SGS Spotlight on Calvin Peete, a makeshift feeder tour, and the Workday Open

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode begins with a few comments from Brendan and Andy on the current protests in the country, golf’s poor history with race, and how they and the podcast need to be better. Then a short news segment hits on a report that the PGA Tour is considering a makeshift feeder tour to give players on some of the lower tours like the Canadian Tour and LatinoAmerica tour some reps. Then they hit on the official announcement of the new Workday double dip at Muirfield, which leads to an odd ramble about the lost potential of a July Sawgrass event. This week’s SGS Spotlight features the life and golf of Calvin Peete, celebrating his career and discussing why we now see even fewer African Americans on Tour than the heydey of Peete some 40 years ago. The Spotlight attempts what it always attempts, and that is to re-acquaint or educate and then celebrate a bygone pro that a younger generation may have only general details on to go with a name. It discusses Peete’s incredible path to pro golf, accidentally falling in love with the game when he played it for the first time at age 23 after selling wares out of the trunk of his car to migrant workers. Peete’s legacy as the most accurate driver of all time is hailed as is his signature Players win and his peak run that edged Nicklaus for the Vardon Trophy and almost every contemporary in win rate.

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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!
0:23.0	Start your engine! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is June 3rd. Andy, how we doing? Brendan, I'm hanging in there. Wild times in the world.
1:00.0	Wild is a word for it. Definitely, you know, hard to be focused on too much golf or
1:08.9	p. G.A. tour or professional golf in any real way right now.
1:13.2	Yeah, yeah, it seems like it's, it's,
1:17.2	everything else in the world has taken a backseat
1:21.0	to, you know, our internal issues as a country as you know even with the
1:27.2	pandemic. Right, right. I mean I think like we should speak briefly on this or I don't know briefly, but you know,
1:37.3	succinctly impactfully on it, you know, before we dive into a Wednesday. We're going to do a spotlight. We're going to do a little bit of news, you know.
1:45.0	Seems like pretty slow right now in the golf world or we're just consumed with everything else in the real world,
1:51.0	but before we ramp up next week and return to play, I think like, you know, we are just
1:56.7	two white podcasters in a primarily white sport. We cannot, you know, attest to what it would be like to be an
2:06.8	African American and coming up as an African American under, you know, racial systemic racism and racial profiling.
2:17.0	We are beneficiaries of white privilege, whatever you, you know, may or may want to deny about you know whether that exists or not we we certainly are beneficiaries of that
2:28.2	We haven't had to I was a
2:31.0	Like I was reading Damon Hacks article last night about it. You know someone who I've come to know working a morning drive and that it hit me pretty hard.
2:38.0	I just hearing he wrote eloquently about it on golf channel.com and hearing like his experiences like he I can certainly say like he's one of the best humans I've come across in this industry and hearing him have to talk about being pulled over for real no
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