October 31st, 2007 — Colin Montgomerie from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
“The O rder of Merit meant a lot to me and it obviously does not to others,” said Colin Montgomerie earlier today at the Volvo Masters. The comments were directed to those European Tour players, specifically Ernie Els, who are…
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October 31st, 2007 — Ernie Els from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
Last year, Ernie Els signed a three-year committment to play at the Barclays Singapore Open , which will be played this week. The last event of the European Tour, the Volvo Masters in Spain, is also taking place this week….
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October 31st, 2007 — Colin Montgomerie, Ernie Els from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
Ernie Els made a three-year committment to
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October 31st, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from golfchick @ The Golfchick
Here’s a superfreaky video from a superfreaky golf chick… Trick or Treat?
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Related StoresOctober 31st, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Ian Andrew @ Ian Andrew's "Caddy Shack"
Sorry -internet problems this morningI always love waking up in the West since there is a two hour time difference and every morning feels like a sleep in.Today was the start-up meeting for Saskatoon - with TDI International - who was awarded the contr…
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October 31st, 2007 — Courses, Miscellaneous, Reviews, Travel from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
When I used to think of New Mexico a few things came to mind. I’d think of nuclear testing and Indian reservations. I’d mostly think of Roswell, where the alien ship crashed in 1947. Golf certainly wasn’t on the radar, alien or domestic.
No longer do I think of aliens when I considering [...]
October 31st, 2007 — Equipment, Reviews from DeepRough @ The Deep Rough
Background
I had the opportunity to review both the 60* PB and 73* wedges from Feel Golf over the past week. Here is some background information about the wedges, and then I’ll get to the review.
“PB” Classic Satin Wedge
The PB design has more of a conventional bounce angle and a leading edge preferred by some [...]
October 31st, 2007 — PGA Tour from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
(Russ Glasson/Flickr)Today may be Halloween — Boo! — but this whole week is scary for certain PGA Tour pros. It’s “Keep Your Job” Week on the PGA Tour. Or for the glass-half-empty types, “Lose Your Job” Week.The top 125 on the money list af…
Related StoresOctober 31st, 2007 — Tiger Woods from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
Tiger Woods confirmed in a newsletter on his official website that Hank Haney is still his swing coach. Woods writes, “Contrary to rumors, I have not split with Hank Haney, my friend and swing coach…I’ve become much better at correcting…
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October 31st, 2007 — TV Times from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
Children’s Miracle Network Classic (PGA Tour) Thursday, 11/1: 2-5 PM ET GOLF Friday, 11/2: 2-5 PM ET GOLF Saturday, 11/3: 2-5 PM ET GOLF Sunday, 11/4: 2-5 PM ET GOLF Nationwide Tour Championship Thursday, 11/1: 5-7:30 PM ET GOLF Friday,…
Related StoresOctober 31st, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Patricia @ Golf Girl's Diary
A few years ago, before I’d ever swung a driver or rolled a putt, I was having lunch at our local golf club in late October and observed a gaggle of witches and goblins and ghosts (as well as a couple of pimps and ho’s) frolicking on the fairways, sort…
Related StoresOctober 31st, 2007 — , Birding, Birds from The Artful Golfer @ The Artful Golfer
When our kids were growing up, we spent our summer vacations hiking. We drove to all the western states and provinces during these trips visiting the Cascades, Tetons, Sierras, Rockies, Sawtooths, Bitterroots, Wasatch, and San Juans. It was while hiking these miles and miles of mountain trails that I became a birder. I never seemed to be able to identify and remember the names of all the
Related StoresOctober 31st, 2007 — General from DeepRough @ The Deep Rough
NEW YORK, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Surfing-inspired apparel maker Quiksilver Inc said on Tuesday that it has sold its Cleveland Golf Co Inc subsidiary for $132.5 million to Japan’s SRI Sports Limited (who owns Srixon Golf).
Quiksilver said it would use the net proceeds from the sale to repay existing debts.
The company had originally acquired a [...]
October 30th, 2007 — , Articles, Bobby Clampett, Fred Shoemaker, Impact, Instruction, Lorne Rubenstein from The Artful Golfer @ The Artful Golfer
Lorne Rubenstein wrote an article this month for SCOREGolf, A Zone Worth Finding, about a book by Former PGA Tour winner Bobby Clampett, The Impact Zone: Mastering Golf’s Moment of Truth. It’s the one book Rubenstein read this year, or in many years, for that matter, that says very little about the swing itself, and plenty about the moment of truth - impact.
Golf Impact Shot by photomudger at
Related StoresOctober 30th, 2007 — Golf Goods from golfchick @ The Golfchick
If you have ever shopped for any kind of bag, you probably know Ogio. They make all kinds of bags, including golf bags and are well known for their attention to features and fabulosos (did I just make up another word?). I wrote a post that included a review of an Ogio golf bag [...]
Related StoresOctober 30th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from mulligan @ The Golf Blog
Tiger Woods writes:It’s been nice to have some time off and hang out with my family. We had a good trip on the boat and did a little fishing. Mostly, it was just fun to get away.Obviously, it’s been a great year on and off the course. My eyes light up …
Related StoresOctober 30th, 2007 — PGA Tour from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
John Daly made the cut in his last event this past weekend but then withdrew for a unknown reason… WTF?
He must have run out of cigarettes.
October 30th, 2007 — Hackers, Miscellaneous from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
I’m wrapping up my 3rd year in a row as my men’s club president. One of the things I started in my first year was the Halloween tournament called HELL DAY. HELL DAY is where we set up the course in the most insane, crazy, difficult way possible. I went through the [...]
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October 30th, 2007 — John Daly from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
For the sixth time this year, John Daly has withdrawn from a PGA tournament. This time, on Sunday at the Ginn sur Mer Classic, where he was well out of contention, at 4-over-par for the tournament. According to the Associated…
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October 30th, 2007 — Daniel Chopra from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
It took 133 starts, but Daniel Chopra is now a PGA Tour winner. On Monday morning at the Ginn sur Mer Classic, Chopra played his final three holes at 1-under-par to oust Shigeki Maruyama and Fredrik Jacobson by one stroke….
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October 30th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Ian Andrew @ Ian Andrew's "Caddy Shack"
This is another day that I should be at home with the family, but I find myself sitting on a plane heading to Saskatoon. I’m off to Saskatoon today for a project start-up meeting so that the can begin some earthwork and tree removal to get a jump sta…
Related StoresOctober 29th, 2007 — Site News from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
I’ve just installed a captcha system for the comments. Though I’m using a pretty good spam system, many bots are getting past it. So I’m evaluating this system for a while. If it sticks and the comment spam is reduced, it’ll stay obviously.
Related StoresOctober 29th, 2007 — Champions Tour, Loren Roberts from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
Last year, Loren Roberts had the opportunity to win the Charles Schwab Cup, a year-long race for a 1 million dollar bonus at the end of the Champions Tour season. But Roberts squandered his opportunity by missing a short putt…
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October 29th, 2007 — Augusta National, Masters Tournament, Ryder Cup from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
The notification came in the mail on Saturday. By random drawing, I was awarded two daily grounds tickets for the Wednesday practice round at the 37th Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.It wasn’t my first choice. I applied for tw…
Related StoresOctober 29th, 2007 — Stefanie Michl from The Squire @ Golf Babes
Stefanie Michl, from Austria, is another golfer who recently earned her tour card for 2008 at the Ladies European Tour final-stage Q-School tournament in Italy. Michl finished tied for fourth at the tournament. Stefanie finished eighth on the Telia Tour Order of Merit in 2006, and played most of 2007 on the LET.
Related StoresOctober 29th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Patricia @ Golf Girl's Diary
Click to Play On the menu for this episode is dinner at my house …with Greg Norman wines and some of my favorite golf buddies… I’ll also take you to some of the environmentally friendly courses in my area. Then, I’ve got a t…
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October 29th, 2007 — Golf Media, Site News from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
YouTube is great. They provide me a free repository for my video clips. I save server space and tons of bandwidth by allowing them to put their little YouTube logo on my videos.
100+ vidoes, 200,000+ views
My YouTube location is at http://www.youtube.com/thegolfspace where I now have over 100 golf videos and they’ve been viewed [...]
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October 29th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from USGA Blog @ USGA Blog
I got an up close and personal view of Tiger Woods’ unprecedented three consecutive U.S. Amateur victories. With each win, promotion of the Amateur got easier and easier.
NBC definitely struck gold when it televised the last two rounds of the 1996 Amateur.
“Well, I’d say we did a great job getting everyone out here, don’t you think,” he asked then-USGA president
Never shy,
But
Oh, we’ve had some successes to be sure.
In my 18 years with the USGA, I’ve witnessed clubs that have invited high school marching bands to play; some that have bartered for billboards around town and others that have leaned on a celebrity member to be a spokesperson.
But in each case, it has been the host club that has taken a few good promotional ideas and made them work. There is no one size fits all, when it comes to promotions. But it all starts with the host club’s enthusiasm.
This coming weekend, the media relations staff will host its 13th Amateur Championships Preview Weekend, where all of the host clubs will share ideas and get a running start toward putting on a good championship next summer.
But, either way, the visitors will learn about advance marketing and promotions that might be right for them. We want everyone to catch the spirit of one of our 13 National Championships. We want to help each club create a buzz and as many spectators as possible out to watch the best amateur golfers compete on some of the country’s best golf courses.
And if there’s a USGA championship in your area next summer, get out to the site to see amateur golf at its very best.
I’ll bet we could get 14,000 fans to an Amateur final again if Tiger Woods would just get his amateur status back. What do you think?
USGA Director of Media Relations
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October 29th, 2007 — Hackers from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
My game has been slipping for the last couple of months. I’ve had a few “OK” rounds in the low 70’s and some real hack festivals. The worst thing over the last while is actually knowing that my ball striking and contact is getting worse and worse, and having no idea how to [...]
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October 29th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Ian Andrew @ Ian Andrew's "Caddy Shack"
The reason I decided to begin with Saturday is because it contains the most interesting news for the week.Why did I find myself working on Saturday? It began last week when I was contacted by another consultant after he met with a potential client abou…
Related StoresOctober 28th, 2007 — Golf Equipment from Mike Sigers @ Travelling Golfer
I’m now the proud owner of a 19 degree Hybrid from Bobby Jones Golf.
It’s been raining here for the last 5-7 days and pretty chilly, so today’s 60 degrees and sunny skies was the first chance I’ve had to drop by our range and hit this sweet little par 5 killer.
Why would I refer to [...]
October 28th, 2007 — Weather from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
It took a combined six hours for the leaders to finish their third round yesterday and early this morning at the Ginn sur Mer Classic. With the leaders teeing off today at 1:50 p.m. ET, it is highly unlikely that…
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October 28th, 2007 — Boo Weekley, Heath Slocum from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
As of six days ago, Arron Oberholser and Sean O’Hair were going to represent the United States at the World Cup in China in late November. But Oberholser pulled out of the tournament last Monday due to expected hand surgery…
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October 28th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
Typically, we don’t cover stories like this on the blog. However, I couldn’t pass this one up. The Naples Daily News reported on Thursday, October 25 that the father of a 14-year-old high school freshman said that his son had…
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October 28th, 2007 — Michelle Wie from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
David Leadbetter, Michelle Wie’s swing choach, told Lorne Rubenstein of the Toronto Globe and Mail last week that “it was absolute madness” for Wie to be playing in men’s tournaments in 2006. “That started the whole debacle,” said Leadbetter. On…
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October 27th, 2007 — PGA Tour from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
John Daly’s season is over. He’d requested a sponsor’s exemption to get into next week’s Wal-Mart sponsored Disney but that exemption was refused. With Wal-Mart as a sponsor, JD seems like a great fit for “obvious” reasons which I won’t mention for fear of being politically incorrect. That’s a first for me, [...]
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October 27th, 2007 — Luke Swilor, PGA Tour, Q School from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
(Photo courtesy of Luke Swilor)Canadian Tour player Luke Swilor’s second PGA Tour Q School run ended yesterday at Stage 1 at Dayton Valley Country Club in Dayton, Nevada. Following is Luke’s final diary entry.Stage 1, Day 4The weather starting the day …
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October 27th, 2007 — Equipment from DeepRough @ The Deep Rough
I heard some rumors about a set of Ping H10 irons, that should fit somewhere between the G10 and I10 irons in terms of playability/forgiveness. If they could come up with a set of irons with the offset/top line of the I10s, and the stupid easy to hit forgiveness of the G10s, they may [...]
Related StoresOctober 26th, 2007 — , Articles, Golfers, Lorena Ochoa from The Artful Golfer @ The Artful Golfer
I ran across an article about Lorena Ochoa in the San Francisco Chronicle by Scott Ostler that suggests there is something at least semi-mystical about the world’s most dominant female golfer. The mystical issue was initially raised recently by Christina Kim, who told a writer, “I’ve known Lorena for almost a decade and there was always something sort of mystical about her. There was something
Related StoresOctober 26th, 2007 — PGA Tour from the_golf_watcher @ The Golf Watch
According to the Sports Network, the Nationwide Tour Championship will still be played next week at Barona Creek in Lakeside, California. The PGA Tour announced that even though Lakeside was evacuated Thursday morning, the course has not been damaged by…
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October 26th, 2007 — Big Break, Dana Lacey from The Squire @ Golf Babes
This screen capture of Dana Lacey is from The Golf Channel’s Web site. Why are featuring Dana today? Because she won the Ladies European Tour’s final qualifying tournament in Italy, earning her playing card for the 2008 LET season. Congratulations to Dana.
Related StoresOctober 26th, 2007 — Reviews, Training Aids from DeepRough @ The Deep Rough
You may remember an excited guy jumping up and down with joy as he advanced to the next round of Fore Inventors Only. Joseph Pagano, inventor of The Power Stance, brought a great deal of liveliness to the cast of inventors on this Golf Channel contest/reality show. Unfortunately for Joe, the Power Stance [...]
Related StoresOctober 26th, 2007 — Courses, Miscellaneous from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
This Tuesday in my local golf league (while shooting a 68 I might add), a pal of mine told me some Michael Jordan nuggets. My pal does heating and air and has been working on MJ’s house for a while. MJ has a house up near Glenwild Golf Course in Park City. [...]
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October 26th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Patricia @ Golf Girl's Diary
Uh-oh…here she is again. That conroversial little Golf Girl, precariously balanced on her tee. That can only mean one thing GGTV is experiencing slight technical difficulties. Yes producing a show is a learning experience, that’s for sure. Anyway, …
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October 26th, 2007 — Golf Blog Posts from Patricia @ Golf Girl's Diary
These incredible Golf Girls…they’re getting younger and younger. When will it stop? Who knows, but for this moment at least, adorable Ariya Jutanukarn, a petite 11-year-old from Thailand, holds the record for youngest golfer to compete in an internat…
Related StoresOctober 26th, 2007 — Luke Swilor, PGA Tour, Q School from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
(Photo courtesy of Luke Swilor)Canadian Tour player Luke Swilor has begun his second PGA Tour Q School run with Stage 1 at Dayton Valley Country Club in Dayton, Nevada. Follow along as Luke provides his diary entries.Stage 1, Day 3I didn’t play bad t…
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October 26th, 2007 — Video Lessons from DeepRough @ The Deep Rough
Found another great video on YouTube that covers the basics of swinging a golf club. This is a great video to show to those who haven’t played the game, or are looking for a refresher. They show the various components of the swing (grip, stance, etc) from various angles…great stuff.
Enjoy your weekend! [...]
Related StoresOctober 26th, 2007 — Site News from Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru @ Hooked On Golf Blog
I have a headache. I’ve eaten one decent meal in the last 48 hours. But more importantly Hooked On Golf Blog is completely transfered to the new server. I’ll soon be flipping my old provider the bird in my rear view window…
Now back to our regularly scheduled blogram…
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October 25th, 2007 — Ask The Goose, Charity Events, Fitness and Health, News from golfchick @ The Golfchick
The Southern California Fires
First, I want to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to all who expressed concern about me due to the fires here in Southern California. Your messages and thoughts are much appreciated and mean a great deal.
I am among the fortunate Southern California residents only impacted by smoke and ash. Sadly, too [...]
October 25th, 2007 — Equipment, Reviews from DeepRough @ The Deep Rough
Here are a couple pictures of the Cleveland CG14 Wedge. Expect a detailed review of this club in the near future. Nice compact design and solid feel to this club. A definitely improvement over the CG11, I believe.
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