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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

The Good and the Bad of This Year's West Coast Swing

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

After starting with what they're IN and OUT on this week, Andy and Joseph bring on Shane Bacon (@shanebacon) to discuss the state of the West Coast Swing. They touch on what was good and bad about each of this year's West Coast events, why many of them fell flat, and how to incentivize players to create a more compelling product. They also ask whether there are any PGA Tour courses that truly test the pros outside of Riviera, and whether the schedule can be restructured to give the West Coast tournaments a better chance of avoiding poor weather and turf conditions. They then name some players they think have a good chance at The Masters before Andy and Joseph wrap up with recommendations.

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0:00.0

I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg

0:06.8

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0:11.8

I'm about ready to run off the golf course Well, Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. Today I am joined by Joseph Lamagna and Shane Bacon and we are going to have a rousing debate on the West Coast

0:47.6

swing, the pluses, the minuses from this year's kind of premier run on the PGA Tour. I'm sure that they would hate to hear me say

0:56.8

premiere run for the West Coast swing, but it's just true. It's the best collection of tournaments that the tour has and this year was it was interesting

1:06.8

There there's a lot of stuff to talk about with it, but first Joseph what are you in on?

1:13.0

Andy, I am in on CBS coverage.

1:17.0

And I think they've made a number of strides,

1:20.0

still have maybe some issues with the commercial load, but I think they've done a really good job.

1:25.9

Sure, with like some data visualization and doing a better job of setting up some of the holes

1:31.9

and some camera shots.

1:33.6

But what I was really impressed with with CBS

1:35.4

this past weekend is that they're covering

1:37.6

the most important stories in the events in a way that I feel like they

1:40.8

shied away from in years past.

1:43.6

So I think the two examples, Scotty Sheffler's Putter

1:46.6

this past weekend at the Genesis,

1:48.6

they showed him missing some short putts.

1:50.9

It's a huge story, him throwing his put huge story him throwing his putter him slapping his putter I

1:54.5

feel like in years past maybe they've been afraid to do that because they get an

1:58.3

angry email from an agent or a player's upset, but they did it.

2:02.7

And also, the other example was Pace of Play,

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