Thanks for the Award, But

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, August 29th, 2016
Categories: Boneheads • Golf
Tags: Golf Blog • Golf Blogs

top100 I’ve gotten a couple of these nice emails in the last couple of weeks. Yes HOG has won yet another award. My digital shelf is full of them. Glad it’s just digital. This one quoted below is very typical. I receive an unsolicited email from some person and site I’ve never heard of who has this top 10 list or top something list, and HOG is on it. I’m supposed to get all excited about it and post my award, and of course the LINK BACK to the list. That’s the key right there, the link back. This is just link trolling. I’m not a fan of links trolls, so to speak.

Hi Hooked On Golf Team,

My name is Anuj Agarwal. I’m Founder of Feedspot.

I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog Hooked On Golf Blog has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 100 Golf Blogs on the web.

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I personally give you a high-five and want to thank you for your contribution to this world. This is the most comprehensive list of Top 100 Golf Blog on the internet and I’m honored to have you as part of this!

Also, you have the honor of displaying the following badge on your blog. Use the below code to display this badge proudly on your blog.

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Out of curiosity I decided to look at the list. Between popups asking me for my email address I was thrilled, yeah right, to find out that I was in 31st place! I had no idea there were even 31 golf blogs in existence. A deeper look at the list had me laughing. Let’s look at a few:

#1 on the list is Golf Channel’s Golf Central Blog. To me this does not qualify as this is a major golf media outlet. Same with #3, ESPN.

#3 is Reddit? Really? That’s not a blog.

#5 is the “Rules of Golf” blog? I’ve never heard of it. They have a whopping zero facebook followers and 635 twitter followers. Impressive. And their Alexa Ranking (more on this later) is 743,000.

Golfsmith is in there. Not a blog.

My Golf Spy is in there. Not a blog. It’s a forum.

GolfNow.com is in there. Not a blog. It’s a discount tee time platform.

“Turf Diseases” comes in at #9. Yes, the widely popular blog Turf Diseases. LOL.

The Golf Channel’s YouTube channel came in at #17 with an Alexa ranking of 2. Well, that’s YouTube’s Alexa ranking but who’s counting?

Other companies in there who simply sell products but are being called blogs include Odyssey Golf, Your Golf Travel, Ben Hogan Golf Company, Northern California Golf Association, Hyde Park Golf and Country Club Grounds Department, Shipsticks…

Alexa Ranking

Funny thing is that one of their criteria is Alexa ranking. Sounds great except the only computers that have Alexa on them are ones in which the user has specifically installed Alexa, and it only works on Internet Explorer, which now has roughly 1/4 of the browser market. The only reason IE has any market share at all is because Windows machines come with IE as the default browser.

Part of the criteria other than the faulty Alexa one is Twitter and Facebook followers. Well I have over 8000 followers, but they show HOG has having ZERO.

Conclusion

If you take away all the golf club companies, travel companies, sports entities like Golf Channel and filter out the list to true golf bloggers and filter out all the noise, HOG moves up to #1. Probably a tie with Golf Blogger really. Neck and neck.

Tweet of the Month

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 27th, 2016
Categories: Golf
Tags: Balcomie Links • Crail • Scotland

Tony @TheGolfSpace & @HOGGOLFBLOG contemplates #golf on legendary links @CrailGolf #standrews with @caddiegolftours pic.twitter.com/K5T9sTQMLs

— John Boyne (@caddiegolftours) August 27, 2016

Thanks to John Boyne and Caddie Golf Tours for the great tweet, the great friendship, and the great memories.

Call Me Señor Senior

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 27th, 2016
Categories: Golf • Hackers

Amateur golf tournament season is winding down here in northern Utah. I’m playing one of the last tournaments of this year a little later this morning. It’s the club championship at Bonneville, one of my home courses. I didn’t realize it was club championship weekend and I didn’t plan on playing in the 36-hole, two-day championship because, well, I’m not going to shoot two rounds of 66. So I’d just be donating.

But my buddies signed me up for the “Saturday” portion of the event. I came to find out the club also has a “Senior Championship.” I qualify now, at 50. So “what the hell?” I’m thinking. I’m not going to beat the 22 year old flat-belly college scholarship guys on the University of Utah golf team, but maybe I have a chance against the old farts.

Bonneville Golf Course Aerial Photo by Tony Korologos

Weekend Warrior Golf T-Shirts

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, August 25th, 2016
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: golf shirt

I need some casual shirts to wear around HOG World Headquarters while writing or shooting gear pictures. You know, something comfortable and golf related. Enter Weekend Warrior golf tees.

I needed a tee shirt that says “golf” with the Old Course in St Andrews in the background!

These tees are 100% cotton. I’m not big on cotton anymore. I prefer polys and spandex over cotton because of the durability, easy care, and the fact that they don’t shrink. That said these tees are very comfortable and fun.

“Kid, get out of my picture.”

(Above) While shooting the picture of the “birdie” shirt some neighborhood kid photo-bombed me…

I love the golf themed shirts. I even got one for the little guy, Seve. He’s still a little too small for it but he loves to wear his beard tee shirt over his jammies.

Beard Tee Shirt – XS

These tees are fun. Best of luck to Weekend Warrior and let me know when you get some non-cotton shirts in. I’d love to feature them.

Thanks all for your concern. I’m Okay. I’m not the Utahn stabbed for slow play on the golf course.

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
Categories: Boneheads • Golf
Tags: Utah • Utah Golf

My email, Facebook, and Twitter are lighting up with concern from around the world. I’m thankful to have so many friends in the golf industry. Apparently the big news the last couple of days is that a golfer was stabbed here in our lovely state, an incident involving slow play.

So speed it up!

The golf course was Payson Golf Course, a course which isn’t close to me. I’ve never played it. Probably never will now. This is from the Salt Lake Tribune:

Payson • Police say a 61-year-old Utah man is accused of stabbing another man for golfing too slowly.

KUTV reports that the man and his wife were golfing Saturday night when they got into an argument on the course with other players.

Payson police said the couple thought the group was going too slowly and wanted to play ahead of them.

The man reportedly used a pocket knife to stab another man and was wrestled to the ground by another golfer after the couple encountered the group again near the ninth hole.

The victim had a small cut and was taken to a hospital for the non life-threatening injury

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