golfblogger.com has an excellent book review section. Check it out.
In browsing golfblogger.com I took his recommendation and purchased the book “The Plane Truth for Golfers” by Jim Hardy. While I was at it I picked up Harvey Penick’s Little Blue Book. I can’t wait to check them both out. My favorite golf book of all is Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book.
There are many golf world legends I would have loved to meet and Penick is one of them. My all time would be Bobby Jones.
Randy Massey AND his step mother Terry Massey both aced the eighth hole at the Painted Dunes Desert Course in El Paso Texas.
The odds of two players in a foursome acing the same hole are 17,000,000/1.
I’ve added a few new links to my golf blog roll lately. If you have a golf blog that I don’t have in my roll let me know.
–>Chicagoland Golfing (Not a blog, but a forum)
–>Saguaro Open is fairly new with a good edge to his posts.
–>Texas Golf is also new to me. Lets get them a new blogger template!
–>Sir Hacks A Lot (just found it through Texas golf!) They need a blogroll though.
–>Jay Flemma is now posting in his old blogspot address as well as Travel Golf.
–>Sir Shanks A Lot a robust golf blog with lots of info. No golf blogroll though.
OK, now I’m going to call out you golf bloggers who are slacking on your blogs right now. If you are a slacker you either haven’t been posting, you haven’t linked to other golf blogs in your posts and/or you don’t have a golf blogroll:
–>I love Musey, but where is she? No posts since April 14th?
–>Ambidextrigolf has no posts since July 2004.
–>My pal Jason at Carlsbad Confidential has been shut down by “the man.” Welcome to corporate America. They say they’ll open a “corporate blog” but isn’t that a bit of a contradiction? Jason, join us here!
–>No Three Putts has taken up running and isn’t golf blogging as much. No posts since April 29. Come on man, keep the faith.
–>The Golf Blog is the self proclaimed #1 golf blog. That may be true, but they have no golf blogroll. Nor do they link to other golf blogs. Shame shame. The world IS big enough for us all.
–>I took Fore Right off my roll because of no updates since the “I wanna be a tranny!” post on Feb 10th.
OK folks, kick it into gear!
Mesquite Nevada is turning into a golf mecca. Let me rephrase that. Mesquite Nevada IS a golf mecca. Mesquite is about an hour NE of Vegas on I15. Why someone would drop $200-300 on a round in Vegas when they can go to Mesquite or even St. George Utah to golf is beyond me.
Here are a couple of snaps of a new course that just opened there called Falcon Ridge that my dad snapped when he was there last week.
I had to make these two pics small so they don’t screw up the format of the blog here. If you want to see bigger versions of these pics and a bunch of other cool golf course pics (including Augusta National) CLICK HERE to go to the golf photo album on my other site: Web Country Club
Yesterday I had a very busy day between playing 18 holes (and getting my clock cleaned), and visiting 3 different mothers and grandmothers for Mother’s Day. When I got home I had the thrilling task of defrosting my refrigerator. While defrosting I started to watch the final round of the Wachovia on my TIVO about about 9pm. I had intentionally not watched the TV or checked the status of the PGA so that I could enjoy the theater more.
Sergio came into the final round in control. This was a great chance for him to notch a victory against a very strong field including Tiger, Vijay, Phil and others. In a previous post I mentioned that I wasn’t quite sure Sergio was ready for the challenge. So I guess I’m tooting my own horn because it was obvious that he was not. He was visibly nervous. He hit some terrible shots under pressure (and an amazing 2 iron as well). He also made some poor course management choices.
Imagine the pressure Sergio was feeling as he was leaking oil on the course as Vijay and Furyk were hot on his tail. He still put himself in position to win the tournament on the last hole but failed to close it out with a birdie. This forced a 3 man playoff between him, Vijay and Furyk.
This is where my post changes from the PGA to a TIVO rant. At the point in time where the playoff was to begin it was midnight my time. My fridge was just about defrosted and I was about to become frosted. They get to the first playoff tee box and Vijay tees his ball up. Then my TIVO stops. It has come to the end of the recording! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! The originally scheduled program was scheduled to end at this time, and the TIVO wasn’t smart enough to continue recording the extended coverage of the playoff. After 3-4 hours of watching this tournament I then had to jump on the net only to find out that there was a 4 hole playoff. What a bummer. I need to tell the TIVO to record the program AFTER the PGA just in case I guess.
Sergio got knocked out on the first playoff hole. Then Furyk and Singh went 3 more before Singh was victorious. I wish I could have seen the playoff.
Now with another victory Singh strengthens his bid for player of the year. Think he’ll win it? Vote in the poll and we’ll see if the “pundits” are correct this time.
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