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The Shotgun Start

Putting the P in PXG, ESPN’s curious calculations, and Bryson’s cap

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode is a bite-sized reaction to the first official PGA Tour round of 2022. Andy and Brendan delight in the re-introduction to PGA Tour golf in the new year with a hearty announcement that round one would be played with preferred lies. Then they bounce around with various quick thoughts on what’s transpired so far this week, including the notable enlistment of Patrick Reed with the troops. There are reactions to some of the new graphics, including ESPN+’s humorous attempt to calculate yardages with elevation changes. They close it with a mini Flashback trivia and thoughts on who from the bottom of the board could get hot for three straight days.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of set up 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

Ladies and gentlemen, start your adventure!

0:33.0

Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is January 7th. Andy, how are we doing?

0:40.0

Brendan, I am doing good. You know, it's golf's back. What can you say? It's like, just feel like it's just a memory that goes back to the early 2000s for me, just sitting down on cold.

0:57.0

It's usually always cold nights and turning on capollua and thinking about, God, it'd be nice to be out there.

1:06.0

Yeah, we're getting snow tonight. We're going to have a snow day already to our delay. Preemptive.

1:11.0

Preemptive. Like preferred lies. We live in a preemptive culture now.

1:15.0

How about that? Preemptive regime change, preemptive snow days, preemptive preferred lies.

1:21.0

What about the first round of the year? The tweet out, preferred lies. Everybody jumped all over it.

1:32.0

They apparently have been drenched. I mean, people are tweeting at us like rainfall statistics from the last 24 hours or it's like zero, it's nil.

1:41.0

And then I shared that and somebody from Hawaii got at me like, look, there are these microclimates, wherever they collect that number, doesn't matter.

1:49.0

Could have poured, you know, a block away. It doesn't matter.

1:53.0

Looks like the bulb was bouncing and rolling out there though.

1:56.0

It was soft. Apparently got drenched in the last month, six weeks.

2:01.0

So it's got it if it raised the last six months. That's the problem. I know.

2:06.0

Like if it hasn't rained at all in the last, you know, 30 hours, why is it preferred lies? It was soft for sure.

2:14.0

But yes, that was such a great just appetizer this afternoon.

2:20.0

Perfect way to kick it off.

2:24.0

The free-emptive. Yes. We got snow day coming. It was, but I was warmed.

2:28.0

You know, I put the fire on and at the coverage gun.

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