MyLoopCard is a cool concept which needs tweaking

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Categories: Miscellaneous • Reviews
Tags: MyLoopCard

One of my three home courses came out with some new scorecards this year. Actually they aren’t even cards, they’re booklets from MyLoopCard.

The concept

My director of golf told me he saved $1800 in scorecard printing costs by having MyLoopCard make the course’s cards. These days, saving even $18.00 helps. Good on him for finding a way to save money and keep the course in business.

MyLoopCard sells advertising to local vendors and puts them along with ads for their own online score tracking system (which says it is offline until fall of 2009) in the booklet.

Along with the ads are hole by hole diagrams of the course. This is quite helpful for players who haven’t been to the course before.

The color booklet is very impressive and classy.

The problems

So the course has saved on printing costs and the player gets the benefit of a nice booklet with hole by hole information on the course. Great.

But… there’s a big waste of paper. I do the scores for my men’s club, and we throw away the equivalent of hundreds of pages of paper every week. That’s just the Tuesday league. Over the course of a year we’re talking a serious amount of lumber being consumed and thrown away by the course. Personally I don’t care that much, but the tree huggers might have a problem with all the paper waste. Maybe the paper is recycled but I didn’t see anything mentioning that.

Problem two is the paper itself. Obviously nobody actually “tested” the cards. The cards are impressive with their full color print, yes, but the paper is coated. This makes writing on the cards with a pencil nearly impossible. I brought a buddy to my course last week and when he tried to write on the cards with a golf pencil the first words out of his mouth were “these score cards suck.” The photo above is a typical card I receive when I do my league scores. They started out in pencil and had to switch to pen.

Conclusion

Great concept but needs to switch to non coated paper for the scorecard portion!

Golf TV times this week

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Categories: Champions Tour • European Tour • LPGA Tour • PGA Tour • Web.com Tour

Tiger Woods isn’t playing this week. Boo hoo.

Wyndham Championship
PGA TOUR
Thursday 8/20 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 8/21 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS
Sunday 8/23 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS

The KLM Open
European Tour
Thursday 8/20 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 8/21 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM ET GOLF
Sunday 8/23 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET GOLF

The Solheim Cup
LPGA Tour
Friday 8/21 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM ET GOLF
Sunday 8/23 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET GOLF

JELD-WEN Tradition
Champions Tour
Thursday 8/20 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 12:30 AM – 3:00 AM ET GOLF
Saturday 8/22 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET NBC
Sunday 8/23 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET NBC

2009 Club Championship Round One

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Categories: Hackers • Life

The thing I want to win most every year is my club championship. I did manage to do that back in 2005. Back then it was match play, which is the best form of golf for this sort of thing in my opinion. To survive matchplay and win after knocking out everyone was the most proud moment I’ve had in golf, more than shooting in the 60’s or having a hole in one. But the club members decided to change it to two 18 hole rounds a few years ago.

Not at my best coming in

This has been a tough year on my game. My real world outside of golf, and my bad back have combined to hurt my level of play pretty badly. As a result I’ve gone up from a 1 handicap to a 4. That may sound crazy to whine about that, but imagine if you were a 10 handicap and went up to a 40. That’s the same proportion in my opinion, since I truly believe golf handicaps to be an exponential curve.

2009 Championship Round One

If I threw out holes 1, 6 and 15 from my 1st round of this year’s club championship I’d be one over par. Unfortunately on those three holes I carded double bogeys. The most frustrating one was on #15 where my drive hit the right side of the fairway, then bounced into the right rough. I never found the ball. Had to go back and re-tee.

I don’t know where I stand going into round two, but it is pretty safe to say that I’m probably a good 5-7 shots back from contention. Maybe not, if the other A players flamed out but I doubt it.

I was pretty unhappy about my round, and frustrated after leaving no less than six putts dead in the jaws short about 3 inches. There were many strokes left on the course.

I may still have a chance, in which case I’ll give it my best shot in round two next Tuesday.

Appeals court overturns previous verdict in Acushnet vs Callaway ball patent case

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Gear
Tags: Acushnet • Callaway • Titleist

Wow this is big news for Titleist/Acushnet. A court of appeals granted their request for a new trial regarding their golf ball patent dispute with Callaway Golf.

Click the read more link below to view Acushnet’s press release from yesterday.

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