Rollback blowback, Rahm rumblings, Tiger’s return, and the Mule Uprising
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Whew, what a weekend from the golf content gods! Andy and Brendan come primed and ready for this Monday episode, beginning with the report in Golf Digest that the governing bodies are now considering a universal rollback of the golf ball as opposed to just a local rule for elite pros. They discuss the many player reactions to this news, from the hysterical quotes from some of the pros down at the Hero to Rory’s return to tweeting and Tiger’s reiterated takes. They discuss what the rollback might actually mean and where the USGA might have failed to control the release of this update over the weekend. Then they get to some of Tiger’s play in the Bahamas as well as the Collin Morikawa two-shot penalty that Matt Fitzpatrick called out to an official, who ticked off Morikawa by showing up “five minutes late” to their meeting. The continued rumors of Jon Rahm going to LIV are also covered, with the potential for that becoming a reality as soon as Monday? Will he be a Cleek? The back half discusses an anonymous memo to PGA Tour membership and some truly insane Chris Stroud comments about the players not having a voice or being taken care of on Tour.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is December 4th. |
| 0:42.6 | Andy, how are you doing? |
| 0:44.7 | Brendan, it is Victory Monday. |
| 0:48.1 | The Bears were on a buy. |
| 0:50.0 | And I was wondering. |
| 0:52.3 | And you know, there's just great days for God with the rollback news, I have to say, after yelling about it for seven years, it's great to know that there's finally some resolution here at the end of the |
| 1:06.1 | tunnel, no matter how far out it may be. You know, it's seven years away. |
| 1:10.3 | Yeah. Seven years away for everybody, five years away for everybody five years away for for pros but you know it gives us a whole weekend to |
| 1:17.8 | yell about it but first I gotta ask how we got to do a little brown's checking how we do a little browns checking. |
| 1:23.0 | How are we doing browns checking? |
| 1:25.0 | You got Joe Blanco. |
| 1:27.0 | Flacko was slanted it all over the yard. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm telling you, Stophanski is a backup quarterback whisper. I don't know if he's a good coach, but this is the excels of getting like washed and like jacoey |
| 1:39.8 | preset Joe Flacko over the hill, Kurt Cousins, he's like perfectly mid, like making those guys seem great or acceptable. |
| 1:47.8 | He threw for like 260 yards. |
| 1:50.3 | He looked fine. |
| 1:52.3 | I had a new appreciation for Flacko. My son had wanted a makeshift |
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