Week #1 of the HOG Fantasy League is in the books! We have a winner! Congratulations to Keith who is the winner of a Golf Dust Tune Up Kit! (Keith, I need your address).
It’s not too late to get in on the fun and you can easily still win the grand prize, a Taylormade r7 425 Driver, or the many other prizes. See the fantasy page here for details.
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While reading one of my favorite golf blogs, golfblogger, I found out today is the 35th anniversary of the golf shot on the moon. Cool nugget.
The PGA Tour season is still very young, but so far I’ve loved every bit of it. There seems to be some magic in the air this year. Maybe I’m just a golf addict finally getting his fix, but every tournament this year has had some interesting and entertaining component. This week’s FBR Open was no different.
The FBR is the most rowdy and most crowded (over 500,000 for the week) tournament on the PGA Tour. The crowd was very entertained (as was I) by the sheer power of rookie J.B. Holmes. I thought Bubba Watson was a bomber, but Holmes is insane. 350+ yard drives which carry bunkers that are 320 out by 20 yards? Whoa. The fact that he hits the ball so far is amazing, but even more amazing is that he’s got half a back swing and doesn’t appear to even cock his wrists. His back swing goes back about 130 degrees less than Mickelson or Daly and he knocks it 20-30 yards farther.
Palmer Meltdown
The final round at the FBR found Holmes paired with Ryan Palmer who brought a 2 shot lead into the back 9. Palmer succumbed to the pressure faded away. It was hard to watch palmer knocking balls into the drink as he lost it.
Short game
Lost in all the googling over Holmes’ length are some other stats which are keys to his victory however. His putting average was 1.66 and his GIR was 69.4%. Even better was his scrambling which was 81.8%.
Tiger comparisons already?
Yes this 7 shot victory for Holmes was awesome. Yes he appears to be an amazing player. But the announcers jumped the gun a bit in comparing Holmes to Tiger. Hold on fellas. Holmes has only won ONE tournament. He’s been on tour for less than 2 months. He’s going to have to prove himself over a more extended period of time before comparing him to the likes of Tiger is warranted.
It’s been a long time since my team won the Super Bowl. Since the 70’s to be exact. So congrats to the Steelers and Jerome Bettis. I loved watching Bettis play at Notre Dame and I’ve love watching his style of smash mouth football in the NFL.
Congrats Steelers!
I’ve added a new category. I can’t believe it took me this long to do it. The new cat is “Life.” How the heck can your slogan be “Golf, life. In that order” and not even have a “life” category? I’ll have to retroactively move some posts in there but for now here’s the first one for the “life” category:
GO STEELERS
I’m not a bandwagon jumper. The Steelers have been my favorite team since I was a kid. Those were the days of Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Swan, Mean Joe Green, Rocky Blier and the rest.
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