My pal BogeyMan over at Bogey Lounge gave me some nice pub so I’m returning the favor!

Now get your golf balls over to Bogey Lounge and check it out. Join up their forums too (after you join ours of course!).

Unfortunately today I knocked my Maxfli BlackMax prototype ball in the drink on the 2nd hole. Harder than anticipated fairway bunkers caused me to thin one over the green into the water.

My record of holes played with that one ball ended at 92. Time to start a new streak.

They didn’t finish the 2nd round Saturday so they’re going to finish it today (Sunday). 3 players who did finish are in the lead at -10: Luke Donald, Joe Durant and Lee Westwood. Third-round play will begin around 11:30 a.m. ET.

On a monetary and logistic standpoint I wonder how much it costs the PGA tour when these events get postponed and they have to move to a Monday finish.

Ok, that’s it for now. I’m off to play 18. A report will follow.

I’ve added a javascript which is counting down till the MASTERS! It is a little funky so hopefully it won’t mess up my pages much!

Round 2 of The Player’s Championship started but only a few players were able to play a couple of holes. Play has been suspended and will resume early tomorrow morning.

There is also talk that they may let the players who completed some holes play them over. That sounds strange, but they should do that if they start round 2 with lift/clean/place tomorrow. That would be fair.

Help me out people! If you see something that doesn’t look right please let me know. I’ve been playing with some formatting inside the posts and when I look at it in Firefox everything looks great. But in IE and Safari I’m seeing some formatting problems. So leave me some comments if you see something the doesn’t look right!

Update: I belive I have solved the issues that were Explorer related. It looks correct on Explorer and Firefox. My version of Safari the white background is not correct.

Please comment and let me know your browser and what problems you may have!

The Ping company has been long recognized for it’s pioneering design of golf clubs. There is always a buzz about the new Ping drivers, wedges or irons. But I don’t think Ping gets enough credit for it’s putter design and innovation.

The Ping Craz-E putter is a whole new concept in design. The face has a blue urethane insert which gives it a soft feel. The blue urethane insert line behind the face provides a strong alignment visual.

The weighting of the putter is heavy in the heel, toe and rear of the putter which gives it that “low center of gravity” that all golfers seem to need. The crescent shapes along with the blue line gives an optical aid which helps you aim and align properly. Ping calls this the Optigraphic Effect.

I don’t really know if the Optigraphic Effect is why the putter works so well for me. I think that the putter just “feels” great. It is just a static piece of metal and plastic but when I put it in motion it feels very smooth and wants to travel square to the target line. The weighting is balanced perfectly and helps you produce a pendulum like stroke.

Two other typically unimportant items that are overlooked with putters are the cover and the grip. Ping’s design is equally as great here. The cover is a very nice thick leather with a magnetic seal. I like the fact that they didn’t use velkro, which over time wears out and looks shabby. The Winn AVS grip (right) is the best feeling grip I’ve ever used.

There are also 5 shaft/hozel configurations to match your taste.

My rating on the Craz-E putter is a 9 out of 10. They got it all right on this one.

www.pinggolf.com

Steve Jones

Steve Jones tries to use some body english to help his chip go in at the TPC. He shot an amazing 64 in the first round of The Player’s Championship.

More amazing than his 64 is that he took the entire year off in 2004 due to injury, then comes in to the best field in golf and smokes the rest of the top 50 in the world.

The question will be can he keep up the pace he set? Fred Funk, Lee Westwood & Zach Johnson are all one shot behind at 65.

Fred Funk taps in on 18.

The “big 4″ all registered rounds under par. Tiger had 4 birdies and 2 bogeys and missed several putts under 10 feet.

Phil Mickelson bogeyed 17 & 18 to shoot 70.

Ernie Els shot 71 and Vijay Singh had the best performance of the big 4 with a 5 under 67.

I imagine these will be the lowest scores of the tournament with the soft greens. The rough will be getting longer, and the greens harder.