Skimpy Amateur coverage, Pat Reed’s lawsuit, and LIV contract details

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The cup of the content gods runneth over as golf’s summer of absurdity and existential crisis continued this week with an outlandish Pat Reed defamation lawsuit against Brandel Chamblee, incoherent tweets from a PGA Tour player advisory council member, last week’s PGA Tour winner having to disown a ranting “mentor,” a Tiger Woods attended players meeting to combat LIV, contents of LIV contracts coming out in the WSJ, and more. It’s been a week, and Andy and Brendan meander about in all that, while also discussing the great golf watching at the U.S. Amateur, where (good!) coverage comes on and goes off in what feels like indiscriminate fashion. There’s also some amusement in Paul Azinger comments on this week’s BMW venue, compared to Patrick Cantlay’s thoughts. The episode closes with a Precision Pro Flashback Friday on the 1990 U.S. Amateur, won by a brash Phil Mickelson over former HS teammate turned foe Manny Zerman, whose own legend is explored a bit during the segment.

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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	Determine!
0:24.0	Start your Indian!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is August 19th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:42.0	Brendan, I'm doing good. Looking forward to a big day, had a big day yesterday, second birthday party, double, we both had birthday parties.
0:52.0	I did. This is a birthday podcast.
0:55.0	Our oldest daughter, your only daughter. Yeah, our both born on the same day. How about that?
1:01.0	So we're doing a Friday morning show that will carry you through the weekend if you need it.
1:06.0	You had a good day at the state fair or the county fair.
1:10.0	County fair. I mean, let's be real. I live in a very highly densely populated suburban county. It's not like going to the...
1:21.0	It's not, they call it agricultural, but it's, I mean, it's like next to the highway, and it's very populated.
1:27.0	I don't know. Our friends said you want to know the fair is said sure.
1:30.0	Low that I know, we'd walked like 75 yards. I think I spent over $200 in cash, because it's just like ridiculous.
1:39.0	I don't know how people are forward to go to the fair. We pay $15 to get in. That gets us nothing. Nothing. Everything in their cost money after you pay $15.
1:49.0	You know, 30 bucks for rides, tickets, all the games that you can't win, you know, throw a ring on a bottle, that kind of thing.
1:56.0	It was just, honestly, we'd been there seven minutes. I think I spent like over $200 to get all these tickets and wristband.
2:03.0	It was unbelievable, but whatever. It was my daughter's birthday.
2:07.0	Could have gone to see the gnats for that much.
2:10.0	You could. You probably less. Probably less than that. If you're not having the, you know, $22, 20 ounce beers.
2:17.0	But yeah, absolutely. How was your birthday celebration over there?
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