Rukket Sports Golf Chipping Target and Range Marker

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, January 16th, 2015
Categories: Golf • Golf Accessories • Golf For Women • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: Rukket Sports

Rukket_Chipping_Net_6 Rukket Sports makes some very cool practice nets for all sorts of sports, not just golf. I have several now, like the full swing golf practice net I reviewed a while back. Perhaps the most important net for my game is now erected in my house, a short game practice net. I’m a 1.5 handicap with the short game of a 27 handicapper. If I could get that short game straightened out, I’d be a decent golfer. Perhaps this net is the ticket, and a bunch of practice this winter.

The Rukket short game net is really cool. It has three pockets the balls can be hit into for accuracy and trajectory practice. The sides collect mis-hit shots, or shots which are not on a perfect line.

The net can be set up outside (first picture above), or used inside like the picture below.

Indoor golf chipping practice…

Outdoor golf chipping practice…

The other side of the net can serve as a short game yardage marker. Below you can see several pictures of the net, configured with different numbers from 50 yards to 150 yards.

Critiques

One problem I have with this net is the spikes which secure it into the ground. The plastic is weak. If you don’t push perfectly straight down, you’ll snap the spike just like the one below.

No, I wasn’t trying to spike the net into my carpet…

Conclusion

At about $35, this is a no-brainer golf accessory. Having a fun way of practicing short game in the back yard or inside the house/office is fantastic.

New FootJoy Hyperflex Golf Shoe Revealed

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, January 15th, 2015
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Gear • Site News
Tags: FootJoy • Golf Shoes

FootJoy’s latest golf shoe has officially been revealed as of today. Check out the new Hyperflex golf shoes.

FootJoy Hyperflex Golf Shoe – click to see more

I’ll be putting these new FootJoy Hyperflex golf shoes into play as soon as the snow melts, and posting my review after several rounds. Stay tuned. If any sites post reviews about these shoes this week, don’t trust them. You can’t review a golf shoe in two days.

FootJoy Hyperflex Golf Shoes – click to see more

Footjoy Hyperflex Golf Shoe – click to see more

For more shots of these cool looking golf shoes, check out the Hooked On Golf Blog FootJoy Hyperflex photo gallery.

Hottest Bar & Restaurant in Bogota, Colombia – Andrés Carne de Res

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Categories: Golf For Women • Golf Life • HOG World Tour • Miscellaneous • Reviews • Travel • Web.com Tour
Tags: Bogota • Colombia • Golf Travel

Since it is winter here, I’m going through the HOG World Tour archives and weeding out any reviews and photos which have gotten lost in the queue. One such review is of the most hopping, happening, coolest, wildest, craziest bar and restaurant in Bogota, Colombia: Andrés Carne de Res. This is like an indoor version New Orleans’ Mardi Gras, every night of the week!

One of many floors, packed with guests who are having a great time at Andres

Andrés Carne de Res is five stories of restaurant and bar, packed with hundreds of people at all times. The food is great, with separate mini kitchens on each floor. Each floor also can be home of one or several bars. Below is but ONE bar of many in the building. Looks like the wine selection will work for me…

Do you have Coors? I didn’t think so…

Part of the craziness that is Andres is the actors, ventriloquists (photo below), and musicians who float around and perform at each table.

Performers come to each table to entertain the guests at Andres…

Hello ladies! Why are you cupping your breasts?

Andrés Carne de Res was truly an experience of a lifetime. If you are ever in Bogota, Colombia, you MUST get to Andrés Carne de Res. I just realized I got this far and haven’t even mentioned the awesome Colombian food, drinks, and appetizers!

Fantastic and unique appetizers and food, Colombian style

Web.com Tour

The Web.com Tour stops in Bogota in the first couple of weeks of each season. Those of you who are golfers, golf media, players, or caddies on the Web.com Tour should be sure to stop in and have fun and food at Andrés Carne de Res when you are in town for the Web.com Tour’s Colombia Championship.

Related Links

Andrés Carne de Res photo gallery

La Cima Club de Golf – Golf at 10,000 Feet in the Colombian Andes Mountains

Gold Museum – Bogota, Colombia

Country Club de Bogota Golf Course Review

Parts of Forthcoming FootJoy Golf Shoe Revealed

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Categories: Golf Apparel • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Site News
Tags: FootJoy

This is fun. Last year around this same time FootJoy sent in several packages, each a small component in a new shoe design. Eventually I had enough parts to put together one shoe. That single shoe I sewed together myself with my mom’s antique Sears sewing machine didn’t work well on the course, but the pair of FootJoy DNA‘s I eventually received ended up being my gamer golf shoes ALL YEAR LONG. In fact, I’m still playing them. They helped me take second in the City Amateur, and to WIN my club championship in 2014. They will be tough shoes to bump out of gamer status, but I get the feeling there’s a new contender coming soon…

New FootJoy Shoe – January 2015

This year a similar set of boxes has been arriving and above is a teaser photo of two of the shoe’s components. Obviously the left part is the sole, with soft spikes and such. The other part with the wild looking mesh? We will find out what that is soon…

Get Boob Ready – Worst Golf Initiatives and Slogans for 2015

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, January 12th, 2015
Categories: Boneheads • Golf Media • Miscellaneous

Golf media has really gone downhill. The major publications like Golf Digest and Golf Magazine have resorted to posting slutty pictures of the “hottest women in golf” and all sorts of lowest common denominator trash, just to generate viewers. Its not about golf, its about tits and ass, and getting the easy hits. Yes, the fix-your-slice articles and top-100 lists have taken a back seat to boobs.

FORE! Can I play through?

Golf marketing is not much better. Golf marketing companies, golf organizations, and major manufacturers come up with all sorts of stupid slogans and ways of bastardizing the game under the guise of “growing golf.” Their motivation is making money. They don’t care about ruining the game. They care about the bottom line, selling more drivers or keeping their organization afloat.

The last year or so has seen some really dumb slogans, ideas, and ways of bastardizing the game in the name of growing it, like Hack Golf, Foot Golf, Golf 2.0, Get Golf Ready. None of these things really work, they’re just this year’s buzz phrases, soon to be forgotten when the next buzz-phrase is coined at the next PGA Merchandise Show.

Boy I sure love golf. Don’t you?

Where am I going with this? The PGA Show is coming up and it is a new year. Soon we will be hearing the next buzz words and phrases. Here are a few of the worst golf marketing phrases and slogans for 2015, keeping boobs, ass, and dumb ways of “growing the game” in mind.

Foreplay

Like the play on words? Fore-play. Such genius! We have golf. We have sex. Both tied into a nice little pun. Perfect for the golf magazines, also known as tittie mags.

Get Boob Ready

With the massive amount of boobs posted by Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, and Trash9Network (also known as Back9Network), plus the “Get Golf Ready” initiative last year (or was it the year before?), how great is this?

Is this photo about golf or Paulina Gretzky’s boobs? You be the judge. GET BOOB READY!

Get Boob Ready! Pure class.

Boob Golf

Foot Golf is a dumb game where soccer players piss off golfers, kicking a soccer ball into a giant hole on the course and tearing up the greens with their spiked shoes. Forget Foot Golf. Boobs are so much more fun. This year’s initiative should be “Boob Golf.” Big breasted WAGS (“WAGS” is a term used by the golf magazines meaning “wives and girlfriends”) use their boobs to knock balls into holes. Boob Golf is a hole in one!

Foot Hack Grow Boobs 3.0

A combination of boobs, Foot Golf, and Golf 2.0 for 2015 is “Foot Hack Grow Boobs 3.0.” This is pure golf genius. The golf industry is saved!

WAGOLF

The popularity of “hot wives and girlfriends” of millionaire PGA Tour players seems to be singlehandedly keeping golf magazines and websites afloat. The hot wives and girlfriends are so popular, I think their male spouses should be benched and we should see them play Boob Golf, or Foreplay, or Foot Hack Gro Boobs, all of course in G-Strings, bikinis, and yoga pants. We could call it WAGOLF. Brilliant eh?

Time Fore 69

Golf Digest (or someone else, can’t really remember) came out with the “Time for Nine” buzz-phrase. Let’s sex that up a bit, add some hot tour wives and girlfriends, and call it “Time Fore 69.” Get it? In stead of “for” the word is “fore.” Simply brilliant!

We Are Boobs

The “WE ARE GOLF” slogan was announced as an industry initiative for “changing perceptions” and “overcoming biases.”

Trash9Network

What perceptions or biases are they talking about? Who cares. The We Are Boobs industry initiative is much better. After all, it’s not about golf, it’s about the boobs of hot tour wives, girlfriends, and any slut we can find and take a picture of with a driver in her hands!

Grow Boobs

The two most important subjects in golf media for 2014 were boobs and growing golf.

Why not combine the two? Grow Boobs! Splendid.

Incomplete List

This list explores just a fraction of the possible slogans for the golf world and golf media in 2015. Have your own ideas? Comment them in via the comments below or on any of the Hooked On Golf Blog social networks. Get creative! You might save golf.

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