SGS Spotlight on Ernie Els, Part 1

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode begins with a quick reaction to news that the U.S. Open will have no open qualifying this year. Then Brendan and Andy start to take on the monster that is the Spotlight of Ernie Els’ life and career. Part 1 starts with the 10,000-foot view, offering up some numbers that frame just how much of a talent he was and the success of his career. It transitions to his earliest days in South Africa and his decision to go full-time into golf, some of his immediate amateur success, and his mandated military service. Then the first decade of his pro career is explored in depth. They touch on the two U.S. Open wins, featuring the controversial drop at Oakmont and the “rowdiest crowd ever” at Congressional. His dominance on the world stage is praised with tales from across the globe in his 20s. The competing narratives of Ernie as a closing killer and choker are discussed after his first major win. The amusing tale of his engagement is relayed. And finally, the last few years before Tiger dominated the game are discussed in context of what was then presumed a future rivalry, with some amazing freezing cold takes in the Ernie v. Tiger debate before the year 2000.

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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 engines!
0:27.0	Engy! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is May 20th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! on the I am ready to go ready to talk about the man Ernie Ellis today.
1:09.0	The Big Easy or Big Dog as we came to know, his first full SI feature.
1:14.4	It was two-word title, Big Dog.
1:17.2	You were just waxing romantically about that.
1:20.8	There's only two men that I've known named Big Dog.
1:25.1	Big Dog, Glen Robinson.
1:26.7	Who?
1:27.7	And if you ever watched Glenn Robinson play college basketball.
1:31.7	Oh yeah.
1:32.5	He was a big dog.
1:34.2	He was good.
1:35.4	And the man, Ernie Eels.
1:39.5	So we will, Ernie Els, you texted me pretty early today like there is a very small chance this is going to be confined to one part and
1:49.8	We're not even going to try to keep it in one part. So we are this will be part one
1:55.5	Part two is at a future date given all that we have golf coming back now. So there's more golf to talk about you, we have the match to preview or discuss on Friday.
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