Fantasy Results for 3rd (Summer) leg 2009
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Categories: Fantasy Golf
Tags: Fantasy Golf
Categories: Fantasy Golf
Tags: Fantasy Golf
Fore Heaven topped the 3rd leg or summer leg of HOG Space Fantasy Golf 2009 for HOG SPACE #1 with 2,186 points.
Party on the 19th topped the summer leg of HOG Space Fantasy Golf 2009 for HOG SPACE #2 with 2,213 points.
So the winner for the 3rd leg is PARTY ON THE 19TH! Congratulations! You’ve won a shopping spree at Tattoo Golf! (Don’t forget my birthday is coming up).
Contact me (Tony) to claim your prize.
Fantasy Golf 2009 – Weeks 34-37
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If a picture is worth 1000 words, here is 8000 words
When I saw this guy the other day at a football game, I had to take his picture. I don’t really know whether golf is heterosexual, gay, bi or asexual for that matter. Does it really matter?
I’m getting my tires rotated the other day. I saw this thing sitting on the counter in the tire shop. I had no idea what it was, until I read the label one of the tire guys wrote on it:
A couple of days ago the guys in the pro shop won the raffle in a local tournament. The prize was a wagon full of high end booze. Talk about being on the wagon, or off the wagon, or in the wagon, or being carted home via a wagon:
Saw this license plate the other day in the parking lot. I agree. Playing nine sucks…
I don’t usually enjoy writing checks. But in the case of this check for tickets to the Tuesday practice rounds of the 2010 Masters, I did. Yes, this is a “Harbor Town” check. Other checks in the set are Augusta and St. Andrews. I didn’t use the Augusta check because I didn’t want my bank to get into copyright troubles with Augusta National Golf Club…
All golf courses should do this, warn their customers that the greens will be or have been punched. Nothing sucks worse than getting to the 1st green with your golf pals to find that the green has been punched…
Here’s a golf tee with a shaft as thick as a tooth pick. Nothing is better for hitting big drives, and picking roast beef out of your teeth on the 10th tee than a “toothpick tee.”
DOH!
Could partying all night be the secret to lower golf scores?
Two years ago in the biggest tournament of the year, an emergency forced me to be awake until 5:30am. At 5:30am I had the choice to go to sleep for a an hour or two then get up and make my 8:00am tee time. Instead I chose to just stay up. In the toughest, most intense conditions I’d see all year with no sleep for two days, I shot a 73.
This weekend I was up all night Saturday night frying my brain, trying to debug the HOG server problems. I remember looking over at the clock to see that it said 5:00am. I did go to sleep a few minutes later, but woke up at 7:15. Two hours sleep, max.
I then went on to shoot a 74 in high winds.
So should I just party all night and get no sleep before every golf round then?
I’m trying to figure out why I play better when I’m so tired. I have to possible reasons, which could individually or in combined fashion contribute to my low scores.
The first reason is my level of relaxation. I’m not hyped up to play. I’m moving slower. My tempo is slower. I really think being tired helps slow my tempo down, which is good.
The second reason is simply not expecting to play well. I’m not mentally intense about the round. If I make a bogey or two I don’t really care because I’m not expecting to play my best anyway. I’m able to shake off bad shots or bad breaks in about three seconds. My nerves are non existent and can’t get in the way of low scores.
Applying it to a regular, fully rested round
After yesterday’s 74 I decided that for my next round or two I’m going to perform some mental experiments. I’m going to try and replicate my pace, tempo, demeanor on the course. I’m going to be mellow and swing nice and slow. If I hit a bad shot or catch a bad break I’m not going to sweat it.
No problem.
HOG server goes down during FedEx Cup weekend, of course
It never seems to fail. Some bug, hacker, spambot or odd event will occur either when I’m out of town or during major golf events. This weekend was no exception.
My dedicated server suddenly had a traffic increase of as much as 15x normal, starting at 12:00 a.m. Saturday morning. My server eventually just gagged on the thousands of “requests” and crapped out. I think this was a “dos” attack, or denial of service attack but my provider tells me it was regular traffic. I still don’t believe them, because traffic doesn’t just increase to 15x normal at 12:00 a.m. when everyone is asleep, unless CNN or some gigantic web site put a direct link to HOG on their main page.
The way we got it back online was to triple the RAM memory for the server so it has more room to process all the requests. I’ll be checking my settings and traffic logs to determine where all the hits were coming from and hopefully figure out how to avoid nearly two days of two time in the future.
Regardless of what the cause was, the added ram should help speed the site up and make it a bit more responsive or quicker. I’d like to hear from you if you notice a speed increase.
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