The Lashley story, the false advertising of Cam Champ, and FedExCup point problems
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
After a full weekend of golf we begin in the obvious starting point: Zach Johnson’s tumble out of the top 100 in the world rankings and if his Kaboom Baby! equipment is to blame. Rory Sabbatini’s top five finish in Detroit then leads to a serious take about how his switch in nationality has screwed the International team at the Presidents Cup. Then we get to Nate Lashley winning the Rocket Mortgage Classic, an event that was an unqualified success in a market that deserved a tournament. Lashley’s win and his incredible story also provokes a take about the Tour’s forced and overdone marketing being borne out of insecurity about its product. Then we get to someone who’s been the beneficiary of that forced marketing: Cam Champ. We discuss his backboarding attempt on Saturday, the Tiger-esque coverage treatment, and how it’s all a bit unfair to him. Doc Redman’s big week is reviewed, but not without a rant on how FedExCup points are mis-allocated. We finish by ripping through Steve Stricker’s dominant major win, the Andalucia Masters, the LPGA’s Arkansas party, and a glimmer of hope for the “Methheads” in Utah.
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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 setup 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 engines! |
| 0:26.0 | Engy! And the Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is now July 1st. |
| 0:55.6 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:57.7 | Brandon, doing good. |
| 1:01.6 | Good? You know, I I'm I guess I'm just a little surprised. |
| 1:07.0 | What are you surprised about? |
| 1:09.0 | I'm surprised we didn't see a 313 this week. Well, let's, in the Corrections Department, let's, let's start off with, I think we were |
| 1:21.8 | ranting about it on Friday as having to happen in one round consecutively but apparently it's over the course of four days. |
| 1:28.6 | Oh, I'm so surprised that it didn't happen. |
| 1:34.0 | Shocked. |
| 1:35.0 | So you got to get the ace and you could sprinkle in an eagle at one point and the birdie the birdie on the one all |
| 1:44.4 | and then they give like 20,000 to charity |
| 1:50.4 | they buy like a you know extra set of notebooks and markers for the nearby school or |
| 1:56.1 | something like that I don't know. How's your weekend? I forgot about the 313. |
| 2:04.0 | The weekend was good. |
| 2:06.0 | Finally got home, deep in the family life. |
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