The latest HOG poll has closed. The poll question:

Do you, or would you golf with your spouse?

Sometimes -> 13% (19 Votes) 13%

No -> 19% (28 Votes) 19%

Yes -> 68% (98 Votes) 68%

Total Votes: 145

Welcome to my 900th post.

Mid-round update 9:06am MST

I woke up a little late this morning after sleeping of a killer gig last night (I’m a professional rock & roll drummer along with being a golf blogger). First look at the leaderboard has Tiger Woods at -12! Holy cow he shot a course record 65, including an eagle hole-out on a par 4 which I haven’t seen yet (DVR baby). Tiger is 3 ahead of Chris DiMarco who also shot a 65.

The round is still going so we’ll see if anyone else emerges…

The British Open starts earlier than a tournament here on this side of the pond. So you need to set your players earlier than normal!

Because the British Open Championship tees off at 6:30am local time (10:30pm PDT) on Thursday, July 20th, the deadline to select golfers has changed for this week. You must set your roster by 10:30pm PDT, Wednesday, July 19th. The deadline to set your active foursome for each subsequent round will also be 10:30pm PDT the night before each round is due to begin.

This change applies only to the British Open and will not affect deadlines for other tournaments.

“The GolfNuts” won the weekly fantasy competition for week 23. For his performance he wins a Golf Dust Tune Up Kit. The Golf Dust Tune Up Kit can help you make more solid, centered shots on your clubs.

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Natalie Gulbis had a great chance to get first LPGA Tour win at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic. After posting a -6 65 in regulation, she went into a 3 hole playoff with Mi Hyun Kim and had to match birdies on the 3rd playoff hole to stay alive. She didn’t.

In the last post I talked about using the words “Tiger Woods” to get lots of hits on your golf site. Well, I’m sure one of the next hottest “hit getters” is Natalie Gulbis. Miranda commented on the last post that her highest searches are for naked golfers. Needless to say if the words “Natalie Gulbis Naked” or “Natalie Gulbis Nude” were in a blog post, it would get lots of hits. Ok, you busted me…hehe. And if you found this post because you were looking for nude pictures of Natalie Gulbis, shame on you.

Dipsy Doo

I have a hard time watching Natalie or Paula Creamer for that matter. They both dip big time in their downswings.

Natalie Gretzky

And I also have a hard time watching Natalie putt with that hockey stick grip and open stance. Perhaps some good work with a putting coach and a more conventional grip would have helped her make one of those putts to win on the last regulation hole or the first two playoff holes? Then again her hockey stick stroke got her into the playoff so you can’t argue with those results.

Line Me Up

One other funky thing was that many of the players today, Natalie and Mi Hyun included, had their caddies lining up their shots (not their putts). You don’t see that much on the PGA or other men’s tours. Do these ladies have a hard time with alignment or is it more just part of their preshot routines?

Natalie will win her share eventually.

Hey do you have a golf blog or golf site? Here’s a tip. Put the words “Tiger Woods” in there as much as you can and you’ll get more “hits” and visitors. I’ll admit I hardly do much on Tiger. I should do more I suppose. But when I can write about other off the wall stuff, like “The Experiment” I guess Tiger gets 2nd billing…

Picture of Tiger Woods

EatGolf.com inspired this post a bit by showing how how views of his Tiger Woods video totalled more than all the other golfer videos on his site.

I have a stat I just crunched similar to that. HOG has a photo gallery, in case you didn’t know. The gallery has a counter which counts the individual views of the albums. Here they are:

Random images: 6031 views
Equipment: 9724 views
Augusta National & The Masters: 2526 views
Golf Courses: 18192 views
Players: 8479 views
Mediguru’s personal album: 2012 views
Fitness pix: 1451 views

Total others: 48415 views
Tiger Woods House (allegedly): 38412 views