SGS Spotlight: The 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The special Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start is a Spotlight on the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Open Victory Club, the USGA’s new fan community (usopen.com/victoryclub). Similar to their exploration of the ‘06 Winged Foot national championship, Brendan and Andy dive into the oddities, amusements, fashion, characters, controversies, and triumphs of a week that ended with Angel Cabrera on top. Tiger’s week of otherworldly ballstriking, including a round that Hank Haney called the best ever, is reviewed. Of the close calls and near misses, is this the forgotten one that Tiger should absolutely count in his major tally? Bubba Watson’s first real national moment is re-lived, as well as the USGA’s cheeky decision to pair him and his fellow Florida panhandle denizen Boo Weekley with a Japanese qualifier who had never played in the States. Aaron Baddeley’s rise and quick tumble from the 54-hole lead is discussed. They giggle about the frustrated and even angry Oakmont membership fearful that their course was being de-fanged by the USGA, even though there were only eight rounds all week that broke par. And of course, there is a lengthy discussion about El Pato, Argentina’s chain-smoking, big-eating major champion, who came from absolutely nothing to win golf’s toughest test at its toughest venue.

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0:00.0	He's gonna post plus five and he's gonna make and fear it come get him that was one heck of a four
0:08.6	I'll take that if you're looking woods are gonna have to play one under golf and again
0:11.7	Furek only has this 18th which has been the most difficult.
0:16.7	So there it is on Hellcaprero.
0:20.9	Pulse plus five. Five.
0:23.0	He's a happy man there, even though he Bogeyed 16 and 17, that's a great 69.
0:29.0	Is he the first U.S. Open champion from Argentina in history.
0:35.0	Only player with two rounds under par again just eight all week and he's got two of them.
0:41.0	The Shotgun Star in Golf is full of mathematics.
0:45.1	There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.
0:50.2	So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.
0:54.7	And here we go.
0:58.0	All right, all right, all right.
1:01.0	Gentlemen, start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a special Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 17th. Andy, how we do it? Brendan! I'm doing good. I'm excited for this episode. It's always fun to revisit
1:32.1	a championship. It's always fun to revisit championships of old championships of yesteryear
1:35.9	The championships of Phil Nichols and missed the cut that you know maybe tickles this you know
1:41.6	at places where Ernie has won.
1:43.5	Just, you know, makes your argument that's much easier, right?
1:47.5	Is this why you chose 07?
1:48.9	No, no.
1:49.9	To get it to Phil Ernie, rehash that in another way to try to win that argument?
1:54.0	I didn't, that would be way below anything I would do.
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