Sunday at The Open: Cam’s charge, Did Rory go too safe, and LIV again

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A magical week for Andy and Brendan at The Open comes to a close with this recap episode after the final round at The Old Course. After walking with Cam, Rory, and the rest, they relay what they saw and why it shook out the way it did. Cam’s legendary final round is dissected, with a few key spots and shots picked out that seemed to turn the tide in the final hours. The Rory heartbreak is reviewed, with debate on whether he played it too safe or just got beat by the hot talent. There’s one more occasion to reflect on and praise The Old Course, which had both feeling grateful to be present for this particular major. They discuss how it played and why it separated again on Sunday. Cam Young gets his due, as does a certain housecat. Then they wrangle with LIV returning to our lives promptly, with the new Champion Golfer of the Year not exactly shooting down questions about rampant LIV rumors surrounding him, Jon Rahm suggesting the tours negotiate with some strong words for the Euro Tour, and Henrik Stenson apparently jumping ship and losing his Ryder Cup captaincy.

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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	Ladies and gentlemen, start your engine!
0:38.0	Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is July 18th, Andy. How are we doing?
0:44.0	Brendan, I'm doing great. What a tournament. That was something else.
0:51.0	I know that there will be a lot of disappointed Rory McElroy fans. I think there are tens of thousands of those at the old course.
1:02.0	Thousands, yes. Yes.
1:05.0	Many, many, many people at the old course, many people watching at home, many people maybe in the media center, we're being honest.
1:12.0	Cam Smith, though, played one hell of a golf round, one hell of a tournament, and you know, truly a one of the greatest final rounds that I've seen in, in some time.
1:27.0	64, inward 30, birdied 10 through 14, and one by one, I guess, he won by one over KM Jan, one by two over Rory, who he trailed all day until, what was it, 12, 13, I think he finally caught him.
1:43.0	I'd say that you kind of started it with the best summation. I think it was a bummer for a lot of people in the champion.
1:51.0	That was at the end, not because it was Cam Smith, just because it was not Rory for a lot of people, but like the tournament, the championship, the watch, the event, like overall.
2:01.0	I know we're probably a little biased because we were in the whole arena all week, and we really fall in love obviously with the place.
2:08.0	It was one of the better majors ever, and like, when you guys shoot 64 and plays that way out of all the course, it's one of the best major watches you're ever going to see, whether the guy you wanted at the end wanted or not.
2:20.0	When a guy shoots 64 on top of you have Rory, who's playing really good golf, not, you know, we'll talk about Rory in a little bit, but the guy he's playing next to him, who's playing next to him, drives the 18th green, makes a putt.
2:37.0	Cam Jan, your time.
2:38.0	Cam Jan makes a putt. If Cam Smith doesn't birdie it, Cam Jan ties him. It was unbelievable.
2:47.0	We were so close to a Cam Jan, Cam Smith, Rory, playoff, because obviously Rory went for the two.
2:59.0	He said so much in his press conference. There's no point in me playing trying to protect. He wasn't protecting the point.
3:07.0	He wasn't protecting those extra FedEx cup points for the solo second. He went for it, but Cam, that's the story of the tournament, right?
3:18.0	Getting up and down on 17 and 18 to win the open championship after really putting on an exhibition from 10 through 16 of ball striking and putting.
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