Thursday at the U.S. Open: Torrey, Telecasts, and Richard Bland

The Shotgun Start

Fried Egg Golf

Golf, Sports

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a quick reaction to day one at the U.S. Open, with only one mic turned on for it. Brendan and Andy jump into what felt like an uneven day, often boring and frustrating but sprinkled with bursts of intrigue. Did anything happen that changed their notions of how this would be before Thursday’s action? Brendan compares it to a big time neutral site college football game. They discuss the 13th hole and the valley that gobbled up Bryson’s ball in a sand-filled divot. There’s a debate about other major venues whose entire identities are more or less wrapped up in one historic moment. There are some harsh words on the telecast making it feel like a regular season event. The lack of hangliders, prevalence of planes, and potential plaque impacts are also covered. Rory’s round is hailed, as is Brooksy’s opening salvo. And of course, Dick Bland’s chances are re-assessed, as is his Coetzee Zone candidacy.

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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	Get your men, start your engine!
0:38.0	Greetings and welcome to a Thursday edition, barely, of the shotgun start.
0:43.0	It is June 17th, Andy, how are we doing?
0:46.0	Brendan, not doing good. I'm just, you know, end of a day, end of a major day.
0:53.0	Was it an interesting major day?
0:57.0	Interesting feels like kind of your damning it with faint praise. I don't know that it was interesting.
1:03.0	I think on balance it fell on the lot side of uninteresting, uninteresting, this interesting.
1:11.0	It fell on that side of the day.
1:16.0	Didn't feel special. I think there were a combination of a number of things that might have led to that, but we're through it.
1:25.0	Almost. I guess we're not done yet, but we're almost done.
1:30.0	Anyways, Taylormore and Kevin Lucas are tied. They're 7 under, she had 63 at Wichita.
1:35.0	They lead our corn fairy tour of it. That's what we're talking about, right?
1:40.0	Can we do a game within the game for the rest of the...
1:43.0	Yeah, of course.
1:44.0	They should have done this Wednesday, but you want to do a brother's bet?
1:47.0	Molinari's versus Orteez's?
1:50.0	Well, the Molinari started like at the top of the board.
1:53.0	I know, I was going to say, Alvaro might be DFL. Why don't we split him up?
1:57.0	Well, you get a Molinari and you just get to Molinari and Orteez.
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