Day 2
Greetings from my hotel which just happens to have a free wireless internet connection! It’s day 2 of my trip and day one of 6 straight days of golf. If I’m this tired now, I have no idea how I’m going to survive the next few days. I am beat. At least all my clothes and car smell good since my brand new bottle of Hummer cologne completely leaked all over all them during the drive last night. My socks never smelled so good.
Last night I rolled into St. George Utah and stayed with a golf buddy who brought his travel trailer. I didn’t get any food for dinner but fortunately my pal had some cheese curds and donuts…dinner of champions.
We camped in Snow Canyon which is a spectacular little canyon near an awesome golf course called Entrada. We woke up before sunrise (you do that when you’re “camping”). The moon was just coming up over the red rock plateau above our camp site (see pic).
The round today had some crazy happenings. On the first hole alone we had a broken club, a chip in birdie and a snowman. Unfortunately, the snowman was mine. The round took FOREVER. 6 hours to be exact. The course was packed for the nice weather and there where hackers everywhere. 6 hours is terrible.
We played many individual bets, team bets, skins and a Chicago. Thanks to my buddy with the travel trailer chipping in for eagle on the last hole, we won many of our two man bets and most importantly the Chicago. All the players chipped in $10 to a pot so we call got some cashola back. I also won a skin with a par on a difficult par 4. All in all I must have won about $60-70 in bets.
I won some bets but played very badly. I hope to play better tomorrow… I’ll post an update tomorrow evening.
Oh, and my fantasy team this week stinks! Both my A players missed the cut as well as several of my B and C players. I have hardly any players to play…
7 day golf vacation kicks off today!
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Categories: Golf Courses • Hackers • Life • Miscellaneous • Site News
Categories: Golf Courses • Hackers • Life • Miscellaneous • Site News
7 Days
3 States
6 Courses
135 Holes
1 Man
3 States
6 Courses
135 Holes
1 Man
(OK, I ripped off Jay Flemma’s idea for that intro text…) Hi friends. I’m so excited to get out of the frozen tundra here to where it’s going to be 70+ degrees and sunny!
I’m off to golf with about 16 of my closest friends in Southern Utah. We play 18 at Green Spring tomorrow, 27 at Sunbrook (they have 27) Saturday, 18-27 at St. George Golf Club Sunday and 18 at Coral Canyon on Monday.
That’s not all though! Monday after the round at Coral Canyon I hop in my car and drive to Southern California to hook up with the man, the legend: EatGolf. Eat and I will be joined by golf blog buddy Luke Swilor for a round at Moorpark CC on Tuesday at 11:04am.
Wednesday I plan on sneaking in a round of golf either in Primm Nevada or in Mesquite.
All in the name of research
During this trip I’ll be catching up on most of my current set of reviews. The following items will be covered:
Introducing Mike Pedersen
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Categories: Golf Fitness • Pro Tips • Site News
Categories: Golf Fitness • Pro Tips • Site News
There are some subjects I’m simply not qualified enough to cover here. (The peanut gallery can keep it’s comments to itself). Strength and fitness are certainly categories that I don’t know much about. But strength and fitness are going to become more and more important for me (I’m not getting any younger), and it’s certainly an area that can help improve my game if I put some work into it.
I’d like to introduce Mike Pedersen. Mike is the web’s foremost golf fitness guru (yes you have to be a guru of some sort to write for this web site). Mike will be providing us with some great articles on strength, fitness, training, flexibility and much more. His first article will be posted today!
Mike also has several web sites of his own and some great products to help you with your game. Check out Perform Better Golf for more info.
New club making forum
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment
A press release from some golf business pals of mine:
New ClubmakingFORUM.com Offers Direct Talk with Golf Equipment Manufacturers
AUSTIN, Texas — Golf’s only wire service solely dedicated to clubmaking, ClubmakingWIRE proudly introduces an exciting, new addition to its ‘Direct-to-Clubmaker’ strategy — ClubmakingFORUM.com, an all-new web site delivering direct communication between component manufacturers and custom clubmakers.
Would someone please give my friend Luke $6000?
My buddy Luke Swilor is an aspiring pro. He can play. I’ve witnessed it in person. But in order to get into certain mini tours or events he needs dough. Specifically there’s a great tour he can get into, but he needs to front $6000. If he plays well he’ll get his dough back plus much more.
So any of you golf companies or just generous individuals want to invest in a young golfer and give him a chance? We don’t need one company to pony up $6K if we can get perhaps 10 to put in $600? Just a thought. We could chronicle his progress here and of course on his site.
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