The LIV debut, the PGA Tour response, and Andy’s Majesticks

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode jumps right into a whirlwind day that may be the start of fundamentally changed pro golf landscape. Andy and Brendan react to the first broadcast of the first ever LIV Golf round. Did it surpass expectations or devolve into the shitshow that was anticipated? Did the golf even matter? Where is the leaderboard?! They discuss the amusements and disappointments, and who came off most debased as sportswasher of the day. Then they get into the PGA Tour’s announcement that all defectors were suspended, and what that might actually mean in practice. Some legal counsel who’s been digging through the bylaws sends along a few thoughts of how things might go next or different options available to players. They also discuss if Jay Monahan can save his tour with the status quo, and how pro golf is all going to be worse off for this.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of set up work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, 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.
0:21.0	Determine!
0:24.0	Start your engine!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 10th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:44.0	Brendan, I'm doing well. I'm in your neck of the woods. I'm in the land. I'm just hanging out in Cleveland.
0:54.0	All right, good. That's what one does. It's a great place to be this time of year.
0:58.0	Good month, you know, maybe not September, like you say, favorite month, but June's not terrible. It's been pretty nice and like 70 and sunny.
1:05.0	Great. Love to hear it, but you're not in London, which is where I don't know, I don't know, I look.
1:15.0	I have internal struggles with how to cover this thing, right? I mean, like we're not going to cover this like Phil shot 68.
1:22.0	He got around this way, that way and the other way, like that's just like not the priority at this point with this thing.
1:28.0	It's trying to understand exactly what it was.
1:31.0	Critique, what needs to be critique, pray, you know, give him a pat on the back for what maybe that came off better than we expected or what could be adopted in a down the line.
1:42.0	And amuse and just the total absurdity of a lot of the other nonsense and peripheral bullshit around it.
1:48.0	They have a lot of money. They've put into a lot of things. They've sort of stumbled around in other ways, but I thought the live golf Thursday morning broadcast.
2:01.0	And I'll be honest, they weren't great with the messaging that this started on Thursday. No, there were a lot of people.
2:09.0	Friday, Friday to Sunday, 54 whole deal.
2:14.0	I don't know if that's, I don't know if it's Thursday through Saturday every week and may have something with the US open.
2:20.0	Those guys wanted to get out of town. I don't know, but a lot of people didn't know starting Thursday morning.
2:26.0	Anyway, anyway, who also didn't know starting Thursday morning, punch golf club.
2:32.0	What if they fell flat on their face? What a bad performance from punch team punch.
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