The Rory Paradox, Rick’s the Pick, and a Two-Gloved Flashback

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Sports, Golf

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This revelrous Friday episode begins with an appreciation for the early leaderboards across the globe from the LPGA to Dubai to Georgia. The RSM Classic is a cornucopia of Shotgun Start favorites and Brendan and Andy run through some of the regulars as well as update low and “high Davis” on the leaderboard. Over in Dubai, they praise Frenchman Mike and discuss Rory’s outrageous shot and opening round. This leads to a lengthy discussion about the high bar for measuring Rory success and whether anything he does at a non-major makes an impression. The life and times of Troy Merritt are celebrated in the “Journeyman of the Day” segment, where they read from an article that characterized Merritt as dangerous at the Masters and also a human highlight reel (his new nickname). News hits on Rickie filling in for Brooksy at the Presidents Cup and comes with less criticism than you might expect. Flashback Friday is an homage to Tommy Gainey, the 2012 winner at Sea Island. It features a reminiscence of his final round 60 and a reading of his story insulating water heaters for $9 per hour while trying to make it on mini tours.

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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 set up 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.
0:13.4	And where we go?
0:17.0	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen, start your Indian! And the Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is November 22nd. Andy, how we doing? Brendan!
0:56.3	Doing great! What a great night. I'm just basking in this leaderboard. The leaderboards are just incredible.
1:07.1	Which one? Both of them.
1:09.2	The Euro, Dubai, C-C- Island?
1:14.0	I mean, we got the best player,
1:15.8	best, arguably the best player in the world
1:18.1	outside of hitting a driver, Webb Simpson, Leiden,
1:21.3	that's true.
1:22.1	Cameron's zone, Tringale, the journeyman of the day on Wednesday, and the husky boy,
1:29.7	the boy for Bratislava is right in the mix.
1:33.2	I mean, and bad.
1:34.6	From people, just to be clear, if you're a new listener,
1:37.5	the Husky boy is K.H. Lee.
1:39.3	It's a self-reference.
1:40.5	Called himself a Husky boy in an old article. He was once a journeyman of the day.
1:46.0	We could spotlight. So the Husky boy's in there.
1:49.4	We got B F B's in there.
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