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Podcast: The Shotgun Start
Episode: Hideki’s tour de force, Billy Ho’s masterpiece, and contender/pretender for Sunday
Description: A lively virtual Bixby House results in this punch-drunk Masters table-setter for Sunday. Andy and Brendan react to that outrageous inward 30 from Hideki Matsuyama, but not without first pondering a preposterous rules hypothetical related to JT. Then they run through the leaderboard with a manichean contender/pretender judgment for each player. Two of the four players at 7-under are dubbed pretenders, while the head and the heart battle for a Spieth assessment six shots back. Jose Maria’s valiant fight is praised.  Billy Ho’s absolutely ridiculous circus act is re-told, with a full notebook of details on the hole...