Unfortunately I’m posting from a crappy computer with a dysfunctional spacebar.  The press room doesn’t have an open wireless or wired internet connection and Mandalay Bay is asking for $500 to hook my laptop up to wireless.
I’d love to be posting tons of pictures and videos from the show, but I can only do that if MY [...]

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Continue reading → 2008 Vegas PGA Expo Post #1

Greetings from the Salt Lake airport. My flight was scheduled to leave 30 minutes ago. I’m posting via my iPhone & a new app for mobile blogging.
Apparently bad weather in Vegas has shut down incoming flights. I have to wait here an hour for the next update on the conditions
Bad weather? Someone must have heard [...]

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Continue reading → Rain drop in Vegas causes airline havoc

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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Continue reading → HOG world tour heading to PGA Expo in Vegas today

I’ve been pals with Frogger Golf for several years now. When Frogger releases a product you can be sure there will be nothing better on the market. Back in May of 2007 I reviewed the hands-down best golf brush on our planet and many others, the Brush Pro. My original Brush Pro [...]

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Continue reading → Frogger Amphibian Ball Towel

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

I got the funniest myspace message today.
“My name is Summer. I am the new Director of Marketing for The Weekenders Golf Tour. I would like to thank you in advance for all of your support. Although, I regret to announce that our legal team has informed us that we may no longer accept advertisements on [...]

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Continue reading → I have to “pay” to comment on your myspace page? WTF? LOL! ROFTL!

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

This week Vijay Singh won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with the following gear in his bag:
Cleveland HiBORE XL driver (9.5), Launcher Steel fairway wood (13), CG1 irons (4-PW), CG12 wedges (54, 60, 64),  Never Compromise Milled Series putter.

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Continue reading → What’s in Vijay Singh’s winning bag?

I have hundreds of links to other golf sites and golf blogs in my HOG Master Links section.  I’m doing a little mid year cleaning and getting rid of blogs which have been inactive for six months or more.  If you have a golf blog (or just a blog) I recommend doing the same!

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Continue reading → Cleanin’ up the links

I’ve really loved the performance of many Bridgestone golf balls. The B330 and B330-S as well as the E5 and E6 have provided me with great performance on the course.  I have a new ball to add to the list from Bridgestone, the “TreoSoft.”

Technology
The TreoSoft is a two piece ball, meaning it has a [...]

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Continue reading → Bridgestone TreoSoft Golf Ball Review

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

SoCal
Greetings from Annaheim California. I’ve been hanging down here on the beach for a few days, taking a very needed vacation with my kids. I’m a bit sunburned in the non golf-tan areas like the tops of my feet and my scalp!
About the picture on the right: I have my Bobby Jones [...]

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Continue reading → Blogcation in Southern Cal - Then 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

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

My other site is The Golf Space at www.thegolfspace.com. The Golf Space is a “golf social networking” site. The Golf Space is what some have called “golf’s version of facebook” or what I’ve termed “myspace for golfers only without the strippers.”
At The Golf Space members have free golf profiles, blogs, photo galleries, [...]

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Continue reading → The Golf Space logs 3,000,000th visitor

HOG server switch complete
Over the past couple of days I’ve been tweaking the site and finishing the transfer to the new service provider. HOG is now at 99% operation. There may be a couple of missing images or corrupt images so if you see anything odd let me know. When you transfer [...]

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Continue reading → Back to our regularly scheduled blogram

It has been 12 straight hours of hell for me. I just barely got HOG moved to another freaking service provider. My old “provider” shut me down with no warning for a 2nd time. Last time it was because HOG was eating too much server juice but they couldn’t tell me what [...]

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Continue reading → Web Site HELL

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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Continue reading → U.S. OPEN TV Times

Grand prize: Driver, 3-Wood & Hybrid from Bobby Jones Golf

2nd place: Nicklaus Fastback Driver

Ogio Golf Bag

WEEKS 18-23 RESULTS
Week 18: New2Golf
Week 19: Neverpar
Week 20: Anita Svingkoajch
Week 21: TIE - Cal Birdies & [...]

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Continue reading → HOG SPACE FANTASY GOLF - Weeks 18-23 Results

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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Continue reading → Team Challenge photos and video clips

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!

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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Continue reading → Team Challenge Day 1

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 love golf items which step outside the boundaries of the stuffy country club mentality. I like to wear aggressive apparel and have crazy golf accessories complimenting my gear. The Shaftix shaft wraps do exactly that. I’m able to have some insane looking shafts and send a message to other golfers: [...]

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Continue reading → Shaftix Shaft Wraps

My YouTube account is:
http://www.youtube.com/TheGolfSpace
This is where my repository of golf videos for Hooked On Golf Blog and The Golf Space reside. It’s nice of YouTube to host them for me and save me the server space and bandwidth in exchange for putting their small logo on videos not viewed on their URL.
My videos have [...]

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Continue reading → HOG/TGS golf videos top 500,000 views

Updates have been lacking a bit lately because I’m actually playing golf now. With the better weather here, I’ve managed to go out a few times this year and I got off to a really rocky start. In a nice bit of irony, I’ve developed a bit of a slice over the winter downtime.
Each nine [...]

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Continue reading → The Golf Year Has Started For Me

Today I was more rested and more “ready” physically to play. One problem: my brain was somewhere else. Perhaps it was helping out the Mars lander or something.
On the first tee I pulled my ball OB and carded a 7 on the opening par-5. That hole is so easy my golf buddy Al calls [...]

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Continue reading → Salt Lake Amateur Day Two - I fold under pressure like bad lawn chair

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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Continue reading → Added celebs to Team Challenge list

I’ll be leaving this Thursday evening for Palm Springs to blogcast LIVE from the Team Challenge celebrity sports golf tournament, along with Golf Chick, Jay Flemma and Golf Girl. Unfortunately there weren’t enough rooms at the Fantasy Springs Resort, so Golf Chick and Golf Girl will have to room with me. Don’t worry. [...]

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Continue reading → Team Challenge Charities

I’ve got to hand it to my friend Pat from the new Canadian based golf apparel company, “O In One.” He’s a highly motivated, persistent and outgoing guy. You’d have to be to try and compete in the golf apparel industry. With his dedication, persistence and unique products, he just might make [...]

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Continue reading → “O In One” golf apparel

Each week I get dozens of requests to trade links with other golf blogs, sports blogs and blogs you’d never thought would exist. I try to get to all the requests and swap links if I can. Lately however, there’s been a ton of “bot” or “automated” requests which are obviously not personally [...]

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Continue reading → Regarding golf blog or other blog link swapping

With site growth comes higher consumption of server resources like bandwidth, hard drive space etc. Yesterday without notice, HOG was shut down and took several hours to get turned back on. It was because HOG was “hogging” the CPU of the server.
I had to make some “under the hood” changes to the site [...]

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Continue reading → And we’re back…

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!

HOG has been #1 in Google search results for numerous items, for short periods of time. In 2007 when TaylorMade came out with the new Burner driver, HOG had #1 and #2 slots even above TaylorMade’s own web site. The same has happened with Nike and their square drivers, HOG #1 and Nike [...]

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Continue reading → Hooked On Golf Blog #1 in Google

My pal Dan Smith sent me a CD full of about 350 pictures from the Wednesday practice round at the 2008 Masters! I’ve just added of the photos to the Hooked On Golf Blog Masters Gallery.
There are some great player and course shots from hole #11 and some very cool pictures from the Masters [...]

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Continue reading → 350 2008 Masters Photos Added

Grand prize: Driver, 3-Wood & Hybrid from Bobby Jones Golf

2nd place: Nicklaus Fastback Driver

Ogio Golf Bag

WEEK 10-17 RESULTS
Week 10 winner: Slack Jawed Yokels
Week 11 winner: Toffeelover
Week 12 winner: Birdieman
Week 13 [...]

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Continue reading → HOG Space Fantasy Golf 2008 - Weeks 10-17

April is not quite over yet and HOG is at 3,000,000 hits. The only reason I know this is because the site exceeded the largest bandwidth limitation it has ever had, and was temporarily shut down. Fortunately I caught it about 20 minutes after the shutdown. The daily average for April is [...]

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Continue reading → Three million hits in April

There’s a very cool event coming June 8th and 9th, where celebrity athletes from the four major U.S. sports (football, baseball, basketball, hockey) will be competing against each other on the golf course. Now we can finally put to rest the questions about which pro athletes make the best golfers.
The Format
The “Team Challenge” is [...]

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Continue reading → Pro Sports Celebrety Team Challenge

Man I’ve been in a bit of a golf blog funk following the Masters. I’m done with it now though and I’m refreshed and energized to get back to my daily (sometimes more) golf gear reviews, course reviews and other golf takes.

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Continue reading → Post Masters downer…

The latest HOG poll will be closing by the opening round of this year’s Masters Tournament. If you haven’t yet, place your vote now.
The question: How many major tournaments will Tiger Woods win this year?
It’s a dead heat right now between 2, 3 and 4.

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Continue reading → How many majors will Tiger win this year? Poll closing tomorrow.

13 green from behind

15 green from the side. Where Tiger Woods knocked it in the water last year on Sunday.

15 from the other side of 16

16 green from the tee box over the water

16 green with 15 back right in this pic

My favorite golf hole, the par three 12th

There are larger, more detailed [...]

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Continue reading → Some Augusta National photos to start out Masters week!

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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Continue reading → State of the golf blogosphere

Ernie Els isn’t playing this week due to a virus. I’m starting to get a “Duvalesque” vibe from Ernie, though his scores are much better than when David Duval was circling the drain…

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Continue reading → Is Ernie Els “done”?

I’ve got some very nice items to give away in my stockpile of golf stuff. For the remainder of March, I’m going to run a comment contest. The best comment of the month will get an awesome Ultimate Golf Journal.

Read my Ultimate Golf Journal review here.

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Continue reading → March Comment Contest

I hate the winter.
I’ve been suffering from a nasty case of the flu since about Saturday so it’s been tough to find motivation to post right now.
I did manage to get out this week’s edition of the newsletter though.
I’ll try and get back into the swing of things tomorrow so expect regular posting to resume [...]

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Continue reading → Sorry For The Lack Of Updates

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

I currently have over 150 videos on my YouTube account. Recently my views topped 300,000!
I understand that videos which say “Britney Spears Vagina” or “Britney Spears Naked” can log a million views in a single day. That is a sad testament to our society in my opinion. But for a video publisher [...]

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Continue reading → My golf videos top 300,000 views