Playoff laments, FedExCup trivia, and the new Hovland Rule

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

At long last, the postseason arrives and we begin this Wednesday episode trying to talk ourselves into being excited for it. Does the new format work? What are the things, or single thing, we’re looking forward to watching throughout the FedExCup? Andy proffers a take that the Wyndham Rewards might have ruined the FedExCup. Brendan uses the occasion of the entire field auto-tweeting graphics of their tee times to rant a little bit on the inauthentic nature of players taking ownership of their own platforms, including the latest subjects of conversation from the Rory-Carson podcast. We give a quick preview of the KFT event, which gets some primetime love this week with players battling for Tour cards and Finals status. On that front, it will be a nervous week for the Methheads. Then Brendan quizzes Andy with some basic FedExCup trivia to re-orient ourselves with the PGA Tour postseason as it starts its 13th edition. In news, we have praise for the USGA listening and implementing the new Hovland Rule, although it leaves us with a few new questions. We wrap a fun Bryson story and some of his quotes on the schedule squeeze and his push for a Presidents Cup spot.

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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.
0:14.0	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 Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is August 7th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan, I'm doing well, just the
0:58.2	playoffs are here. I mean, what a time, never thought we'd get get here. I'm so excited, it's jubilation, you know, it's
1:07.0	it's a playoff season. You know, all the automated social posts today got me jacked up all the players tweeting out their tea times in
1:16.6	unison it really just got me going that they'll never learn. I don't in these organizations, these big companies, these
1:27.8	friends, I understand like it's stuff's got to be sanitized and filtered, but like that calls attention to yourself in a bad way.
1:36.3	And it always has, it's been that way since the invention of the internet.
1:40.1	I don't understand why people keep making that mistake over and over and over again.
1:44.8	It looks like whether it's the guys on draft night talking about you know their tied color
1:50.7	like there's just it never looks good and that look the Rolex one a couple
1:55.6	of years ago and everybody like just started tweeting the same ad at the same
1:58.6	I think that was this year maybe this year but this was a particularly egregious because they have these like, you know, overdramatic like photo shoots.
2:08.0	You know, like it's these guys going into battle or something.
2:12.0	And everybody did it right the same. these guys going into battle or something.
2:13.0	And everybody did it right at the same time.
2:15.0	It was just, it's not a good look for anybody involved.
2:18.0	And it's very inauthentic and inorganic and it doesn't make you like it.
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