Some Open questions for Troon, R&A leadership changes, and lingering Pinehurst critiques
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brendan is joined by the inimitable Geoff Shackelford for this Wednesday episode of the Shotgun Start, and they begin by pondering whether Andy has achieved “America’s guest” status. Then they quickly transition to the upcoming “links season” in pro golf with Geoff’s impending trip to Scotland and with The Open and the Scottish Open fast approaching. There’s a chat on the current issues with the Scottish, where Troon falls in the Open rota and what really works for it as a venue, and some favorite memories from walking the grounds at the 2016 edition there. Then they have a lengthy chat about the R&A announcing a successor to Martin Slumbers, what it says about the direction of pro golf, Slumbers’s tenure, and what that new job must confront right away. They then bounce back to the last major at Pinehurst for some Shackelford thoughts on how the course played and a few spots that could be fixed ahead of the next U.S. Open, which is already coming up soon. They close with a few thoughts on Scottie Scheffler’s season which dovetails into some big Open storylines and the prime contenders, namely Rory McIlroy.
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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 set up 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. |
| 0:13.4 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen! |
| 0:22.4 | Start! Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings are welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 3rd. Jeff, how are you doing? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm doing great, Brennan. I'm honored to be here to sit in for Andy while he's playing America's guest or on vacation or something? |
| 0:56.5 | He is on vacation. I don't think he's playing golf. He is, America's guest is a good term. There's several people in the running for that. I think Andy, given his last month and a half, bounding around from Texas, the East Coast, and unnamed courses in New Jersey. |
| 1:14.0 | I saw that on an Instagram, yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | I do think he is, he's approaching America's guest status, |
| 1:21.0 | but that is the voice of Jeff Schakelf Schakeford, the inimitable Jeff Schakelf. |
| 1:26.4 | First time co-host, guest co-host here at the Shotgun Start, a long-time friend of the program. |
| 1:32.4 | I don't know why we've never had you on that's just an |
| 1:34.9 | oversight. You've been a friend of Friday you've been on many of our videos, |
| 1:38.3 | been a critical voice in the architecture space, professional golf space. |
| 1:43.0 | You can subscribe to his newsletter, |
| 1:46.0 | the quadrilateral. |
| 1:47.8 | It's on sub-stack, right? |
| 1:49.2 | Jeff, that's where we can find that. |
| 1:51.4 | I read it in the sub-stack app I you know I know there's a lot of apps out there but I've added |
| 1:56.4 | the substack app and it's a good one. I like it. I like it for scrolling you know I do open it in |
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