Current season long fantasy standings
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 | bedford_golf | 4,503 |
| 2 | Cal | 4,435 |
| 3 | eatgolf_com | 4,408 |
| 4 | BOBBLEHEADS | 4,363 |
| 5 | Putt for Doh! | 4,361 |
| 6 | Good Good | 4,278 |
| 6 | Perfect Drive | 4,278 |
| 8 | mo willies | 4,273 |
| 9 | tj7644 | 4,237 |
| 10 | Keith | 4,225 |
| 11 | The Deftones | 4,204 |
| 12 | kiwi’s choppers | 4,144 |
| 13 | TeeItUp | 4,141 |
| 14 | Golf Grouch | 4,122 |
| 15 | point1golf | 3,972 |
| 16 | LGHTeam | 3,962 |
| 17 | Laxw09 | 3,899 |
| 18 | GolfBlogger | 3,867 |
| 19 | Long and OB | 3,811 |
| 20 | ya ya | 3,731 |
| 21 | HOG | 3,603 |
| 22 | Birdies galore! | 3,485 |
| 23 | The Undaunted Duffer | 3,434 |
| 24 | grip it & rip it | 3,422 |
| 25 | Bundy’s Ball Buster’s | 3,349 |
| 26 | 04 Utes | 3,186 |
| 27 | Great White North | 2,990 |
| 28 | Bushwood Gophers | 2,627 |
| 29 | Oakland Hills Raiders | 2,447 |
| 30 | skipper | 2,372 |
| 31 | Golf On | 2,355 |
| 32 | Farah’s Pros | 2,332 |
| 33 | Golfchick | 2,330 |
| 34 | BeginnerGolfChamp | 2,309 |
| 35 | CJBGC | 2,090 |
| 36 | pitinos | 2,089 |
| 37 | pdwkyx | 1,823 |
| 38 | Josh’s Team | 1,667 |
| 39 | redscot | 1,635 |
| 40 | Pbreads | 1,557 |
| 41 | Los Saguaros | 1,392 |
| 42 | The Golfnuts | 1,375 |
| 43 | Duh Fers | 1,335 |
| 44 | Chicagoland Duffers | 1,326 |
| 45 | DavesDuffers | 1,296 |
| 46 | The Winners (Hopefully) | 1,286 |
| 47 | The Titans | 1,215 |
| 48 | Hooked On Fantasy Golf | 964 |
| 49 | BG’s Players’ | 923 |
| 50 | GolfDiscussions.com | 676 |
Fantasy week 29 results
EatGolf.com has won the weekly fantasy contest. The review board is looking into the possibility of disqualification for Eat, due to his oversized cranium providing him an unfair advantage.
Eat wins a box of Swing Juice courtesy of our bi-weekly sponsors! Eat has won so many prizes this season that perhaps he’ll start donating them to charity.
Everyone click through here to the sponsors below so they’ll see some traffic and want to sponsor our league next year!
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Prize breakdown:
Weekly prizes provided by Golf Dust and Swing Juice.
First place for each half of the season is a Nintendo Dual Screen with the True Swing Golf Game.
2nd place for each half of the season: The Hole of the 3rd Eye & Back Swings (books)
GRAND PRIZE: Taylomade r7 425!!!
Tiger wins 12th major at the 2006 PGA Championship
Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, August 20th, 2006
Categories: Miscellaneous • PGA Tour • Tiger Woods
Categories: Miscellaneous • PGA Tour • Tiger Woods
I’m not in my normal blogging environment right now. But I would like to make a quick observation or two about Tiger Woods and the PGA Championship.
Tiger looks as good as I’ve ever seen
I watched nearly every minute of the PGA Championship. All due respect to Butch Harmon (Tiger’s former coach), Tiger’s swing to me looks the best it ever has. His swing is totally relaxed, under control and balanced. Watching Tiger’s body language you gather that he’s completely relaxed, confident and not nervous at all. The dip Tiger has had when his driver goes wild is hardly there, which I suspect is part of the reason he was so accurate and under control this week.
60’s baby
A quick glance at the leaderboard and I see that Tiger was the only player in the field to shoot all rounds in the 60’s.
I guess nobody will challenge Tiger
Tiger won the 2006 PGA Championship by 5 shots. In a major championship, that’s the equivalent to an ass kickin’. Ernie, Phil, Sergio and the rest of the big guns on tour didn’t have enough ammo in their arsenal to challenge Tiger and that’s a recurring theme.
I wish someone would step up and challenge Tiger on a regular basis. Phil has been close to doing that, but not to the level in which Gary Player and Arnie challenged Jack.
And there was NOT much rejoicing
Now that the final major has come and gone, this is a sad day for me. This final major’s completion means the end of the golf season is not too far away. There’s still a lot of great golf to come this season, but the end is near and the awesome fields are going to be few and far between.
The end of the golf season also means on a personal level I can be expecting to see snow on the ground here in my locale in a few months. This is the toughest part of living where I do.
Major withdrawal
On the bright side there are 224 days, 9 hours, 17 minutes, and 34 seconds left until The 2007 Masters.
Hobble Creek Golf Course Review
Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Categories: Course Reviews • Golf • Golf Course Architecture • Golf Courses • Golf For Women • HOG World Tour • Reviews • Travel
Tags: Utah Golf
Categories: Course Reviews • Golf • Golf Course Architecture • Golf Courses • Golf For Women • HOG World Tour • Reviews • Travel
Tags: Utah Golf
Located in Hobble Creek Canyon Utah (a few miles South East of Provo), Hobble Creek is an old style, traditional tree lined golf course. The holes wander up and down the canyon, taking advantage of the mountain terrain and fresh mountain streams.
The Course
This par 71 course is not long (6315 yards) and many of the holes play shorter than their yardage due to the higher altitude and many of the hole’s elevation drops.
Hobble Creek’s 18th hole
Nearly every shot on this course is visually worthy of a postcard. If you stop and look around wherever you are, you have awesome mountain views and beautiful tree lined, plush fairways and greens.
The course has numerous hazards. Many holes have either OB or red hazards left and right of the fairways, requiring accuracy off the tee. There are also streams and gullies which cross many of the holes, requiring you to think about what distance you want to hit your tee shot rather than simply bombing a driver. On many par 4 holes I found myself teeing off with 4 or 5-irons.
Once you are successfully in the fairway the course is not extremely difficult. If you do hit the fairway, you’ll be rewarded with short to mid-iron approach shots to the green.
See the moon peeking over the mountain on the right?
The course’s 2nd line of defense (the first being the tightness and hazards) is it’s fast, sloped greens. If you are a weak putter, Hobble will reveal your weakness on the greens. You have to play perfect line and speed if you want to get the ball to drop or at least end up close to the hole. Get your speed or line wrong, especially on a downhill putt, and you’ll be faced with a long recovery putt.
The greens were not only fast, they were extremely soft. My group had several shots hit the center of the green and literally spin all the way off. We had to try to fly the ball past the pin and bring it back in order to get the ball to pin high. It’s amazing a course can have greens that fast, yet that soft.
If you are a strong putter (which I consider myself) you can score well. I carded 5 birdies when I played there. The last 2 birdies were on holes 17 & 18, which not only helped me finish in a good mood, it helped me finish with a few more bucks in my wallet thanks to my opponents. Even better, my opponents pressed on 17 and then also on 18. Talk about a butt kicking…
Clubhouse
The clubhouse is a classic, salty old building. There is a ton of personality in the design and old style dark wood interior.
There are many great trophies and pictures on the walls dating back decades. I checked out shots of Johnny Miller, Billy Casper and other PGA stars playing the course and practicing on the range.
No beer for you
I really liked the restaurant/coffee shop. It was a “real” restaurant, not just a hot dog stand in a building.
What I didn’t like was the fact that I couldn’t buy my deflated opponents a beer after the round. You see, there’s a local law that makes beer sales on Sunday illegal. So my opponents had to drown their sorrows in a soda pop.
Conclusion
Hobble Creek Golf Course is a gem. If you’re accurate off the tee and a decent putter, you should be able to score quite well. The course is a wonderful design and maintenanced to perfection. If you’re in the area of Provo, Utah, make a trip up to HC. It will be worth the $36 (with cart no less) to play it.
Click here for the Hobble Creek Golf Course photo gallery
Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive. Matchplay!
It’s club championship season now. My main club (only club this year instead of 3 clubs last year) is in the midst of it’s match play run. Our champ flight started with 16 players and now it’s down to 4.
I came into the bracket as the #1 seed as the returning 2005 champion. Yesterday was my 2nd match (obviously I won my first). This cat that I played had a bizarre swing. I think it was Bobby Jones (or was hit Hogan…..no wait.. it was Harvey Penick) who said “beware of the guy with the strange swing.” Harvey was right.
#1: Our match started out with me knocking my approach shot on the #1 par 5 to two feet in heavy head winds. I was in great shape until my opponent almost jarred his 3rd for eagle and had a 1″ birdie putt.
#2: 2 is a 468 yard par 4. Fortunately we were now playing with a huge tail wind so my drive ended up at 95 yards. Yeah a 372 yard drive, just don’t mention the tail wind. I knock my lob to about 4 feet and make birdie. I’m one up.
#3: Par 3 at about 180 yards. I flew the green into deep rough and can’t get up and down after lipping out my par putt (lip outs will be the theme). My opponent makes par. Even.
#4: Par 4, 435 yards down wind. I go 4-iron 9-iron 2-putt for par. Opponent bogeys after going in the left hazard. I’m one up.
#5: Par 5 back into the wind. I hit a good wind drive and then hook a 3 wood into the hazard. By the way, this course has hazards on seemingly all sides of all the holes. I hit an amazing lob with the ball above my feet in deep rough to a couple of feet and tie my opponent’s par to stay one up.
#6. Down wind par 3 and I blow my 7-iron right of the green. I chip out of the deep rough and the ball takes off and ends up all the way off the other side of the green. Thankfully my opponent drains his birdie putt so I don’t have to grind. Even.
#7. Down wind par 4. My opponent hits first and in my opinion pulls a bad club, his driver. He blows his driver into the rough (it’s all deep here). I hit 4-iron to the middle of the fairway. I hit PW past the pin and make birdie while my opponent bogeys. I’m one up.
#8. Par 3 into the wind. I blow another par 3 tee shot right with the same club I did on #6. I’m pin high and chipping from long rough. I lip out about a 4 footer and make bogey. Even.
#9. Par 4 into the wind. I hit a good driver and have a lob wedge into the green as does my opponent. We both par and we’re even after 9 holes.
Here’s where it gets interesting. The course we were playing is very tough. The front 9 is much tougher than the back and I shot 2 over. We go to play the back 9 but there’s a big ladies tournament called “Chicks with sticks” playing a shotgun. The back is closed. We end up having to play the front again to finish the match!
#10 (#1). The wind is howling now on this par 5 and somehow I manage to hit a drive so far it goes into a water hazard. I’m hitting my 3rd shot from 230. I get up and down for a 6 but so does my opponent who also had a hazard ball. All square still.
#11 (#2). That long par 4 downwind remember? I swing out of my shoes because I want to beat my 372 yard drive from before. I hook it into the crap instead. I misjudge the tail wind with a SW from 130 and end up short. But I do get up and down for par. My opponent blades his approach way over the green and makes a terrible birdie chip which ends up about 25 feet above the hole. He drains that clutch putt to keep the match square.
#12 (#3). Par 3 downwind. I knock an easy 7 onto the green and my opponent misses the green. He can’t get up and down and I two putt to go one up.
#13 (#4). I chunk a 5 iron badly but hit the fairway down wind. My opponent blows his tee shot about 100 yards past mine. I miss the green and can’t get up and down. He two putts for par to win the hole. All square.
#14 (#5). Par 5 into the wind. I remembered #5 last time and made sure my 3-wood stayed in play, barely. I took a free drop off the cart path and lucked out because the ball kept going closer to the hole when I dropped it. So rather than getting a terrible lie I was able to place the ball. Thanks to that great placement I chipped a great lob to about a foot and made birdie to go one up. Tight match eh?
#15 (#6). Par 3 down wind. I remembered blowing my 7 right last time so I aimed left a bit and hit a good shot to the center of the green. Now I’m thinking fairways and greens, let him mess up. We both hit the green. I lip out a birdie putt which would have really put the hurt on him but it wasn’t to be. I’m still one up and there are 3 holes to go.
#16 (#7). Par 4 down wind. I birdied last time with a 4-iron off the tee so no reason to change now. I split the fairway. I took a very conservative 8-iron to assure I’d have an uphill birdie putt. Fairways and greens right? I did hit the green but it was way too conservative and I had about a 40 foot putt. I end up 3 jacking to hand him the hole. Nothing ticks me off more than 3 jacking, nothing. All square with 2 holes to go and the nerves are kicking in.
#17 (#8). Since my opponent won the last hole he had the honor. He pulled his tee shot into the left green side bunker on this par 3. I hit a solid 8 iron to the middle of the green (fairways and greens right?). I two putt for par and he bogeys after hitting his sand shot too long. One up with one to play.
#18 (#9). I’m really thinking fairways and greens. I’m very calm and relaxed in match play and I can keep it under control usually. My opponent was starting to melt under the pressure and he blew a drive into a right hazard but was able to find his ball. I hit a smooth punch driver to about 100 yards out in the fairway (fairways and greens). He makes surprisingly solid contact out of a terrible lie in the hazard and actually flies over the green. He’s got a near impossible up and down with probably the fastest downhill chip on the course. I punch a lob wedge to about 15 feet above the hole. My opponent ends up making a double and I par to win my 2nd match of the year.
I’m now in the semi-finals, or the final 4 (whatever you want to call it). The remaining players are all very good sticks. In fact I’m probably the highest handi of all of them at a 2.
Can I repeat as club champ again? Stay tuned…
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