When is a curse broken, Rickie vs. Brooks disappointment, Alliss appreciation

The Shotgun Start

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This Monday episode begins with Viktor Hovland’s burying of the Puerto Rico Open curse. Or is it buried? Brendan tries to talk himself into the curse being still alive because of a non-continental U.S. win and many other illogical contortions about a fake curse. The two discuss the weekend that was at Mayakoba, including the soft course, Hovland’s admittance that he’s usually poor under pressure, Finaue’s flop, and JT’s Sunday stuck in neutral. Then they get to the early departures and 2020 ends of Rickie Fowler and Brooks Koepka, debating who had the more disappointing year between the two (judged against different standards, of course). Angela Stanford’s work on the LPGA is praised against the backdrop of a game, on all tours, that tends to favor the younger player. Cristie Kerr’s cart crash is also mentioned. The potential for Collin Morikawa to win the Race to Dubai, despite not yet playing on the European Tour, is discussed and panned. They wrap with news, which is mostly an appreciation segment on Peter Alliss, who died over the weekend.

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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 set up 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.
0:13.4	And here we go.
0:16.6	All right, all right, all right.
0:19.6	Gentlemen!
0:22.4	Start! Gentlemen! Start your Indian! Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the shotgun start. It is December 7th. Andy, how we doing?
0:44.8	Brendan, I am doing all right. The curse. No more. I'm willing to start throwing in some exceptions, carving out. The curse is not broken unless, you know, I don't know, it's another event south of the border. It's not in, you know, the continental United States, you You know we could always carve out those exceptions to JT
1:05.2	He's got to win a full field event in the continental United States kind of thing when he dominate Hawaii or Kuala Lumpur and places like that
1:13.0	Is this an official end of the curse.
1:15.1	The Myicoba does it?
1:16.2	It's another PGA tour one, so we're putting it to bed.
1:18.6	I've given it as the end of the curse as we know it.
1:21.8	So for those that might not know what we're talking about, it's the Puerto Rico curse, the idea that nobody that won the Puerto Rico open has ever won outside of Puerto Rico again.
1:33.0	And here we are, Victor Havelin.
1:36.0	On the PJ Tour, right?
1:38.0	I mean, there's probably... No, I don't think so.
1:40.0	Why don't we say...
1:41.0	Why don't we say it's a calendar year?
1:43.2	So like if you win in the same calendar year,
1:45.2	how about that?
1:45.8	I'm just trying to, we gotta have something to yell about.
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