Golf’s schedule problem, Riviera benefits for Women’s Open, and Jack’s push on rollback
6/3/20261 hr 32 min
It's a jam-packed week of golf across all levels of the game, and this Wednesday episode immediately kicks off with some takes about the oversaturation of competitive golf on television. Andy and Brendan debate whether the Powers That Be should work to spread out major events such as the NCAA Championships, U.S. Women's Open, and a PGA Tour Signature Event in order to not stack on top of each other in a short timespan. Andy points out that the PGA Tour is not truly driving engagement in amateurs playing recreationally and is disappointed that the NCAA dream matchup of Jackson Koivun vs. Preston Stout didn't get the attention it deserved. Brendan then shares some notes from a morning reading stories by legendary writer Tom Callahan, including one note about Ernie Els serving as an early mentor to Tiger Woods. The two preview this week's U.S. Women's Open at Riviera with a very in-depth Agronomy Minute highlighting a different course in June than we're used to seeing on the PGA Tour in February. The Schedule for the Week rolls on from there with a preview of the Memorial Tournament at Jack's Place. Jack Nicklaus himself had some interesting comments on the rollback and more during his pre-tournament presser, and Andy's 5 Guys to Monitor This Week somehow was a list of seven players. PJ chimes in and is excited for the team event on the Champions Tour in Madison, Wisconsin due to the "superteam" of Stew Cink and Zatch Johnson teeing it up. Lastly, Andy reacts to the news of John Deere potentially sponsoring a new "Chicago" tournament in 2028 after an Adam Schupak report from Tuesday afternoon. We will return on Friday with a potential beefy Flashback for all of your weekend listening needs.
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First 90 secondsBrendan Porath· Host0:00
Now, the Shotgun Start in golf is full of mathematics. Um, 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 gonna demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a Shotgun Start here.
Andy Johnson· Host0:13
And here we go. All right, all right, all right. Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 3rd. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:46
Brendan, I'm doing great. You know, I'm just, uh, I'm ... Another week here. We're at Jack's Place, we got the NCAAs, women's golf. It feels like we're just, you know, super speed golf season.
Brendan Porath· Host1:02
Yeah, I mean, this is sort of the time when it feels like it would be nice for some of the organizations to stagger it out a little bit more. Uh, I would say generally speaking, this week is staggered, staggered quite well compared to about how beefy it's about to get with women's majors and senior majors back to back. Um, you know, and, and then obviously the men's majors and playoff events just flying through. But you're right, we have the NCAAs ongoing right now, we have Memorial, one of the last signature