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The Shotgun Start

Saturday at the Open with Shane Bacon

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This Saturday episode features Golf Channel’s Shane Bacon who fills in for Brendan Porath who attended the final of the U.S. Girl’s Junior Amateur. Andy and Shane discuss many topics including Rory McIlroy’s championship chances 11 shots back with one round to play. In all seriousness, the two breakdown everything from Louis’ remarkable 2021 major championship performances to Spieth’s brutal final putt on 18. As you probably have figured out, Brendan Porath, a far more talented writer than Andy usually puts these notes together and his absence is sorely felt. The last thing that Shane and Andy talk about is the NBA Finals and having a job that makes you feel guilty for sitting on the couch. Thank you to Shane for joining during a busy week and listeners for the support! Tomorrow the Champion Golfer of the Year will be crowned.

Transcript

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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

Here we go. All right, all right, all right.

0:21.0

Gentlemen, start your evening!

0:35.0

Greetings and welcome to a Sunday edition of the shotgun start.

0:41.0

Today is July 17th. Shane, how's it going?

0:46.0

Annie! Let's see if I can scream as loud as possible. For people that don't get a chance to look behind the curtain of shotgun start, before we started, Andy said both, I need to remember how to do the intro and also asked me the date.

1:01.0

So locked in for this episode.

1:03.0

Yeah, to be completely honest, I'm shaking off the cobwebs a little bit. We had our first real babysitter night.

1:11.0

Nice!

1:12.0

Nice downtown. You know, blew off some steam, and I've been a little bit less than 100% today, but you know, I forgot my athletics. I didn't have the athletics pepper in last night.

1:24.0

But it was a perfect day to have it. You just laid on the couch watching golf.

1:31.0

So you started out slow, and then you're finishing strong, which I think leads kind of perfectly into the golf.

1:37.0

We saw two players start out very strong and then kind of limp home, and then there's one guy, Andy, one guy that didn't have it early, but found a way to kind of get it in the house.

1:49.0

So I got to ask you this just to start. Are we looking past Jordan's speed on this leaderboard for a winner?

1:57.0

I was thinking about this. I think because of how the leaderboard separated. I think one of those guys, and this is like what we talked about with Tori, was there weren't low scores really available at Tori.

2:13.0

We've seen a lot of 65s out here. So I think 60, like you can say 65, 64 is on the board. So just let's just say, like I don't think there's 62 out there necessarily, but 60, let's just say 64 is available, right?

2:29.0

That would get the sevens to 13 under. I don't think that's good enough, right?

2:36.0

Nope, I agree with you. So I think the eights at 14 have a shot.

2:41.0

I think that's as far as you can go, and I'm not, I'm not taking either of those guys, no offense to Corey Connors in Scotty, Scotty S, but I was thinking about I knew you guys always go how far back is too far back, and I knew we were going to do it.

2:54.0

I just wanted to tackle it early, because to me, this is three guys, and you know, it's unfortunate with that little miss on the last for speed.

3:02.0

By the way, shout out to Mr. Brennan Poorath, who basically called the miss on shotgun start last night, because he just kind of mentioned it, you know, the reaction and all that stuff, but it was so true.

3:15.0

I mean, I remember, you know, when he made that put on Friday, just the look on his face, it almost surprised him, and I thought Zinger did an unbelievable job of kind of breaking it down when they showed the replay about you think about it, you do the reaction, and then you missed it on the other side.

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