Masters Tournament Par-3 Contest – Augusta Par-3 Course Photo Gallery

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
Categories: Golf Courses • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters
Tags: Masters Tournament

Today is the par-3 tournament day at the Masters Tournament assuming it doesn’t get washed out by the bad weather. This tournament has been going since 1960. The par-3 is a fun tournament where players interact closely with fans. Some players who are not in the Masters Tournament are allowed to play the par-3 tournament. Prior to the par-3 tournament there used to be a driving contest.

Augusta National Golf Club – Par-3 Course – Click for more images

The par-3 tournament takes place at Augusta National’s par-3 course, possibly the most beautiful par-3 course in the world, though the folks at Three Tops located at Treetops Resort might argue that point. As you will likely hear, no player who has won the par-3 contest has gone on to win the Masters Tournament.

Tiny greens… Augusta National Par-3 Course

I walked every hole of Augusta National’s par-3 course a couple of years ago and shot a ton of photos. For one shot I even snuck onto a little boat I found in the lake. The skies were a little gray the day I shot them but they still look great. I put together a gallery of 77 images of the course, the largest and most complete online photo gallery of the course that I’m aware of. All for you HOG “patrons.” Click the photos or the link below to view the gallery.

Augusta National Par-3 Course Photo Gallery

Masters.com Range Video Features Launch Monitor Data

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters

Masters.com and the Masters App (iOS or Android) are as well put together and high class as the Masters Tournament. During the few days before the tournament, and before the tournament starts, one can watch the Masters range. No other tournament does that. To top it off, when players hit a ball they show launch monitor and flight tracking! This is the RANGE!

Hats off to the Masters Tournament. Every year the tournament, and the MEDIA they produce along with it, gets better and better.

New Masters Press Room

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters
Tags: Masters Tournament

Not many changes at Augusta this year except for some traffic modifications, concessions, and this new press room. Wowsies. It’s beautiful.

I’ve not done the Masters press room. Haven’t applied for a credential. As nice as it is I’m sure if I was ever there “working” for the blog, I’d be out on the course for 99% of the time.

Masters Tournament to Allow Female Competitors Starting 2018

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, April 1st, 2017
Categories: Golf • Golf For Women • LPGA Tour • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • The Masters
Tags: LPGA • LPGA Tour • Masters Tournament

I guess hell just froze over. Stay tuned for a big announcement today from Augusta, GA. Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters, has been a venue the LPGA Tour has wanted to compete at for decades. They’ve wanted a “Ladies Masters” tournament of some sort, but those wishes have fallen on deaf ears. My inside sources have informed me that The Masters Tournament committee has frog-jumped the LPGA Ladies Masters idea and gone right to admitting female competitors in the Masters Tournament starting in 2018.

Don’t expect to see female competitors for half the field in 2018 though. In fact, I’d only expect to see perhaps five or less. My source has told me qualifying for females or males will be basically the same except for the additions to allow the female USGA Amateur champion in, along with the five (if there are in fact five) LPGA Tour major champions from the previous year.

I can’t wait to hear what Martha Burke has to say. Twitter and the social sphere will surely be exploding as the news gets out.

What are your thoughts? Is this the right move or not? And will the ladies be playing the member tees or the Masters tees? There are only two sets of tees there, and personally I think the Masters tees would destroy any female golfer’s chances because the course is so long now.

My Utah Golf Courses Android App is Now Available

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, March 31st, 2017
Categories: Apps • Golf • Golf Courses • Golf For Women • Miscellaneous • Site News
Tags: Golf Utah • Utah • Utah Golf

Big announcement! I’ve release my first-ever mobile app! To increase my skills in the day job area of web development I tasked myself with learning a complex programming framework which lends itself to creating “device agnostic” applications. Part of that learning, and my winter project, was to make a mobile golf app. So I took my website Utah Golf Guru and created an app based on the same data. Utah Golf Courses is NOW AVAILABLE for free at the Android Play Store. I’ve submitted the IOS version to the Apple App Store also, but it is awaiting approval.

Utah Golf Courses mobile app

About Utah Golf Courses App

Utah Golf Courses works on any Android or IOS device. The app provides a listing of every golf course in Utah. The user can search for courses based on keywords. The user can also filter courses based on the type of course (public, private, resort, military), and geographic location. So the user could filter the list to show public courses in the southwest region of the state.

Course Details

Each course has a ton of details when the user taps the course to view it, like yardage, slope, rating. One can even find the types of grass on the fairways and greens. I also offer playing tips and commentary on many of the courses, including the range ball quality.

Tablet view of a course

The majority of the course photos were shot by me with many by drone.

Why?

There are many reasons behind making the app. The first two listed above were learning new coding skills and learning how to make an app. The other reason behind this one is that I’ve often found myself and my buddies looking for courses to book tee times, and not knowing their numbers. In just two taps of the user’s finger, the user can find the course and dial the course from the app.

Links (pun intended)

Utah Golf Courses for Android

Utah Golf Courses for IOS (coming soon)

Utah Golf Guru Website

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