The 2023 Year in Review, Part 7: The June merger and Blockie-mania
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This Friday episode continues the Year in Review, which is in the throes of major championship summer. But in 2023, those majors took a backseat to the summer bombshell of a PGA Tour and LIV, or PIF, “merger” announced out of the blue on June 6 on CNBC. This portion of the Year in Review picks up post-PGA with the full onset of Mike Block mania taking over the entire sports world, another amusing Memorial week, and then the merger announcement, players meetings, Jay interviews, and immediate fallout in the week of the Canadian Open. Does what was being said that week reflect the year-end reality now? This is the usual SGS approach to the year in review, focusing more on the amusing, inane, and extraordinary and it will continue to roll out over the next several weeks in multiple parts to be enjoyed at your convenience during the holiday season.
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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 setup 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, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is December 15th. |
| 0:41.6 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:43.2 | Brendan, I'm doing great, you know, I'm on the road, |
| 0:47.2 | maybe the last trip of the year for me, which is... |
| 0:50.8 | The year is two and a half weeks left man better be right I hope it is yeah I think it is I think good |
| 0:59.2 | You can't be jamming yourself I might have to. I might have to take a flight for for holidays. |
| 1:07.2 | No, no for status on my airline. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, oh, I need my I need my upgrade points. |
| 1:14.0 | I take a lot of red eyes. |
| 1:17.0 | I need those upgrade points. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm going to be a fancy boy. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, not a fancy boy, just a practical boy. |
| 1:23.2 | When you're on the, yeah. |
| 1:24.5 | When you do, when you do six or seven red eyes a year, |
| 1:27.2 | you just, you need those upgrade points. |
| 1:30.8 | All right, well, with you on the road, the holiday is just bearing down on us. |
| 1:36.6 | We're recording this early. |
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