U.S. Open field fills out, LIV goes to CNBC, and RIP 3-1-3
6/9/20261 hr 3 min
PJ is off playing the 100 Hole Hike (Donate Here!), leaving Andy and Brendan to fend for themselves on this Wednesday edition of SGS. So it begins with a rambling first 10 minutes on the World Cup, Knicks, Kramer Hikock, the Bears moving to Indiana, and much more. Eventually, they get to “Golf’s Longest Day” and the multitude of stories that emerged from final qualifying for the U.S. Open, including Charlie Woods “carrying” the young phenom Miles Russell to Shinnecock. Event of the Week honors had a crowded field to chose from between a national open in Canada, the Curtis Cup, and a Champs tour stop at Wakonda Club in Iowa. LIV heading to CNBC for a pitch, with minimal leverage, and an unclear future, is assessed as a strategy play. Lastly, news covers the PGA Tour officially partnering with the Australian Open and what that means for a global tour. The death of the Rocket Classic in Detroit is also discussed, leading to a few ideas for how the new Track 1 and Track 2 schedule might operate and survive.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Soundbite0:00
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. And here we go.
Andy Johnson· Host0:16
All right, all right, all right. [cheering] Gentlemen, start your engines.
Brendan Porath· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is June 10th. Andy, how we doing?
Andy Johnson· Host0:46
Brendan, I'm doing fantastic, I gotta say. I am, uh, I'm in, I'm in a chipper mood.
Brendan Porath· Host0:53
[laughs] Chipper mood? I love to hear that. We're recording here early on Tuesday. Maybe that's part of the, the chipperness. Um- How you doing? I'm great. I'm great. It's, it's ... The weather has been delightful. We can do a little weather talk. Although, I did go to Woodmont yesterday. I checked out the qualifier. And, uh, a listener named Charlie, great guy, we got separated, I wanted to talk to him more, came up to me, patted me on the back, said, "How'd you sleep?" [laughs] That was his introduction. Great ... Such a well-timed and well ... Uh, the cadence was perfect. I started cracking up. But, uh, I am in a great mood. The, uh, sleep is