Cristie Kerr: Women’s U.S. Open Champion

Cristie Kerr won her first major championship by two shots over new LPGA #1 golfer Lorena Ochoa. Unfortunately my DVR is not working and when I went to watch today’s round, I had NO recordings. Even my older recordings of The Masters and the men’s U.S. Open are gone…

The best golf picture I’ve seen

I don’t have a current image of Kerr winning today to post, so I’ll go ahead and post my all time favorite golf picture, which happens to be one of Kerr kissing a golf “trophy.” Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go spend some “private time”….

Installment number eight of the “Tee Week” theme here at Hooked On Golf Blog.

There are some biodegradable tees made out of corn starch. The only versions of this tee I’ve seen are long, and are a little off-white or slightly clear in color. They’re a little flexible and get more flexible the more times you use them. If you have hard ground to stick the tee into, these can bend or break too easily.

This may sound odd, but I really don’t like these tees because they aggravate my tennis/golfer’s elbow. They seem to snag the driver just enough to irritate it.

I dig the concept of biodegradable tees though as would many tree-huggers. That being said, a head course maintenance guy I know says they don’t decompose fast enough though. They end up just picking these tees up along with the wood ones anyway.

By the way

(If you’re wondering why I’m linking to my own URL here, it’s because the HOG feed has been picked up by dozens of jerks who are posting my blog posts as their own on their sites and even running google ads or other ads to make money off of them. So I’m now in the habit of linking to HOG within it’s own posts.)

My blog buddy William K. Wolfrum posted an article I think you should check out. He’s asking for help supporting our troops. He’s helping promote Give2TheTroops.org which is sending golf gear to our troops with their "Tee Off For The Troops" campagin. Having some golf gear to whack a white ball around gives them something to do for fun and to helps boost morale.

Check out William’s article here and also check out the Tee Off For The Troops page.

So far over 10,000 golf balls and over 300 sets of golf clubs have gotten into our troops hands! I hope that if you are an equipment manufacturer or retailer you can find it in your heart to donate some gear. If you’re not, they need cash donations too for shipping and expenses.