SGS Spotlight on Jose Maria Olazabal
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
This week brings the exultant return of golf, and Brendan and Andy will back to the normal tournament show and routine on Wednesday, digging into Colonial and its anchoring-heavy field. But first, they start the week with one more Spotlight to satiate during this golf-less time. The subject is Jose Maria Olazabal. They discuss Ollie’s incredible ascension from a farmhouse on a golf course at the foothills of the Pyrenees to an amateur stud to an instant success in his first year on the Euro Tour. His early Euro Tour success is given the full treatment as is his immediate Ryder Cup dynamism with Seve, when Ollie was just 21 years old. The outrageous 12-shot victory at the 1990 NEC is also celebrated with some amusing quotes from Lanny Wadkins. The two Masters wins are thoroughly reviewed, with a lengthy exploration of the intervening injury that kept him out of golf back home for more than a year at what should have been the peak of his powers. This reclusive time dealing with a foot injury was full of odd rumors and fears that he’d be confined to a wheelchair and never play again. Ollie’s sui generis approach to life is also celebrated, from his constant rebuffing of endorsement money, Mark McCormack and IMG, American food, and his choice to live with his parents into adulthood and even after he’d won two green jackets.
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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is June 8 8th Andy how we doing Brendan I'm doing good just you know another weekend in the books |
| 1:00.1 | you just adjusted your camera looks like you got your lettuce trimmed a little bit got a touch up on top of the head there I did I had an appointment canceled twice this week because of, you know, protests and such. |
| 1:15.0 | And then today I was finishing up, like, |
| 1:20.0 | my haircut's just finishing, and the power went out. |
| 1:23.0 | The haircut place. |
| 1:25.0 | And I was so happy it was done |
| 1:28.0 | because you know there's a room full of people with half cut heads. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, that's not an ideal, you know, time for the power to go out. |
| 1:37.0 | Ideal activity. |
| 1:38.0 | And thankfully I had cash, so I paid my cash, I got out of there, and didn't, you know, didn't look back. |
| 1:45.3 | I have no clue how long those other people were stuck there. |
| 1:49.1 | Good for you, glad you got your hair cut. |
| 1:50.8 | Incubedient time to have the power go out. Inconvenient time to have the power go out. |
| 1:54.0 | Inconvenient place, you know? |
| 1:56.0 | And you put up a chicken wire fence, we saw that, you showed that off on Twitter with the |
| 1:59.7 | garden box or whatever, you're growing vegetables. |
| 2:03.0 | Well, farmer Andy over there, growing things. |
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