January 29th. |
| 0:41.3 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:42.3 | Brenton! It is January 29th. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:43.0 | Brendan, I mean, you gotta be doing good. It's gotta feel like Victory Monday for you. |
| 0:49.0 | Uh, yeah. I don't want to come off as just pure unabated hater, but the |
| 0:58.0 | hater of me is quite happy that Art Modell, buried in Deggall in Art Modell, still his former franchise, is going home. |
| 1:08.0 | Sad. I apologize to my fellow Marylanders. |
| 1:14.8 | You had no part in any of this. That's the team you're given. |
| 1:17.1 | But I do not like that franchise. |
| 1:19.4 | And I'm happy that a boy from Cleveland Heights buried their ass and Travis Kelsey just scurrying |
| 1:26.8 | scampering all over first half first touchdown kind of he and my homes went went kind of vintage on him. |
| 1:34.4 | Mahomes hasn't aged, but Kelsey, a lot of doubts about his ability anymore. |
| 1:39.1 | And he had a great game, nine catches, 96 yards in the first half. So I'm happy about the Chiefs. We were |
| 1:44.8 | recording this right after that game before Lions and your own Central |
| 1:49.8 | California 49ers are playing the NFC championship game. |
| 1:53.1 | So that's just a sense of when we're recording. |
| 1:55.2 | My neighbors are all packing in, getting ready to watch, |
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