Greetings from Buffalo Wild Wings on the south strip in Vegas. No internet connection in the damn press room has hobbled my ability to “live blog” from the 2008 PGA Expo here.
I’m now having a frosty beverage with my pal Scott from Swing Reminders waiting for my flight. It just so [...]

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I’m packin’ my gear now (camera, laptop and a couple of golf shirts). I’ll be landing in Vegas in time for din-din tonight and then hitting the sack resting for the PGA Show Fall Expo. I’ll be live blog-casting from the show and taking lots of photos of all the cool new golf [...]

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One of the original and great all time golf blogs is my pal Spiro’s Bogey Lounge.  With the birth of Spiro’s first child and the responsibilities that go with it (I know), the Lounge started to sputter.
Being the smart cat Spiro is, he’s brought on someone to take up the writing slack.  I’m glad to [...]

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1900 Posts
Somehow I missed this about eight golf blog posts ago. This humble golf blog has just surpassed 1900 posts, not to mention just passing 2000 comments.
2000 comments
It is not as easy to comment here as it is on other blogs, and thus there are less comments per post than I’d like. Over [...]

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Continue reading → HOG breaks 1900 golf blog posts

There’s a weather delay today in round three of the 2008 PGA Championship. It isn’t looking like round three will be completed by day’s end.
Bonus
The good thing is that we get to watch the epic battle between Bob May and Tiger Woods, in a replay of the 2000 PGA Championship. Man what [...]

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Continue reading → 2008 PGA Championship day three weather delay

I just booked my flights and hotel for the 2008 PGA Fall Expo in Las Vegas.  I’ll do anything to eat lasagna at my favorite Italian restaurant, Batistas. The show has a demo day and tournament on Monday the 25th (which I won’t be attending) and then the expo all day the Tuesday the [...]

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Continue reading → HOG and The Golf Space booked for Fall PGA Show

PGA Championship

Thursday 8/7
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
TNT

Friday 8/8
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
TNT

Saturday 8/9
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM ET
TNT

Saturday 8/9
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
CBS

Sunday 8/10
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM ET
TNT

Sunday 8/10
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
CBS

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When I saw the Clicgear golf cart at this year’s PGA Show I’d really hoped to get my hands on one for a review. That I’m working on, but for now my pal Deep Rough has a very good article on the Clicgear 2.0 golf push cart as part of the Deep Rough “push cart [...]

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If you thought there were a lot of erectile dysfunction ads the first three days of the British Open broadcasts, you are in for a treat. 53 year old Greg (freakin’) Norman is leading by two going into Sunday’s final round. Norman is a 500-1 long shot.
Oldest player to win a major?
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The TNT broadcasts of the British Open are seven hours long on Thursday and Friday. They’re then rerun. I’ve watched roughly 15 hours of The Open so far and I’m getting pretty sick of the commercials. I’ve determined the demographic of the British Open viewer.
British Open viewer demographic
1. 50-60 year old male.
2. [...]

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137th Open Golf Championship TV Times

Thursday 7/17
7:00 AM - 2:30 PM ET
TNT

Friday 7/18
7:00 AM - 2:30 PM ET
TNT

Saturday 7/19
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM ET
TNT

Saturday 7/19
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM ET
ABC

Sunday 7/20
6:00 AM - 8:00 AM ET
TNT

Sunday 7/20
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM ET
ABC

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My friend and one of the rare female golf bloggers, Miranda, is celebrating her 3rd year of golf blogging! Her blog is called Even Par Round. Miranda has some good opinions and angles on her writing and chimes in here quite often with some nice viewpoints.
Happy Blogday Miranda and keep up the great [...]

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$4.00 per gallon gas has apparently taken it’s first casualty, Golf For Women Magazine.  Editor Susan Reed had some nice parting words.
“I’m proud of how our team has covered these issues: with honesty, integrity, intelligence and humor. We’ve given you our passion and our hearts, and you’ve given us yours…
I wish I could wave a [...]

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SI/golf.com has a funny contradiction on the Ryder Cup.
“No one is talking about it and no one is writing about it.”
Um SI, aren’t you writing about it?
If SI didn’t write about the fact that nobody was writing about it, their article would be valid.  Woa.  My brain is melting now. Help me Spock.

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Be sure to tune in and watch all my pals like my good buddy George Brett, John Elway and Michael Strahan compete on the golf course this weekend.  The Pro Sports Team Challenge is a competition between stars from baseball, football, basketball and hockey and will be on Saturday and Sunday this weekend on Fox [...]

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Continue reading → Team Challenge airs this weekend

Hard work really does pay off
Hats off to my very good friend Jay Flemma. He’s about the hardest working golf writer I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen dozens first hand at the many events I’ve attended. Jay’s hard work has paid off with a gig as travel writer for The Golf Channel. [...]

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Continue reading → My pal Jay’s first Golf Channel article

I have a new friend named Delinda who I met at the Team Challenge a couple of weeks ago.   Delinda has a unique web site and angle on athletes, including golfers.  Delinda writes about the more “celebrity” aspect of athletes, focusing on the good work they can do with their popularity and checkbooks.  If there [...]

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I knew what Johnny Miller meant during the U.S. Open when he said Rocco Mediate “looks like the guy who cleans Tiger’s swimming pool,” and “guys with the name ‘Rocco’ don’t get on the trophy” during the U.S. Open. He was actually pointing out how incredible a feat it was for Rocco and didn’t [...]

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Continue reading → Johnny Miller apologizes to Rocco Mediate

They’re on suicide watch at Tiger Golf Channel following the announcement on Tiger Woods’ web site that he’ll miss the remainder of the 2008 PGA Tour season.
Tiger was more injured than anyone knew. Along with all the knee problems, he had a double stress fracture in his tibia (shin bone).
Tiger hasn’t gone under the [...]

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Continue reading → Tiger Woods OUT for the rest of 2008

Tiger Woods VS Rocco Mediate in an 18 hole playoff a the U.S. Open!
ESPN: Monday 12 pm - 2 pm &
NBC: 2 pm - 4 pm ET

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If you missed today’s 3rd round of the U.S. Open, find someone who recorded it and WATCH IT. This round was perhaps the most amazing round I’ve seen Tiger Woods put together, from a Seve Ballesteros or perhaps Houdini perspective. His driving was horrid, yet he managed to get the job done in [...]

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Man do I have a treat for you.  Check out this blog that my new friend Debbie (from Big Break III) wrote.  She’s inside the ropes at the U.S. Open and has some great nuggets:
http://www.thegolfspace.com/content/view/2583/201/

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Continue reading → My friend Deb blogging from inside the ropes at Torrey Pines

I’m in the midst of a large project in my “other” world so I didn’t get a chance to watch any of the U.S. Open today. Other than checking the leaderboard about 8 hours ago I have no idea what happened today.
So I tune in to TGC’s (Tiger is God Channel) coverage of [...]

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Continue reading → Disappointing TGC U.S. OPEN evening coverage

U.S. Open

Thursday 6/12
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
ESPN

Thursday 6/12
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
NBC

Thursday 6/12
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET
ESPN

Friday 6/13
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
ESPN

Friday 6/13
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
NBC

Friday 6/13
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET
ESPN

Saturday 6/14
4:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET
NBC

Sunday 6/15
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
NBC

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Below is the list of Friday tee times and pairings for this week’s 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. As I mentioned in the Thursday U.S. Open pairings post, click the “read more” link to see all the times.

Round 2 Groupings & Tee Times
A - Denotes Amateur

GROUP
TEE
TIME
PLAYERS

1

1

7:00

Michael Allen

Jonathan Turcott

Scott Sterling

2

1

7:11

Kevin Streelman

Artemio Murakami

Robert [...]

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Continue reading → Friday 2008 U.S. OPEN pairings and tee times

Below is the list of Thursday tee times and pairings for this week’s 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Since the list is so long I don’t want readers to have to scroll 554 yards of web space to get to the next article so just click the “read more” link below to see [...]

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Continue reading → 2008 U.S. OPEN Thursday pairings and times

I managed to catch some great video during the final round of the Team Challenge today. Charles Barkley was giving Kenny Smith grief about his golf swing. So Kenny challenged Charles to a $1000 long drive bet. The winner would add the $1000 to the charities which were benefiting from the tournament.
Seeing [...]

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Continue reading → Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith bet $1000 on a long drive

I’ve taken a ton of pictures so far and I still need to head out for the final nine holes today. The temp is already over 90 degrees here and it is only 10am.
I’ve got many swing videos and pictures of these famous athletes. Some good (Elway, Brett, Saberhagen), some bad (Kenny Smith).
Click [...]

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Here are a few funny quotes from Charles Barkley last night at the Team Challenge VIP dinner.
“They won’t let me play (golf) ’cause they say I suck too bad.”
“I saw Clyde and Kenny today and I’m not expecting much on the golf course.”
“We deserve some type of advantage against those hockey players. The shorter [...]

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Last night at the VIP party pretty lady was walking by who I recognized. I grabbed her arm and said hello. It was Debbie Dahmer of Big Break III fame. Somehow I seem to meet ladies from the Big Break series at many golf events. I just try to keep my [...]

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Continue reading → I met Big Break III’s Debbie Dahmer

The Pro-Am in the Team Challenge today was a blast. I got to play with none other than hall of fame baseball player George Brett! I was bummed I didn’t get to play with Michael Strahan, but after playing with my new buddy George I’m quite happy. It was especially cool when [...]

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Continue reading → Golfed with George Brett in the Team Challenge Pro-Am!

Current scene: I’m in “meeting room #2″ a.k.a. the press room for the Team Challenge. I’m drafting up my post for today’s event. But this scene required that I do a post about doing a post…
Comedian Martin Short is sitting to my left, working on his routine for tonight’s VIP party. [...]

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Greetings from my “suite” in the Fantasy Springs Resort & Casino in Indio California. Indio is just a few miles east of Palm Springs.
It’s 12:30am and I’ve just gotten settled in my remote office and had a pretty darn good slice of $3.00 pepperoni pizza. In case anyone is wondering, the pizza joint [...]

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I’m packing my last few items, getting ready to jump on a plane to Palm Springs in a few hours to attend the Pro Sports Team Challenge. I’ll be quite busy early in the day tomorrow (Friday the 6th of June) in the Pro-Am, so I’m posting now to strongly suggest heading to the [...]

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Continue reading → TEAM CHALLENGE! Time to sign up as a ProCoach and be part of golf broadcast history!

As many of you may know, I’ll be down in Palm Springs this Fri-Sun at the Pro Sports Team Challenge. This is an event in which the four major sports in the USA (football, basketball, hockey & baseball) are represented by four all-star players on the golf course. The main beneficiary is the four charities [...]

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Continue reading → HELP ME interview superstar athletes!

I’ll be debuting my new golf back from Tattoo Golf at this week’s Team Challenge down in Palm Springs. While playing golf with NFL all star defensive player Michael Stahan, I’ll be showing off my new bag. Man is this thing a beauty!
More to come.

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Continue reading → New golf bag from Tattoo Golf

The following celebrities will be making an appearance at the Team Challenge, which I’ll be blogcasting live from, this Friday-Sunday:
Dennis Haysbert - 24, The Unit, Allstate spokesperson
Kevin Sorbo - Hercules
Flex Alexander - Actor, comedian
Joel Gretsch - Played Bobby Jones in The Legend of Bagger Vance
Gregory Itzin - President Logan in 24

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Boy am I stoked! As part of the media team at the Pro Sports Celebrity Golf Challenge I get to play in the pro-am the day before the tournament, which is one week from today. I’ll be playing a round of golf with none other than 2008 Super Bowl Champion Michael Strahan of [...]

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Continue reading → A week from today I golf with Super Bowl champ Michael Strahan!

Is Paula Creamer wearing shorts in this picture or a skirt? Not sure this is a terribly good choice for Yahoo Sports to be displaying this picture of Paula in their RSS golf news feed. It’s quite “Ladies of Big Break crotch shotesque” of them.
Of course, being a golf blogger with [...]

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Continue reading → I see London I see France. I see Paula Creamer’s….

There have been many large golf companies jumping on the golf blogwagon. Quite frankly, most if not all of them have been failures. All they ended up being was a rehash of their current advertisements, press releases and another outlet for their corporate double talk.
FootJoy has entered the blogosphere at http://www.footjoyblog.com and I’ve [...]

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Pun intended!
My friend Gary at Date A Golfer has a very nice golf dating site. At Date A Golfer golf singles can find a golf match, so to speak. I joined DAG years ago in hopes that Annika Sorenstam would find me there but unfortunately that didn’t pan out.
New Design
The new Date [...]

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Q. You made a comment earlier this year that winning all four in a calendar year, all four majors, was possible; has anything happened so far so dissuade you from that opinion?
TIGER WOODS: No.
What kind of stupid question is this for a reporter to ask Tiger? What answer is he expecting? Something like [...]

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For the first time in Masters history, the traditional par-3 contest will be televised. For those who didn’t know, Augusta National Golf Club has a par-3 course as well as the big boy course. Since 1960 there’s been a par-3 tournament which is held the Wednesday of Masters week. For the gazillionth [...]

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Too Many Golf Blogs?
Man I must have around 150 “golf blogs” in my master links section. Just browsing a large percentage of the golf blogs out there and posting a few comments is quite a chore. And I’ve not added several new ones which have popped up lately. Are there too many [...]

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Mrs. Doubtfire, or as many people know him, Colin Montgomerie won’t be playing in The Masters this year. He’s complaining in the media about the fact that three Asian players have been invited to play in The Masters who are ranked 80th, 93rd and 111th. Monty is ranked 75th in the world.
I get [...]

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Bubba Watson was pretty irritated with Steve Elkington Thursday and Friday at the Zurich Classic. In this video clip you can clearly hear Bubba saying Elkington can “kiss his ass.”

I’m surprised this video hasn’t been yanked by YouTube yet. TGS (Tiger is God Channel) is pretty tight and quick with pulling videos off [...]

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One of the original and best golf blogs is Golfblogger. GB is a rock, churning out thousands of great golf blog takes over the last several years.
Check out the new Golfblogger logo! I like it. It’s classy, clean and elegant. I’ve considered a new HOG logo but I’m not sure what [...]

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I’m watching my anchor player in fantasy golf, Stewart Cink, melt down today. Then I almost fell out of my chair listening to the post round interviews. I’ve had no opinion at all on the quality of NBC’s Jimmy Roberts work as a golf announcer to this point, but today might have tipped [...]

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Continue reading → NBC’s Jimmy Roberts butchers post round interview with Sean O’Hair

I’ve often wondered just how many boxes of Titleist ProV1’s Jim Nantz has in his garage…
The golf blogosphere is buzzing with posts and replies about the latest round of blatantly biased golf announcer “gear comments.” It seems we have a bunch of “conflict of interest” issues with regards to announcers touting certain brands [...]

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It’s been a while since I did a report on my “other” golf site, The Golf Space at www.thegolfspace.com. “TGS” is a golf social networking community site, like facebook or myspace, only it’s designed specifically for golf. The Golf Space provides a free hub for golfers, golf businesses and golf courses to connect [...]

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Continue reading → The Golf Space records 3000th member and 1.5 million visitors