Saudi’s LIV Golf has a schedule & courses, and USGA comments further on distance

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode reviews a few days full of significant news both on the disruptor league attempts to the PGA Tour and the USGA’s latest update on its distance plans. Andy and Brendan begin first with a solemn note on the horrific tragedy involving the University of the Southwest golf team. From there, they discuss the release of LIV’s schedule and the stinky roster of courses. There’s also a rumor about another massive signing bonus that leads to further debate about the progress that the Saudi cash could make once/if this thing gets up and running. The PGL’s re-emergence in the form of a report on a proposal sent to Rory McIlroy is also addressed, and they close with the distance issue and the signals this latest USGA and R&A update sent.

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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!
0:37.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start.
0:40.0	It is March 18th.
0:42.0	How we do it?
0:43.0	Brendan!
0:44.0	The content guides are just coming and dumping content every week it seems like.
0:51.0	A dumping the content box.
0:53.0	Yeah, there's a lot coming fast and furious.
0:57.0	Sort of whatever, we recorded Tuesday and then boom, a lot of stuff happened Tuesday night, Wednesday just kind of kept rolling.
1:05.0	A lot of news, whereas again, the golf is sort of secondary, the golf tournaments and of course it's a Friday update, so we don't need to do our 18 whole updates.
1:14.0	It's never wouldn't be, you know, first and foremost necessarily on a Friday, but, you know, this is my point on the recap of the player's thing about gold boy being like, eh, it was just like a nice little diversion, an old school pin-out at a bad around from the heavier topic.
1:28.0	So then we immediately like just dump right, jump right back into the deep end, but you have Greg Norman letter to players that is, you know, immediately leaked and forwarded and sent around.
1:40.0	You have this PGL, email the Rory that comes out on the fire pit, you have the live actually announcing a schedule, you have the USGA distance insight report, but I think like, first and foremost, we should start with the University of the Southwest tragedy.
1:57.0	And that is an awful, awful that is not a gift from the content, God's this like, this sat with me like all day yesterday, we're recording this on Thursday as it would, as it would any human, I think with the heart and mind.
2:14.0	I don't know, I think it would be worthwhile to read their names.
2:20.0	You know, it's not old news, but it's been out, it happened Tuesday night and this is Thursday.
2:25.0	Tyler James was a coach at the University of Southwest, he lost his life, he was driving the van when they collided head on around Andrews, Texas, I believe.
2:36.0	The players were Lacey Stone of Texas, Mauricio Sanchez of Mexico, Travis Garcia of Pleasanton, Texas, Jackson Zinn of Colorado, Curissa Reigns of Texas and Thiago Sousa of Portugal.
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