Franklin Templeton Shootout
Dates: Dec. 7-9
Venue: Tiburon Golf Club, Naples, Fla.
Golf Channel Airtimes (Eastern):
Friday 1-4 p.m. (Live) / 4:30-7:30 p.m. (Replay)
Sunday 8:30-11:30 p.m. (Replay) / Midnight-3 a.m. (Replay)
NBC Airtimes (Eastern):
Saturday 4-6 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Sunday 3-6 p.m. (Tape Delay)
In the field: Keegan Bradley & Brendan Steele, Dustin Johnson & Ian Poulter, Fredrik Jacobson & Greg Norman, Jerry Kelly & Steve Stricker, Jason Dufner & Vijay Singh, Stewart Cink & Carl Pettersson, Davis Love III & Brandt Snedeker, Bud Cauley & Rickie Fowler, Justin Leonard & Scott Verplank, Charles Howell III & Rory Sabbatini, Mark Calcavecchia & Mike Weir and Sean O’Hair & Kenny Perry.
Nelson Mandela Championship
Dates: Dec. 6-9
Venue: Royal Durban Golf Club, Durban, South Africa
Golf Channel Airtimes (Eastern):
Thursday 6:30-10:30 a.m. (Live)
Friday 6:30-10:30 a.m. (Live)
Saturday 5:30-9:30 a.m. (Live)
Sunday 5:30-9:30 a.m. (Live)
In the field: Branden Grace, John Parry, Thomas Aiken, Garth Mulroy, George Coetzee and Bryce Easton.
Omega Dubai Ladies Masters
Dates: Dec. 5-8
Venue: Emirates Golf Course, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Airtimes (Eastern):
Wednesday 3:30-7:30 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Thursday 3:30-7:30 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Friday 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Saturday 3:30-7:30 p.m. (Tape Delay)
Season-Ending Event on the Ladies European Tour
Thailand Golf Championship
Dates: Dec. 6-9
Venue: Amata Spring Country Club, Bangkok, Thailand
Airtimes (Eastern):
Thursday 1-5:30 a.m. (Live) / 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (Replay)
Friday 1-5:30 a.m. (Live)
Saturday 1-4:30 a.m. (Live) / 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (Replay)
Sunday 1-4:30 a.m. (Live) / 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. / 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Replay)
In the field: Lee Westwood and Bubba Watson, 2011 Masters winner Charl Schwartzel, Ryder Cup stars Sergio Garcia and Nicolas Colsearts, 2011 Open champion Darren Clarke, Ryo Ishikawa, Hunter Mahan.
Emirates Australian Open
Dates: Dec. 6-9
Venue: The Lakes Golf Club, Sydney, Australia
Airtimes (Eastern):
Wednesday 8 p.m.-1 a.m. (Live) / 1-3:30 p.m. (Thursday Replay)
Thursday 8 p.m.-1 a.m. (Live)
Friday 8 p.m.-1 a.m. (Live) / 1-3:30 p.m. (Saturday replay)
Saturday 8 p.m.-1 a.m. (Live) / 1-6 p.m. (Sunday replay)
In the field: Adam Scott, Geoff Oglivy, Tom Watson, Justin Rose, John Senden, Greg Chalmers, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Rod Pampling, Nick O’Hern and Peter Senior.
Today I am posting the Hooked On Golf Blog Top 10 Golf Gifts Under $1,000,000 (and over $30 hehe). This is a follow up post to the HOG Top 10 Golf Gifts Under $30 post. I’m throwing budget out the window, somewhat. Products here are over $30 and under $1 million. Each item featured here links to a Hooked On Golf Blog review. Click the image to go to the review page. Lets rock!
Mobile Warming Heated Golf Rain Jacket – Battery Included – $219.99
Mobile Warming heated golf rain jacket – click for HOG review
I recently reviewed what is possibly the coolest, or should I say “warmest” golf jacket on the market. The battery powered Mobile Warming rain jacket has multiple heating elements and can heat the core of the upper body up to 135 degrees! Perfect for cold winter golf or people like me with stiff, bad backs.
G-Mac by Kartel Ardglass Golf Polo – $90
Ardglass polo – click for HOG review
You may not be as good of a clutch player as Graeme McDowell, but with a G-Mac polo you can look as good. This year the G-Mac apparel line was introduced, made by Irish apparel company Kartel. I reviewed the Ardglass polo a while back and love it. Very sharp, classy, comfortable and doesn’t impede the golf swing.
Ecco BIOM Hybrid Golf Shoes – $190
Ecco BIOM Hybrid Golf Shoes – click for HOG review
I’ve been wearing these treads for many months now, since July. The Ecco BIOM hybrid golf shoes are very comfortable, very good looking and most importantly perform brilliantly on the course. I’ve never slipped. A nice combo of street shoe / golf shoe.
Pro Advanced Ready Net – Golf Practice Net – $199
Pro-Advanced Ready Net – click for HOG review
One of the best products I’ve reviewed in 2012 is the Pro-Advanced Ready Net golf practice net. This net sets up in 30-45 seconds and tears down in even less time than that. The net can be set up outside or inside and can take full shots from any club. This is a great product for folks like me who live in areas which have snow on the ground in winter. I can practice in the basement or garage and keep my swing grooved until spring.
Sun Mountain Club Glider – 4-wheeled golf travel bag – $200
Sun Mountain Club Glider – click for HOG review
I’ve done a ton of golf travel and carted all sorts of golf travel bags all around the world, from New York to St. Andrews. By far the easiest golf travel bag to tote around is the Sun Mountain Club Glider Journey. With the retractable wheels extended, I can pull my golf gear around an airport with my pinkie. Don’t believe me? Click the image to view my review, and see the video.
Top 3 Premium Golf Balls – +/- $50 per dozen
Bridgestone B330-S – click for HOG review
For the serious golfer a box of premium “tour” golf balls is never a bad gift. This past year I played three different balls from three different manufacturers, all good enough to be my go-to ball. HOG top three tour golf balls, click to view details:
Golf Trip – Gaylord “Golf Mecca” in northern Michigan
Treetops Par-3 Course, “3Tops” – Click HOG review
This year I had a fantastic HOG World Tour stop in the golf mecca of Gaylord Michigan. Gaylord is a neat small town which features some amazing golf courses, and skiing in the winter. The most famous courses in Gaylord are at the Treetops Resort. Check out these reviews:
Bridgestone J40 Dual Pocket Cavity Forged Irons – Retail $699. Street prices lower.
Bridgestone J40 Dual Pocket Cavity Irons – click for HOG review
Bridgestone isn’t known as well for their golf clubs as they are for their golf balls. After playing the J40 Dual Pocket Cavity irons, I immediately donated my old set of irons to my local junior golf association. These babies are beauties. Great for mid to low handicap players. Any kind of shot a player can imagine can be executed perfectly with these sticks.
Golf Trip – Black Mesa Golf Course, La Mesilla, New Mexico – Designed by Baxter Spann
Black Mesa Golf Club – Click for HOG review
I’ve had the pleasure of playing some of the world’s greatest golf courses like TPC Sawgrass, the Old Course at St. Andrews and many others. My favorite course out of all of them is Black Mesa in La Mesilla, New Mexico. No course on this planet in my book has the shot by shot values that this brilliant track does. I try to get to Black Mesa at least once or twice per year. When I get there I’m so excited I feel like the earth has no more gravity. I’m floating. The staff at Black Mesa have become good personal friends of mine. Tom, Eddie, Heath and Pat are the best. XOXOXO
The #1 gift for golfers under $1,000,000, drum roll please…
A golf trip to the Home of Golf, St. Andrews, Scotland
My caddie John Boyne and I walk the par-3 8th hole at the Old Course. My putter is already in my hand. I’m enjoying the walk, soaking in the surroundings.
At least once in every golfer’s life, he/she should make the pilgrimage to golf’s home, St. Andrews, Scotland. There is no place like St. Andrews in the world. The town is so salty. The people are wonderful and the golf, of course, is as the locals say, “brilliant!” A golf trip to St. Andrews provides memories to last a lifetime. Speaking of memories, in the photo below I’m pulling my ball out of the hole on the #17th at the Old Course, the Road Hole. I holed out from 196 for PAR after going OB, hitting the Old Course Observatory at the Old Course Hotel. Greatest par I’ll ever have.
Greatest par I’ll ever have… The Road Hole
There are many great courses in St. Andrews other than the world famous Old Course. Kingsbarns is a few minutes down the road, ranked the #1 new modern course in the world in recent publications. The Castle Course is a very fun track, though the golf purists don’t like it for some reason. I quite enjoyed it. Right next to the Old Course is the “New” Course, Strathtyrum, Jubilee Course and the Eden Course. All of them are fantastic links tracks and within walking distance of the center of town and the Old Course.
Golf Channel’s Big Break is on tonight. I haven’t talked much about it this season so far, but my buddy James Lepp from Kikkor Golf is still alive in the show. Here’s a little preview of tonight’s episode. I get these from Golf Channel. Let me know if they’re of interest and I’ll post them more often.
No big surprise here. Rory McIlroy was named the 2012 PGA Tour Player of the Year. With four wins (including the PGA Championship) and 10 top-10 finishes, McIlory was a no-brainer. Others in the running were Tiger Woods with three wins (no majors), Bubba Watson, Brandt Snedeker and Jason Dufner. McIlory was the youngest to receive this award since Tiger in 1998.
John Huh (huh?) was named PGA Tour rookie of the year.
Below are the graduates of the 2012 Q-School. The players below have secured their PGA Tour cards for 2013. This is the FINAL Q-School class, as this is the final year Q-School will exist. I will miss Q-School, the process and watching players from all over the world try to make their dreams come true by making it through the most grueling golf test in the world.
| Pos. |
Name |
Country |
Age |
| 1 |
Dong-hwan Lee |
South Korea |
25 |
| T2 |
Ross Fisher |
England |
32 |
| T2 |
Steve LeBrun |
U.S. |
34 |
| T4 |
Richard H. Lee |
U.S. |
25 |
| T4 |
Billy Horschel |
U.S. |
26 |
| T4 |
Kris Blanks |
U.S. |
40 |
| T7 |
Erik Compton |
U.S. |
33 |
| T7 |
Brad Fritsch |
Canada |
35 |
| T7 |
Jin Park |
South Korea |
33 |
| T10 |
Fabian Gomez |
Argentina |
34 |
| T10 |
Michael Letzig |
U.S. |
32 |
| T10 |
Jeff Gove |
U.S. |
41 |
| T10 |
Steven Bowditch |
Australia |
29 |
| T14 |
Matt Jones |
Australia |
32 |
| T14 |
Robert Karlsson |
Sweden |
43 |
| T14 |
Eric Meierdierks |
U.S. |
27 |
| T17 |
Scott Langley |
U.S. |
23 |
| T17 |
Aaron Watkins |
U.S. |
30 |
| T17 |
Derek Ernst |
U.S. |
22 |
| T20 |
Si Woo Kim |
South Korea |
17 |
| T20 |
Tag Ridings |
U.S. |
38 |
| T22 |
Donald Constable |
U.S. |
23 |
| T22 |
Bobby Gates |
U.S. |
27 |
| T22 |
Patrick Reed |
U.S. |
22 |
| T22 |
Henrik Norlander |
Sweden |
25 |
| T22 |
Chez Reavie |
U.S. |
31 |
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