The Rangefinder Championship, Pebble’s weak field, and the Popov rule

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This Wednesday episode begins with some chatter about the peculiar habit of local news consumption in the year 2021. Then Brendan and Andy dive into the breaking Tuesday news that the PGA Championship, Women’s PGA, and Stand-up Mixer PGA will permit the use of distance measuring devices starting THIS year. They debate whether this is the erosion of yet another skill, an area that was already properly bifurcated, and dispel with the cover justification that this is a pace-of-play nostrum. Then they get to the schedule for the week, which is light and simply the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Despite its lack of competition on the event side, the field is the weakest its ever been and Andy wonders how that might sit with its telecom giant sponsor, which backs two events now struggling to attract primo fields. They discuss the Saudi impact on two West Coast swing events and also cover this modern pro’s ability to play for huge sums every week without having to glad-hand potential sponsors at a Pro-Am like this. In news, they hit on a trio of LPGA subjects, like the new Popov rule, a new title sponsor doubling a purse, and Annika coming back for an event after she played as a celebrity in another one a few weeks ago.

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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!
0:24.0	Start!
0:25.0	You're in game!
0:29.0	Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is February 10th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:46.0	Brandon! I am doing great. It's 80 and sunny. I was watching some Chicago news on my YouTube TV this morning. I saw it was wind chills down to the negative 30s this morning.
1:01.0	You watch local news.
1:05.0	You're living in Florida. You're going about at 730. You're watching local news. You're like 75 years old.
1:13.0	I like to keep my thumb on the pulse of the city. You prefer to plant persimmons like you're right out of the 1970s. Who watches local news anymore?
1:25.0	Well, I tell you that I left my golf clubs and I went to concession and I left my golf clubs and I drove three hours back.
1:37.0	Stuffed the grocery store on the way home. Popped the trunk to put the groceries and realized my clubs were still at the golf course.
1:46.0	It was an epic failure.
1:49.0	You got to get back there.
1:51.0	I get this old set of clubs in the garage at the house. I went and hit golf balls with them.
1:57.0	How was it?
1:58.0	It was fine.
2:00.0	It was great.
2:01.0	I just don't think it offers much value anymore.
2:08.0	I'm making coffee. I'm making a smoothie.
2:11.0	I'm listening.
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