Phil returns, LIV’s got team names, logos, and a crooked draft
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
An episode trying to cover and make sense of the absolute firehose of absurdity that hit all of us on Tuesday. It begins with frustration that the firehose buried what should have been gnarly metaverse Jack Nicklaus’s moment. Nevertheless, Andy and Brendan proceed on, reacting, with great amusement, to the names, logos, and eventual draft of teams for LIV Golf’s first event. They discuss how the PGA Tour had this coming, and how the resigning membership maneuver may mitigate the Tour’s biggest weapon. The talking points got plenty of use, and Graeme McDowell’s missteps are dissected, as well as the notion that shotgun starts are “fairer” -- which leads to a humorous scoop about the range set up. Phil Mickelson’s return to golf, which feels like old news, is addressed, as is his attire and look. Tiger’s WD from the U.S. Open, as well as some sectional qualifier stories, are also discussed.
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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 | Determine! Start your engine! |
| 0:36.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. |
| 0:39.0 | It is June 8th, Andy. How are we doing? |
| 0:42.0 | Brendan! What a day! |
| 0:46.0 | I mean, it's hard to... I mean, it's hard to synthesize, but we will attempt to do so. It was an incredible day. First of all, they're ahead of us. |
| 0:59.0 | Imagine if we got the Jack Nicholas. |
| 1:05.0 | Trying to come in for the metaverse corners. |
| 1:08.0 | If we had gotten that on a normal day, how much fun this would be? |
| 1:13.0 | That it's being released by his company that he's that's suing him that he's in a legal battle with. |
| 1:20.0 | Almost seems like they're trying to make him look because the makeup, but whatever he is, 38-year-old Jack, looks like he's lived a hard life, you know, just pulled out of the gutters. |
| 1:30.0 | Like he's living in a vacant in the wire or something and he looks ridiculous. |
| 1:36.0 | It's such an unnecessary thing. I don't know how this... |
| 1:40.0 | You talk about blowing money on, you know, the world's 400 ranked golfer. |
| 1:45.0 | This is a worse use of money than that. |
| 1:48.0 | These people who just think they got to get into the metaverse or get into alternate, re-updated reality or whatever it's called enhanced reality. |
| 1:58.0 | That thing is ridiculous. |
| 2:00.0 | I couldn't believe it when that came across the feed. |
| 2:04.0 | Tiger Woods withdrew from a major championship or decided not to... |
| 2:08.0 | That was just completely lost in the shuffle. |
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