The Backboard Classic, Missed opportunities in Detroit, and USGA-NBC marriage
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This rollicking Wednesday episode begins with a birthday shoutout and an odd discussion on couples going by one merged name. Also, an MLGT shared title due to Covid restrictions on a sudden death playoff is questioned. Then Brendan and Andy get to the golf, or some of it, by running through the schedule for the week, including the “you won’t believe” par-5 out in Colorado at the KFT event. For the Rocket Mortgage Classic, they discuss featured groups in a weaker field, some one-and-done picks, Bryson’s obscene caloric intake that he disclosed on Tuesday and his comments about the Ross design being obsoleted by his gainz. Also addressed, of course, are the apparent backboards set up as signage all over an event that is known in these parts as the PMI Backboard Classic after last year’s outrageous infrastructure setup. The absurdity of the 3-1-3 charity challenge is discussed again, largely within the context of the potential insurance policy for it. Jordan Spieth’s comments that it’s easier to win without fans are debated. Then they get to a more serious matter and that’s the article by Brendan Quinn of The Athletic on the Tour and its marquee players missing opportunities by skipping “the Tour’s lone regular-season event held in a predominantly Black neighborhood.” A closing news segment further addresses the Sunday bombshell of the USGA rights change with a few insights after asking around about how exactly this happened.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen! Start your engine! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun's start. It is July 1st. Andy how we doing Brendan I'm doing good it's |
| 0:57.4 | look at that another first of the month couldn't even keep it together? |
| 1:03.0 | Could you? |
| 1:04.0 | You realized when you were saying it that the shotgun start falls on a first again. |
| 1:10.0 | It's just the most random comment ever. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, we record three days, three days a week. |
| 1:18.0 | The odds are every now and then. |
| 1:20.0 | The first will be an episode, the first day of the month. |
| 1:22.0 | This is four or five months in a row I don't know that that's true we've turned the calendar to July |
| 1:28.0 | But you know what we haven't turned the calendar on I just want to poke you here I I've not been able to keep up with the birthday request and I just want to do some house |
| 1:38.0 | cleaning. |
| 1:39.0 | I thought we were done with this. |
| 1:41.0 | We were. We were. I haven't been doing it but I got a shout out Ellis Jenkins he's turned six on June 12th |
| 1:50.3 | He's a son of June 12th So I'm way behind it is 18 days ago as of this recording. |
| 1:55.2 | There have been a bunch of birthday ones, but you know his dad Riley Jenkins |
| 1:58.7 | often interacts with us. He's I just I dropped the ball there so I haven't been keeping up I |
| 2:03.7 | apologize it's not personal you know wasn't deliberate it's just the birthday |
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