The LIV lawsuit arrives and alleges, PGA Tour replies, and Women’s Open Flashback
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This Friday episode begins with the 100-plus page complaint filed by 11 LIV players against the PGA Tour, as well as the temporary restraining order that will go to court next week. Andy and Brendan react to the complaint, its allegations and arguments, and the PGA Tour’s potential missteps and response going forward. They highlight a couple aspects they find compelling, dubious, and amusing in the whole mess that will be instrumental in how the future of golf looks, with an antitrust expert coming later in the week on the podcast to get into more of the details. The second half of the pod discusses early action from Muirfield at the Women’s Open, Webb Simpson becoming a vice captain, and a Flashback Friday to that time a scorecard “countback” decided the Women’s Open.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup 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! Start your engine! |
| 0:35.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is August 5th, Andy. How are we doing? |
| 0:41.0 | Brendan! I'm doing all right. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, what a time for a professional golf. I think we all knew the lawsuit was coming, but I didn't know with the VIM and Varocity that it was going to come with. |
| 1:00.0 | And Varocity? All right, I'm just making up for it. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm reminded of why I once walked out of law school to get a book and then never went back. |
| 1:14.0 | But this yesterday, as I was reading through the 105 page complaint or whatever it is, 110 pages. |
| 1:21.0 | And then I was like, I need a break. Let me go check in with my football team. See how they're training camp day one. |
| 1:26.0 | And all it is is more appeals for my quarterback, the appeals process. |
| 1:30.0 | This is, you know, good day. There will be a designee in an arbitrage. |
| 1:33.0 | It's just all, it was a full day of legal doc legal legal ease in my sports world where it's supposed to be escape from that. |
| 1:42.0 | But yes, this is the big, you know, let's let's be honest. |
| 1:47.0 | It completely overshadowed the women's open. I think the run up to the women's open. |
| 1:52.0 | I think hopefully that will take more of the stage on the weekend as sort of the news of the lawsuit dropping, you know, fades a little more. |
| 2:03.0 | Only until Tuesday when this hearing on the temporary restraining order, the TRO is held out in California. |
| 2:11.0 | But it was a, I don't know if it was a bombshell, but it was, it was a massive, massive development in the sport that's probably going to be ongoing for years, months at the very least, right? |
| 2:28.0 | This is going to go on for a long, long time. There are some really, really heavy hitting lawyers involved. |
| 2:38.0 | Although I would say Gibson done the place I worked right out of college. We took them to the, took them to woodshed on the one thing I worked on, but they are, they are an awesome legit. |
| 2:47.0 | They are, they are legit big time. |
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