Shrinking shafts, JR Smith show, Players purse bump, and CJ Plaque ‘desert golf’

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode promptly goes off topic, discussing the “preemptive” rain delay in Chicago, October not being as good as September, and if the rules of golf are actually not that bad compared to the officiating and umpiring conundrums we’re watching every weekend now. Then Brendan and Andy begin with an early news segment, discussing the new USGA local rule limiting driver length to 46 inches and what it means for Tour golf, among others. Then they discuss the PGA Tour bumping the Players purse to $20 million as well as providing essentially a “travel stipend” to the lower rank-and-file members in what’s basically a golf pro union. JR Smith’s first foray into competitive college golf is reviewed, and any and all critiques are addressed. Then it’s on to the schedule for the week, starting with the CJ Cup, which will take place at a new venue in the desert that’s not ‘typical desert golf,’ if such a type even exists. There are 3 things to watch there, and more on the Euro Tour’s return to another “so bad it’s good” venue.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, 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.
0:21.0	Get to men!
0:24.0	Start your Indian!
0:37.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start.
0:40.0	It is October 13th.
0:42.0	Andy, how are we doing?
0:43.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. How are you?
0:47.0	I'm fantastic. I'm chipper. We're recording early, so we both have a little bit of pep, a little bit of zip on the ball.
0:54.0	I'm doing well.
0:56.0	Hey, I saw they canceled the White Sox game preemptively.
1:00.0	Is that accurate? Did they pull a slug going preemptive ball in hand?
1:04.0	You know, it could be fair, it rained quite a bit.
1:08.0	Oh, it did after they made the preemptive call.
1:12.0	They did preempt the call. They were very peachy.
1:16.0	They were like in their preemptive call.
1:20.0	It could have been because of the video of John Qsack being accosted for his tool.
1:28.0	That was a weird video. I didn't like get that.
1:32.0	I texted you, like this is why September is the best month.
1:36.0	October doesn't make you happy. You got preempt, you got, you know, rain outs.
1:39.0	That doesn't happen in September. It's too nice, right?
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