Is Paula Creamer wearing shorts in this picture or a skirt? Not sure this is a terribly good choice for Yahoo Sports to be displaying this picture of Paula in their RSS golf news feed. It’s quite “Ladies of Big Break crotch shotesque” of them.

Of course, being a golf blogger with very low standards, I have no problem posting it.

There have been many large golf companies jumping on the golf blogwagon. Quite frankly, most if not all of them have been failures. All they ended up being was a rehash of their current advertisements, press releases and another outlet for their corporate double talk.

FootJoy has entered the blogosphere at http://www.footjoyblog.com and I’ve been personally told they won’t make the same mistakes other large golf companies have when running their blog. They promise to give some real blog-like perspective, rather than simply spewing out the same old boring corporate lines and press releases.

Is the FootJoy blog a real blog?

Test #1: Blogroll One of the first things I look for in a “blog” is whether or not they have a “blogroll.” A blogroll is a set of links to other blogs or sites. The corporate sites I’ve been critical of in the past have never really had a “blogroll” because they weren’t willing to take their chances legally, or support other sites which may have ads, links, or promotion for their competition.

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My friend Gary at Date A Golfer has a very nice golf dating site. At Date A Golfer golf singles can find a golf match, so to speak. I joined DAG years ago in hopes that Annika Sorenstam would find me there but unfortunately that didn’t pan out.

New Design

The new Date A Golfer has a new site design. The old design was OK, but the new one is much cleaner and better organized. The profile pages (pictured) are laid out much better and some small bugs in there I found before are now gone.

New Features

The new Date A Golfer has some better detailed profile information for fine tuning your search for a golf mate. Users can now enter info about their interests, golf game, where they play and more. I really like how when you enter golf courses you play, others can click them to see other members who play those same courses. That’s a cool feature.

If you are a golf single in the market for a golf mate, check out Date A Golfer.

Q. You made a comment earlier this year that winning all four in a calendar year, all four majors, was possible; has anything happened so far so dissuade you from that opinion?

TIGER WOODS: No.

What kind of stupid question is this for a reporter to ask Tiger? What answer is he expecting? Something like this perhaps:

TIGER WOODS: Yes. I now think I can’t win four majors in a row. In fact, I doubt I can win anything. I have no confidence at all coming into this week. I’m seriously considering withdrawing and retiring. I’ve lost my edge and I’m terrified to even tee up a ball now.

For the first time in Masters history, the traditional par-3 contest will be televised. For those who didn’t know, Augusta National Golf Club has a par-3 course as well as the big boy course. Since 1960 there’s been a par-3 tournament which is held the Wednesday of Masters week. For the gazillionth time mentioned, no par-3 contest winner has ever gone on to win the Masters tournament.

The first ever coverage of the par-3 will be on ESPN from 3-5pm ET. Yes, I know. I just can’t wait to hear the ESPN announcers butcher this with their tired and no longer entertaining form of broadcasting. I can’t wait to hear the announcers come up with their lame old “names” for the players like Roger “Chocolate” Maltbe. My gag reflex is already in action.

I have a better idea. I think I’ll power up my iTunes library and turn the TV sound off during this broadcast! Heavy metal and golf. What a great combo!

Too Many Golf Blogs?

Man I must have around 150 “golf blogs” in my master links section. Just browsing a large percentage of the golf blogs out there and posting a few comments is quite a chore. And I’ve not added several new ones which have popped up lately. Are there too many golf blogs now? How many are there really? 200? 300?

Dead Golf Blogs

I’m sad to say that some of my pals and original golf blogs out there don’t seem to be posting anymore. Life gets in the way I suppose. Bogey Man seems to have just disappeared and for good reason. He’s got his first offspring to worry about. My all time best golf blog pal EatGolf has had a long history of hosting and hack-attack problems. He’s back up now, but posts are very old (use the Way Back Machine my friend!). I was sad to see MJ go, but he’s back.

Soon I’ll do my golf blog spring cleaning, and delete golf blogs which have been inactive for six months. I recommend doing the same, so search engine results are not filled with useless, inactive golf blogs!

Going Strong

I think the golf “blogosphere” is a bit diluted right now. There are still some great ones I stop by and check out regularly though, like Golfblogger, Grouchy, Golf Chick, Golf Girl, Shackelford, The Golf Blog, my really good friend Jay Flemma and a few others.

Deep Rough is doing a great job reviewing gear and I’m still voting for The Green Blazer as the best new (and certainly the most entertaining) golf blog.

Corporate Golf Blogs Usually Suck

Many golf companies and other “corporate” entities have entered the golf blogosphere trying to take advantage of the blog wave. It seems that in some board meeting, they decided they could boost sales by having a blog. But these blogs usually suck, bad. These corporate types have no clue what they’re doing. They think if they just call it a blog it will be cool. NO! Simply posting copied text from a corporate press release isn’t blogging. Posting straight up advertising material in blog posts, in hopes of selling your fitness program or golf widget isn’t blogging. Come on!

To be a true golf blog you first should link to other golf blogs and sites, via blogrolls and by linking to their sites in your posts. Most the big corporate types can’t or won’t do this. Either their lawyers won’t let them, or they won’t because they’re too worried about exclusivity and linking to sites which may promote their competition.

You also need to allow comments to be a true blog in my opinion. There are dozens of “sports blogs” out there which are simply that in name. They have no comments, links or anything of the sort. Memo to golf magazines, newspapers and golf companies: Just having the word “blog” on a page which is clearly the same stuff you’ve been posting “articles” in is not blogging. It’s just a freaking article, like the same stuff you’ve been doing for years.

Starting A Golf Blog?

I get emails almost weekly now about new golf bloggers asking me to check out their awesome new golf blogs. Here’s a checklist of what to do and what NOT to do:

What NOT to do when golf blogging:

1. Don’t use blogger. Get your own damn URL, please. If your site is http://myreallycoolgolfblog.blogspot.com then I’ve lost interest.
2. If you have to use blogger, then PLEASE try to customize or find a “unique” template. If your blog looks exactly like half a zillion other blogger sites, I’m not interested.
3. If you use Wordpress (which I recommend), don’t use the default wordpress Kubrick template or once again, your site will look like 50 gazillion other ones.
4. Don’t go telling everyone to check out your “best golf blog” if you have one post and it is about Tiger Woods.
5. 99% advertising, 1% content. Look I get it. My blog is so popular now it takes a lot of work, bandwidth, web space and expense to keep it up and running. So I have ads and I’m glad to have the thing pay for itself. But if your site has 493 google ads and one actual blog post on it, forget it.

What TO do when golf blogging:

1. CONTENT. This is the one word you need to remember. Good content is key. Try to be unique, entertaining and original.
2. Spell check. If “your” using the wrong iterations of words in “you’re” posts, then I lose interest. If you have messpelled werds in your posts, i’m no iterested.
3. Take your own pictures. I like original photos. And please, make sure they’re in focus.
4. Befriend other bloggers and make posts about cool blogs they write. If you link to a fellow blogger about a cool post he writes, he’ll probably do the same for you. Your network will grow.
5. If you have a golf blog, drop me a note and we’ll exchange links. If you’re a spammer or a bot, forget it.

Mrs. Doubtfire, or as many people know him, Colin Montgomerie won’t be playing in The Masters this year. He’s complaining in the media about the fact that three Asian players have been invited to play in The Masters who are ranked 80th, 93rd and 111th. Monty is ranked 75th in the world.

I get his point, but business is business. The Masters needs an Asian draw for TV. And, it never helps anyone to go against the Augusta National - Masters establishment. You’ll lose every time.

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.