Ok it is that time of year my friends. It is the time of year where we discuss where we would like to call home for the 2011 fantasy golf season. I’d like to hear your suggestions below.
Let me tell you why we are where we are now:
We used yahoo for a few years. I have a small connection at yahoo and they were cool enough to expand the league sizes from 50 to 100 players. But we routinely have around 200 competitors so that still meant we had to have two leagues. Remember “HOG Space 1” and “HOG Space 2?” This made doing the results and figuring out winners even more difficult than it already was.
So last year we went to Kerplookee. The good thing about Kerplookee is that there was no league size limit. That meant all the standings and results etc were in one place, easy to find and display. Kerplookee is not without its issues, some which I complained about all year but they were not fixed. While irritating these may not be deal breakers as those are less of issues to me than having the league split into two groups.
I’m open to suggestions. But if you suggest a league there are a few requirements I’d like to meet:
1. The provider can occupy ONE group and not have to be split up.
2. The provider is FREE.
3. The provider is TGS and HOG friendly.
4. The provider doesn’t suck.
5. The provider’s sole purpose is not to suck you into their site with a free game only to pressure and solicit you into joining their “pay” game.
I’ve started a thread in the The Golf Space forum to discuss this. Please go to this link about it in the fantasy golf area or comment in below to discuss. Thanks.
I’m extending the deadline to claim fantasy prizes for 2010 by another two weeks.
For those who haven’t contacted me yet, please claim your prize by 12/15/10. After that, the prize will be forfeited.
For those who have contacted me and haven’t gotten anything yet, I was out of town last week so I didn’t ship anything. I’m still waiting to hear back from a couple of prize sponsors, but I do have the 3rd, 4th and 5th place and weekly prizes ready to ship. Whoever won 3rd has not claimed the prize and I want it out of my garage!!!
I will have to implement a stipulation for 2011 fantasy that shipping of prizes will be to continental USA only. Any players from outside that area, will have to pay for the extra shipping charges!
I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, and this time won’t be the last. There isn’t a better gig out there than running this golf blog. As a result I have the pleasure of reviewing some of the best golf courses and golf travel destinations in the world. Los Cabos, Mexico is home to many of those courses and is certainly in the top tier of resort destinations. My tough duty today is posting a review of the splendid time I had at the Palmilla Golf Club in Los Cabos.
Palmilla Arroyo Course, #7 Tee – Beautiful view of the fairway and the Sea of Cortez – Click for more images
Palmilla Golf Club Overview
Palmilla is a Jack Nicklaus designed, 27 hole facility comprised of the Arroyo, Mountain and Ocean nines. The track meanders through the hilly desert terrain of Los Cabos, taking advantage of the local scenery, cacti and views of the Sea of Cortez. A large percentage of the holes have ocean views. There’s something very cool and relaxing about the contrast of the green fairways and having that cool blue background of the ocean. Contrast that with the perfectly manicured and colorful local vegetation, numerous types of cacti, and you get 27 holes of photo opps. As a result, I shot about 120 photos during my round.
I played 18 of the 27 holes, so my review and image gallery features the Mountain and Arroyo nines. I’ll have to return soon to review the Ocean nine. Hint, hint.
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I’m two days late on this announcement because I didn’t have an internet connection, but I’m happy to announce that Hooked On Golf Blog has just had its 6th birthday blogday.
One of the original golf blogs, I founded HOG on 12/4/2004 at the suggestion of my best friend Alan. Al was a pioneer in blogging, and told me that blogs would be the next big thing on the internet (pre “social networking” era). When I asked him what I should blog about he said, “blog about something you love.” Naturally golf came to mind, after ruling out wine, cheese, cigars, heavy metal, jazz and strippers.
Thankful
As a result of working this blog I’ve met some of the coolest people in the golf world, traveled to some of the most incredible places and had a first hand look at gear. I’ve even had input into the development processes of major golf company’s products by giving them feedback with test gear, apparel and golf balls.
For all of the great people I’ve met, great golf courses and golf travel destinations I’ve visited and great golf companies I’ve dealt with, I’m thankful. I’m especially grateful for my visitors who, for some reason, keep coming here. Thank you.
Going into year seven I’m anxiously looking forward. I can’t wait to see what the 2011 golf season has in store, who I’ll meet and what cool stuff I’ll be exposed to. I’ll be blogging about it all right here so stay tuned.
Unfortunately my internet connection in Los Cabos was very bad, so I wasn’t able to do any updates while I was gone. But I’m back and new posts will be hitting tomorrow.
I got a bit sick down there and I’m still feeling the effects. I think it is possible that a cactus which poked me made me ill. I’m going to be doing some researching about that.
It was quite a shocker coming home. We left sunny skies and 85 degrees in Los Cabos, to come home to 31 degrees, nearly zero visibility due to fog, and air quality warnings saying not to go outside.
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