Tiger Woods has just announced he’ll return to professional golf at The Masters. I would have thought he’d try to get one competitive round in before that to warm himself up, likely Bay Hill.
The Masters is a perfect place for Tiger to return because of the high level of security and the strict rules enforced on the grounds at Augusta National.
Will Tiger win or contend? I sort of doubt it, but he is Tiger Woods.
Tiger’s Press Release Below
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Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under PGA Tour, The Masters, Tiger Woods Tags: The Masters, Tiger Woods
I’ve just uploaded another batch of photos to the HOG 2010 Puerto Rico Open Photo Gallery, bringing the total to almost 250. In this batch are a bunch of shots from when I followed John Daly around. Boy was that fun. This guy has so much raw talent it is sick. Just looking at his technique in some of the still images I captured shows very well why this guy is so good. When he hits the ball it makes a different sound than when other players do.
Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under PGA Tour Tags: John Daly, Puerto Rico Open
The Masters will be broadcast in 3D, for those with 3D capable computers or televisions.
I’ll be watching the Tuesday practice rounds in real 3D, AT AUGUSTA NATIONAL…
More here or here.
Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under PGA Tour, The Masters, Tiger Woods Tags: The Masters
We had a major power outage in our server’s data center this morning. The site was down for a while. Apologies for any issues. The problem has been fixed. There may be a few straggling DNS issues which make the site a bit sketchy for a little while but it should be back to 100% very soon.
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I’m at this cool place in Puerto Rico called “Richie’s.” Good location, good food, drinks, live music. I even chatted with the man himself, Richie. He was very nice.
So I’m minding my own business and this very pretty (and tall) lady just can’t keep her eyes off me. Then she asks if she can have her picture taken with me, being a famous golf blogger and all that. I figured I’d make her day and oblige. As it turns out she’s Miss Universe, Stephania Fernandez.
Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under Miscellaneous Tags: Miss Universe, Stephania Fernandez
I called this post “Part 1″ because I plan on doing a few updates today. But I’d rather spend my time on the course seeing the action and taking photos, than sit here in the press room looking at the backs of golf writers’ heads. With that in mind I won’t be in the press room for extended periods of time writing for hours. I’ll do that later. Time to gather content.
Tournament Status
Even though it is Saturday and the action has been going today for a few hours, the first round hasn’t been completed. In fact, some players haven’t even started their first round.
Above: Rocco Mediate chips close on the par-5 5th hole, en route to birdie.
Rain
By 2pm on the first day of play Thursday over six inches of rain had rendered the course uplayable. There are unconfirmed reports that there’s been over 14 inches of rain this week. Just to put that in perspective, the YEARLY rain fall for my home state of Utah is just over 15 inches.
The play I did watch yesterday was greatly affected by the standing water. I saw players’ drives hit the fairway and bounce backwards. They’re playing preferred lies due to the massive amount of water in the ground.
Notables
Skip Kendall is in the house, leading after his first round with a -7 65. There are a handful players sitting at -5. John Daly is in the field. His first round is done and he’s at -3. (Pictured right: Steve Flesch ponders his last shot from a greenside bunker.)
My Status
I have a terrible cold and cough. I feel like I’m going to hack out a lung soon. I went roughly two days without sleep and nearly 24 hours without food, getting here and doing the gig yesterday (Friday). Then I had a few too many adult beverages at the cocktail party. I was weak from being so tired and having not eaten. I woke up at 4:30am with a massive headache. I was obviously dehydrated this morning because I chugged about a gallon of water and “cramberry” (local spelling) juice. I’m good now though. I’m uploading about 90 photos from yesterday to the HOG Puerto Rico Open Gallery right now and then I’m off to hit the course.
Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under Golf, PGA Tour Tags: Puerto Rico Open
I’m SO tired I can’t even begin to express how I must crash and go to sleep. Today was a great day, full of awesome events like simply GETTING HERE. I met several PGA Tour players, shot a ton of images and the best part of the night was meeting my new pal and golf legend Chi Chi Rodriguez. I sat and talked to Chi Chi and his wife for a while. What a great guy, and the ambassador of golf to Puerto Rico.
I’d love to cover more, but I haven’t slept in nearly 48 hours… Must go to bed now. Stay tuned.
I’m also tweeting and facebooking my updates from Puerto Rico so check them out.
Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under PGA Tour, Site News Tags: Chi Chi Rodriguez, Puerto Rico
12:14am: I’m waiting for my 12:50am red eye flight from Salt Lake to Atlanta. Just getting to this point was difficult. The agency which booked my ticket had my first name wrong, and misspelled my last name. Over 1.5 hours on the phone with Delta Airlines and they were no help. It was looking like I’d have to bail, or cancel the ticket and pay full fare at the window.
Fortunately a red jacket Delta guy helped out and fixed my name at the ticket counter. That part was great, but I’m very disappointed in the fact that I was on hold for over 1.5 hours on the phone with no results. Not cool.
The plain is boarding. Time to go. See you in the ATL.
7:30am ET: In Atlanta. The red eye flight has produced… red eyes. I’m trying to decide if I should have a Latte or not. May sleep on the flight to PR. Flight leaves in an hour.
Next post will be from Puerto Rico. It has been raining hard there. Yesterday’s opening round of the Puerto Rico Open was suspended due to heavy rain. The forecast is for rain the next three days. I packed my rain gear.
Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under Site News Tags: Puerto Rico Open
Wow this is big. Acushnet (parent company to Titleist, FootJoy, Cobra and Pinnacle) has agreed to sell the Cobra brand and all intellectual property to Puma. This is a big wow.
Press release below:
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Written by Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Filed under Equipment & Accessories, Golf Equipment Tags: Acushnet, Cobra, Puma
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