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The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A 9 p.m. TGL match had Andy and Brendan ready for a late night live show for this Wednesday episode. The two react to the week that was in the SoFi Dome, with Brendan sharing details from his in-person experience watching the Ballfrogs lose yet again on Monday night. With losses by Jupiter Links and NYGC as well, all three teams will have a chance to make the playoffs in the final week of the regular season. Andy and Brendan discuss Tuesday night's match between The Bay and Jup Links, critiquing the broadcast and wondering if the product is better without the pressure of Tiger playing. They shout out stellar performances by "Tom Sim" and "Dr. Chipinski" Min Woo Lee, helping to make Tuesday's match entertaining. Andy updates his model and spits out this week's TGL Power Rankings with the Ballfrogs tumbling down the graphic. The Bay GC is standing tall at No. 1, but PJ wonders if there's some underlying metrics that could present a problem for them in the playoffs. The conversation then shifts to this week's Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, where Jordan Spieth feels he's a good fit for the course at PGA National. Andy and Brendan aren't so sure, and Spieth goes unpicked as a Hammer, Lock, Fire selection for this week. The South African Open on the DP World Tour presents a bevy of Games Within a Game for longtime SGS listeners. In news, "Full Swing" returned to Netflix on Tuesday and Brendan makes a cameo in an early episode! Brendan also shares some quotes from Peter Malnati regarding a potential PIF-PGA Tour deal and President Trump's involvement in negotiations. Finally, one of Andy's favorites has a PR firm asking for coverage of his new life after golf.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics.
0:04.0	There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.
0:09.0	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.
0:27.0	Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start.
0:43.6	It is February 26th.
0:45.7	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.6	Brendan, I'm doing okay.
0:50.1	I mean, Victory Monday was short-lived because my frogs went.
0:55.2	I just had a tough Monday.
0:58.0	I was in person.
0:59.8	It was tough.
1:01.5	Tough,
1:01.9	tough seems to be maybe too benign a word,
1:05.7	too benevolent a word.
1:06.9	Tough doesn't get to the core of what I watched,
1:09.7	the horror show that I watched, as they were just body bagged by the Atlanta Drive, hammered over the top, hammer, locked, body bagged.
1:19.5	It was tough.
1:20.5	Tough to watch.
1:21.3	They're the only winless team in the league.
1:22.9	We're flipping the calendar to March.
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