New Bridgestone J715 Driver Announced

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, January 5th, 2015
Categories: Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear

I really loved the J40 445 driver from Bridgestone Golf a couple of years ago. It is still in my driver rotation. Now they have a new model out, the J715. I’m not sure what the numbers mean, except the 15 is for 2015.

Follow the embedded tweet below for the press release.

Bridgestone Golf unveils new J715 driver: http://t.co/2MyFV0Dce0 @bridgestonegolf pic.twitter.com/AoWYwYMaV0

— HookedOnGolfBlog.com (@HOGGOLFBLOG) January 5, 2015

GolfLands.net Steals Content

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, January 4th, 2015
Categories: Boneheads • Miscellaneous • Site News

Time to shame a content stealing asshole into removing my content. The website GolfLands dot net is reposting content from here and from the HOG sister site and golf newswire, HOGWire.biz. All of the posts you can see in the “recent posts” list to the right in the screen capture below are from HOG or HOGWire, and obviously the main post you can see is HOG content. That’s one of the reasons I often mention “Hooked On Golf Blog” in my posts, so when dicks like this copy my content it shows up on their site. I also love to post these because often times these sites which are stealing the content auto-post them. So for a time you might see this post appear on their site.

Why Do I Care?

Whenever I make these content stealing awareness posts invariably some bonehead asks me what the big deal is, citing that it is “free publicity” for me and all that. NO. First, there are no links back to the content owner, me.

Second, this is duplicated content which confuses Google’s search results and rankings. It does nothing but hurt the original site which produced the content.

Third, I was raised to believe that stealing is wrong. Yeah, crazy huh?

What Next?

What’s next is I’ll use that site’s contact page to send them a not-so friendly note to remove my content. Oddly that side has a contact page. Most sites like this don’t. I doubt there will be a response, but if there is, it will be a phony naive response like “I thought it helped you” or “I installed an autoblog plugin and it did it automatically” kind of bullshit. Another favorite is, “a friend posted it.”

Right.

2014 Product of the Year Awards – Best New Product – GAME GOLF

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, January 2nd, 2015
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf For Women • Golf Gear • Miscellaneous • Product of the Year

I get pretty sick of the overuse of the words “innovative” and “revolutionary” in the golf industry. Seems like every golf accessory, golf club, golf ball, and golf training aid claims it will “revolutionize golf.” Most don’t and most are junk.

https://www.hookedongolfblog.com/2014/09/25/game-golf-digital-tracking-system-review

Game Golf in Action! Click to read full Game Golf review.

GAME GOLF however, is revolutionary. It’s a GPS system which tracks the player’s shots during a round and in post-round provides amazing statistics for each shot and each club. It even plots the shots on top of a Google map. That IS revolutionary, and that’s why Game Golf wins the 2014 Hooked On Golf Blog Product of the Year – Best New Product Award.

As awesome as it is, Game Golf is missing a HUGE statistic: putts per greens in regulation. The current putting stats it tracks is fairly useless, only tracking putts per hole. So someone who misses every green and gets up and down 75% of the time would have a better “putting average” than a PGA Tour pro.

Could I really be as good at putting as Jim Furyk, Lee Westwood, and Graeme McDowell? I doubt it.

Conclusion

The sky is the limit for Game Golf. What a great system.

I’m hoping they’ll continue to improve the product and will soon add putts-per-GIR. If they do, Game Golf will stay in my bag for 2015!

Related Links

Hooked On Golf Blog Game Golf review

2014 Product of the Year – Best Golf Club

2014 Product of the Year – Best Golf Accessory

2014 Product of the Year – Best Golf Apparel Item

2014 Product of the Year – Best Golf Course

2014 Christmas Classic Video

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, January 1st, 2015
Categories: Boneheads • Golf • Golf Videos • Hackers

Fresh off the editing room floor is the video of the recently contested 2014 Christmas Classic golf tournament. The annual Christmas Classic is held every Christmas day at River Oaks Golf Course in Sandy, Utah, snow permitting. If the course is open, the tournament is off. The tournament has been going for at least 10 years.

In this tournament a par-3 hole is picked. The hole can be a regular par-3, or like this year, one we make up. Each player brings 12 golf balls, custom marked so they can be easily identified in the snow. The closest ball to the pin is the winner.

This year we had a new competitor, Robert Lund. It was nice to have a new participant, and fantastic that Robert put his musical genius to work and quickly made up the new theme music, “The 12 Balls of Christmas.”

Congrats to this year’s champion, Dan Crookston!

2014 Product of the Year Awards – Best Golf Accessory – GolfBuddy VS4 Mini Talking Golf GPS

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 31st, 2014
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Miscellaneous • Product of the Year • Site News
Tags: Golf GPS • GolfBuddy

The best way to tell what golf accessory I liked the most in 2014 is based on the one I used the most. That is hands down the GolfBuddy VS4 Mini Talking GPS. This thing is so small that it easily fits in my pocket and is not in the way.

GolfBuddy VS4 Golf GPS

I can even push the button through my shorts (I don’t wear pants, hehe) and hear it speak my yardages to me.

I have about 20 golf GPS units, but the VS4 is the one I keep going back to and therefore wins the 2014 Hooked On Golf Blog Product of the Year award for Golf Accessories.

Well played.