Tougher Conditions Friday At PGA Championship

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, August 10th, 2012
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods

PGA.com has live streaming of the PGA Championship in the mornings before the network TV coverage starts. It is pretty nice to watch, with a few commercials. The one thing which bugs me is their pop up voting console which I can’t set to stop popping up. They want you to vote on every hole, things like who will hit the longest drive etc. I don’t care about that. Just want to watch golf.

The conditions today (Friday) at the 2012 PGA Championship are much tougher than yesterday with much more wind and possible rain. -6 was the low score in round one, but I’m betting we won’t see close to that after today. Will those players who played in the benign morning conditions and scored well, like John Daly, back up in the afternoon?

2012 PGA Championship Round One Leaderboard

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods

POS	Player	R1	Total
1	Carl Pettersson	-6	66
T2	Gary Woodland	-5	67
T2	Rory McIlroy	-5	67
T2	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano	-5	67
T2	Alex Noren	-5	67
T6	John Daly	-4	68
T6	Geoff Ogilvy	-4	68
T6	Keegan Bradley	-4	68
T6	Joost Luiten	-4	68
T6	Aaron Baddeley	-4	68
T6	Adam Scott	-4	68
T6	Scott Piercy	-4	68
T6	Graeme McDowell	-4	68
T14	Pat Perez	-3	69
T14	Ben Curtis	-3	69
T14	Ryo Ishikawa	-3	69
T14	Tiger Woods	-3	69
T14	Cameron Tringale	-3	69
T14	Peter Hanson	-3	69
T14	Jamie Donaldson	-3	69
T14	Miguel Angel Jimenez	-3	69
T14	K.T. Kim	-3	69
T14	Justin Rose	-3	69
T14	K.J. Choi	-3	69
T25	Greg Chalmers	-2	70
T25	Thomas Bjorn	-2	70
T25	Louis Oosthuizen	-2	70
T25	Ian Poulter	-2	70
T25	Francesco Molinari	-2	70
T25	Charl Schwartzel	-2	70
T25	Padraig Harrington	-2	70
T32	Matteo Manassero	-1	71
T32	Ken Duke	-1	71
T32	Martin Laird	-1	71
T32	Rafael Cabrera-Bello	-1	71
T32	Trevor Immelman	-1	71
T32	Dustin Johnson	-1	71
T32	Ryan Palmer	-1	71
T32	Tim Clark	-1	71
T32	George McNeill	-1	71
T32	Brendon de Jonge	-1	71
T32	Fredrik Jacobson	-1	71
T32	Vijay Singh	-1	71
T32	Blake Adams	-1	71
T45	Marcel Siem	E	72
T45	Toru Taniguchi	E	72
T45	Jim Furyk	E	72
T45	Shaun Micheel	E	72
T45	David Toms	E	72
T45	Bernd Wiesberger	E	72
T45	Jason Day	E	72
T45	John Huh	E	72
T45	Thomas Aiken	E	72
T45	Matt Every	E	72
T45	Sang Moon Bae	E	72
T45	Hiroyuki Fujita	E	72
T45	John Rollins	E	72
T45	Anders Hansen	E	72
T45	Hunter Mahan	E	72
T45	Ernie Els	E	72
T45	Rich Beem	E	72
T45	Zach Johnson	E	72
T45	Davis Love, III	E	72
T45	Matt Kuchar	E	72
T45	J.J. Henry	E	72
T66	D.A. Points	+1	73
T66	John Senden	+1	73
T66	Rory Sabbatini	+1	73
T66	Michael Thompson	+1	73
T66	Darren Clarke	+1	73
T66	Ryan Moore	+1	73
T66	Chris Stroud	+1	73
T66	Thongchai Jaidee	+1	73
T66	David Lynn	+1	73
T66	Jonathan Byrd	+1	73
T66	Nicolas Colsaerts	+1	73
T66	Jimmy Walker	+1	73
T66	Bubba Watson	+1	73
T66	Bo Van Pelt	+1	73
T66	Y.E. Yang	+1	73
T66	Phil Mickelson	+1	73
T66	Retief Goosen	+1	73
T66	Paul Lawrie	+1	73
T66	Nick Watney	+1	73
T66	George Coetzee	+1	73
T66	Simon Dyson	+1	73
T66	William McGirt	+1	73
T88	Jose Maria Olazabal	+2	74
T88	Robert Garrigus	+2	74
T88	Branden Grace	+2	74
T88	Scott Stallings	+2	74
T88	Jason Dufner	+2	74
T88	Robert Karlsson	+2	74
T88	Steve Stricker	+2	74
T88	Stewart Cink	+2	74
T88	Jeff Coston (CP)	+2	74
T88	Seung-Yul Noh	+2	74
T88	Alan Morin (CP)	+2	74
T88	Marcus Fraser	+2	74
T88	Rickie Fowler	+2	74
T88	Luke Donald	+2	74
T88	Chez Reavie	+2	74
T88	Marc Leishman	+2	74
T88	Ted Potter, Jr.	+2	74
T88	Jeff Overton	+2	74
T106	Johnson Wagner	+3	75
T106	Lee Westwood	+3	75
T106	Bill Haas	+3	75
T106	Brian Davis	+3	75
T106	Sean O’Hair	+3	75
T106	Brian Cairns (CP)	+3	75
T106	Bryce Molder	+3	75
T106	Bob Sowards (CP)	+3	75
T106	Darrell Kestner (CP)	+3	75
T106	Thorbjorn Olesen	+3	75
T106	Scott Verplank	+3	75
T106	Kevin Na	+3	75
T106	Rod Perry (CP)	+3	75
T106	Paul Scaletta (CP)	+3	75
T106	Robert Allenby	+3	75
T121	Kelly Mitchum (CP)	+4	76
T121	Charles Howell, III	+4	76
T121	Jeev Milkha Singh	+4	76
T121	Alvaro Quiros	+4	76
T121	Angel Cabrera	+4	76
T121	Mike Small (CP)	+4	76
T121	Robert Rock	+4	76
T121	Sergio Garcia	+4	76
T121	Mark Wilson	+4	76
T121	Brian Gaffney (CP)	+4	76
T121	Brendan Jones	+4	76
T132	Lucas Glover	+5	77
T132	Tommy Gainey	+5	77
T132	Danny Balin (CP)	+5	77
T132	Brandt Snedeker	+5	77
T132	Pablo Larrazabal	+5	77
T137	Mark Brown	+6	78
T137	Corey Prugh (CP)	+6	78
T137	Spencer Levin	+6	78
T137	Mark Brooks	+6	78
T137	Roger Chapman	+6	78
T137	Michael Hoey	+6	78
T143	Michael Frye (CP)	+7	79
T143	Paul Casey	+7	79
T143	Martin Kaymer	+7	79
T143	Webb Simpson	+7	79
T143	Charlie Wi	+7	79
T143	Mitch Lowe (CP)	+7	79
T149	Bud Cauley	+8	80
T149	Marty Jertson (CP)	+8	80
T149	Kyle Stanley	+8	80
T152	Charley Hoffman	+9	81
T152	Matt Dobyns (CP)	+9	81
154	Bill Murchison (CP)	+10	82
155	Doug Wade (CP)	+11	83
156	Frank Bensel (CP)	+12	84

PGA Championship TV Schedule – DVR Alert – Expanded Coverage

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Categories: FedEx Cup • PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods

This isn’t your normal HOG DVR alert. The PGA Championship is this week. This is “Glory’s Last Shot” and our last chance at watching major championship golf for 2012, even though we have the FedEx Cup playoffs and Ryder Cup to enjoy later.

DirecTV has made arrangements with TNT and CBS Sports to provide their “expanded” live coverage of the PGA Championship. The main channel channel is 701. This expanded coverage is accessed by hitting the red button on the remote. After that magic button is pushed, a main window pops up with info and available feeds. From there one can select the main TV feed (channel 702), the marquee group (channel 703), featured hole (channel 704) and players in depth (channel 705). There’s also a leaderboard on the main expanded coverage page.

This is very slick and makes me glad I have DirecTV. That said I’m not getting paid by DirecTV and they didn’t ask me to mention any of this. I’m actually PO’d that I will not be able to get the Pac-12 football coverage on DirecTV (unless something has changed recently). So as happy I am about the extended golf coverage, I’m not happy I can’t watch my Utah Utes. But I digress. Back to golf.

Below is the regular network TV PGA Championship schedule:

Thu, August 9	TNT	1:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Fri, August 10	TNT	1:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Sat, August 11	TNT	11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Sat, August 11	CBS	2:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Sun, August 12	TNT	11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
Sun, August 12	CBS	2:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT

First Look: Slammin’ Sam Snead Premium Lager – Smoothest Beer In Golf

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Categories: Miscellaneous • Site News

Is Slammin’ Sam’s beer as smooth as Sam Snead’s golf swing? Testing to commence shortly. Stay tuned…

Filed under “being a golf blogger does not suck.”

I’ve received some of the most interesting, and bizarre product review submissions imaginable. Everything from BBQ sauce to complex golf training devices with lasers on them. Two days ago I received perhaps the pinnacle of product submissions, BEER. What’s next? Babes, guitars and a fast car…

Slammin’ Sam Premium Lager

I’ve had these babies in the fridge cooling now for about 48 hours. This evening I’ll be doing the first product testing. I’ve got mugs in the freezer ready to go. Its a tough gig. Tough duty. I’m up for the task.

Stay tuned for my upcoming Slammin’ Sam Premium Lager review…

Review: Butch Harmon About Golf DVD

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Categories: Golf • Golf Fitness • Golf Instruction • Instruction • Reviews

Butch Harmon DVD – click to zoom

Today I’m reviewing a great instructional DVD. I’ve now watched the entire two disc set “About Golf” by Butch Harmon three times. I’ve watched the short game section (4) at least five times, the area I need the most work in. Let’s take a look at the product and what it covers.

About Golf DVD Overview

This DVD set covers literally every aspect of the golf swing and the game imaginable. There’s even a section on anger management.

Sections

The discs are broken down into sections as follows:

DVD ONESECTION 1: Ball Striking, Basic Fundamentals

1. Set Up
2. Grip
3. Grip Pressure
4. Stance
5. Ball Position
6. Pre-swing Posture
7. Waggle
8. Takeaway
9. Backswing
10. Head Position
11. Downswing
12. Impact
13. Follow Through
14. Pretty Swing vs. Efficient Swing

SECTION 2: Faults, Cures & Drills

1. Swing Too Fast
2. Topped Shot
3. Hitting it Fat
4. Dreaded Hook
5. Slice
6. Hook & Slice Drill
7. The Shank
8. Hitting from the Top
9. Reverse Pivot
10. Taking a Divot
11. Anger Management

SECTION 3: Specialty Shots

1. Long Drive
2. Draw / Hook Shot
3. Fade / Slice Shot
4. Low / Punch Shot
5. High Shot
6. Ball Above Feet
7. Ball Below Feet
8. Uphill Lie
9. Downhill Lie
10. The Stinger
11. Fairway Bunkers
12. Hitting O! Hard Pan

SECTION 4: Short Game

1. Basic Wedge Shot
2. Pitching
3. Chipping

SECTION 5: Sand Play

1. Short Bunker Shot
2. Long Bunker Shot
3. Buried Lie
4. Uphill Lie
5. Downhill Lie

DVD TWOSECTION 6: Putting

1. Putting Fundamentals
2. Reading the Break
3. Putting Drills
4. Practice Routine

SECTION 7: From Good to Great
(in alphabetical order)

1. Fred Couples
2. Ernie Els
3. Natalie Gulbis
4. Dustin Johnson
5. Phil Mickelson
6. Greg Norman
7. Adam Scott
8. Nick Watney
9. Tiger Woods

SECTION 8: Selecting Correct Clubs

1. Irons
2. Drivers
3. Grips

SECTION 9: Fitness in Golf

SECTION 10: Kids/Women/Seniors

Quality Content

The lessons Butch gives in this two disc set are very well done and very educational. Butch covers everything from the very basics that all golfers need, to the fine details of shot making and dealing with trouble on the course. Harmon is very clear and descriptive in his concepts, setup and execution. He really stresses the basics, which are so obvious but so often overlooked.

Quality Production

Before turning golf web geek, I worked as an engineer in the audio/video field for 25 years. I know good and bad production. This DVD is produced, filmed, edited and packaged with the highest quality and attention to detail. The audio is great, the video quality is fantastic and so are the supporting graphics and materials. This is a top notch production.

Star Power

My favorite section other than the short game section is “From Good To Great.” In that section big name stars like Ernie Els, Fred Couples, Dustin Johnson etc., talk about their game and how Butch helped them. Very interesting to know that even Ernie Els was aligning some 15 yards right of target with a 7-iron and had to make all sorts of other manipulations in his swing to compensate. Once again, going back to the basics and checking alignment, helped Ernie.

Putting It Together

There’s so much material in this DVD. I’ve developed a couple of ideas on how to best take advantage. First I might pick one lesson inside a section, like hitting the stinger for instance, and work on that for a range session. I’ll pick another section or subject for the next range session.

Butch’s DVD in my computer this morning…

The other way I use the DVD is running a section over and over on my home computer, like pitching or chipping, to pound the concepts into my cranium.

Conclusion

This DVD is fantastic for golfers of all ability levels. At $89 retail, this program costs as much as one or two lessons, but there are 100’s of lessons and tips one could learn from. Whether you are a pro, low single digit like me, or a beginner, this DVD is a great resource for learning and improving your golf game.

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