Split Screen Scottish, DQ via Merch Tent rumors, and Open WD train

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This Monday episode wanders around for the first 10 minutes or so, discussing the abundance of golf and the apparent meager options for television coverage of it all. Andy and Brendan discuss the spicy local news column in Toledo lambasting the executives making the LPGA pay for tape delayed coverage. Then they lament the conclusion of the Scottish Open being polluted by early coverage and the commercial commitments at the Deere. There’s a bit on the U.S. Senior Open, and how that fought for air time and whether that format should be altered. Also, there’s rumors of a player being DQ’d for forgetting the time of day. There’s ample praise for Min Woo Lee, his trajectory, and the warmth of coffee golf on a links course this weekend. Lucas Glover’s longevity is also touted after his Deere win. They close with some news on the run of withdrawals from the Open Championship, for a various sundry of reasons, and add some early thoughts and excitement over the last men’s major of the year.

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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 evening!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is July 12th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:47.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. You know, day started with one of Chicago's favorite sons falling into playoff.
0:56.0	And now the day we've got one of its other favorite sons, Vince, India, tied for the lead, three holes to play.
1:03.0	I'm going to be a little distracted. What? Tracking via the beautiful PGA tour website.
1:11.0	Well, the streaming only covers one group, which, you know, it's better than nothing, but...
1:16.0	The beggars can't be choosers, yeah.
1:18.0	Exactly. I don't want to watch tag writings bring it at home.
1:24.0	I'm, but I'm going to be a little anxious here on this podcast. This would be a huge win for Vince.
1:31.0	Would it guarantee him his card? No. I know he's had a look. No. The super.
1:36.0	Really good year. There's super seasons, nuts. He's played a lot. He's had a ton of top 10s.
1:43.0	Ton of top 15s. It's just a lot of tournaments. A lot of points out there.
1:52.0	That a win doesn't kind of mean automatically like it has in the past almost.
1:57.0	He came in 46 coming into the week.
2:00.0	But I think there's like a real case with the super season that like the top 35 should get in,
2:06.0	because they're like far and away the best players on the tour, right?
2:12.0	And prove it's going to be extended stretch, right? You're proving it much more.
2:16.0	Yeah. It's like anything. The longer season gets, the more definitive the sample size is, right?
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