Harvey Penick was a blogger, he just didn’t know it

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, July 8th, 2005
Categories: Golf Instruction • Golf Media • Miscellaneous • Reviews

littlebluebook If you don’t know who Harvey Penick is you are missing out. Harvey Penick is probably the most famous golf instructor of all time. For decades he was the instructor at Austin Country Club. Many of the most famous pros ever to play golf have studied with him (Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw etc). If you recall Crenshaw’s latest (and tearful) Masters victory, that was right after Penick passed away.

Harvey’s most famous book is HARVEY PENICK’S LITTLE RED BOOK. For years Harvey jotted down short thoughts about golf and life in a little red note book… Golf, life (in that order). Hey wow. That wasn’t intentional. There was no real order to his thoughts, they were just random thoughts put to paper in a journal form. If what he did in his book was on the net, it would be a blog.

Harvey’s writing style is so great, you feel like he is there with you telling the stories.

While browsing Golf Blogger one day, I ordered The Plane Truth and for the hell of it picked up Harvey’s Little Blue Book : Game for a Lifetime : More Lessons and Teachings.

I started reading last night when I was quite tired. But I woke right up and got about 100 pages into it before I forced myself to go to sleep. This book has more great stories and thoughts but they are a little longer and more detailed. There are many stories about specific players he taught worked with, along with some excellent golf course architecture thoughts and rants. (Jay).

I strongly recommend getting your hands on ANYTHING from Harvey Penick.

Jay ends up at Golf Observer – Golf Observer observed

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, July 8th, 2005
Categories: Golf Media

Jay Flemma has announced his new location as a staff writer at Golf Observer. Though I haven’t frequented Golf Observer very often, that will apparently change now. 🙂 Best of luck Jay. I’ll be linking to your posts regularly as I always have!

My first impressions of GO is that it seems to be a decent golf site with one exception: Their forums are TERRIBLE! You’d think with all the sponsorships they apparently have from Titleist they’d put in a better forum system…

So dear Golf Observer. Please check out these golf forums as a better example of what a golf forum should look like.

1. Web Country Club. My forum (OK I’m a little biased here but go join the fun!).
2. removed.
3. Shot Talk.
4. Bogey Lounge Forum.
5. My Golf Domain.

There are a bunch of others out there…

Are you a hacker?

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Categories: Hackers

The latest HOGB poll asks what handicap would you consider to be a “hacker.” Take a vote and let’s see who the hackers really are!

Introducing PRO TIPS!

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
Categories: Golf Instruction • Hackers • Pro Tips

Byron Utley I’d like to introduce a new feature here called “Pro Tips.”

I’ve gotten together with the assistant pro at my club Byron Utley (right) to bring you some quick instruction and game improvement drills. We’d like to do one pro tip per week, but busy schedules may not allow that to happen. We’ll do them as often as we can.

This week’s pro tip addresses swing path/plane in an effort to prevent “casting” and coming too far outside in on your swing. This tip will help prevent you from blocking, slicing or dead pulling. It will also help you hit a nice little draw.

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