Fantasy Golf – THE PLAYERS Championship Winner
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Categories: Fantasy Golf • Miscellaneous • Site News
Categories: Fantasy Golf • Miscellaneous • Site News
Wells Fargo Championship Winner: fdringo
2013 Fantasy Golf is brought to you by Hooked On Golf Blog and The Golf Space.
SPONSOR UPDATE
The following four sponsors have been confirmed for 2013!
- Nike Golf – Nike Covert Driver
- FootJoy – Shoes/Apparel
- Bridgestone Golf – Bridgestone Golf Balls
- Tornado Tee – Very cool golf tees (weekly)
I’m still hammering out prizes and arrangements for coupon codes to claim the weekly prizes. Stay tuned!
It is never too late to join HOG Space fantasy golf FREE. Follow the easy instructions below:
1. Go to www.buzzfantasyleagues.com
2. Create an account if you don’t have one
3. Click on “Join an Existing League”
4. Enter League ID 233, and Season ID 335
5. Create your team, enter league password “HOG”
- Nike Covert Driver Grand Prize
Sponsors Wanted
If you wish to sponsor 2013 Fantasy Golf, let me know. Sponsorship would mean providing prizes in exchange for weekly air time, banners and links to your web site via the fantasy golf updates.
Discussion
HOG Space fantasy golf is a dual effort between Hooked On Golf Blog and The Golf Space. Official fantasy golf forum discussion thread is in The Golf Space Forum here.
Golf Accessory Review: Home Striker – Golf Ball Parachute
Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Reviews
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Reviews
I have so many golf accessories kicking around my house. I can’t get to them all. I’ve been blowing off trying the Home Striker because I thought it was another cheesy and useless golf accessory. Something told me to give it a shot, so to speak, and now I’m glad I did. This this is kind of fun!
Home Striker Concept
Hitting full shots with real golf balls in one’s back yard is not realistic, unless of course you are Tiger Woods and have a small golf course on your property. Hitting whiffle balls is lame. They fly crooked and break, and they don’t have the feel of a real golf ball. Enter Home Striker!
Home Striker Video
Home Striker is literally a golf ball with a hole drilled in it and parachute attached. In the case of mine it is a Nike Golf ball. I poo-poo’d this idea at first, but after whacking the parachute around my back yard for a while I’ve changed my tune. This thing is fun! No it doesn’t fly like a real ball and I can’t really tell if I’m hitting cuts, draws, hooks or slices. But I can take full swings in my yard without worrying about killing the neighbor’s dog. Hmmm. On second thought, those two damn yelping poodles next door just might benefit from a Titleist to the cranium at 167 miles per hour….
Conclusion
Yeah the Home Striker is a bit cheesy, but I like it. I’d put this one on the Father’s Day golf gift idea list.
Random Stuff You Find On The Golf Course – Episode 972
What’s the strangest thing you’ve found on the golf course?
Here’s an odd addition to the “random stuff you find on the golf course” series. This doll was on the golf bag stand at the course I played last Friday.
Is Anyone Going To Challenge Tiger Woods In 2013? Bueller? Bueller?
Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, May 13th, 2013
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Rory McIlory • The Masters • Tiger Woods
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Rory McIlory • The Masters • Tiger Woods
How did you like THE PLAYERS Championship? Always write “THE PLAYERS” in all caps, that’s what they do. For a while there it looked like Sergio Garcia was going to have the best of Tiger, but three balls in the drink on the final two holes shot that down. The other contenders were dark horses who made a threat, but in the end the one left standing was Tiger. His performance was good enough. He was playing solid and consistent, but not dominant. The win was there for another player to take, but that didn’t happen.
2013
Tiger has reached four wins for the 2013 season already. No other player on Tour has more than one. Rory McIlory has none. This is the quickest that Tiger has reached four wins in ANY of his years on tour, even is best year in 2000. That’s a bit scary to me, because it doesn’t look like he’s playing that well. Perhaps I’m just used to the version of Tiger a few years ago that dominated. One could argue he might have a Masters win if not for a bad break on #15 in the final round where he hit the stick, then made an illegal drop. If that ball doesn’t hit the flag, he probably makes birdie and takes the lead…
Bueller Bueller Bueller
Is there another player on Tour right now who could be a legitimate and constant threat to Tiger? We keep hearing how “deep” the tour is. Phil Mickelson isn’t a spring chicken. Rory is anything but consistent. Bubba Watson is still having Masters 2012 hangover. Graeme McDowell just got over his U.S. Open hangover. Who else is out there? If players like Luke Donald and Lee Westwood haven’t done it by now, I’m not sure they will. As I see it at this point, the best candidates are Brandt Snedeker and Rory McIlory.
Following the conclusion of THE PLAYERS last night, my dad texted me asking this question above. I loved his quote about the players who are trying to beat Tiger, “They’re a bunch of look-alike swing mechanics swinging monkey wrenches in the clutch!”
Well said.
Comparing Tiger To Jack, For The Billionth Time
Man I get tired of hearing about whether or not Tiger will beat Jack Nicklaus’s major record of 18. The times are quite different. Jack Nicklaus had SO many threats, constant threats who were players with more than one major championship. So many players in Jack’s era challenged him. Think about who Jack had to beat on a weekly basis: Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Tom Kite, Johnny Miller, Chi Chi, Ray Floyd, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros.
At Tiger’s current age of 37 he has major 14 wins, the same number Jack Nicklaus had at 37. By my argument in the previous paragraph it sounds like Tiger has a good chance to beat Jack. Majors are a different animal. One bad break, like hitting the stick on the 15th at Augusta on Sunday, can make the difference between a win and T4. Will Tiger break the record? I’d rather watch it unfold than listen to golf’s talking heads pontificate about it over and over.
Leading Golf Blogger Releases His Own Ground Breaking THE PLAYERS Championship Apparel Script
SANDY, UT – May 10, 2013 – Golf blogging veteran from Hooked On Golf Blog, Tony Korologos, has released a ground breaking new Masters THE PLAYERS Championship apparel script. The script showcases incredible creativity as well as trend setting color combinations never before seen in the golf apparel industry.
“With all these PR agencies and golf companies releasing their apparel scripts of PGA Tour players, I felt the public needed a more realistic, down to earth, grass roots, every-day-Joe-hacker apparel script. It took months of research and market testing to conclude that the best colors to match with black were black and of course black. Adding to the stylish, yet creative color scheme are the Masters hat and socks, which provide a top and bottom to the ensemble.” ~Hooked On Golf Blog Blogger, Author, janitor, writer, blogger and editor Tony Korologos
Never before seen in a golf apparel script, Korologos includes socks and undies. The undies, according to Korologos, can be a crucial piece to the golf performance puzzle. Proper undies can be the difference between a win and a loss, or in his case the difference between winning and losing a $2.00 nassau:
“Of all the hundreds of golf apparel scripts out there, none of them include the undies of the player. We all know that socks and especially undies are crucial to the performance of the player. How the scripts don’t include undies is beyond me. I know from personal experience that I putt much better when I don’t have my undies bunched up in my crack. Sure including undies in an apparel script is risky, but it has to be done. Someone had to have the balls to do it.” ~Tony Korologos
Korologos understands that releasing this amazing new apparel script may lead to copy-cat scripts from the large apparel manufacturers:
“Being a pioneer in golf apparel isn’t exactly my goal. It is just a byproduct of what I’m doing to contribute in my own small way to the game of golf and the golf industry. I understand large apparel manufacturers and PR agencies will copy this concept and I’m fine with that. In the end, the growth of the game of golf and the increased enjoyment of golfers is what is most important.” ~Tony Korologos
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