The Jay Don Blake 500, Ryder Cup eligibility Qs, and Utah qualifying scandal
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It's a historic week for the PGA Tour, so Andy and Brendan are back in full force on this Wednesday episode. Some football talk starts the show, as Andy remains optimistic about the Bears' playoff chances and Robert Saleh is out as head coach of the New York Jets. Andy and Brendan then move on to what's truly important this week - Jay Don Blake's 500th (and final) career PGA Tour start, coming at the inaugural Black Desert Championship in Ivins, Utah. The 65-year-old Blake was moved to tears at the invitation to play in his hometown event, so Andy and Brendan take a walk down memory lane and remember his career. They recap his 1980 NCAA Championship, won while playing for Utah State, his career FedEx Cup point total, and, of course, his legendary mustache. The two pause the Jay Don remembrance for the time being, moving on to discuss a scandal at the Monday qualifier for the Black Desert Championship. The conversation then turns back to Jay Don Blake, as Andy and Brendan debate whether the new Korn Ferry Tour grads should be playing in the FedEx Fall instead of sponsor's exemptions like Jay Don. The two cover the full schedule for the week, with notables for the Black Desert, French Open, SAS Championship, NB3 Match Play, and LPGA Shanghai. In news, the Ryder Cup "Year To Go" presser was today, providing some notes on the selection process and Sergio Garcia's efforts to re-join the fray at Bethpage. To close this episode out, a 2022 Flashback Friday is reheated, with Andy telling the story of Jay Don Blake's lone PGA Tour win in San Diego in 1991.
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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. |
| 0:13.4 | And here we go. |
| 0:16.6 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is October 9th. |
| 0:45.0 | Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:46.8 | Brendan, I'm doing great, you know, I'm just riding high up until the Packers late win on Sunday the Bears were you know projected in the |
| 0:57.3 | playoffs. You're doing playoff projections now in the first week go October, week five. |
| 1:04.0 | Might not be projected in the rest of the season, so we got to be excited about that. |
| 1:10.0 | I like that. |
| 1:11.0 | Sadly we have no PJ here. He went to the Mets game. So he bailed on us to go to the Mets game. |
| 1:16.5 | We can't get word on this quarterback who's whatever he is, 42, 41, running the franchise, firing coaches in week six. |
| 1:26.7 | Coach may be terrible, coach may be bad. |
| 1:29.7 | But Aaron Rogers... |
| 1:31.7 | Is Nathaniel Hackett taken over? Aaron beards, beards you'll ever see. I don't even know his name, Erbel or something like that. |
| 1:45.0 | He's just a guy, defensive coordinator. But yes, Aaron Rogers, you know, he's a Hackett man, and we saw how bad Hackett was now I guess |
| 1:55.8 | Aaron Rogers kind of running running the show more or less with Hackett in tow and a defensive coordinator. |
| 2:03.8 | I don't know why that changes anything dramatically, but yes, big development for PJ's |
| 2:09.3 | jets, but he's off to happier times. |
| 2:12.1 | I say this with, I have to hand it to the Packers organization for |
| 2:16.2 | not cowering to Aaron Rogers demands. I mean it's a real organization that it's stability, vision, principles, right? I mean, I don't know, it feels like that probably wins out. You don't have |
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