SGS Spotlight: Ernie Els Part II
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
It’s Friday! This week-wrapping episode begins with a discussion of the new Manor Swing that will bring the return of the Euro Tour and our beloved summer #CoffeeGolf. Also in scheduling news, Andy and Brendan discuss the cancelation of the John Deere and the delightful SGS catnip possibilities for a July replacement event at TPC Sawgrass (the zinc standard?). Then comes the resumption of the massive undertaking of an SGS Spotlight on Ernie Els. This is Part II (find Part I last week) and begins with Ernie’s hard-luck year of runners-up in 2000. That becomes a theme -- the anguish of close calls at majors dominated by both Tiger and a cast of non-Tiger characters right as Ernie was playing some of the best golf you could ever see. The battle with Tim Finchem over Ernie’s worldly non-US PGA Tour schedule is reviewed. His last two majors, the 2002 Open at Muirfield, and the late-career windfall in 2012 at Lytham, are given the full treatment. His son’s autism diagnosis, and Ernie’s evolution of responses to that, are covered in detail. Also, his hard-partying ways are re-lived with some amusing drinking stories that have become folklore over the years. More than Part I, this discussion helps understand the measure of Els the person and may leave you appreciating him more.
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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! And the Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is May 29th. Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:54.0 | Brendan, I'm doing good. Just, uh, ready for the weekend. How about you? |
| 0:59.0 | I'm great. Ready for the weekend as well. Last, uh, weekend weekend in May I think what is it two more |
| 1:05.9 | weekends without golf this one and next and then we'll have PJ tour allegedly |
| 1:09.9 | returning I think June 11 so we are we're trucking along it does I can't decide if time is |
| 1:16.1 | moving slow or fast I swing back and forth my wife says people who think this stretch has moved |
| 1:22.4 | fast are insane. |
| 1:24.0 | But it also kind of feels to me like we were just, |
| 1:26.5 | you know, at the players, doing the chain smokers thing. |
| 1:29.3 | And golf is... |
| 1:30.3 | I kind of think it's gone by quickly. |
| 1:31.7 | So maybe I am insane I yeah so it |
| 1:36.5 | seems like sometimes the days are short and the weeks are long vice versa it's all it's all |
| 1:42.0 | you know very odd adjusting to it but golf |
| 1:45.0 | approaches in the month of June approaches so tonight we will do part two on |
| 1:51.0 | Ernie L's. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:54.0 | Maybe the month of June before we're done. |
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