The Tour’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan problem, Jay goes to Saudi, and Blockie’s 2024 debut
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Brendan fire it up for this Wednesday episode on the heels of a report in The Athletic that Yasir may face a lawsuit for some bad things he is alleged to have carried out on the instruction of Saudi Crown Prince MBS. Is this a golf and PGA Tour problem now and just the beginning of many? Also, it comes out while Jay Monahan is reportedly in Saudi Arabia trying to hammer out a deal. Andy and Brendan concede there is probably no choice now but how could this have gone differently than where we’re at with Yasir appearing to have an amount of control and authority. Then they rip through the schedule for the week, which includes many amusements and delights on the Amex in Palm Springs, the new “best teacher rankings,” Daniel Berger’s return, and “the best JT in the world.” They discuss more Rory comments about a world tour and a quick drive by of his on Kapalua, while Brendan delivers his own drive-by of an Antetokounmpo brother. They close with a Rahm rumored sighting, some questions on the LPGA at the start of its season, and make some one and done picks for the Champions Tour’s season opener.
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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 setup 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 here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:19.6 | Gentlemen, start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is January 17th. Andy, how are we doing? Brendan, I'm doing well, you know, just another week getting through it. |
| 0:48.6 | Late recording here, but yeah, doing good. We're off a day, late recording, it's a holiday week, you know, we're just, we're catching up, |
| 0:57.0 | we'll get back on normal schedule. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't think we even have a normal schedule anymore, but we'll, if people demand it, we can do that, I suppose. |
| 1:04.0 | I feel like this week really screws up stuff, short weeks, you know? |
| 1:08.0 | It does. On top of that is multiple weather days. Snow day would be a misnomer, but weather days for children, |
| 1:15.8 | shuttling them off. |
| 1:16.7 | Cold days. |
| 1:17.7 | Cold day. |
| 1:18.7 | Seven day stretch. |
| 1:19.7 | Well I was out of town, we had apparently a day off for rain last week. Day for snow, three inches on |
| 1:25.9 | Tuesday and day for cold today. So all the elements. I don't understand the cold days. Is the school not not heated I don't get it you don't set |
| 1:35.7 | them outside for recess everything's fine is there gymnasium that they can use for |
| 1:40.8 | recess it's the reactive preferred lies |
| 1:45.0 | that we got a society we live in nowadays. |
| 1:48.0 | Anyways, but yeah, so it's a short week here, we'll get to it. |
| 1:52.0 | Big news, I suppose, that has nothing to, I mean, it's not |
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