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The Shotgun Start

The PGA Tour’s need to change its card process, Lexi’s farewell complaint, and Black Friday hacks

The Shotgun Start

thefriedegg.com

Sports, Golf

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Brendan are together again for a Monday episode wrapping up the end of both the PGA Tour and LPGA seasons. Before getting to that, Andy has some thoughts on Golf Channel's coverage of the Australian PGA Championship late Saturday night, as the broadcast cut to commercial after the approach shots on the 72nd hole. Although we didn't entirely see how, Elvis Smylie made his par and secured his first DP World Tour win, holding off Cam Smith in the final group. From there, the two discuss the RSM Classic, the final event of the FedEx Fall and the end of the 2024 PGA Tour season. Maverick McNealy won his first PGA Tour event with a birdie on the final hole, leaving Luke Clanton, Daniel Berger, and Nico Echavarria (and his minute) in a tie for second. Brendan and Andy give props to McNealy on his first win after an up-and-down career so far before questioning how Luke Clanton, an amateur, has not secured a PGA Tour card yet despite his four top ten finishes this season. Brendan also shares a quote from Daniel Berger about how just 10% of his peak play is at a "different level" than most of the guys he's competing with. Lastly, Andy and Brendan take a look at the top 125 bubble at the conclusion of the FedEx Fall, where Joel Dahmen kept his card using the 13 FedEx Cup points he got for free in the no-cut Zozo. Next, they talk through the CME Tour Championship on the LPGA Tour, won by Jeeno Thitikul, making her the big financial winner of this season and NOT Nelly Korda. Lexi Thompson, playing in her final event as a full-time player, expressed some displeasure at split tees on Sunday due to the TV broadcast window, which did not allow her to finish her career on the 18th hole. With golf talk wrapped up, Brendan details the biggest event of the day - the Maplewood 11U football team against Major Tuddy and his band of misfit mascots at Northwest Field. The kids shut out the mascots, winning 13-0 with two forced turnovers in the short game. Major Tuddy did get some hits in though, with footage of a personal foul after an interception making the rounds on Twitter. Andy is fired up about the "best case scenario" of another Bears loss with Caleb Williams looking great, as the 'Flus must be cut loose after this season. PJ shares that Bob Papa is not pleased with the New York Giants and the three make another pitch for a godfather offer to bring him to the Champions Tour full time. To finish this episode, everyone goes back and forth about the inaugural Year in Review livestream, coming to YouTube at some point this week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics.

0:04.0

There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.

0:09.0

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.

0:27.0

Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start.

0:43.5

It is November 25th.

0:45.6

Andy, how we doing?

0:47.3

Brendan, I got to say, I'm doing great.

0:50.6

I'm having a great weekend.

0:53.3

Why?

0:56.8

What happened? I'm great. I'm having a great weekend. Why? What happened? I'm, I'm great. I'm having a good weekend.

1:04.8

I had a great Sunday, eventful Sunday. Sounds like you guys did too. Watching various football teams and stuff. And golf. Great, I mean, you know. Good finish. Good finish of the golf. Great finish of the golf great finish at the golf honestly like a full

1:14.0

weekend in golf we had you know sort of this last cut card cut off thing in the pGA tour we had a lpGA

1:22.6

just dumping buckets of money out you know nelly court i didn't have the best year this year i don't

1:29.0

know if you're from if you're aware because she did not take home the money prize the money

1:32.7

uh title uh and elvis smiley winning on the dp world poor patrick read did you watch that

1:39.5

i did you see the end did you see what golf channel did? No. I didn't see the end. Oh my God. What happened? They cut off. No, they did. I almost yelled about it last night, but I was so tired watching it. What time was this local for you? It wasn't late. I was just exhausted.

2:01.4

I was just,

2:01.9

I came back from the East Coast this week,

2:04.4

and I'm like struggling with getting staying up late.

2:08.0

It must have been like, it was like nine or ten.

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