Riviera’s worst hole, golf pros named Angus, and Web Tour returns

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode previews the best week of the year on the PGA Tour, the annual ~~LA Open~~ Genesis Invitational at Riviera. Andy quickly anoints it the event of the week, but not after a brief digression on the Spieth v. Rickie OWGR race. There’s an apology related to that OWGR movement and Brendan proposes radical changes for Rickie’s career to get him out of the doldrums. Then they get to the course and field at hand, highlighting the strengths of Riviera, how it could be better, and how you can judge its greatness by simply asking “what is its worst hole?” They discuss the depth of the field, a quirk about the winners here, and the collegiate showcase winner Angus Flanagan, which prompts Andy to look into the career of another Angus. Continuing on the schedule for the week, they hit on the 2021 debut of the Web/KFT Tour in Florida, lamenting the lack of TV coverage and a sort of brain poisoning that the Reed rules shortcomings have had on lower tour play and qualifiers.

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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!
0:24.0	Start your engine!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is February 17th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:46.0	Brendan! I'm doing great. What are my favorite weeks of the year?
0:52.0	What is that? Just so we're clear. Riviera.
0:55.0	Okay, I didn't know if there was like, you know, a new... I never know. That's a new orange species.
1:02.0	Well, it is. Citrus is coming out. I never know. You've got to clarify some time.
1:06.0	I also know you said it's Wednesday. We're recording this on Tuesday. I found out, thanks to the fine internet, that it's National Pancake Day, too.
1:15.0	So, you know, I was thinking about Carl Patterson in the Swedish Pancake Club, five time winners.
1:21.0	It should be rebranded as Carl Patterson did. Again, dumbest thing going. He's just paid for these holidays.
1:28.0	He's fake days. Do you have to pay? Why do you have to pay? I don't know. I have to pay.
1:34.0	I assume there's some registrar somewhere where you pay 50 bucks. You know, the lobby, the pancake lobby in this instance.
1:41.0	I saw there was an umbrella day last, I don't know, two weeks ago, because people were popping us about weatherman.
1:46.0	And there's all sorts of just days. When did this? It's just a social media creation. It's a scourge, quite honest.
1:53.0	It's just a stupid thing for people to tweet about that have nothing else to say. You know.
1:58.0	You get activated. Yeah. Like, we are. We have nothing else to say. We have plenty to say. I'm kidding.
2:03.0	That's why we're talking about it. So, happy pancake day. You got a haircut. You look amazing. You signed on. I didn't recognize you.
2:10.0	First haircut in a while looking fresh down. It's been like eight months and I had a clear, you know, I was going in one of two directions.
2:18.0	I was embracing the Florida man, you know, look. Yeah. I was at a store doing some Valentine's Day shopping.
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