The Gold Cancellation, Monahan’s moment, and Mudball Madness
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We recorded this episode prior to news of the Players Championship cancellation, so there’s a 7-minute addendum at the front of it talking about the final decision to pull the plug on the remaining three rounds. The rest of it still stands and applies regardless of the Tour reaching that final decision, and the rest of it covers their obstinance all week from refusing to pass on the media tour with markets in freefall to being one of the last sports on the island to cancel events. The decision to have fans on Thursday is also panned in the week of Ponte Vedra feet dragging. There is a certain level of empathy expressed for the truly crap hand they were dealt, but it’s the process of how they played that hand is why the Tour showed some ways in which its come unmoored. A short discussion on the actual golf on Thursday focuses on Hideki’s course record round, how in the world they didn’t get done before darkness, the bunker cam impediment, and how a relatively dry few weeks produced a round rife with mudballs. Flashback Friday hones in on a Players and Sawgrass record that may never be matched as well as some colorful writing about Fuzzy Zoeller.
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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 set up 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! |
| 0:23.0 | Start your Indian! And the All right, this is a special addendum to the Friday episode because we recorded a full 50 some minutes and at the end of it they |
| 0:54.8 | canceled the players championship. We did about I want to say 30 minutes on the front end |
| 1:00.9 | hollering about the PJ tour, the process really a lot throughout |
| 1:06.4 | this week, starting almost in that Monday press conference at CMBC, or I'm sorry, Monday |
| 1:10.7 | appearances, the media tour, all the way to finally cancelling it |
| 1:15.8 | I don't know that we would have changed a whole lot of what we said maybe softened a few things |
| 1:19.6 | but I don't know that we would have had we were we under the pressure they had canceled or not? |
| 1:23.7 | I think like the dye was cast in terms of how they've handled this really from late |
| 1:29.8 | Wednesday night into mid Thursday and mid Thursday at 645. I think they doubled down with the statement of 645 and now here we are just before 10 p.m. Eastern and they're cancelling it. So that was a quick turn from about, you know, |
| 1:44.7 | dinner time to 10 p.m. |
| 1:46.2 | 6.30 to 10, where they really flipped and canceled it all together. |
| 1:49.8 | They're also cancelling through the Valera. |
| 1:52.8 | So fluid situation and all that, |
| 1:57.7 | but I think they were really, it shook my, not that I had a ton of confidence, but just, it's the right decision, so I'll commend them for that, I suppose, but the process has not made them look good and they sort of put themselves in bad position to start. |
| 2:17.0 | Andy? |
| 2:18.0 | Yeah, I think that this was, you know, finally they made a good decision |
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