What a spectacular day today at Edgewood Tahoe. The weather was flawless and the usual afternoon winds didn’t kick up. Unlike yesterday, I had time to warm up. I even had quite a lengthy putting green and driving range practice session. Note to self: practice more. It helps. I played very well today, shooting one over on the front and even on the back for a glorious 73. I’m still glowing.

I’ve created an Edgewood Tahoe photo gallery and added well over 100 photos, with close to another 100 on the way. Below is a shot of the beautiful 18th green, with Lake Tahoe to the left. Click here, or the photo below to go to my new Edgewood Tahoe photo gallery.

Man.  Edgewood Tahoe is a beautiful golf course.   Lake Tahoe is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever visited.

So far my favorite holes at Edgewood are the 15th, which I made birdie on, and the 17th which is pictured here in this post (par).

I’ll have a full review of the course on the way and of the very nice Embassy Suites in Tahoe soon.  Until then, enjoy this pic.  I’ll be playing tomorrow and posting a ton of pictures soon.

Quick note from the runway. I’m heading to Tahoe to play Edgewood today and tomorrow.

More after the round.

I’m packin’ my gear now (camera, laptop and a couple of golf shirts). I’ll be landing in Vegas in time for din-din tonight and then hitting the sack resting for the PGA Show Fall Expo. I’ll be live blog-casting from the show and taking lots of photos of all the cool new golf products I find.

I haven’t attended this show and I’m sure it won’t be close to as big as the main PGA Show in Orlando. That being said, this will be a good chance to do some research with companies and individuals who may not make it to Orlando.

Meeting Tuesday at 3:00

HOG readers and The Golf Space members who are attending the show will be getting together at 3:00 Tuesday! We’re meeting at the “Swingreminders” booth, #962.

See you there!

I’ve just added over 60 photos of the Las Vegas TPC course, “a PGA Tour experience.”

The greens sucked the day I was there so I doubt it was a “PGA Tour experience” for me. But hey, they have to maintenance the course so I understand.

I’d like to get back there when the greens are not freshly top-dressed and see how they putt asap.

Click here to see all the TPC Las Vegas photos.

I’ve just added over 100 photos of the wonderful Jack Nicklaus designed Reflection Bay golf course to the Hooked On Golf Blog photo gallery.  Reflection Bay is located in Lake Las Vegas, a cool resort just outside of Las Vegas.

Click here to visit the Reflection Bay gallery

I just booked my flights and hotel for the 2008 PGA Fall Expo in Las Vegas.  I’ll do anything to eat lasagna at my favorite Italian restaurant, Batistas. The show has a demo day and tournament on Monday the 25th (which I won’t be attending) and then the expo all day the Tuesday the 26th and Wednesday the 27th. For more details about the show click here.

Contact me at the flashing email address below for an appointment if you’d like to meet with me at the show! I’ll be at the show for the full duration of the Tuesday & Wednesday sessions.

Thanks to my friend John Boyne, a caddy at St. Andrews, for submitting this neat article on the 100 year anniversary of the death of Old Tom Morris. ~Tony

Old Tom Morris is attributed with being the founder of modern golf as we know it in this the 21st Century. An extrodinary feat considering he died, at the age of 84, on the 24th May 1908. This year is the 100th annversary of his death in St. Andrews.

An extrodinary man, he was born in June 1817, in St. Andrews. He grew up playing golf and this may have been the overriding decision from his father to apprentice him, as a ball maker, to the most famous golfer of the time and the first ‘professional’ Allan Robertson of St. Andrews. He served with Robertson for a term of nine years at the end of which he was playing the great Robertson on equal terms.

It is said that Alan Robertson never lost a match where a cash prize was at stake. They never had many recorded head to head matches, reputations at stake one suspects, but as a pair/team they were unbeatable. And the stakes could be high. Records show that one famous high staked game was for £400 (pounds) = $800 today, against the Dunn brothers from Musselburgh. For the victors in 1849 this is a fantastic amount of money and would be worth thousands in real terms, good God I would be hard pressed to go any higher than a simple five pound nassau today! Ah….to have some gentlemen benefactors, as these golfing pioneers obviously did, and then go out and produce the golfing goods against the best opponents of the day managed to give them an aura of invincibility when the money matches were played over the original Scottish Links courses of Mussellburgh, North Berwick and St. Andrews.

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