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The Shotgun Start

SGS Spotlight on the great redass Curtis Strange and New makeshift schedule plans

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This portly Friday episode begins with the latest news on what may come of a 2020 men’s golf schedule. We cover Golf Digest’s report that The Open will be canceled, and then review Eamon Lynch’s wide-ranging report on the initial plans for shuffling around the Masters, FedExCup, Ryder Cup preparations, and a potential west coast U.S. Open. Paddy Harrington’s plea for 12 captain’s picks and a Ryder Cup committed to 2020 is also discussed. Then we get to our SGS Spotlight subject, Curtis Strange. Is he the player of the 80s on the PGA Tour? We proffer some nuts-and-bolts facts on a great career, hit on his outrageous title winning moment in college, and then his rise up the money lists and at the majors. We relay some legendary stories about his redass instincts and hot-tempered outbursts that got him in trouble even with Arnold Palmer early in his career. The back-to-back U.S. Opens are discussed in detail -- the playoff win over Faldo and that “Soak Hill” Sunday run to put him in company with Hogan. The ‘85 Masters he nearly (or should have) won after shooting an 80 in the opening round is also covered in detail. The Ryder Cup pressure and ignominy of 1995, which resulted in heckles about choking for years is recalled via some vicious Rick Reilly columns. Reilly also humorously pops Strange for his mishandling of Sunday singles as captain in 2002. *That* Tiger Woods interview is also debated before a closing discussion on his legacy and HOF credentials.

Transcript

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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 engines! And the Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. is April 3rd Andy how we doing

0:54.8

Brandon I'm uh I'm doing okay it's a strange day today strange Strange, how, what do you mean?

1:04.0

I spent a lot of the day looking up Curtis Strange.

1:08.0

Oh, God.

1:10.0

So bad.

1:12.0

We're already, we're just 30 seconds in and we are diving straight into an empty pool.

1:19.0

All right. I did reading all...

1:21.0

You're mad you fell for that one. Yeah I am mad I mean reading all these articles

1:28.1

As I was loved the pun every headline. It's like a strange finish you know

1:34.4

uh... strange days at the master strange uh... everything

1:38.2

it was it was it kurdis wasn't short enough to get the short treatment.

1:43.0

So they used his name instead.

1:46.7

By the way, you tweeted the clip,

1:48.6

but I've had several friends,

1:50.5

send it to me and text after watching the 91 Masters after a woozy

1:55.7

deep dive spotlight. Jim Nance in his

2:05.0

essay.

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