My ears are still ringing from how freaking loud the game was yesterday. The Jazz had a 12 point lead in the 4th but Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers forced it into an intense overtime. In overtime the Jazz pulled away to win game four of this series and tie it up at two games each.

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.

Tragic story. Jeff Maggert withdrew from The Players Championship because his brother died in a plane crash in Colorado.

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OGIO is a great friend of Hooked On Golf Blog and The Golf Space. I’ve reviewed many OGIO items and it’s no new news that OGIO is my favorite company.

My friends at OGIO asked me to come and check out their facility. I jumped at this great opportunity, literally and figuratively.

A little OGIO history

Most of us golfers probably think OGIO makes golf bags and accessories and that’s it. Not the case. In fact, OGIO didn’t even start out making golf gear. They started out making bags and accessories for much more extreme sports like motocross, snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX etc. They’re currently a huge market leader in those areas. Later OGIO did begin making golf bags as an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) for the likes of Callaway. The Callaway relationship is not good now. Though there are some companies out there who’s bags are OEMed by OGIO, OGIO’s focus is on their own brand now.

OGIO research & design
More brain cells per square inch

OGIO has two large buildings. In the first building can be found their top secret research and design center. This is where amazing technological breakthroughs occur on a daily basis. Amazing inventions like the Shling, the Woode and other soon to be announced industry revolutions are born here. Inside the R&D center there are more brain cells per square inch than you’ll find in a high end Ivy League physics class.

Brain cells are only part of the equation though. Somehow the OGIO developers manage to work elegance, simplicity and superb functionality into their products. It must be the coffee they drink. That’s the only thing I can think of. When nobody was looking I snagged some of the OGIO R&D team’s used coffee grinds and I’ve submitted them to a lab for testing. The secret may lie in those results.

In the video below, my buddy Rocky Harris guides us through the OGIO design process:

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John Daly’s rehab (for the surgery, not the booze) is going well apparently. He’s playing in levis, no shoes and no shirt in this video below. I couldn’t help noticing how the guy interviewing John couldn’t seem to keep his hands off him. Down boy!

I’m lucky enough to regularly play at the nicest country club in the state, courtesy of my pop who is a member. This course is Utah’s version of Augusta National. The facilities are top notch and the 27 hole course is spectacular.

Yesterday I played there and had something happen which I’ve experienced at many clubs which have a “cart boy.” I have a golf towel and my Frogger Brush Pro (the best golf club brush on Earth) hanging from my bag. On the first hole I go to use my brush to clean my wedge, and I can’t get to it. I can’t get to my towel either.

The cart boy has put the cart strap on tightly over the towel and the brush and both items are behind the bag. He’s also managed to wrap the brush’s cable which attaches the brush to the bag, around the stand legs 3-4 times. WTF? So in the middle of the first fairway I had to completely take my bag off the cart and replace it, in order to have my bag accessories….accessible.

Memo to cart boys (or girls): Put the cart strap UNDER the bag accessories.

The scene: My regular grudge match against the local PGA pro. I’ve beaten him two rounds in a row and won the front nine convincingly. He’s got a putt on #16 to save par, possibly win $2.00 and have some bragging rights. This putt is about a 3-4 footer. I’m closer for par.

They say that golf brings out a person’s inner personality… He somehow misses and throws a fit, throwing his putter up in the air and slamming his hat on the ground. He didn’t realize his $200 Maui Jims sunglasses were on his hat. His putter hits the ground, his hat bounces toward the hole, and his Maui Jims split in two.

Being the opportunist I am, I always carry my camera. I snapped the picture below, which couldn’t have been set up better intentionally. I wait for him to clean up his mess, then I calmly walk up and drain my dagger-in-the-heart putt.

Pictured below from top to bottom: The ball, the hole, his hat, my ball marker, his putter, the right half of his sunglasses, the left half of his sunglasses.

Pun intended!

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.