Saturday at the Open: Westy sadness, Lowry greatness, Koepka cockiness, and the illegal driver scandal

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This special Saturday edition of the Shotgun Start delivers some instant reactions to the third round of The Open. We begin lamenting the fall of Westy, who put it in neutral for much of the afternoon following a rousing tease in the first five holes. Does he have any hope playing from behind and is there a different game within the game to watch for on Sunday? We review the 54-hole leaderboard and marvel at Shane Lowry’s 63 that has him four shots clear. We nominate some contenders for a chasedown and discuss Brooks’ contentions that no one is hitting it better than him. The second half of the pod is largely devoted to the failed driver test scandal and Xander Schauffele outing other failed manufacturers while also describing why he’s “pissed off” at the R&A. Is this just the tip of the iceberg of a conspiracy that runs deep? Should PGA Tour be testing drivers before every single round? We go at length on the issue before wrapping with our picks to hoist the Claret Jug on Sunday.

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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 engine! Oh, Greetings and welcome to a Saturday edition of the shotgun start. is July 20th Andy how we doing Brendan just a tough day tough day
1:00.3	there was all kinds of excitement and you know.
1:05.8	A little despondent over there it sounds like.
1:07.8	Yeah, yeah, it just.
1:10.3	The fact that the fact is the start, the start of Westie's round.
1:16.0	Yeah. And where it ended up it just
1:20.9	Well, I mean we should put it when we signed on you were like, I'm in a bad mood. I was like, I just had a lot of emotionally invested in the day. You really were kind of all in on Westie and he of course like gave you that little tease at the front end of it right with the three parties in a row he's making long puts he's making medium length buts he's not making mistakes
1:40.8	he's making short left to right downhiller's right off the bat. He's just
1:46.0	giving you the hope that you've become so accustomed to and then just kind of got blown away by Shane Lowry Tommy Fleetwood and others.
1:56.3	But this is, we should go find your quote from, I don't know, Wednesday, whatever it was, like,
2:00.4	he needs par golf. He needs, because, you three birdies that's not the Westie we know.
2:06.0	It's neutral.
2:07.0	He's stuck in neutral kind of hanging on and unfortunately the wind just died and it was not pargol.
2:13.0	Yeah, I was, you know, when things weren't going great, I was like, oh, you know, if he can just keep this
2:19.6	within five with the weather tomorrow, he's got a a shot and now we're eight back it's just he's
2:25.8	got a chance but say we are you like on the bag or are you in the team room now with
2:32.2	with Westy?
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