Titleist to participate in 2010 PGA Merchandise show and demo day

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear
Tags: PGA Merchandise Show

Jan 28-30 in Orlando, Florida is the 2010 PGA Merchandise Show. For the 2nd year in a row after a period of not participating, Titleist will have a presence there as well as at the demo day. Demo day is the day before the show starts on the show floor.

I plan on attending the show this year so I should once again be getting the scoop on the latest and greatest from Titleist and hundreds of other golf companies in Orlando.

UPDATE: Typo fixed. Thanks to those who pounded it through my thick cranium

The Bat is in the zone

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, October 19th, 2009
Categories: Hackers • Life

Six days ago I threw my back out. Last time I threw it out, it took two weeks for the pain and spasms to subside and my game was a wreck when I came back.

This week I tried my new inversion table (where you hang upside down like a bat) for the first time, and I’m back on the course already (yesterday) and in the ZONE. I really only felt pain for the first 1-2 days this time, compared to 13-14 last time. I really hope the decompression of the spine on the inversion table is the answer to the back problems…

Yesterday I played 11 holes and shot -3. I had 5 birdies, two on the last two holes. Then today I picked up right where I left off. I played the back nine again. I started out birdie, birdie, par, birdie, birdie. At that point I’d had NINE BIRDIES IN 16 HOLES! By the time I finished #15 and my eighteenth consecutive hole, I was at -7 for that stretch. I ended up -5 for my last 20 holes.

Winter is coming. In fact, it may have arrived on #16 today. It was warm earlier but the winds kicked up and it got cold, fast. Very cold.

I’ll have more info on the inversion table and what it is about, and hopefully many more birdies to brag about soon.

Finally found something for storing my 472.34 billion golf hats

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: golf hat storage • Ikea

How many golf hats do you have? If you are like me, that is a triple digit number. I can’t go anywhere in my house, garage, car, bathroom, deprivation chamber… without tripping over a golf hat.

I’ve been trying to figure out some way of storing all these billions of hats without smashing them and ruining their shape. I finally found the Ikea Skubb. This $6.99 closet organizer is perfect for storing golf hats. The Skubb (who thinks of these names?) hangs from the bar in the closet and extends 47 inches down, 6 inches across and has 10 individual compartments which are almost 14 inches deep.

If I store my hats with the back half folded in, I can easily store three hats per chamber. If I cram them in I could insert 4-5 easily. So one Skubb could hold 30-50 hats.

Next Ikea post

Stay tuned for my next post related to Ikea, which involves deciphering the stick figure drawings in their assembly instructions: “No humping a broken desk with one hand behind your back…”

HOG’s 2500th Post

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Categories: Site News

I was just bragging posting about the 11,000th image in the HOG photo gallery recently. I just realized now that there’s another thing to brag about mention: 2500 posts.

Yes, I’ve posted 2500 golf blogs here. Once again, I figure if I post 2500 golf blogs 1-2 of them may be good, if not just by the sheer randomness of blind luck…

Enough said. Now onto the next 2500.