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 gonna demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here.

And here we go.

All right, all right, all right, get to men, start your engine!

Greetings and welcome to a Thursday edition of Shotgun Start. It is May 19th. Andy, how are we doing?

Brendan, I'm doing well, I'm hoping this is the third time, the charm, we've had some recording difficulties, we've got KVV here, and KVV, how are you doing?

Andy! This is a little like Groundhog Day, but yeah, I'm doing good. I'm calling from Lovely Tulsa, it's hot as balls here, but Tulsa's really showed out.

I've done some lovely things, here I played some golf last night under the lights, and I'm off in the park, so it's delightful, but I'm not here to talk about golf, I'm here to talk about cats.

Yeah, this is, I don't know if it's the best use of your time, we've had KVV's been out there a week, he's got great writing up on ESPN.com, he followed Tiger and Rory today, can read about that, but instead of, you know, probing his mind, his advanced mind, golf mind about that, we're gonna ask him about cats for some reason,

because this house cat thing is just, it's a runaway train at this point of cats, you know, it started with KVV put this sort of thought in my mind that Zander is a house cat, it's great theory, great call, I call my house cat.

That evolved into, you know, Andy, just throwing this term, Willie Nilly, calling Jordan Speed 3-time Major winner a house cat, so, you know, instead of talking, what do we'll mix in a lot of PGA talk?

But this is also gonna be a sort of sort of thoughts on this, the taxonomy of cats, and who's a house cat, and who's not, and who's a jungle cat or a big cat or something else?

Well, I think the cat works so well because at the top of the cat taxonomy is a tiger, and Tiger is at the top of the cat taxonomy, he's the, he's the big cat, he's the tiger.

So everything falls into line under that, and I think that's why I'm so drawn to this, and we're here at a Major Championship, it's Thursday, you know, we're, we're through one quarter of basketball, if we were talking about an PGA playoff game, you know, we've got, we've got time, we've got some stuff, some of what happened today is gonna relate into how we, how we, how we taxonomize these players, I don't know if that's the right, right word, but I started thinking like, Zander, I don't think the house cat.

Jordan's beef, I think this iteration, Jordan's beef, as he was pondering below and about today might be a house cat, but then Patrick Cantley flashed on my screen, and he just sent my whole world for a spin, which is why I, that texted you guys about doing this pod, because Patrick Cantley was, was brushing in a short pot to go to four over, and I'm like, hold on, you know, Jordan's beef, if he's a house cat, what, what the hell is Patrick Cantley?

And I kind of settled on a kitten.

Yeah, I, you know what, ever since you've been saying that, I feel like that's a fair analysis of Patrick Cantley, especially in majors.

He is not just a kitten, he is the kind of kitten that just sits there and drinks a little milk, you can't even eat solid foods, it's got a little bowl with his name on it.

He, you know, everyone is excited for when he might grow up someday, and like, he's got such a big pause, he's going to be so big, but he's still, he's still a little kitten, and he's just adorable, but, you know, he's not going to even bite, even when he bites, it doesn't feel, it doesn't hurt, he's just got that little, you know.

So where are we with speed? I mean, do you follow speed a little bit? I mean, if you wrote about Rory and Tiger, you had to at least be observing speed up close.

What, what, I mean, the house gets a little harsh for him, right?

I think it might be an outdoor cat.

I have some rankings here. I've taken the time to put together, and I, you know, it's hard, I'm not a zoologist, like Andy, so I was a little more broad here.

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