Trouble with the WGC Swampass, courier Cup bubble boys, and a Korn Ferry currency
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This Wednesday episode dives headlong into issues Brendan and Andy have with the WGC Swampass Invitational presented by Initech. News of Shane Lowry’s withdrawal and a smaller field of just 63 players is used as a jumping off point to illustrate all the ways in which they think it’s a bad idea. They give great praise and deference to the people of and town of Memphis, despite some sensitivities about the criticisms of this event, which have nothing to do with the actual city. Are the WGCS still viable as a competition or does the competition not matter? Then they move to the opposite field event in Reno, where it feels like the field took just one charter flight together from the Barbasol in Kentucky last week. They discuss how opposite field events build their rosters and the changes coming next year. Andy then gets into some FedExCup bubble boys with this now being the moment in the calendar when it truly matters. Andy tells a Brandel story on the occasion of his making the Senior Open and critique why the LPGA and Champions tours are having majors in the same week. We wrap with some more thoughts on illegal hot drivers and feedback we’re getting about the scant testing that exists.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:20.0 | Gentlemen! Start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 24th. |
| 0:42.0 | Andy, how we doing? |
| 0:43.4 | Brendan! |
| 0:45.4 | Doing great, this is the week we've been waiting for all year. |
| 0:49.6 | The Swamp Pass Invitational Office Park Challenge. |
| 1:00.0 | Cold Front Roll then though I guess. It it's very nice and very nice and in Memphis right now. |
| 1:06.0 | So they're just they're touting this they're like hey we dodged a bullet It's actually not going to be a hundred and humid. |
| 1:14.5 | This is like a break that the PJ Tour caught, I guess. |
| 1:18.0 | So it's delightful in Chicago right now. So if anything like that here there. Well full disclosure we're |
| 1:25.6 | recording this a little earlier on our normal Wednesday for a Wednesday |
| 1:29.4 | episode so we don't have all the normal details I'm out at the beach with the family, kind of hiding, |
| 1:35.7 | stowed away earlier. |
| 1:38.2 | So we don't have featured groups yet. |
| 1:39.9 | We can't, you know, we don't have tea times yet, but we still have plenty to talk about. |
| 1:44.3 | Tons, as far as I'm concerned. |
| 1:46.3 | I wonder if, is Camp Champ, he's not in the WGC? |
| 1:50.1 | He is not, he is not, he is not, he's not playing the Kuda either and we got the kuda that's the other thing we got opposite field |
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