Sonartec, one of the pioneers of hybrids, is gonzo. Their doors are shut. I haven’t seen any press releases yet, but they’re done. Their booth at this year’s PGA Show was pretty sad.
Too bad. This company had a ton of potential. I own a Sonartec 19 degree hybrid. I like it. Maybe I’ll be able to get more money than I paid for it on ebay soon since it’s a “collector’s item” now…
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…
As of today my youngest offspring, Alyssa (a.k.a. Allie) is now 11 years old. Double digits baby.
Allie is a wonderful kid, full of energy and very happy. She’s got so much energy she makes the Energizer bunny look like he’s unconscious.
Happy birthday Allie.
Bubba Watson was pretty irritated with Steve Elkington Thursday and Friday at the Zurich Classic. In this video clip you can clearly hear Bubba saying Elkington can “kiss his ass.”
I’m surprised this video hasn’t been yanked by YouTube yet. TGS (Tiger is God Channel) is pretty tight and quick with pulling videos off of YouTube.
Later on, Bubba and Elkington kissed and made up. Bubba also apologized to the media and anyone who might have been “offended.”
Personally I didn’t need the apology. It didn’t offend me at all. He’s not the first one to say “ass” on the golf course.
CBUK is a super-hip golf apparel company. They’re an off-shoot of Cutter & Buck. They branched off because their line was so progressive that a new branding image had to be created. I’ll be doing a monthly quick feature of CBUK golf apparel and products.
This month’s featured CBUK item is new for Spring 2008. I’m loving my super cool golf polo, the CBUK Drytec Best Nines.
Description: Engineered to help you shoot your personal best, the Best Nines features our Cocona fabric technology partnered with a spandex embedded rib knit collar and surprise, surpise a cool little debossed CBUK logo on the back panel. One Color-GLIDE.
Visit CBUK’s web site, or at their Golf Space Profile. Photos of CBUK products can be viewed in the HOG CBUK gallery.
A couple of days ago I posted about my problems I’d had with Comcast’s customer service. They’d shut my old phone off two days before the new one was to be turned on, and weren’t going to do anything to help me out.
After that bad experience I thought “To hell with them. I’ll post about it on my golf blog and let about 200,000 people a month read it.” I did just that.
Within 24 hours I got a phone call from the local Comcast supervisor who was apologizing profusely about their errors. She told me that they intended to tell their employees the proper way to handle this type of situation and they’d also clarify what the original person did wrong. Then she offered me a free month of all my services, which amounts to probably $150. I thanked her and told her I thought that was a good and appropriate gesture for my trouble.
I felt it to be fair to write this post since Comcast did make good on their errors. Was it my previous HOG post which triggered the call? Perhaps.
My home course, River Oaks, is in for some changes in a year or so… Check out this beautiful mock-up of what #1 fairway will look like when the power company adds a freaking 120 foot pole in the middle of it. Nice…NOT
One of my all time favorite golf companies is Tattoo Golf. Tattoo Golf makes “aggressive” golf products, most of which have the awesome skull and golf club cross bones on them.
Tattoo Golf is now branching into some new golf product categories. Add head covers to the list.
I’ve had the pleasure of using my Tattoo Golf mallet putter cover now for about 20 rounds. The cover is made of black leather (what else would it be?), and has an awesome magnetic opening which firmly seals 100% around my putter head. I was worried that my Elite Sport Dead On putter’s odd large size would be a problem but it wasn’t.
It’s Always Good To Have Protection
With my recent move, I had the unpleasure of having to deal with Comcast’s customer service. Actually, even using the words “Comcast” and “customer service” in the same sentence should be against the law.
It took 1.5 weeks from when I requested it, to have my service transfered a few hundred yards down the street. I specifically told them that I’d be using the service and keeping my home office intact at my old location until the switch. Sure enough, I get calls on my cell phone from friends asking why my phone is “no longer in service.”
I call Comcast on my cell and I have to punch no less than 20 keys on my phone just to get in the queue for a customer service rep. After typing in “1″ for English, my phone number, and a zillion other keystrokes, I get disconnected. Then it is back to the 20 more key strokes, 1 for English etc.. …rinse, repeat.
After moving the last 4-5 days I’m exhausted. My round today was a disaster. But on the #8 hole (our 17th since we played the back first), my pal Dave Shields got an ACE! He was 174 out. Funny thing was that our other buddy Dan hit one in to about three feet. We thought that was Dave’s shot.
I’ll have a picture of Dave and my free Corona I drank posted shortly!
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