Tommy Tables beats the house, Saudi gets a sportswash, and Thicc Boi breaks down
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This Monday episode begins with some investigative reporting on Andy “stumbling into controversy” out on the West Coast. Then it’s on to the Pebble Beach Pro Am, where Tommy Tables was triumphant. There are a few theories thrown out about “fluke winners” of this event, and the Spieth contention that Tables is someone you do not want to face on Sunday because of how he plays craps. There’s ample Spieth discussion, with some scar tissue ponderings, reaction to the shot from the edge of the cliff, and the good fortune of getting him involved on an otherwise thin leaderboard. Then it’s off to Saudi Arabia, where they got their sportswash moment with a dramatic HV3 win. Brendan and Andy discuss the conflict around covering these events, how the PGA Tour may have overplayed its hand, and how they’re likely here to stay. Also covered is Bryson’s injury and the told-you-so takes that flowed in the wake of his WD.
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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 | Ladies and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is February 7th. Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:43.0 | And then I'm wonderful. I'm just enjoying some some real son, some real son, some San Diego. It's a beautiful place. Yeah, never see system made me. I did stumble upon some controversy today. |
| 1:01.0 | It always seems to find you or you seem to find it. How do you stumble into this one or onto it, whatever around it. How'd you find it? |
| 1:09.0 | I'm out of the GCA show. |
| 1:14.0 | And what is that stand for just for the listeners? I assume most golf course super tenants association of America, I believe. |
| 1:23.0 | All right, you know, I hope I didn't. Yeah, so I was, you know, I was at there. They have a golf tournament every year. And it's at Torrey Pines and I just went out there and, you know, I just wanted to go check in on the plaque. See if people were going to hit the plaque. |
| 1:44.0 | The Tiger Woods plaque on 18 and it's gone. It's gone. |
| 1:49.0 | Where is it? Was that a one year activation for the USGA, like just to get celebrate their US Open? |
| 1:56.0 | What is it like they they remove it when the USGA wouldn't commit to future championships there? What happened there? |
| 2:02.0 | We had this all pick hullabaloo about it and scrant ceremony and, you know, all about it last year. It's not gone. |
| 2:10.0 | Where was it relocated? Was it stolen? |
| 2:14.0 | I met a very, you know, a very knowledgeable starter. Everybody's met starters that have this kind of knowledge. |
| 2:22.0 | Yeah, sure. And I asked him and he was perplexed. He didn't, he said, what? |
| 2:28.0 | He got the Tiger plaque. Where'd it go? What do you mean? |
| 2:32.0 | Like, it's gone. I don't see where it is. Like, you know, I wanted to see it. And he's like, what is gone? Really? I don't, this is the first I've heard of this. |
| 2:43.0 | And, you know, he had he had checked in with other people later in the day, still hadn't found an answer. |
| 2:49.0 | He's still searching. I'm hoping tomorrow that I uncover this is one of my my goals of the day tomorrow is to uncover what happened to the Tiger plaque. |
| 3:00.0 | Do you think that us talking about it? I wouldn't I would never give us such credit, but that that potential trampoline out there in the middle of a landing area for certain, you know, maybe not the pros, |
| 3:11.0 | but the recreational players, they had to rethink that one. Possibly. Maybe the tour made them take it out. Maybe the tour is a problem for competition. |
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