SGS Spotlight on Payne Stewart and ‘99 U.S. Open with author Kevin Robbins

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

It’s about three months later than planned, but it’s U.S. Open week and the Shotgun Start is grateful for that. To get in the mood for the national championship, Andy and Brendan have this bonus Spotlight episode thanks to the U.S. Open’s Victory Club. This is a different approach from previous USGA spotlights on 2006 Winged Foot, 2007 Oakmont, and Bubba Dickerson’s 2001 U.S. Amateur win. They are joined by Kevin Robbins, journalist and professor at Texas, who spent years researching his book, The Last Stand of Payne Stewart: The Year Golf Changed Forever. Brendan and Andy do their usual Spotlight debrief at the top, covering the nuts and bolts of Payne’s career, some amusing tidbits from his 1991 U.S. Open win, and then dive into a long chat with Kevin about Payne’s evolution as a person and player going into that famous 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst. The championship at Pinehurst is also covered in detail with a cast of heavyweights contending on a venue that is now and will be an anchor for the U.S. Open. And Kevin gets at the topic of what made this year such a line of demarcation in the game of golf.

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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 set up 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.
0:13.4	And here we go.
0:16.6	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen!
0:22.4	Start! Gentlemen! Start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a special spotlight edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:40.4	It is US Open Week.
0:42.1	Andy, how we doing?
0:43.0	Brendan, I'm doing awesome.
0:46.0	I can't wait.
0:48.0	It's fantastic.
0:49.0	This is kind of the week of the year I feel like.
0:52.0	I think, yeah yeah we still have
0:54.1	masters to go but it really feels like a different level of excitement and
0:58.4	anticipation just I don't know obviously the delay has a little bit to do with
1:02.1	it the venue has a lot to do with it the you know time of year seeing this venue in this setting time of year has a lot to do with it
1:09.3	and obviously being deprived of major championship golf for the first, you know, six, seven months of the year as some do with it, but it's my anticipation level I don't think it's ever been higher for US Open.
1:19.2	Yeah, that's, I think the venue has so much to do with it obviously has delivered in almost every
1:26.3	iteration of championship golf at wingfoot and this year with all the run-up of you know great play during the restart from
1:35.7	the great world's best players it just adds to it and I think it's it's going to be
1:41.4	really interesting to see how you know 2006 the last time
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