In my round with my dad yesterday I came to the par-3 13th hole at +2.  My ball striking, especially my irons, had been pretty good.  I guess practicing a bunch of 5-irons on the range helped that day.
On the tee of this 155 yard hole I announced “I haven’t had a hole in one [...]

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Continue reading → Talkin’ smack & backin’ it up

I’ve struggled this summer. Unfortunately my schedule has been all thrown out of whack by a “commitment” I made which I’m really regretting. Never again.
As a result my scores haven’t been as low as normal and my handicap has gone up from a 1.3 to a 2.3. This may not seem like [...]

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Today was my usual Thursday grudge match. We played a different course which wasn’t in our normal rotation. They’d “added” black tees, but essentially the black tees are the same as the old blues. On a couple of holes they extended the tees back on the par-5s. I guess they’re trying [...]

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Continue reading → Balls on a wire

Yawnnn… ZZZZZZZ. Oh, is this thing on?
As you may know, I’m golf blog boycotting a certain player who was formerly referred to as “the female Tiger Woods” (FTW). FTW seems to prefer getting her ass handed to her by the men of the PGA Tour rather than paying her dues on [...]

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Continue reading → Player formerly known as “Female Tiger Woods” misses yet another cut on the PGA Tour

A quick post from road on the HOG world tour
Greetings from Las Vegas. Just played Reflection Bay today. The TPC of Vegas is tomorrow and then I’ll be back to HOG world headquarters for more regular golf blogging.
Natalie Gulbis’ House
I saw Natalie Gulbis’ house today. I knocked on her door to ask [...]

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Continue reading → Greetings from Vegas

In this post, The Golf Chick tells of a playing parnter’s tan line tragedy. Her partner apparently golfs enough to have what my friends and I affectionately call a “golfer’s tan.” A golfer’s tan would be a tan face, tan arms and tan legs.  Kristen says “don’t let this happen to you.”  I [...]

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Continue reading → Golf Chick tan line a tragedy? I think not

Every Thursday my buddies and I have a grudge match. We’ve been having the “Thursday game” for 15 years or so now. Yesterday it was just me versus my good pal Arnie. Arnie is a great golfer with a deadly short game.
On the front nine we tied, thanks to me gagging on [...]

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Continue reading → Incredible back nine yesterday

I just got a great email from HOG reader Mike Fazio. I doubt he’s related to Tom Fazio, but if he is… we need to talk. Mike is a reader who’s friend just aced a hole. I send my congratulations to Thomas Griesau for doing something only one in 35,000 golfers does. [...]

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Continue reading → HOG reader Thomas Griesau records hole in one, with his driver

I’m golf blogging from my favorite restaurant, sipping a refreshing “beverage” and listening to a jazz piano player playing “Mona Lisa.”  My buddy who owns the place just showed me his knee, which he messed up last week during our weekly golf competition.  Its bad.  He’s limping and can’t lift his leg up without the [...]

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Continue reading → Injuries all around

Golfinator Four: Judgement Swing
I have a friend named Brian who I’ve played dozens of rounds of golf with. A couple of weeks ago I ran into Brian in the pro shop and saw a bizarre contraption on his arm. No it wasn’t the next version of the swing jacket. No he wasn’t [...]

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Continue reading → Nearly cutting his arm in half won’t stop my friend Brian from golfing

Man did I have a smokin’ round today. I mean, I was damn near on fire. I was kicking the rear end of my pal, the head pro and director of golf. On #16 approach I saw some smoke coming from #17. If you recall this post, TWO golf carts plunged [...]

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Continue reading → 17 on my home course must be cursed

There were some “issues” today on the 17th hole at my home course.  It seems that two boneheads were racing their carts down the windy path off of 17 tee.  That path goes on a bridge over a small river.
Both boneheads lost control of the carts and both ended up in the river.  It was [...]

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Continue reading → The cart is in the river and the river is in the cart

Today is the yearly tournament my pop and I play in at his club.  We’ve won the Father’s Day tournament a few times over the years, but my dad is 72+ now and starting to lose a bit of his game.   Neither of us played too well but with our “smoke and mirrors” we somehow [...]

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Continue reading → Pop and I take 2nd in Father’s Day tourney

I’m golf blogging from the cafe at my home course. My round today lasted 2.5 holes. During a break between #2 and #3 due to slow play, a fight broke out in the cart barn. It seems that my buddy went to change carts and got in an argument with the [...]

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Continue reading → Pal beats up the cart boy

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!

Due to personal reasons I didn’t get to bed until 4:30am last night. And even then I didn’t sleep. I was going to bail on the tournament but decided to give it a go anyway, despite having no sleep.
No warmup, no putting green… I smack my drive on the par-5 1st hole [...]

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Continue reading → Salt Lake City Amateur - Day One

I just got off the phone with a friend of mine named John, who runs shall we say “the mother ship” of golf sites. He called to tell me how great it was to play Pebble Beach, Half Moon Bay, Spyglass and Monterey CC. He was extremely excited to let me know he [...]

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Continue reading → Friend calls to brag about playing Pebble

John Daly’s rehab (for the surgery, not the booze) is going well apparently. He’s playing in levis, no shoes and no shirt in this video below. I couldn’t help noticing how the guy interviewing John couldn’t seem to keep his hands off him. Down boy!

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The golf marathon continues
Yesterday the weather was the best of the year.  My home course is usually extremely windy, but it was completely calm.  I played 27 holes for the 5th day of my 7 day golf marathon.  My friend "GolfUtah" kicked everyone's butt with some long putting bombs.
Today the marathon will continue with my [...]

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Continue reading → Golf marathon, short game, FaceOff putter

The scene: My regular grudge match against the local PGA pro. I’ve beaten him two rounds in a row and won the front nine convincingly. He’s got a putt on #16 to save par, possibly win $2.00 and have some bragging rights. This putt is about a 3-4 footer. I’m [...]

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Continue reading → The $200 $2.00 putt

After moving the last 4-5 days I’m exhausted. My round today was a disaster. But on the #8 hole (our 17th since we played the back first), my pal Dave Shields got an ACE! He was 174 out. Funny thing was that our other buddy Dan hit one in to about [...]

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Continue reading → I witness my pal’s ace!

Congratulations to my friend Tyson. He was in the group in front of me yesterday and knocked his 2nd shot in the hole on the #13 par-5! On #14, a short par-4, he drove the green and lipped out an eagle putt. He birdied #15 as well.
Final score on the back nine: [...]

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Continue reading → Friend scores a double eagle and a 29 on the back

I’m now riding in the back of my buddy’s SUV, on the way back home from the big Winter golf trip. It’s raining now, but as we get higher in altitude toward home that rain will turn to snow. It’s snowing at home now.
The game improved again today, especially with only 29 putts [...]

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Continue reading → Golf trip final day

The game improved a bit today. I tried a new putter, which is not a usual thing for me. I don’t play the revolving putter door game. Though this is a great putter, it’s so light compared to my other one that I gagged hard on a lot of short putts.
Bizarre [...]

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Continue reading → Winter golf trip day three

Day 2
I’m on vacation so my blogging is at a minimum until I get back in to HOG headquarters on Monday.
After day two of the big golf trip with a bunch of buddies I’m having a great time, though my game is really bad. It is no surprise how rusty I am after a [...]

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Continue reading → Greetings from the road

This is an automated post. If you’re reading this today (”Day one” Thursday the 21st) between the hours of 8am-1pm Eastern Time, I’m on the road driving South. If you’re reading between 1pm-6pm I’m at The Ledges (pictured below).
This Winter here has been brutal to say the least. The courses in Salt [...]

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Continue reading → HOG hits the road for the first time in 2008

There’s still snow on the ground here but the pro across the street has a net set up and a JC Video golf analysis system set up. So I went and hit a few balls into a net yesterday to stay loose.
I managed to figure out how to get the video system working, being [...]

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Continue reading → How to make yourself want to quit golf entirely

The courses are close here but there was enough green grass to play 9 holes a couple of days ago. It was nice to hit a golf ball after going nearly two months without.
This picture here is of the “lake” between holes #1 and #2. As you can see, mine and my boy’s [...]

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Continue reading → Golf in the snow

SPECIAL SECTION!
2007 Masters Blog

Augusta & Masters Photos
2007 Masters Finish
2007 Masters Sunday Blog
Fuzzy Zoeller F-Bomb
2007 Masters Saturday
2007 Masters Sunday Pairings
Masters.org Sunday Coverage
2007 Masters Friday Carnage
2007 Masters Thursday!
Arnie starts, I cry
Mark O’Meara Wins Par 3
2007 Masters Photos!
Thurs & Fri Pairings
Palmer ceremonial starter
Phil Mickelson’s Club Setup
Vote for your favorite hole
Augusta National Score Card
Masters Blogger Leaderboard
Masters.org Tuesday
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Continue reading → 2007 Masters Time Capsule

Today is the last day of 2007. I’m going through the year’s posts and highlighting by month, some of the best subjects of the year.
January 2007
January 2007 saw me at my first PGA Merchandise Show and I got a ton of hits, comments and thousands of video views of my interviews. I even [...]

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Continue reading → 2007 HOG Time Capsule

Alternate title: Being in the right place at the right time and having a video camera in my pocket.
I live across the street from my home course, River Oaks. It sucks in the Winter to look out my window and see the course covered in snow and unplayable.
Yesterday, Christmas day 2007, I’m driving by [...]

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Continue reading → I crash the 2nd Annual Christmas Classic

It’s November 15th and I played golf in very nice, sunny weather today. This is a good thing. Shot a decent 75. The last few years the courses would have been covered with snow and closed for five months by now.
I hit a nice drive on #13, then looked over at the [...]

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Continue reading → And you thought Utah’s liquor laws were strange

Here’s the setting:
I’m on the 9th tee and my pal/opponent is four down. He presses. Then I nearly hole out my shot from about 180 on this tough par three.

Press won. I sure could have used my 2nd hole in one. It would have been fun collecting my bets [...]

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Continue reading → Near Ace Today

JOIN MY NEW ORGANIZATION: GOLFERS FOR GLOBAL WARMING
It’s November 8th here in Salt Lake. It’s not uncommon for the courses to be closed and for me to be shoveling the snow off the driveway by now. I’m happy to say that’s not the case.
Today I played golf in weather so warm I was [...]

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Continue reading → “Golfers For Global Warming” meeting #2

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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Continue reading → The last tournament of the year: HELL DAY

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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Continue reading → New spikes. Placebo or not? I don’t care.

I’ve been playing pretty bad lately. Everything but my putting has been horrid. My ball striking has been weak and inaccurate. Lately I’ve missed more greens and fairways than ever.
Today I put a few new spikes on my shoes… four to be exact. They replaced very worn ones.
I go [...]

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Continue reading → Shot my lowest score ever today

The 27 hole tournament yesterday was a lot of fun. At the turn my pop’s club has the best hot dogs on the planet and those alone are worth attending. As it turned out, that was the only reason we did.
For the scramble portion my pop and I didn’t really make any [...]

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Continue reading → Tournament Report

I’m teaming up with my Pop in a 27 hole member/guest at his club today. It’s the 2nd to last tournament of the year for me.
Nine holes scramble.
Nine holes best ball.
Nine holes alternate shot.
The tournament is a lot of fun (except for the brutal alternate shot portion) and we’ve won it a time or [...]

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Continue reading → Tournament Today

Check out Jason Zuback in this video. He’s the long drive guy with the ripped muscular arms, veins popping out. He swings out of his shorts and drives 400+ yard par-4’s…
In this video he proceeds to knock three shots OB right. Listen to my smart a** comment at the 0:20 mark…

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Continue reading → I gave long driver Jason Zuback some grief

My friend Dave is a nut. He practices SO much on the range that he wore down the name Cleveland completely off the bottoms of his wedges. He is always tinkering with his swing and trying stuff.
So today we had a long wait on the #10 tee and he told me he thought [...]

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Continue reading → Catch your own golf shot

Club championship semi-final. If I win, I’m in the finals…
It took me almost six weeks to get my match played with Mr. 62, the guy I watched shoot the course record at my home course.
We had a great match and I played very well. We matched birdies three times on the front (the [...]

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Continue reading → Finally played my match against Mr. 62

Yesterday’s round was the 3rd meeting in the Swilor/Guru golf blogger matches. The first two were taken by Luke Swilor. The 2nd was a pretty humiliating day for me as I shot my worst score of the year in 45mph winds and lost seven balls while Luke Shot an amazing 70.
Yesterday’s match found [...]

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Continue reading → Swilor/Guru 3 :: The Redemption :: RESULTS

I’m happy to announce that Luke Swilor and I will be playing golf today!
I’m hitting the ball decently right now. Last 5 scores, 73, 78, 74, 73, 69. That being said, Luke will still probably be giving me an on-course lesson.

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Continue reading → Swilor/Guru 3 :: The Redemption

I flew over the par-5 first with an 8-iron, par. Flew over the par-5 5th with an 8-iron, par. Flew over the par-5 13th into a hazard with a pitching wedge, bogey. Drove the #14 par-4 with a 3-wood and two putted for birdie.
It was a 69 that could have been a [...]

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Continue reading → Shot 69 on the day of my big match…

I hit the range yesterday to try and figure out what is wrong with my irons. My driver and woods are all good, but my GIR’s and ball striking with the irons has stunk.
After hitting five shanks, 10 fats, 10 thins, 10 hooks, 10 slices… I busted out my video camera. I don’t [...]

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Continue reading → Semifinal match against Mr. 62