The “fat lad’s” triumph, Koepka’s timekeeping, and Westy’s return to Augusta
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We react to the final round of the men’s major season, celebrating Shane Lowry’s triumph at Royal Portrush. We relay a fun story about Lowry coming up in Irish junior golf in the shadow of superstar Rory McIlroy and then review his work from the weekend to win The Open. We also consider the hot take that this was actually a bad year for major Sundays. Then we get to Lee Westwood’s day of yippy putts and leaderboard watching as he positioned himself for a spot at his happy hunting ground in Augusta. We review who was “most disappointing” from the group of potential chasers, hitting on Tommy Fleetwood’s underwhelming day, Brooksy stuck in neutral, and, uh, J.B. Holmes’ implosion. The Holmes-Koepka pace of play dynamic is given a full account. We hand out a final grade for this Open and then discuss the one thing from the week that we think may change pro golf for generations.
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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 Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 22nd. |
| 0:54.0 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:56.0 | Brendan, what a day. |
| 1:00.0 | The major |
| 1:03.0 | the major of the year. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, men's major, last men's major of the year, |
| 1:09.0 | last men's major of the year, |
| 1:10.0 | last round of the year. Oh, sad. |
| 1:11.0 | Little melancholy to be doing this. You're disrespecting the senior open. year. Well, sad. Last one. |
| 1:13.0 | You're disrespect in the senior open. |
| 1:15.0 | They're playing four rounds next week. |
| 1:18.0 | And they got to go more than 54. |
| 1:22.0 | It's a major. |
| 1:23.0 | They'll probably have two weeks off right after. |
| 1:26.0 | Great, great open championship. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah, awesome. What do you think? I thought it was good. What do you think? I got a bit of a hot take. |
| 1:42.0 | The uh, wasn't a great year for Sunday Final Rounds at the majors. |
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