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.

And here we go.

All right, all right, all right.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engine!

Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is November 18th. Andy, how are we doing?

Brendan, I'm doing great. It's wonderful to see Texas fighting back trying to take the crown from Georgia, who's really own the fall at the RSM.

They're dancing in Georgia territory, dancing all over the top of the leaderboard between Cole Hammer, Beau Hossler, as we record here early on Thursday, 230 Eastern.

I think Cole Hammer just hit it into the hazard, so he's nine under at the moment. Hammer, of course, not a PGA tour member, might upset the likes of the FedEx cup thirst buckets that play these fall series if he swoops in and just immediately wins, but he is nine under as far as I can tell he was a sponsor's exemption on Sunday.

That was when it was announced now he wasn't in the initial like inside the field list published on PGA tour.com probably always maybe was designated for a sponsor's exemption there's been a lot of movement in the field.

At this RSM including an open spot thanks to an Anders Albertson WD apparently there wasn't an alternate on site. I just don't understand how that works in a place where this just overflowing with PGA tour golfers or general region southeastern United States, but Cole Hammer is Davis left playing this week.

Yes, he WD before he WD also Thursday morning with a wrist issue come in.

What do you think this is a real question you think Hudson swaffered his home this week or did he like run the hell out of Dodge get the hell out of there.

Missy and Jetta or somewhere else the Bangkok just not nowhere near you know living you know with everybody in town the tour guys in town.

Could have just really liked the the TPC in attack parking lot parking a driveway where he was waiting to get into the field of you know.

Just a fun tidbit now whenever I think Hudson swaffered I think about that him just waiting in a car with who was the other guy that he was waiting to war.

Yeah or him sitting in a car together who knows what they were talking about maybe free idea for that Sam Harrop guy you know does the piano just say waiting in Memphis.

Instead of walking in Memphis there you go right that one up and tweeted out you get a little engagement that Sam that you know when you dub your own little golf lyrics.

Can be to Laura and Hudson swaffer just sitting in a car down the street from TPC in attack anyways he maybe he's in town maybe he's around the golden aisles this week.

But goal hammer is your leader I don't know if this is proof positive or indicative of elite college golfers recent amateurs being able to immediately transition to the pros he may shoot 80 the next three days I don't know but it does.

It is sort of a quick buttress to the recent news that PGA tour university is handing out a PGA tour card still that absurd we talked about like have to be a senior kind of the opposite of a lot of other sports where you're.

I don't know that they're telling kids to leave school to leave school but there's no kind of impediment to doing so or less of one this but this is a new improvement on access for the best young talent.

And you're one of the all time under class when truly extraordinary three in the last decade would have done it I think it's Patrick Rogers.

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