Torrey WD-fest, Seth Waugh and looming pro golf battles, PGA’s rollback worries

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The never-ending golf news cycle leads to a jam-packed Friday episode as Andy and Brendan unpack a week's worth of stories and rumors heading into the weekend. TGL sent out some team-themed email blasts on Thursday afternoon, so this episode begins with more chatter about the screen golf league and its many marketing campaigns. Brendan and Andy read these team descriptions and discuss how a casual golf viewer might react upon reading that the Atlanta Drive represent the 365/24/7 nature of their city. In outdoor golf news, the Farmers Insurance Open had more withdrawals on Wednesday before play began for the week, with big names such as Will Zalatoris and Gary Woodland bowing out. The tournament is ongoing without a full field despite constant cries about players needing more opportunities to play on the PGA Tour. From there, Brendan and Andy discuss Eamon Lynch's interview with former PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh that was teased on the Wednesday episode earlier this week. First, Waugh is taking credit for Keegan Bradley's appointment as Ryder Cup captain for Bethpage and went into detail about how that choice came to be. Waugh also discussed the new PGA Tour Enterprises corporation and how that's changed the business of golf, wondering if the PGA of America would one day sell the Ryder Cup off. At the PGA Show this week, Adam Schupak sat down with current PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague, who made comments expressing some hesitancy with the proposed rollback starting in 2028. Andy and Brendan discuss what would happen if the rollback was further delayed or even cancelled and how that would impact the game on all levels. In less consequential news about the future of the game, Jordan Spieth committed to the AT&T Pebble Beach, presumably entering via a sponsor exemption, and The Open Championship will return to St Andrews in 2027. PJ chimes in to tell Andy that "Sticks Boy" Noah Kahan is now an investor in the Ballfrogs, which leads the show down a rabbit hole of ranking pop stars. This beefy Friday episode ends with one golf advice email about an upcoming golf trip impacted by a lifelong phobia.

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0:00.0	Now the shotgun start in golf is full of mathematics.
0:04.0	There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work.
0:09.0	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.
0:27.0	Gentlemen, start your engine. Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start.
0:43.5	It is January 24th.
0:45.5	Andy, how we doing?
0:47.4	Brendan, I'm doing great.
0:49.5	I'm just having a morning that you would really be into.
0:53.6	Okay, what's that? I had a little granola this morning, a little yogurt with granola, and then I hit the e-bike.
1:01.4	I took the e-bike first.
1:02.6	Come on.
1:03.7	Yeah.
1:06.3	Love that.
1:07.6	Just thought, you just love that.
1:10.8	Just living up there, granola country play into the
1:15.2	stereotype i love it you got to get it out now because you those opportunities aren't afforded you
1:21.0	next week we're going to be let's be true blue swamp creatures just mucking around down there
1:26.7	maybe go to Chili's.
1:28.8	What is it?
1:29.4	Chili's or Applebee's right there in Jupiter?
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