The inaugural SGS Spotlight on the life and times of Monty, the Masters postponed and PGL popped

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

This Monday episode will be the first of many with no golf results to discuss or recap. So first, we begin by revisiting the conclusion of The Players, reviewing Jay Monahan’s last press conference of the week, and pushing back on some of the apologia touting how they made the “right” decision when in fact it was the only decision after a series of wrong ones. The Masters postponement and the new CDC recommendations leaves us wondering if this will be an entirely lost year. What would a fall Masters look like and what are the options? The Premier Golf League’s chances of getting off the ground took on another blow Sunday with Brooks Koepka coming out against it with some cogent remarks on the foundations and guts of the PGA Tour, before Jon Rahm then also joined him later in the night. We conclude with a lengthy new segment called the SGS Spotlight, in which we will pick an era and drill down on a handful of marquee names and characters from that era. First up is the OWGR era and Colin Montgomerie. We spend probably too much time reviewing Monty’s body of work, from the dominance on the European Tour, some majors he thought he’d won, his marital troubles, his troubles with American fans, and the Jakartagate incident that led to a feud with fellow Scot Sandy Lyle. We close with some discussion of the brutal missed opportunity at Winged Foot that has become overshadowed by Phil Mickelson’s choke job, and debate Monty’s legacy in the game.

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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! Start your engine! And the Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is March 16 16th Andy how we doing Brendan it's been quite the week I
0:58.8	I can't believe where we were last week what we were talking about last week and
1:05.0	where we are today. Yeah this time last week you were figuring forgetting to
1:10.2	push the button or you scheduled it for the I'm just trying to think of like all that's happened, right?
1:14.4	That's wild. I mean we were talking about the new TV deal and all that stuff. It's been a while, yeah, an eventful weekend here uneventful and it's eventfulness so I feel like I've lived like a year in this week. Yeah. It's been it's been nuts. So everyone please stay safe, stay
1:37.2	healthy. We're gonna keep this role and try to come up with some new creative
1:41.0	of segments, some creative ideas.
1:42.8	We got that AMA we got to do with all these insane questions
1:46.2	you guys all submitted us, which may have nothing to do with Golf.
1:50.2	Yeah, I may have a little bit to do with golf.
1:53.0	I'm excited for later.
1:54.6	We got our segment that's probably going to be our main focus
1:58.2	for the time.
2:00.1	Is my bike on, by the way?
2:01.1	Just to confirm, because I know last time you were right it absolutely
2:04.6	was not on I listen when you finally posted it on or when you posted on Friday morning.
2:10.0	Yeah definitely not on so So, you're on. Good, good, good to know where all our P's and
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