SGS Spotlight on Vijay Singh and Sunny Abacoa’s moment, Brandel-PGA tiff

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode begins with an appreciation of the great Sunny “Abacoa” Kim getting the stage he deserves after his MLGT win with the rest of the golf world on hiatus. Then we briefly discuss the PGA of America’s anger at Brandel Chamblee over comments that teaching has been “b**** slapped” back to reality. Our SGS Spotlight segment focuses on the great Vijay Singh. This is a lengthy one worthy of the career of the Fijian. We relive his outrageous peak years and climb to world No. 1 in the middle of the Tiger era. We discuss his three major championships, including a Masters that almost feels overlooked. His sui generis path to the game is given a full account, such as the spartan circumstances of learning to play in Fiji as the son of an airport technician. The controversies of his career are also discussed in depth, including the 1985 cheating scandal that followed him his entire career, his sexist comments about Annika Sorenstam’s exemption into Colonial, the Augusta locker room confrontation with Phil, and his general prickly demeanor with the press and fans. We close with some anecdotes about his work ethic, the admiration he engenders from the pros on the range, and his legacy.

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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 Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is March 27th. Andy how we doing Brendan doing okay just
0:58.9	man we dive it into to VJ. My brain is like scattered. We're recording this like Friday or Thursday. I'm sorry Thursday. I'm sorry Thursday exactly. I'm scattered Thursday afternoon. I've done about like five or six hours of reading on DJ
1:16.0	saying to prepare for this.
1:18.0	It's like, I'm almost A2 deep at this point.
1:20.0	I need to come back out trying to organize my thoughts. We are certainly
1:24.0	going to miss things, but we'll get to that in a minute. We're doing all right. How are you?
1:28.6	I'm doing okay. Just, you know?
1:32.1	Shout out to everyone that's continuing to listen.
1:35.0	We're getting a lot of notes of, I don't know, support, appreciation.
1:39.2	I know it's not an easy time for pretty much every single person out there in the world. We will continue
1:46.8	and attempt to do this as best we can. One exciting development is I've got our, it's warming up here in Chicago I got my first batch of of
1:56.7	Shotgun Start cold brewing tomorrow morning I'm gonna wake up with a with a big batch of cold brew, right?
2:05.0	You're a little cold brew theme.
2:08.0	You got all these contraptions, they have some sock or something, call it, like cold brew sock? It's just a reusable tea filter. They call it the coffee
2:16.4	sock. Okay, yeah I heard you talk about that. Any other things we need to discuss?
2:23.7	We got to talk about Sunny Kim, Sunny Abbot.
2:26.7	Real quick.
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