GPS reviews
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment
I’m hoping to get my hands on some golf GPS units to review for you. But until then, you can see some reviews over at GPS Review.
Eat Bogey Hooked Lounge Golf Blog
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Categories: Golf Media • Miscellaneous • Site News
Categories: Golf Media • Miscellaneous • Site News
In case you missed it, here’s a shot Rich from Eat Golf took with his new camera. I about fell out of my chair when I saw this pic at the bottom of a looong string of wildlife pix on Rich’s site. Hopefully eagles will be flying for me this year. But apparently a certain PGA pro commented on the site saying that would be the only eagle I’ll have this year. Well, pal… I’m not afraid of you. Sure you’re a pro, but I’ll take you on any day. Bring it on.
I had to get Eat somehow. I did an extensive search of the web to find a photo of Rich I could work with but came up with nothing. So I slipped in this little logo for a couple of seconds.
Our buddy Bogey Man picked up on this whole thing and posted the eagle pic. So for his efforts in spreading my eagle head pic around, I’ve added his logo to this mess:
Chat with the Cleveland rep
I had a nice chat with the local Cleveland rep a few days ago. Cool guy. Some reps that work for really big golf companies that start with the letter “T” don’t even seem to want to give you the time of day. This guy not only have me the time of day, he and I swapped golf war stories for a good half an hour.
The two of us came up with a fun new game to try on the course. The “18 hole, press every hole” bet. If your normal bet is $2, then you start a new $2 bet on each hole.
I told the rep about my web sites and what I do and he asked if Cleveland ever sent me gear to review. I gave him some grief on that. I let him know that plenty of the other manufacturers do, but all Cleveland provides me with is press releases.
I asked him if Cleveland had any cool new stuff coming out this year. He said they were standing pat with the success of their current lineup. They’re moving the price down on their Launcher 460 comp so that it would be in the range of the very successful G2 and G5 by Ping.
I asked about Vijay’s driver. This is the one he just switched to and is supposedly knocking it even farther. Is that even possible? The rep told me there was nothing really going on with that club for now, but perhaps there might be some news in the summer.
Cleveland update complete.
Bridgestone coming out with two new balls
I’ve gotten to know the local Bridgestone rep over the last half a year or so. He’s not your prototypical golf rep. He’s a young dude, shaved head and one of those Vijay under the lip hair things. He looks like he could be the vocalist for Disturbed.
He got me some Precept Laddie Extreme balls last summer and I did a small post on them. The best $20/dozen balls I’ve played for sure. The word is now that they’re $15. Smokin’.
I mentioned the Extreme’s to him and he told me they were coming out with two more balls, the e5 and e6. One is a “distance” ball and and the other a “distance & spin” ball. I asked him how you could have both distance and spin since most opinions are that you can’t have both. He told me that the ball was as long as any he’d hit, and it had major spin around the greens.
The kicker, is these going to be priced in the CHEAP category. Even poor hackers can afford good golf balls these days.
Kiwi speaks
Kiwi’s blog “Kiwi Hacker” is up and running! Kiwi is a good guy and active on many of the golf forums. He’s got a nice, original way of presenting his takes from down under. Go check it out.
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