SGS Spotlight on Fred Couples and Masters qualifying clarified

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode begins with some brief news on Bryson releasing a fancy video with his Masters scripting despite the fact that there is no Masters this week. We also discuss the Masters field being finalized right now at 96 players, even though the tournament will not be played until November. Then our SGS Spotlight focuses Fred Couples. We dive into his upbringing in a middle class neighborhood in Seattle, learning to play at a local muni, and eventually working his way to Houston. His two Players wins, his Masters victory, and his peak years as the world No. 1 force are given the treatment. We also review the critiques from his contemporaries about his apathy, absentmindedness, and aversion to practicing. His struggles, both with tragedy in his personal life and with his injured back, are also discussed as consistent themes that kept popping up in research. This was an enjoyable one on Boom Boom, aka Mr. Skins aka the Czar of the Silly Season.

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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 Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is April 8th.
0:53.6	Andy, how we doing?
0:55.3	Brendan, I'm doing good, you know, just daily pods,
0:59.9	Masters Week even though there's no golf on. My wife loves it.
1:04.0	Does your wife love it?
1:05.0	Oh yeah.
1:06.0	It's like, well,
1:08.0	75 and sunny today in Chicago
1:10.0	and I'm just like, oh yeah, I gotta do Fred Couple's research, I'm just like oh yeah I gotta do friend couples research I'm sorry.
1:15.0	Yeah I was like well I could be there for 10 days gone for 10 days you'd be at the kids, you know, by yourself.
1:24.2	It's like I basically am.
1:25.4	You're reading about Fred Couples for 12 hours and also trying to do work and all that.
1:29.6	A little solace that I'm here and basically as useless as ever.
1:34.0	So somehow we've made our lives more difficult, you know, more work intensive when there's no
1:42.0	golf on. But, hey hey don't cry us a river. Yeah don't
1:46.3	cry us a river. It's you know whatever it's time-consuming but we're reading
1:49.9	about friend couples could be much more challenging things out there in the world.
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