The land of 10,000 man-made lakes and links season begins at Lahinch
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It’s July which means it is now the European Tour’s time to shine so this holiday week episode begins with a discussion of the Irish Open at Lahinch, the classic links layout on the west coast of Ireland. We lament its weak field strength but contrast it with the dartboard tour’s venue in the upper midwest. Andy also worries that the new compacted schedule is eroding interest in some of these events. We have some early intel from the Sticky Note Classic with alarming reports that this “former sod farm” will be pillow soft with at least one disturbing backboard setup. We also discuss Rory Sabbatini choosing to pass on this week’s Challenge Tour event in Slovakia, where there’s a 783-yard par-6 that momentarily leaves Andy speechless. In news, we hit on Brooks Koepka’s new logo, a sneaky great tip for U.S. Amateur qualifying, and a study on the king of golf’s national opens. We wrap with some @FriedEggPaulie picks for the 3M Open, some insight on what this new venue compares to on the old schedule (hint: another Palmer course), and a few tips for the Irish Open as well.
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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 Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 3rd, Andy. How we doing? |
| 0:55.2 | Brendan! |
| 0:57.2 | Dude, just fantastic, it's the start of a new era, the Sticky Note era. |
| 1:06.0 | Sticky Note, is that what we're settling on? |
| 1:08.0 | Scotch Guard, Sticky Note Classic? |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, 3M makes a wide suite of products as far as I know. |
| 1:13.7 | No Scotchguard, just sticky note classic. |
| 1:16.7 | Okay. |
| 1:17.7 | I wonder if Bryson's done his little tour of the Innovation Lab or whatever it is. |
| 1:23.0 | Finding out a human potential? |
| 1:26.0 | He's always trying to push and understand the limits of human potential, |
| 1:31.0 | extend them. |
| 1:32.0 | And, you know, they should, |
| 1:34.7 | media should be allowed into that event. |
| 1:36.6 | There should be a entire gaggle press core tracing Bryson. You know, he's there. He's there to learn about |
| 1:45.0 | new products and extending human potential as much as he is to play golf. |
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