Two years ago my pal Bogeyman got me Ashey Prange’s (Big Break) autograph with the quote “long and straight.” Ahem.

Last year at the 2007 PGA Show I met Ashley and got a pic with her. Fast forward one year and I meet her again for the 2nd time. The story…

Orlando Florida, 8:50pm ET

Traveled 2310 miles today, no food, three airports and an hour shuttle ride. Despite being tired, I’m always keeping my eyes open and I’m aware of my surroundings.

The good news is that my hotel is right next to the convention center and across the street from one of my favorite Italian restaurants, Maggiano’s. I needed food bad but the place was packed. So I hit the bar and got on the waiting list for a table. Two chianti’s into my wait I ran into my pal Ashley from The Golf Channel’s Big Break series. She introduced me to her dad and her uncle. I asked her what she was up to, we had a toast (she drinks red wine… yup always aware) and we took a picture (right).

Ashley said she was working on her game and would be doing some Futures Tour events.

I must say Ashley looked simply fabulous! I must also say that I look like I traveled 2310 miles with no food, three airports, a one hour shuttle ride and two chiantis…

SPECIAL SECTION!
2007 Masters Blog

Augusta & Masters Photos

2007 Masters Finish
2007 Masters Sunday Blog
Fuzzy Zoeller F-Bomb
2007 Masters Saturday
2007 Masters Sunday Pairings
Masters.org Sunday Coverage

2007 Masters Friday Carnage
2007 Masters Thursday!
Arnie starts, I cry
Mark O’Meara Wins Par 3

2007 Masters Photos!
Thurs & Fri Pairings
Palmer ceremonial starter
Phil Mickelson’s Club Setup
Vote for your favorite hole
Augusta National Score Card
Masters Blogger Leaderboard
Masters.org Tuesday
Masters Video Chat 1
Masters.org Monday
Masters Quiz
2007 Masters Field

Today is the last day of 2007. I’m going through the year’s posts and highlighting by month, some of the best subjects of the year.

January 2007

January 2007 saw me at my first PGA Merchandise Show and I got a ton of hits, comments and thousands of video views of my interviews. I even had people from the pga.com staff watching me kick their butts delivering info from the show. In their words, “you’re doing in minutes what would take us days to do.”

When TaylorMade introduced the new Burner and Superquad drivers, Hooked On Golf Blog had the #1 and #2 spots on Google’s search results for those keywords, even over Taylormade’s own web site!

January 2007 also saw the first decent press for Tadd Fujikawa.

February 2007

February 2007 had some miracles and some tragedies.

In the miracle department, Spiro from Bogey Lounge had is first child.

In the tragedy department, a close friend of mine had most of his family killed by a drunk driver.

Titleist introduced the new ProV1 and ProV1x golf balls.

Tadd Fujikawa won the Hawaii Open.

Ernie Els switched to Callaway.

March 2007

I tried to drive a golf ball through a 32 inch Sony TV from point blank range.

Tiger Woods signs a ball retriever endorsement contract.

Nike admitted to selling illegal drivers.

Arjun Atwal under investigation for street racing death.

Sergio Garcia shows how classless he is by spitting into the cup at Doral and then brushing it off in a “Clintonesque” fashion in a post round interview. “I didn’t spit, I just let it go down anyway. It’s no big deal.”

April 2007

My Ping Zing putter, the best putter EVER, was stolen.

Phil Mickelson switches to swing coach Butch Harmon.

The Golf Space social networking site, celebrates its one year anniversary.

THE 2007 MASTERS:

Tiger Woods stops his full driver swing when a bird flies over him.

Tiger Woods breaks a club which would eventually cost him the Masters victory. He needed that club to reach #15 in two but didn’t make it and went in the drink.

Arnold Palmer is the ceremonial starter for the 2007 Masters. I can’t hold back the tears!

Zach Johnson wins the 2007 Masters.

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And there was much rejoicing…

Thankfully, Michelle Wie will not be given the opportunity to humiliate herself in the PGA Tour’s Sony Open this year. No sponsors’ exemptions.

Wie has also apparently said that she plans to focus on women’s tournaments this year. Gee what a brilliant idea. I wonder what rocket scientist thought of that…

Every year around this time of year (Thanksgiving for us in the USA) I do the Hooked On Golf Blog Turkey Awards. To get on this list of awards, you have to be some kind of bonehead in the golf world. Last year the clear #1 Turkey was Phil Mickelson’s collapse at the U.S. Open. A Turkey award highlight from 2005 was Vijay Singh missing a tournament due to a ping pong injury.

Drum roll please…

John Daly

There could never be a turkey award without mentioning John Daly, right? He had to do something to warrant a turkey leg. This year he had a few “episodes.” Mainly he didn’t play well enough to keep his PGA Tour card. But the most odd story must have been when he showed up on the first tee with a bunch of scratches on his face, supposedly from his wife attacking him with a steak knife.

Daly also held the lead during the first round of the British Open, but missed the cut.

Sick male (or female I suppose) HOG readers

One of the most frequent search terms typed in here at Hooked On Golf Blog in 2007 was “Natalie Gulbis Nude.”

Aqua Man

Woody Austin’s new name is “Aqua Man” after doing a face plant into a pond during this year’s President’s Cup.

Bill Murray

Bill Murray was busted for drunk driving….. in a golf cart.

Fuzzy Zoeller

Fuzzy Zoeller was trying to sue Wikipedia for a post someone put up about him.

Fuzzy also had a nice F-Bomb which I heard live during The Masters on the 13th tee: “Alright no more quackers you meat head. You big f**king dummy.”

Golf & Strippers

Yet another golf & strippers news story broke this year.

Phil Mickelson

Phil could have possibly won the FedEx Cup by winning the BMW, rather than sitting out. He could have nailed it down while Tiger was away. Instead he sat out because he needed “rest.” If I had an chance at winning $10 million, I’d rest later.

Anna Rawson

Anna Rawson, my ultimate golf babe, gets a turkey leg for not returning my phone calls.

Annika Sorenstam

No wins.

Michelle Wie

Don’t get me started on Michelle Wie. Do you know how hard it is to find her 2007 records? She’s not a “member” of any tour so the LPGA and PGA Tour sites have very little to offer.

Here are some 2007 Michelle Wie highlights: Missed cut, missed cut, 27 over par, withdrew, 21 over par….

Need I say more? Yes I do! Let us not forget Michelle Wie withdrew after 16 holes at the Ginn when she was in jeopardy of breaking the LPGA’s “88 rule.” Had she shot an 88 or higher, she would have been banned. Eject!

The LPGA

The LPGA gets a turkey leg for losing money, losing sponsors and worst of all coming up with that terrible new logo.

Andres Romero

Has the British Open championship in his grasp but chooses to hit a 2-iron out of the deep rough, sending it OB.

Arjun Atwal

Arjun Atwal was “street racing” in January and was involved in a vehicular death.

Tim Finchem & The FedEx Cup

I’d have to say the FedEx Cup wasn’t all that exciting. It was really a big slap in the face, and a turkey leg winner, when both Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods “sat out” during a couple of the FedEx Cup tournaments because they were “tired.”

Sergio Garcia

Sergio receives three turkey legs this year. First for spitting in the cup after missing a putt on #13 at Doral. When asked about it in a post game interview, he blew it off as “not a big deal.” What a slime ball.

Garcia’s 2nd turkey leg is for blowing the freaking British Open when he had it in the palm of his hand.

Garcia’s 3rd turkey leg comes from being disqualified at the 2007 PGA for signing an incorrect score card.

The New LPGA Logo Sucks

Wow. Have you seen the new LPGA logo? Man the old one was way better. This one is so cliche’. The shape of the body on the lady golfer is not well done and the color scheme? Yuk. As my new female golf blogger friend Pink Diva says it’s “circa 1980’s.”

See what getting engaged will do to your golf game?

Missing the weekend at Trump National brings an end to Annika Sorenstam’s worst season since 1994. This winless season she fought many injuries and is going to tie the knot. She says she’ll be back. I hope so. I hope she doesn’t go “Duval” where after playing at such a high level for so long she can’t get it back once it is gone.

Wow. Like there are like numerous sports like articles quoting Michelle Wie as saying like she like regrets she played this year…like.

Like, um, “Wie” regret she played too.

For you single guys looking for a lady who is a great golfer, athletic, hot and rich:

Annika Sorenstam is engaged now. Scratch her off your list.