Why The Open is No. 1, Brooksy’s major prep, and Rosey’s schedule complaints
The Shotgun Start
Fried Egg Golf
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🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It’s Open eve and we begin this Wednesday episode full of gratitude and anticipation and a few reasons why each of us have come to hold this major as our favorite on the men’s schedule. We drive off the cliff and discuss the Barbasol field for longer than we should before getting back on track, reviewing some fun quotes coming out of the pre-championship press conferences. First we go to Brooks Koepka’s quip that he doesn’t practice for non-majors and that the only time you see him on TV is when he’s playing golf. Then we get into a lengthy discussion on Justin Rose’s comments that the new schedule has failed to “protect” the major championships, choosing, instead, to prioritize the FedExCup. We then move to some of our favorite tee times for the first couple days at Royal Portrush, from the stars to the hotheads to some of the tough draws. Before we wrap with our one-and-done picks, we discuss Royal Portrush, it’s stout traits, the weather that may not come, the concept of internal out-of-bounds.
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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! And the Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is July 17th. |
| 0:54.8 | Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:56.9 | Brendan, just getting ready, |
| 0:59.2 | getting prime for this open championship. |
| 1:01.8 | My favorite major of the year |
| 1:03.2 | been uh... |
| 1:04.6 | why is it your favorite |
| 1:05.9 | let's take that off the top |
| 1:07.8 | it's just the best one it's it's got |
| 1:10.2 | the most interest you know it requires the most the widest array of skills it's it's got the most |
| 1:19.3 | you know for the most you know it's among them you know regularly the most compelling golf courses, conditions. |
| 1:28.0 | It's an equitable test where everybody has a shot. |
| 1:32.0 | It's not, you know, it doesn't cater to one specific player and it really rewards |
| 1:36.4 | creativity and how could you not like that I'll go with a much less |
| 1:41.5 | technical answer it's my favorite just because it is so it's so unique. I mean that's part and parcel with what you're talking about a little bit. It is so unique. I feel like I have with this major like so many more like personal like touchstones like I remember |
| 1:56.4 | where I was or what I was doing or like you know where I was sitting with a bloody |
| 2:01.6 | Mary on like a Saturday at like 7 a.m. with the party whether it was |
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