Hooked On Golf Blog

Sports Illustrated has released a top 50 list of the highest paid athletes in America. This includes salary and endorsements. Hey, they should get together with Golf Digest since they love doing lists like that.

Anyway, Tiger Woods ($99.7 million) and Phil Mickelson ($52.9 million) are the top two highest paid athletes! Tiger has been #1 for six straight years. Golf wins over football, basketball and baseball! And the careers are so much longer. If I only could have taken up the sport earlier than 1990.

Here’s a link to the SI article but be careful. The popup ads are so pervasive they’ll almost jump out of your monitor and bash you in the head with a 9-iron. The ads are so bad in fact, that I couldn’t even get page four to load because they were taking so long to load. So I bailed.

Looking at these salaries and endorsements is interesting. Golf is the only “sport” other than Nascar where the “athlete” earns more in endorsements than in salary.

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media, Miscellaneous, PGA Tour, Pro Golf, Tiger Woods Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods

AT&T National
PGA TOUR
Thursday 7/2 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 7/3 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 7/4 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 7/4 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS
Sunday 7/5 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 7/5 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET CBS

Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic Presented by Kroger
LPGA Tour
Friday 7/3 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET ESPN2
Saturday 7/4 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET ESPN2
Sunday 7/5 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET ESPN2

Open de France ALSTOM
European Tour
Thursday 7/2 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET GOLF
Friday 7/3 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 7/4 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET GOLF
Sunday 7/5 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET GOLF

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The Memorial Tournament
PGA TOUR
Thursday 6/4 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 6/5 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 6/6 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 6/6 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS
Sunday 6/7 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 6/7 2:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS

Celtic Manor Wales Open
European Tour
Thursday 6/4 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 6/5 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 6/6 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 6/7 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET GOLF

Triton Financial Classic
Champions Tour
Friday 6/5 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 6/6 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 6/7 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM ET GOLF

Melwood Prince George’s County Open
Nationwide Tour
Thursday 6/4 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 6/5 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 6/6 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 6/7 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET GOLF

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media, PGA Tour

I’ve got a couple of new links today which I’ve added to the HOG Master Links:

Michigan Golf Live Blog

I met a new buddy and fellow golf media guy while in New Mexico a couple of weeks ago. I was going to write a post about my pal Bill Hobson’s radio show called Michigan Golf Live (MGL) and his accompanying TV show. But before I could get to that Bill informs me he’s started a golf blog too! So stop by MGL’s Blog at http://mgliveblog.blogspot.com/ and check it out. I’ll be doing a post soon about Bill’s other golf media exploits as well.

Two Golf Blogs From The Netherlands

First link looks to be a golf blog of some sort, nice template and look:
http://www.golfvivant.nl/
The 2nd link is definitely a golf blog and looks very sharp:
http://www.golfblog.nl

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media Golf Blog

The Players Championship
PGA TOUR
Thursday 5/7 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET GOLF
Thursday 5/7 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM ET GOLF
Friday 5/8 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 5/8 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM ET GOLF
Saturday 5/9 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET NBC
Sunday 5/10 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET NBC

Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill
LPGA Tour
Friday 5/8 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET ESPN2
Saturday 5/9 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET ESPN2
Sunday 5/10 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET ESPN2

BMW Italian Open
European Tour
Thursday 5/7 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET GOLF
Friday 5/8 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET GOLF
Saturday 5/9 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 5/10 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET GOLF

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media, PGA Tour, Tiger Woods THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP, TPC

My first TPC post for this week is an FYI.  A “TPCFYI” if you will.  I have a huge golf photo gallery here on HOG and inside are many golf course albums.  Having played the TPC Sawgrass course a few months ago, I shot pictures of every hole, over 100.  Most holes have tee, approach and green shots.  I also have shots of the clubhouse, locker room, pro shop and more…

Above, the entrance to the TPC Sawgrass 17th island green.

Hey that’s ME on the 10th tee at TPC Sawgrass!
I hit a great drive there too, drew it right to left with the shape of the fairway!

Click here to view the Hooked On Golf Blog TPC Sawgrass Gallery.

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Courses, Golf Media, PGA Tour, Site News TPC Sawgrass

Greg Norman made headlines a few months ago when he suggested that professional golfers should take a pay cut in light of the financial crisis we’re in. While it may appear inappropriate that a tournament winner will take home a million dollars for a four day tournament while thousands of people are losing jobs and savings due to a near collapse of our financial system, it’s important to remember that for every millionaire on the tour there are thousands of professional golfers who struggle and fight for every single dollar and who are losing money for every tournament they play in. “Golf On The Edge” is the book about these golfers.

Read more…

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Lately I’ve had a bit of a middle age crush on Dottie Pepper.  Well that just spiked because Dottie called out Sergio for his childish behavior/comments at the Masters.  You go girl.

No athlete is beyond making knucklehead moves with the media — I have my own long list of regrets — but you can turn such a misstep into a positive by dealing with it honestly. When you do apologize, as Sergio did two days later, don’t issue a statement that sounds as if another person wrote it. (I can’t recall hearing Sergio use the word iconic before.) Fans forgive those who ‘fess up and take responsibility. Such contrition goes hand in hand with taking responsibility for your own game, a key to succeeding, as Kenny Perry did after just plain ol’ losing the Masters. Sergio will have plenty of opportunity to make amends at the Players. If he doesn’t, I can’t begin to imagine how brutal the U.S. Open fans are going to be at Bethpage.

Love ‘em or not, I’d rather have announcers like Dottie Pepper and Johnny Miller who have enough golf balls to call a spade a spade and aren’t afraid to have an opinion.  I’d much rather hear that than hear them spewing out a bunch of generic panderous rubbish.

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media, PGA Tour Dottie Pepper, Sergio Garcia

A while back I interviewed the mega hot golf babe Blair O’Neal.  Blair is a male golfer’s dream, a model who golfs.  I suppose she could be a heterosexually challenged female golfer’s dream too, but I digress…

Tonight on The Golf Channel, we’ll be starting back up with the latest installment of The Big Break.  Blair will most definitely be in the trademark Big Break “up skirt super slow-mo” golf swing shots.  Can’t wait.  I also can’t wait to hear them say “someone is going home.”  Man I miss that.

Best of luck to my friend Blair.  If she’d only lift the restraining order…

For more pictures of Blair O’Neal you can visit my Blair O’Neal shrine photo gallery.

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media Blair O'Neal, The Big Break

My other golf site is called The Golf Space. The Golf Space is a social networking site, like Facebook or Myspace, only specifically built for golf and golf businesses.

The Golf Space is celebrating it’s 3rd birthday!  The site is 100% free and I’m proud to say membership is over 4100 and visitors have hit the site over five million times since it opened during Masters week of 2006.

I’m constantly working on The Golf Space, adding new features and tweaks.  All features are free to members.

Here’s a sample profile:

Golf Space member profiles include:

About - An area where members tell each other about themselves, their location, their favorite courses and more.

MyGame – Members can fill out the strengths and weaknesses of their game, tee time preferences and other game info.

Equipment – Member profiles have an equipment tab listing all of their golf gear.

Blogs – Each Golf Space member has a full blogging system for personal or business blogging.

Photos – Complete photo gallery

Matchmaker – Looking for “the one” who also happens to golf?

Golf Scores & Stats - Track your golf scores, handicap and detailed statistics of your game.  FREE.

Videos – Member videos, golf swing videos etc.

Business – Golf business info goes here!

Golf Space Site Wide Features:

Golf Discussion Forum – Talk golf!

Golf News - The latest in the golf world.

Golf Articles - Golf related articles, reviews and editorials.

No Spam – Golf Space member profiles are all individually read and manually approved.  No robotic registrations or questionable profiles are allowed.

No Strippers - Golfers are generally classy individuals.  Unlike MySpace and other networking sites, no strippers are allowed!

Karma – I invented a system which allows TGS members to give each other positive Karma.  Each month and at the end of the year, Karma winners receive golf prizes!

Stop by and check out The Golf Space!

I ask you to stop by The Golf Space and check it out.  If you aren’t a member, it only takes a few seconds to sign up and start making golf connections!

Tony Korologos a.k.a. mediaguru Golf Media, Golf Reviews Golf Networking, The Golf Space