Sunday at the U.S. Open: Rahm’s win, Bryson “off the rails,” and Torrey postmortem

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

After a brief wait for the flyover to clear through, Andy and Brendan begin with the last episode on the 2021 U.S. Open. It’s been a week, but they’re giddy following an afternoon of bunched (constipated) leaderboard maneuvering and some unexpected extracurriculars, like Bryson coming undone, a streaker, a box of beer somehow being on the premises, and a ball in a tree. They start first with Rahm, his “firing at flags” approach and of course the final two putts. There’s chatter about what’s to come, but mostly it’s an appreciation of what just happened. They express sympathy for the Mattress King, though Brendan doesn’t fully absolve him because of the drive at 17. The Bryson circus is re-lived, from a tie for the lead to t-26, with amusing quotes about how it was really just one unlucky break or two between that and getting to 7 or 8-under. Rory, all of it, is addressed. They close with a postmortem on Torrey Pines, why people can’t seem to understand why a good or bad leaderboard does not equal a good or bad golf course, and a few other things they liked and didn’t like from muni setup.

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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!
0:40.0	Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun. Start it is June 21st, Andy. How are we doing?
0:46.0	Brendan, not doing great. What a Sunday. That was a hell of a finish, right?
0:54.0	Great, great, finished, great weekend, more or less. Great Sunday afternoon at Torrey Pines. Hold on a sec. Let's wait.
1:04.0	We have a fly over coming in. They're coming right now to lead off the podcast.
1:12.0	Wait a minute. Well, I'll just have to continue on. How bad was that? How so bad it's good.
1:18.0	Just everybody left hanging there with their pants around their ankles.
1:21.0	You know, my favorite part of it was what was when was rom turning around like they
1:29.0	just opened and looking around. The guy just won the US soap and then they somehow
1:36.0	made him look like, you know, just like a fool looking around. And again, again, this
1:42.0	is with the NBC stain with it. And, you know, the swimming audience watching all this
1:50.0	happen. You know, again, golf gets a valuable opportunity and this is what the big
1:57.0	audience sees. A bunch of old guys stare at the sky waiting for some planes to come through.
2:04.0	Well, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Oh, that was great, great, finished. But hey, we'll get to the US
2:10.0	open in a minute. We need to clean up the big news of the weekend.
2:15.0	Late breaking Sunday night here from Worldites, our man on the spot. Officially official.
2:22.0	Roy Savitini is in the Olympics. He will be playing golf under the Slovakian flag.
2:29.0	The Olympics three, now three years in the making. The Olympic not takes on a completely
2:37.0	new residence here at this podcast. Maybe more so than a major or a Ryder Cup.
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