Rory McIlory has a few options at this point, following throwing his club into the lake as per Rules of Golf 32.0A-3-A-Niner-6969, subsection B-989-E-Bravo-Niner.
- He can play a new club from the same position he threw the last one under penalty of one throw.
- He could drop a club within two club lengths of where the club entered the water hazard and throw a new club under penalty of one throw.
- Finally, he could take the point in which the club entered the hazard and drop a new club as far back as he wants, in line with the pin, under penalty of one throw.
Yesterday I posted the first look of the 3Bays GSA (golf swing analyzer) Pro. It is a small bluetooth device which attaches to a golf club and sends data to a smartphone or tablet running iOS or Android. The smartphone/tablet contains software which analyzes the swing data and produces all sorts of useful graphics and technical data on the swing.
3Bays also has a putting analyzer called the GSA Putt. Like the GSA Pro, the Putt unit logs lots of great putting stroke data and displays it on the smart device (2nd image). Below is the sensor unit attached to my recently cork gripped putter.
3Bays GSA Putt
And a sample screenshot of one analysis screen.
3Bays GSA Putt Analysis
Weather permitting I’ll be working on both my 3Bays GSA Pro review and 3Bays GSA Pro Putt review and posting as soon as possible. Stay tuned.
Life is good. Today is yet another day I can confidently say I will not get caught with my pants down. Today is my first round of “testing” the new Beltology Silver Spoon belt. So far my pants (actually shorts), are perfectly situated!
The Silver Spoon belt features a waxed cotton material that’s slightly stretchy. It has leather trim and a polished nickel buckle. I really dig the stretchy part, and the fact that you can secure the belt on any size, rather than being limited to where the hole punches are. After a 12″ italian sub, or three days of constipation, it is nice to be able to take the edge off a bit.
TMI?
Stay tuned for my full review of this nice belt soon.
I can’t wait to see how the new 3Bays GSA (Golf Swing Analyzer) Pro handles my dual chicken wing granny over the top epileptic seizure massive weight shift outside in but clubface square mega steep golfer’s elbow causing golf swing. The GSA Pro is a device that attaches to the end of the golf grip and through bluetooth sends swing information to a smartphone or tablet. That information is then used to show swing data which is useful for the golfer.
3Bays GSA Pro Golf Swing Analyzer
Below is a pic from 3Bays showing some of the data as it is displayed in the app:
Swing Analysis
It is awesome to see where technology has gone with regards to things like this. 10 years ago a swing analyzer might have cost $30,000. Now a better system is under $199!
I’ll be starting up my review process soon. Stay tuned for the full article.
A few days ago I did a “first look” post for Cork Tree, a company that makes some cool cork putter grips. I do these first look posts to help get the word out about the products I receive, very quickly after I receive them. I often take quite a long time on my reviews, since I take them seriously unlike other fly-by sites. So the reviews can take a while. The first look gives my readers a teaser to spark some interest, and gives the company that sent in the product some web juice while I’m doing my more lengthy review process.
As usual, I distribute links to the posts on all the social networks I have, including Twitter. I was thrilled to see that my retweeted first look tweet (yes sounds ridiculous) had some 1,400 favorites and 1,400 retweets.
Those numbers blew away my previous best, which were maybe just 100 or 200. I thought it was a little funky that this tweet had so much action though. The tweet is from Cork Tree’s twitter, and they only have 227 followers as of today’s date. How could a Twitter account with 227 followers generate such interaction?
Out of curiosity I looked at a few of their other tweets and noticed a very interesting pattern. Many tweets would have no action, or perhaps 3-4 retweets or favorites. Then there would be a tweet with 1.4K favorites and 1.4K retweets. Hmmm. A little fishy. The numbers of retweets/favorites on these “popular” tweets is almost always 1,384, or 3-4 tweets above that. This smells as fishy as Ian Poulter’s five balls in the water last week.
Magic number 1,384
I’m not going to say that Cork Tree is engaging in some kind of social networking fraud. I don’t care. Maybe some bot or some hacker who is trying to help them is behind this.
Either way, I’ll be reviewing the Cork grip soon. Can’t wait to see how many retweets that one gets.
My guess is it will be 1,384.
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