This Summer Friday episode covers a wide range of topics, starting with Pete Crow-Armstrong and ending with some promo for next week’s Open Championship live show (4 pm ET on 7/15!). Andy and Brendan share some stories of 1990s Tour pros thanks to recent orders from the Fried Egg Golf Pro Shop and the Pro Set trading cards included in their packages. Andy reads off the stats and information from Mark Brooks’s 1990 season, leading right into some unsubstantiated rumors about the PGA Champions dinner. Brendan adds LIV Valderrama to the Schedule of the Week and highlights Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia as two players to watch as we close in on Ryder Cup selections. Speaking of Valderrama, Brendan then dives into a flashback from the 2002 Volvo Masters on the European Tour. This event was won by both Colin Motgomerie and Bernhard Langer in a shared victory, leading to some interesting quotes and discoveries looking back 23 years later. The episode wraps with some Golf Advice about Member-Guest season and some caddie-etiquette. Be sure to tune in to next week’s Open Championship Preview as we go LIVE on the Fried Egg Golf YouTube at 4 pm ET.
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Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is July 11th. Andy, how we doing, Brendan? I’m doing great. I’m uh you know, I’m getting ready to go for uh for the major. I’m getting into that major mood. Uh it’s just always shocking that it’s it’s just after the 4th of July and it’s our last major um since the schedule changed, but here we are. Yeah. Had some watched some coffee go this morning. I had my coffee golf mug and my coffee golf shirt on which was delightful. You can go to the pro shop and get your own. The mug is sweet. Even PJ Young PJ’s like mug is sick. It’s gas or whatever terminology. Yunz term you used. Uh it is a good drink coffee though. He doesn’t drink coffee. You could put chocolate milk in it. My kids drink chocolate milk. Eat ice cream out of mugs. You could do that. Let me see how many are left. I don’t think there are a ton left. There are a lot left. You get coffee golf blend. The blend I cooked up this morning. Brewed this morning. Watch Scottish Open. Uh it is available. Proshop. The fried egg.com. The bugs are sold out. Really? So, we’re advertising or advocating for something that you can’t get. I do think you can get a Royal Port Rush shirt. I’ve got a few of those. The routing map. I’m showing it for the YouTube audience. I just got this box came through. Pretty sick. That’s a Did you see the uh poster? The poster’s awesome. Yeah, I ordered one. Gota I gotta upgrade my background here. Get a little gl less glary background. I’ve got uh Yeah, people over there have asked me to bring them a port rush poster and it’s like I I got to figure out how to travel with that. I’m not sure I can do that. So, we’ll figure it out. Figure it out. Go to proshop.thefriday.com. It’s It’s loaded up right now. Um Scottish Open. It always like warms the cockals. Are you familiar with that phrase? warms the cockals. Apparently, it’s like a British phrase. Some a friend of mine around here used it and like seems a bit vulgar. It’s not. It’s like warms the heart. It’s I I think that’s all it means. A little Scottish open in the morning, a glass of cup of coffee. Uh it just warms the cockals as they say. Uh ball was scooting just good. Just different visuals, right? Little gray sky, little little tan heather, right? that brownish heather that’s been dry over there. That’s not heather. That’s just fescue grasses. I’ve been informed by many people who who get very frustrated when you refer to it as heather on an annual basis here. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, it looks the heather looks good this week. I’m finally speaking out. I’ve ignored it for years. I’ I’ve told them that. But I’m going to speak out. Fescue. Fescue, whatever you want to whatever you want to call it. Sorry, it’s not the I think I think the I think their frustration comes from Americans just butchering um terms uh across the pond. They bring them to America and any long grass is called heather. Heather. Well, that’s Yes, that’s precisely what it conotes. Yeah. And the terminology that that’s how it’s stuck at this point and how it will continue. I think it’s they’re probably similar frustrations around how we call any golf course without trees a lynx course. Any ball that goes into grass that is I would say above the shin is called heather around. There’s a lot of that. Don’t live and die on this hill. I I’m not living and dying. I’m suggesting what the facts on the ground are over here in America for a lot of people. I just I think you need to call it uh native native the the safe all-encompassing term. H it’s interesting. I’m wonder I’m starting to wonder what we you know we just celebrated July 4th so we can call it whatever we want to call it I feel like at this point right now I’m on Independence Day on July 4th as a company why what do you mean we got we got out from under a DMCA uh strike from across the pond was our own independence day all right needless to say I’m excited to go see our friends runs from uh the United Kingdom, Ireland, Great Britain, and all those mind folks on the islands over there uh this coming weekend. Excited to get over there, see the fescue, the native, the heather, and whatever may whatever fauna and flora might await us. It’s just good. It’s great to see uh the ball scooting a little bit on the ground, you know, uh Xander Schoffley like playing one from the from the fescue uh for an eagle. Scotty Sheffler opening with an eagle. Foxy on that seaside hole. I believe 13 just ripping a draw in there. The ball just running on the ground a little bit more. It’s fun to see. Warms the cockals as we say. And you know, I got to say our guy Nicovaria at the at the top. Nico minute. I guess not our guy. Um I think I’m just was one week early at with him at the deer. Well, timing is important in the gambling game. gambling pod game. It matters to be honest. That’s a classic It’s a classic gambler thing. Should I be just on on Twitter tweeting one week early? One week early. Just all year, one week early. Is that what I should be doing, PJ? Since we are a gambling pod, we are a gambling pod. We’re a gambling TV show. I mean, if anybody’s watching yesterday and got the hometown Josh Teter call out, Teeter totter Kentucky, that’s He’s up and down. He’s down. He’s under par again at the Isco. Might might not be able to pick the Scottish, but damn if we can pick an alternate field event. Big big news, Peach. Big news just came across my desk. Oh boy. Uh PCA 414T bomb. Just I It’s like every time we record. I can’t imag the amount of PCA discussion on that has come to this podcast is sort of alarming more so than even Illinois basketball. There’s PCA mania. All right. PCA mania is sweeping the country. All right. Is it? Uh yeah, I got an email I got an email from a friend in uh a friend of the pod in in Minneapolis that was like the the Twin Cities are electric because PCA Mania is coming to town. [Music] The Twins are a good baseball team. I would I would be rooting for the Twins if I lived in the Twin Cities, but that’s okay. Um, I got to say the the You could call me a fair weather fan. I I think I am a fair weather fan here, but I’m having a good baseball team is like intoxicating. It’s the best situation ever. It’s just always there for you at night like 7:00, right? you don’t have anything like you can watch cannot you could check on your phone it’s just the daily uh ritual of having a good baseball team in June July August it’s just the best it’s the best there’s so many similarities with golf with baseball in the sense of like how you can consume the sport kind of passively like you can watch without like really being locked in or you can lock in like and when you lock in it’s really fun you But like you can also do kind of the it’s on in the background watch because there’s so many games. Like it’s also one of the things that’s like frustrating with with those sports and I think like leaves people wanting more sometimes. But I think uh God it’s it’s been a while since I’ve felt like good about a a Cubs baseball team and it’s just been so fun getting getting into it. When the team’s good when it’s bad I feel like there’s no there’s Yeah. Yeah, but you can just kind of check out, right? You you don’t have to do the daily ritual. It’s like, “All right, I guess I’ll see you next April.” I don’t know. Keep Unless you’re a die hard. I feel bad for those folks. Like PJ, I feel like it’s grinding out every Mets game whether they’re going to win 95 games or 75. You’re just Mets got it rained out last night in Baltimore and it like ruined my whole day. I was so excited. This is what we’re talking about to just get home and have something to do. And it just I I was sitting there staring at the ceiling last night at 6:45 because there was nothing on TV. This when you got to get into into the book game. That’s the other thing that this time of year is really good for is books. Do you read books, PJ? I do read books. I need to read more books. I feel like everybody says that. I don’t need I don’t read enough books, but I like books. Okay, that’s good. It’s good to like books. BP, you got your coffee golf um uh box today. I did. PJ, did you get your coffee golf? Did it come with a with a trading card? Oh, I haven’t looked actually. I don’t know if I don’t know if it did actually. I got one. You got one? I did a check Friday golf club purchase last last week. Purchased my own money. Wearing the Delcampo socks. Those are very nice. Very nice. It look like a You were talking the Delo socks. Yeah, I’ve been wearing them like four times in the last week. Uh, well, it’s all I took in Cleveland. I got stranded. So, I was just I had like 24 hours worth of clothes. I just kept washing them. Um, I got Bob Brew, who I’d never heard of in that package, if I’m being completely honest. And in this one, Bob. Brew. B R U E. Okay. Never. He looked like he did some work on the senior tour. those that haven’t ever made a purchase, when when when we have them in stock, we put a put a single trading card um from the the ‘9s ‘8s 90s with a you just get a random 90s late 80s golfer trading card in your in your purchase. So, I’m always interested in what I get. I got Here’s what I got for my coffee golf purchase. One of your favorites, the former amiter winner at Canterbury Golf Club, Mast’s champion, uh, British Open, great hall of famer, uh, Mr. Mark Omira, mom. I got him in my coffee golf package. The the man that the solid core ball elevated to a whole new stratosphere. You’re gonna work people up. You’ve got it, Omira. you know, tried to delegitimize his career many times on this podcast and you get you get angry emails. Who’d you get? Mark Brooks. Oh, two Marks. That’s a great I was going to read off some stuff about Mark Brooks here. Red ass Texan. Red ass Texan. He was born in in Fort Worth. How you you would you you’re kind of like you get you like to get into the size of the player. That’s Can you guess Mark Brooks’s measurables? Uh 57 5’8 uh 160. God, that was so close. 571 150. All right. Close. Went to UT. Close. He was a, you know, first year on tour was 1983. This is all just information on the trading card. Yeah. Tour victories at the current time of this trading card. I think it was 1991 this set of trading cards went out. Um, 1988 Cany Cannon Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open. So, the Travelers, the modern day travelers won that. His uh his 19 he was 45th on the 1990 official money list. PJ, I want you to guess what his money total was being 45 on the 1990 45. Yeah, 45mm. Like 200 grand. Uh, it was 30 $38,000. Okay. Incredible. Um, here’s his highlights. After a slow four-year start on tour, made it over the hump in the 198 in 1988 with a victory at the 1988 cannon. Sammy Davis Jr., who’s Sammy Davis Jr. is one question I have. Greater Hartford. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, no. Hold on. Who’s Freak’s Sonatra? Are you familiar with him? Wait, that’s a musician? Yes. I would have guessed he was a musician. Yes. Yes. Okay. He’s everything. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, he does a little bit of everything. Sure. All right. All right. A two-time all-American at the University of Texas lost a playoff in the 1988 at uh in 1988 at the Gatlin Brothers Southwest Classic. I want to know who the Gatlin brothers were. Okay. Yeah. Question I have continued his steady play in 1990 with five top 10 finishes including two third place spots. All right. He was 153 on the driving distance uh stats in 90. What what was he hitting? Where where’s he moving the ball? 123rd 153rd 153rd somewhere in 1990. Yeah. I got to guess. Did you go PJ? Like 230? More than that, but not much. 242, I’ll guess. 257. Oh, wow. Okay, that’s more than I expected. Okay, he’s hitting se 68% of his fairway is driving at 257. Okay. Sponsored by Hogan at the time of this trading card. Also, the picture on the front. This is speaking of like something has changed for the YouTube audience. You can see this. Look at this picture on the front. I don’t see a brand in sight. It’s pretty nice. Clean shirt, no hat. Yep. Love that. I got his Toyota visor on, which Bob Brew is a Toyota guy, too. I mean, that that card could have some value in 1991 cuz he won twice in 1991. He only he had only won one time at the time of this card. He ended up with seven wins. So it’s Mark Mark Brooks could have been projected to start him because of this card. You want a little Brooks tangent scuttlebutt blow unsubstantiated rumors tied into Mark Brooks? Real quick real quick before we we pivot off. All right. So he was number uh number 45 on the money list. Yeah. What was number 45 on the money list last year? What did they make? Oh my god. 45 on the money list last year probably made 4.10 4.9 million. I was even going to say higher. I was going to guess like five and a half. 2.8. It was uh it was And the reason he made 2.8 was because he got outstanding guidance, support, advice from Matt Cooer, who’s Max Grazerman at 45 on the money list. Good. Love that. Love that. You know, tangent time. Brooksie. Brooks. Mark Brooks is an annual attendee of that PGA Champions dinner on Tuesday as a former champion. That’s so sparssely attended. But like, you know, he’s going to go, right, Brooks? That’s his crowd achievement. He’s going to go. Expenses paid. It’s not. Oh, I’ve heard this is sort of the scuttlebutt is that like, you know, the Masters, it’s like pick what you want. The the the winner usually picks up the tab. apparently like you got to cover your cost for that dinner if you’re a champion. And it’s attended by just this uh cavalcade of PGA like dignitaries and their wives. So then you got to put up with them. You got to put up with Dan Don Rehea and those pe people of like that. Apparently the champions dinner it costs money and you got to put up with like 40 or 50ome PGA people just nipping at your heels about this that and the other which I wouldn’t show up which is why like people don’t it’s like half semi-attended as well. I could just see Brooksie there uh and then you know just out of nowhere. Can I follow up just a little bit? Unsubstantiated but just a rumor I heard but Mark Brooks never misses one. All right, this is a good tangent to lead off the card time. I’m glad we got into that. Um, uh, adding to our schedule for the week from Wednesday, I’m just gonna gonna spotlight Liv Valdorama. I have a little bit of a flashback coming on this. Uh, I don’t have a whole lot to preview with Liv. The big talking point there this week are Pat Reed, Ryder Cuper, and Sergio Ryer Cuper. That was the big news coming out as we record this Thursday afternoon. Sergio had a lunch, a talk, a chat with Luke Donald, captain last week, or was it this week? I think it was last week he said. Um, you know, they both know what needs to happen, what they need to do. The door is not closed. I did enjoy the sort of um the rabel rousing questioner there in Spain said, “So, it’s all in your hands then, Sergio.” He goes, “Well, it’s your decision.” He goes, “Well, no, it’s his decision, but you know, I can control a little bit by how I go and play.” And you know there’s not a lot of opportunity. He says it’s early. I don’t know that it’s early. Not not a lot of chances to do it. You know, is it early? That’s why he says it’s still early. I mean, feels like we’re in like quarter four of the game. Early I would say is like, you know, it was uh it was fall of the year before. Yeah. Every two years. So, you know, when you’re when you’re like a month out from selections, that would probably be pretty late in the game, right? Yeah. I mean, he goes ham at that live, you know, Michigan, whatever that thing is, the Cardinal St. John’s or whatever that is in Michigan. Is that like going to be a winning argument? I I don’t know. There’s not a lot of tournaments left on live or other you you ready for his live results? You want to know you want to know what your He’s been bad since Miami. I know that. He’s been struggling. I think in Saudi Arabia, uh, sixth, Adelaide 18th, wins Hong Kong. Um, Singapore 32nd. Now, keep in mind with this there’s 54 guys. Yep. 58 maybe. How many in a field? 56 I think. Now, couple wild cards. Yeah. Third place at Miami, 50th at at Mexico City at Chipotape. That, you know, that’s kind of the opposite of Beth Page. Korea 42nd, Virginia 38th, Dallas 25th. He was decent at the PGA, right? Mhm. Uh, that’s about it. It’s interesting. So, yeah, he’s got to do do some work. He’s got to do well. I God, I just got a marketing email from the PJ tour for decorators, like telling me what to do to lay down my new deck. the tour just is just hammering me with emails now. Well, that’s um they gota create this is the private equity effect. Yeah, that’s that’s true. A diametrically opposed view to it’s early would be Patrick Reed says you know basically it all comes down to next week at the open. So that’s not early. It’s one shot and done is how he feels. Obviously play well here Valdderama but go ahead and win the open championship and I believe I’d be inside the top six on points. So, I think that will lock it in, allow me to be on the team. Really, the next couple weeks, I have to play some solid golf, go out and contend on Sundays, have a chance to win golf tournaments, and if I do that, then hopefully Keegan picks me. But at the end of the day, because we only get the majors that have points for the RDER Cup, it’s an uphill battle. The good thing is I feel like I’m in a good spot right now as long as I go out and play well in the final ma final major. So, Pat Reed, your re recent winner of the individual contest at Merido, uh, putting it all on the line for next week at the Open. Um, he’d be a good option. He needs to be on the RDER Cup team. I need him there. I just did a pod. I think, you know, you did do this. Yeah, I did a pod. All right. If we if we look at the US team, it feels like we’re we’re pretty locked. I think there’s two spots on the US team left in all reality. You know, this is like classic. You What’s the end of the bench look like? Mhm. You got Scotty Xander, JJ Spawn, uh Russell Henley, Bryson, JT, Morawa, Keegan, locked in. Those are that’d be that’d be eight of the top nine in points. Yeah. And then I think you got playoff P can’tlay and uh and Sam Burns. I think those guys are probably pretty much locks. Yeah. So that gets you to 10. Yeah. So, there’s two spots and you start to think like Ben Griffin probably close to a lock. I mean, he’s going to finish in like seventh, eighth, ninth in points, you know. So, which in many years would be make you an AQ auto qualifier. So, uh I don’t know if he’s a lock. I don’t know. Is Burns a lock? I don’t we don’t need to get into a big RDER Cup debate, but yeah, you’re looking at like one or two spots. Oh, buddy Ball. I know. I know. you know, um I would like to see Patrick when the sheriff when the sheriff wants his deputy around. It’s what happens. My dream of Phil Mickelson being assistant captain apparently is dead. We went with Gary Woodland zero time rider cuppper instead. Um uh yeah, so that’s your live Valdderama. I we’ll we’ll follow this throughout the weekend. I don’t know if it’s the best best prep for going to uh Royal Port Rush playing Valorama amidst the cork trees, but that’s where they’re at. They’re across the pond. They’re at least in the right hemisphere and time zone. Um, all right, continuing on. Uh, Charlie Hall news. Charlie Hall WDED from Evian looks like she has a stomach bug or something that she’s essentially carded off, stretchered off, kept collapsed a little bit. So, that’s bummer to see one of the one of the kind of superstars in the LPJ out of that major championship. Um, at the Genesis, we mentioned Ichevaria. It’s an interesting leaderboard. Knap Septraka. I mean, it looks like a leaderboard that would be going crazy at the AMX if I’m being honest, right? You know, or or you know, Deer Run or something, but that’s where we’re at so far. Seam season’s back was getting into the link season. That’s true. You know, he was played with his dad at North Barrack. There was a big article on that. Marcel Seam right back in the mix. He got a seam warmed up. He’s coming. You guys are You’re not Brendan. You’re not going to be, you know, at the watching the world feed at at 3:00 a.m. when the seam hour hits. Should I go do Remember the old Tiger Tracker Twitter account? Should I go out there and just follow Is he in the field? I don’t know that he is. If I I think he would have had to qualify. I don’t think he is, but that’s why he’s got to go win the Scottish this week. The Seamsters right there. The Seam He’s right there. um in Kentucky, my old Kentucky home. I got to say I feel bad for Brandon Woo. Shot 85. Okay, shot 85. I think he was 12 over through 15. The guy, you know, he just gets completely completely jammed. He gets paired with Richard Sterny and Ryan Brem. This guy, this is why jamming. It’s just not Dick Stern is a worldwide player. You’d be honored to play with such a sportsman, someone with such vast experience. I blame that pairing for why he shot 85 every single stroke. He just is just playing like with it’s just not good for someone that’s trying to build a career. But he’s with Dick Sterny out early. Ryan Brem. I feel bad for Brandon Boot shooting 85. Um I don’t feel bad about him. She My Anel Aora take my pick also performing quite well with the 66 at Hurstbor Country Club down there in Kentucky. It’s early. It’s early. It’s early. You know, I was looking at Thomas Rosen Mueller as a potential potential guy, you know, just a random Euro that’s over there from Germany. The open I think he’s actually up through the KFT or he’s I think he’s an Americanbased guy. He’s like a Joerger Jagger like German. Yes, I believe so, but don’t quote me on that one. Uh there’s been a parade of WDs. I don’t know what’s going on there. Anders Albertson, your guy uh McGurt got in. Dirt McGurt got in off of that. Bob Strav then WD, then Sun Kane WD. I don’t know what’s going People just never made the trip and aren’t going. But we’re having the WD parade down there at the Isco. Um Champions Tour. PJ, you’re edifying us. That’s something. John Rollins is apparently the John Rollins turned 50 on June 25th in this taking off the blue shirt. His first event. Uh he he gave an interview Champions Tour Instagram, Twitter pages had an interview with him. He’s talking about so he’s been looking forward to this day this week since he was 40 cuz he was on he was on 10 years ago. He was on conditional status like past champion status. So he only got a certain amount of starts a year at 40. So he wasn’t really playing. He’s kind of just been putting around for the last decade. He said now the birthdays can slow down because he’s 50. He’s got something to do. He hasn’t been a rookie in 25 years, but he’s excited to to see all of his friends. But wants wants his Champ Stewart career to be pretty long. Apparently, you know, was the runner up at the BC Open in 2005 at Enjoy. won the 2006 BC Open that was not at Enjoy, but still in the Bingmpington area. So, home game models could be off the charts this week. Some course history for John Rollins. Uh, that’s what I have for Champions Tour Minute today. People are excited about John Rollins. John Rollins. I vividly remember I I feel like it might have been like 2005, 2006. Do you remember? I think it was Golf World used to do like the the top 30 uh PGA Tour players for like the next year. It was like a early and I remember John Rollins being like number 29. Whenever I think about John Rollins, I think about reading that magazine. I loved that magazine. I would the weekly and just rip through cover to cover just keep you in the loop. Ah, that was a good era back Yeah. the good don’t get that a ton anymore. Don’t get that kind of quality anymore. Um, last but not least, Andy, if if I were to suggest to you, what could be the worst possible prep for a royal for an open championship? Worst possible like the week to play like what what would you throw out there? Because I have a nominee from across the pond. There are four challenge tour players playing the DND Real Check Challenge that are also playing Royalport Rush. And this comes from a caddy over there who’s in the field. He says, “You could not find a worse preparation, a worse gap for an open championship prep. It is on a mountain. It is soft. It’s a complete wedge fest. And there’s zero trouble from off the tea. You had four players. And this is what you do, I suppose, when you’re on the challenge tour. Uh, John Axelson, Jesper Sandborg, Curtis Knipes, and George Blore. So, I don’t know if they’re necessarily in the running for the Clare jog, but anybody can get it. This is what you do when you’re the challenge tour. I I just found that highly amusing. You can’t pick and choose, but there they are outside of Prague on the side of a mountain in soft conditions prepping for Royal Port Rush. I I can’t think of many worse. There’s I’m sure like the deer is always an odd one, right? When that was back to back and they take the charter straight from the deer to the open, that was like not ideal, but you know it maybe you know these guys are good enough to overcome it. That that amused me though. You know I I think I think you could get worse. Like I think you could be playing in like India and you have like the jet lag time plus like a mountain course and like or or like maybe you go to like Malaysia which like my my representation my memory and I I if I’m mischaracterizing Malaysia this time of year my characterization is always based off the CIB which was Justin Thomas’s happy hunting ground. I just vividly remember watching just like it it being like 95, humid and raining. Like to me that might that would be the worst. Yeah. Because then you have jet lag. You’ve got like a golf course that’s just sping wet. Yep. That would be the worst way to prep in my estimation. That would be up there. Our our entire cultural understanding of Malaysia is via the sim classic which is how you know broken our our golf brains are. And that I would agree with you uh on that one that that and John Rollins being, you know, the uh the uh 19 uh 2000 2009 number 29 ranked player in in in golf world. Yep. 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This was uh this was a great partner. I’m glad they found us. Uh go to mobjack.com. M Ojak.com. Promo code is Friday 15% off. Hey, let’s do a little flashback Friday. This is uh a blind stroke of luck that it hits on all the subjects of the day. The Scottish Open. We’re going to talk about one of the great Scots ever, maybe the greatest Scottish player ever, Colin Montgomery, the custard player, Colin Montgomery. We’re going to talk about the European tour and how it, you know, struggled to keep up with the PGA tour and and that’ll bring in elements of what we have this week with the co sanctioned. We’re gonna go to Valdorama, home of the live event this week. And uh that’s it. We’re gonna talk about a Scott Live tour Vorama home and sort of the co-sanctioned uh the precursor the co-sanctioned era. We’re going to the 2002 Volvo Masters at Vorama, which it’s going to be a mini flashback. It was Do you know who won this? The 2002 Volvo Masters of Verama. is their season ending event in uh November. I’m going to guess uh I’m going to guess uh Monty. Monty won it, but also Bernhard Lonard won it. They shared the title. They shared it. A tie in 2002. This is not 1902. 2002 they just said good good and walked off with the season ending event championship they they tied they said sounds like sports bend at work Kenny Scoffield the former you know director of the European tour uh sort of set it up I’ll read from this is an Irish time times article the world can start spinning again and the golfing gods can stop mocking in quite unreal circumstances and with darkness enveloping the course to confirm that night does indeed follow Today, the natural order of things was restored at Valorama last evening after two of playoff holes failed to find an outright winner. Colin Montgomery extending a record going back to 1993. This was 2002 at the time, going back to 93 of having won at least one tournament a season on the European tour and Burnhard Lanner called the truce and were declared joint winners of the Volvo Masters. It was a gesture that ensured there were winners all around. As the two shook hands on the 18th TE under the branches of one of the cork oak trees that are everywhere on this course, it brought down the curtain on the European tour season. Montgomery and Loner given both of their It was both their first wins of the year. Called it a highly appropriate resolution and outcome. This was they hadn’t won that year. [ __ ] that they gave them both wins. This is Yeah. And they claim it they claim it they claim it right and true all the way through. You know what I think’s underrated that should be brought back more often? Scorecard playoffs. This would have been seems like a perfect spot for a scorecard playoff. Interesting. Uh so they both said it was highly appropriate. It keeps Monty streak of a win a year going back to 93. Uh this had happened before. It had happened before in 1986 at the Lancome Trophy event and it was shared by who do you think? 1986 Lancome 1986 Savvy Savvy and um Burnhard Loner. So multiple shared titles for Vernard. This is tough. This is a tough uh situation. Adding two to the total there on Wikipedia. Um after so so it was getting too dark and and obviously they just said let’s share it. Uh afterwards Lanner said I’ll get into the details of it in a minute. I could not think of a better guy to share this with and I do mean that we’ve had a wonderful they just won the Rder Cup. We had a wonderful Ryder Cup week where both of us were never down in any of the matches. I think it’s very appropriate to win one of the greatest tournaments that we have on our tour together. Again this was a big deal. Volvo Masters year end event uh didn’t settle the order of merit. Gusen won the Order of merit to to to close out the season. Um, this is from New York Times article. It could have ended at a tie if Montgomery had made a 7 foot putt for par on the final hole. So, he missed a sevenfooter for par on the final. Uh, and then a 10-ft birdie putt on the second playoff hole, which is where they’re like, “Oh, [ __ ] Now what?” Because, you know, they played two playoff holes and that was it. um an attempt to prolong the playoff for a third hole, they they turned on flood lights around the 18th green and lights of golf carts were turned on around the tea. But in truth, any further play was a hopeless dream. And when the futility of it all was recognized, the two agreed to share their title rather than return on Monday to continue the playoff. each received €435,648 and the promise that a replica Waterford crystal trophy would be made so that each would have one. So they made us they both hold it jointly at the time and then made a second trophy for later. Could you see like one of their kids asking about that trophy and them being like well that’s actually the one that I I shared 435,000. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Monty chimed in. I mean imagine this happening today. Even like at the deer last week like all right just two winners we’re good we’re good just two winners we’re not coming back we’re good seems so informal like are you splitting the FedEx cup points this wasn’t that long ago 02 uh Monty I haven’t performed consistently well as I did for seven years so when he won the order of merit like basically 93 to 99 seven straight years I’ve only performed okay in fits and starts but I’m just glad that I’ve started to perform again I’m really keen to go after some injuries through the I’m actually taking this as a complete win here on complete win. This is fantastic. I think I’m not I’m 0 for seven. He was in playoffs. I think I’ I’ve been 0 for seven, but we can add this one to the win column, which is a delight. So, I’ve taken a complete win here. Now I’m one for seven in playoffs. He didn’t win the playoff. He didn’t lose it, but he’s like, now I’m 1 and seven instead of 0 and seven in playoffs. 07 and one. Yes. But no, he’s staying. I’m one and seven. It’s kind of insane. Um, so why did Darkness encroach? There were a lot of reasons, but one thing why they couldn’t play one more hole was Monty had a little bit of a rules kurfuffle early in the day, which he had to review on tape before they could go out and play the playoff. Um, so Loner was two groups ahead of Monty, who was in the final group, I believe, uh, past Bradley Dredge, who was referred to as every article I’ve read, like a barely known, little known Welshman is what they kept calling Bradley Dredge. Um, Loner playing two groups ahead, had waited in the recorders hut to see how things would evolve after 72 holes, was able to briefly retreat to hit some shots on the range while the playoff was delayed because Montgomery had to go view television tapes. So this incident happened on the 10th green uh in which Monty it was thought that Mont the Monty’s putter touched the ball and would have been a two-stroke penalty that is uh uh he had tapped the ball or brushed the ball. Um this happened at the 10th hole. TV pictures appear to show him accidentally touched the ball to this club while it was still moving. Two shot penalty. Montgomery eventually card a 73 to tie with Burnhard and set up the playoff. After finishing the round, he met with chief referee John Paramore, who decided the TV images were inconclusive. Monty convinced officials that he had not acted illegally and his shootout with Loner commenced. So, I mean, they this is like it depends on which art uh article you read like the American or the wire services were a little more skeptical. The BBC was a little more lenient. They said the incident on the 10th crane would have played on the minds of lesser men than Montgomery. It’s like all right. Okay. Like come on. Cuz Paramore caught him on the 12th T and said, you know, we may have a thing, but it played on the but no Monty was like this hero that was able to, you know, finish his round and get to a playoff after he was informed of the possible issue on the 12th T by Paramore. His response was to birdie three of the next five holes and only a bogey on the last after he pushed his T-shot right uh deprived of of an outright win. So, uh, then they went to the tapes, uh, and and and reviewed it. On tape, the ball appeared to move. This is Monty’s speaking. The question was, had I addressed the ball or hadn’t I? The answer was no. John is tough but fair. He was right to inform me out on the court sooner rather than later, but I knew I I knew I hadn’t made an infringement. So, he, you know, gets through that, gets done with that, but delays the playoff a little bit. Um, and and and avoids the penalty to keep it going. Um they move back to the 18th T. Uh and so they’re there and they’ve got the cart lights on. They’re shining on them. Um and and Scoffield says like, “Why don’t we just share this?” And they immediately said, “That’s it. Let’s do it. We’re going to share it.” There was no way we could continue. Loner said it was really getting ridiculous. There were two options. Come back in the morning, which would have provided an antilimax to this great championship. I mean, I would suggest deciding to share the trophy is also also a little anticlimactic, but who am I? Or share the victory, as I did with Sevy all those years ago. I think we both agreed it was the appropriate thing to do. Monty added, “There was no way we could play.” When Ken Scoffield came on the radio with that suggestion, Burnhard very quickly took his hat off and I took mine off and we shook hands. Very, they were very quick to do it. They’re both just ready for the tie. First win of the year. First win of the year. I agree that it was very appropriate that we did share this wonderful trophy. So, they just went for it as soon as Ken Scoffield came on the air and suggested it. Um then just uh and they both were loving it. I couldn’t think of anyone better to share this with. Uh he says, “Well, we can add this one to the win column.” Wonderful. As he said, uh we got to take this off both their win totals. Lead a campaign. Bernie Longer, two less wins as a I was gonna say Bernie Bernie loses too with the Sevy 86 Lancome trophy. Could add this to the Monty spotlight that we did. This This is good. I I have I have a Monty current day update that I didn’t know how it was going to work in here. He’s at the Evian cuz his former champion store Caddy Cadd’s from Maya Stark now. So he’s out at the Evian and the LPGA had a wonderful little interview with Monty this morning. He’s on the range. He’s strutting around posing for the camera talking about how classy of an event the Evian is and how great great it is to be out here just just pontificating. Love it. So this so this is Volvo Masters was a big deal. I mean this was a big thing. It went to Valdorama. Uh this was a whole era. Belder Roba, by the way, and whatever we think of it, just its lineage is like insane at this point for amount of of of major golf, professional golf it’s hosted. It’s weird that it’s it’s sort of in the in the DNA of the Euro Tour, but obviously now it’s a live event. You know, first time the Ryder Cup ever was outside the United States or Great Britain was Valdorama. Um, but you know, now it hosts a live, that’s fine. So this was the Volvo Masters first weekend in November02 and Order of Merit Ratif Gusen clips Padrick Harrington and so this was a big deal. P Gusen won only once but he won the order of merit. He earned 2.391 million. So 2 thou 2,391,000 wins you the order of merit. 25 just 25k more than Padrick Harrington who was you know all miffed. He was like, “Oh, I was trying to win the order of merit, not the tournament, and it threw me, you know, cast me, you know, put me in a fritz.” I wonder if anybody asked him then about how to get your kids into golf. This is from a New York Times article by Christopher Clary, who was on site. A lot of talented golfers are working both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere. Now, Gusen’s total prize money on European tour, which was what we just said, 2.3 almost 2.4, still pales in comparison with the nearly 7 million Tiger Woods earned on his predictable way to the top of the PJ tour money list. Well, I would say Tiger in O2 like regardless of what purses they’re playing for probably did better than Gusen like that. He you know, yeah, he was playing for more money. He was also winning a lot more. The gap in star power and earning power remains wide now will only lure more talented international players to focus their energies in the United States. Again, this is O2 as it really starts to ramp up and they get houses in Florida, said Scofield. The dynamics of the two tours are vastly different. Uh there is the corporate environment in America and it’s 25 million golfers that support it. Our base is much smaller over here and so we need every bit of help we can get. So little bit of a you know laying the groundwork for what would become very clearly a dominant tour and the PGA tour. Now we’ve come back around to sort of this co-sanction era. How do they all coexist with one being so very clearly dominant? That’s a little mini flashback Friday. Just thinking about how we podcast if guys just decide to share share a title in 201. I mean, we would go insane. That jumped out that jumped out to me. Uh, one thing that also jumps out to me is our little sunscreen routine. We got camp this week. We have all four kids in camp, outdoor camp. Let me tell you, we didn’t have the morning rush all summer, you know, like we would for school or lunches. Oh [ __ ] is everybody’s packed? All that stuff. Well, it’s outdoor, which Yeah. Which adds the sunscreen element. Let me tell you, we just run them out in the driveway, grab our horse and Alp spray can the face, they go boom, boom, boom. It’s happened two or three times where their ride is showing up and they have yet to be sunscreened, let alone have their shoes on. Let me tell you, this is a way to uh hasten the sunscreen routine, expedite that routine. You go to orandalps.com, use the promo code code shotgun 15. That’s shotgun5 at oresandalps.com. We’re using the hydrating antioxidant sunscreen spray and that clear go stick with SPF 50. Uh [ __ ] even the 12-year-old and 10-year-old just do it themselves now, which is just wonderful. They know how to do the stick. They go, at least we know that’s taken care of. Uh, it’s great. This is a way to spend more time outdoors. Comes in lightweight, non-greasy spray with multiple SPF levels. Travel size as well. I might think about bringing that with me to Ireland. I don’t know if I’ll need it uh for Port Rush, but we’ll we’ll see. Uh, we have the matte sunscreen stick. Again, a lot of two female founders wanted their husbands to enjoy the outdoors uh without, you know, putting a bunch of chemicals on their body. Uh, this is oresalps.com. The promo code is shotgun 15. Highly recommend the sunscreen products. Uh, all right. Should we do a quick quick golf advice? PJ, do you have any do you have any pulled for us and you want me to read dump jump into the email? I know we’ve gotten a lot more at sgsolfadvice.com. We have been we have been I I have one I read the other day that that uh I think you guys would have a good take on here. Please share. Uh 34, no two kids, no interest in fighting. Uh, Brendan gave me a liquid IV at the the member guest and he single-handedly saved my life. Brendan is a hashtag good guy. Good guy. Good guy. Brendon. Good guy. I’m here to I’m here to help. All right. Uh, here’s my question. My member guest is coming up at my home club and my first guest had to drop out. I have a good friend I am considering asking, but he’s a plus two handicap. I am a nine handicap, so obviously a pretty big disparity there. Mhm. Is there any good reason I should not invite him? No. My potential My potential reasons are admittedly pretty selfish. I think but of I I think practical. Him being but much better than me may put us into better flights and could result in me being very clearly the worst golfer in all the forsomes we play. And I’m also concerned about me contributing not contributing a whole lot to our team given his versus my skill level. I also don’t think this is this is the wrong attitude here. I don’t want people to think the only reason I invited him is because he’s a plus two. I’m not aware of any spread rules at my member guest for what it’s worth. It’s very possible I’m overthinking this, but don’t want to step into any unknown faux pod that I might not be aware of. Andy, you seem Yeah, I knew you were going to have just this is this is like a ridiculous I I feel like like um this email is a great guy. I remember meeting him at the member guest. Don’t go too hard on I’m not going to go hard. I’m going to talk about just a general conception. Uh you know what? Like nobody knows who’s the worst guy in a group. Like obviously like it can be clearly obvious, but here’s the thing. Every golfer is so wrapped up in their own golf game that they don’t they hardly notice what’s going on. My dog is chirping running a muck. My wife just dumps her in here. All right, that’s fine. You’re fine. And you know it is uh anyways uh no golfer really knows what’s going on in the group. Everybody’s self-conscious about their own game, but the reality is nobody is paying attention to your game in these member guests. The the joys of bring of playing with a plus two and this should be every plus two’s like the plus two is just your like your anchor. Yeah. They’re going to make par on almost every hole. Yeah. So, there’s no pressure as the nine. There’s none. This is the most beautiful position to be in is the job of the nine is just to like kick in a couple holes a day. A couple holes a day. Make a a net birdie and you’ve done your job. It is like the best the best. like and as as someone who’s around that handicap, I love I love playing with like a 10. I love it. It’s like my favorite thing in the world. Competitive thing or what do you mean? Or just in general? just I just love they get pops and they’re going to like they’re going to just make some like net net birdies and and like I know like if I just go out and play my game like we’re going to be in any match, you know, like I’m going to make it make a ton of pars like you know pars always hard to beat and if they just they just make like there’s no pressure and the job of the plus two is also to make the nine or 10 feel comfortable. Yeah. If it’s an uncomfortable position, your job as a low handicap is to be the encourager, the the lifter upper. You always always say positive things and you’re just trying to keep the person in the game so that they contribute a couple couple holes and then you’re going to win. This is going to sound incredibly like paternalistic. Uh, but it sounds a little bit like when I’m playing when I when we have only like nine guys at at my sixth grade basketball practice and I’m the 10th guy and I’m just trying to like feed the ball and facilitate and like get kids set up. That probably like you also got to play your own game. That’s probably simplistic, but yeah, there is a little element of making the nine comfortable. It sounds like a great guest to invite, you know, a great guest to invite. And the problem is when you get the nine or 10, you’re like, “All right, you’re popping here.” And then they they’re like, “Uh, they get on the tea and they’re like, “This matters.” And that’s immediately the the top or the slice or the hook is when they they’re getting a pop and they overemphasize that. So, yeah, invite the invite the plus two. Um, I’m going to I’m going to throw one more. Go to uh this is from Thomas. Balls found while catting 27 male, no interest in fighting. Uh we might have some forthcoming merchandise that that uh builds off this no interest in fighting phenomenon that’s taken off here. Uh 27 male no interest in fighting. In high school and college I cied a course in southeast Tennessee. The course is notoriously hard and players often lose many golf balls during the round. Southeast Tennessee. I think I have an idea. When I caddyy and I’m looking for players balls in the tall grass, I often find other balls left behind from other groups. Depending on how bad the golfer is, I sometimes can find up to 10 balls in a round. My question is, who gets to keep the balls that I find? Is it me and the caddy or the balls go to the player? More often than not, when I find balls, the guy I’m cing for will take them out of my hand and say, “Thank you.” Should I be standing my ground and keeping the balls or just give them to the player? Side note, uh, he coaches a team and it would be nice to be able to give these balls to the players I that I find to players who have trouble affording balls. What do you think? You find them, you keep them. What? You do not give them to the people you’re catting for. If that guy just grabs a No, I I’m sorry. I will when I find a ball I will and like some buddy’s lost of several I’ll like throw it to him like here’s one here you need one here but like I voluntarily do that they’re your balls man you found them they’re yours now and it sounds like you’re well-intentioned with you know giving away to kids you coach that can’t maybe afford a bunch of balls they’re absolutely not the player who did not hit or did not possess these balls at at the start of the day. They’re not like his anymore. You found them. They’re yours. It’s an easy question. Uh I can’t believe this. We have good people out there that are debating these moral quandries about whether they’re theirs or the Keep Keep the balls you find. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not for the the people that you’re not even close. Uh anything else? We good? You want to wrap it there or you want to read one more? Let’s wrap it. I think let’s call it a Friday. We’re gonna do You gota You got to get on a plane. We’re gonna do we’re gonna have our live Port Rush preview show next week at what time? Eastern. Eastern on Tuesday. We’re going to be jam jamming me from from media day. You know, you guys are I don’t I don’t like I don’t like this narrative. We had a discussion and now he’s playing the world’s smallest violin. This is playing golf. A golf course you’ve played before, I’m sure. But you’ll be playing Wednesday at another good golf course. So Jam Jamming me from the media day circuit. That’s just I you know what I’m sad about? I I had to miss Caves Valley Media Day. Uh Smallest Violin. I’m really sad about that. But uh 4 I saw Rock Rockville was at uh Caves Valley Media Day. Denny Mack. Um all right. 4 Eastern. 4 Eastern Tuesday live on YouTube 1 Pacific 900 PM Portland hopefully if your internet holds if you have internet in the country of Northern Ireland we’ll see it’s going to be hit and go touching touch and go hit or miss could be PJ breaking it down that’s fine that’s fine maybe I’ll call in speaking of Caves Valley just shout into the other line uh but yeah we got that so 400 pm Eastern next Tuesday YouTube we’ll put up the link Hit the the link will be up by the time bell. Yeah. Right. Hit the bell. Smash that like button. Uh before that, we’ll have a Sunday Monday show from, you know, recapping Scotland and Esco Championship. I don’t know where I’ll be at that point recording that one. Maybe on the maybe on the road again, driving through Ireland and recording Sunday night like we did before in a prior uh last year. All right. You know what I just realized? Who’s on the mound for the Cubs today? Oh god. Oh god. Who? Is it Colin? Is it Colin Rehea? Don Reya’s kid. Yeah, I knew it. I knew that’s where you were going. You’re so predictable. So predictable. God, they they don’t talk enough about him being the son of an umpire. God, that’s how I got into the game. So predictable. I can’t believe I walked right into that. That guy for the Guardians last year’s he made the All-Star team. Boyd. Yeah. college. He was like just sort of this journeyman. He’s cooking. He picked up like a 4 miles an hour on his fast ball. Yeah. Out of nowhere. Yeah. At age 34. Yeah. He’s good. It’s good. All right. It’s kind of like Adam Scott with the driver. That’s true. Hey, I think that’s the first ever Matt Boyd Adam Scott comp on the heels of John Bradley to Shader Sanders yesterday. And we’re just we’re breaking them out. That’s Did you go to the Adam Scott is on the FedEx Cup points? I don’t I don’t know if I want to know because it’s gonna make me sad. Who is it? Adam Scott. Yeah, he’s like 87th or something. 85. Yeah, it’s actually better than I would have thought. US Open’s really floating that. Well, he just finished 12th. Wasn’t a good finish. It wasn’t great. But how how many times have you been above above 12 the rest of the year? Um, go to the YouTube page of CBS if you want to figure out how we could combi uh compare JB Holmes to Shidor Sanders yesterday if you want to see that one. Uh, all right. Keep an eye on Go to the YouTube page, watch a Port Rush video. We have a lot of good Port Rush content on social on the writing newsletter. Joseph and I will be over there. We will have daily pods coming next week. Uh thank you all for your Andy. Andy’s got his usual five things about a major coming on the fried egg pod. Those are very popular, very uh enjoyable. You got a special guest coming in for that one. I’ll leave it, you know, for you folks to figure that out later. But a great guest coming for that preview pod on Sunday morning. Uh going to be an awesome week. We will talk to you on Sunday night or Monday. Uh, Monday morning bar.
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