The 2024 Year in Review, Part 8

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 190 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan return for yet another marathon episode of the 2024 Year in Review, covering the final men's major of the year and the end of the PGA Tour's regular season. Before the Year in Review kicks off, they discuss some takeaways from TGL Media Day, where the world got to see Billy Boy and Rickie Fowler hit some shots into the oft-memed giant screen. There's also some college basketball discussion as Andy looks forward to sitting on the floor for another Cal Bears game this season. The Year in Review kicks off with the week of the Scottish Open, a win by Big Shot Bob after he received a free drop coming down the stretch on Sunday. This week also contained the news of Keegan Bradley's appointment as U.S. Ryder Cup captain and Andy goes in-depth on the feud between Bryson DeChambeau and Mike Schy. After a quick pitstop for the five-man playoff at the ISCO, PJ starts off Open Championship week with notes from the practice days. He shares that Viktor Hovland got existential amidst his spilt from the Chip Monk, and Tiger fired back at Colin Montgomerie's calls for his retirement. Andy jumps in for Thursday and Friday's rounds at Royal Troon, focusing primarily on Todd Hamilton's opening tee shot on Thursday morning. Brendan finishes off Xander's second major win, attempting to contextualize his season among others who have won two majors in the same year. Brendan continues on with the 3M Open, won by Jhonny Vegas, before another group effort remembering Scottie's gold medal win at the Paris Olympics. Andy handles the PGA Tour's regular season finale, the Wydnham Championship, which could just be named "Kucharfest" for 2024. Thanks to Kevin Prise's intrepid reporting, Andy goes minute-by-minute for Matt Kuchar's Monday finish, one of the most ridiculous golf moments in recent memory.

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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 Friday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:43.7	It is December 20th.
0:46.0	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.6	Brendan, I'm doing all right.
0:49.9	You know, I have reached the point of the the year review where I've come squarely into the
0:57.6	crosshairs of my spouse. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It's the annual tradition now. This is, this is, it's kind of,
1:08.5	things are getting stressful around the house with the holiday holiday spiraling down.
1:14.4	We got company coming and I'm just sitting sitting on my laptop.
1:21.2	Look, there are way worse jobs out there, more important jobs out there, more consequential,
1:26.9	with not complaint about the work that we
1:29.0	get to do even during your in review but i tried to blame my poor gift giving skills yesterday on
1:36.1	year in review and how it just takes me out for four weeks didn't go well did that one didn't get
1:42.4	that one didn't land with any effect with my wife.
1:45.2	So I was like,
1:46.4	look,
1:46.6	I just got to get one more done.
1:48.4	We're going to be good.
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