Fantasy Golf – WGC Cadillac Championship Winner

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Categories: Fantasy Golf • Miscellaneous • Site News

WGC Cadillac Championship Winner: Bxinvaders

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!

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A note to the TSA: Put my damn golf travel bag back the way you found it!

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, March 11th, 2013
Categories: Boneheads • HOG World Tour • Miscellaneous

I shlep my golf clubs all over this big blue ball. My clubs and bags have been ~~inspected~~ violated many times over. I keep the old TSA notices in the bag and there are dozens of them. I don’t have a problem with the TSA looking in my bag. I don’t want the airplane to be blown up so sure, take a look at my sticks and my golf balls. Play with the laser rangefinder. Inspect the 12 golf energy bars and make sure they’re not explosives. Look at everything and then put your courtesy note in there. Great.

TSA Golf Bag

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Now that you awesome TSA people have looked all through my bag do me a favor. Put the f*&king thing back the way you found it! Every time I travel all the crap that I put IN my bag is OUT of my bag and rattling around inside the travel case because you leave all the zippers on the golf bag open. I have to gather up all the tees, balls and the random stuff from the travel bag and put it back in the golf bag.

The bag itself is secured to the frame of the travel bag by straps. This helps protect my precious golf clubs from damage and shifting during transport. When you TSA folks undo the straps which secure my bag that’s cool as long as to PUT IT BACK to the way it was so my clubs aren’t damaged.

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This past trip I found a curious TSA paper in my golf bag. This one said that the Department of Transportation prohibits the carriage of hazardous materials in checked baggage and that “all hazardous materials discovered in my baggage have been removed.” What the hell did they find? The only thing hazardous in my bag is my putter, and it is only a threat to my opponents. I don’t carry fuel, gas, matches, lighters or anything hazardous. I’d REALLY like to know what the hell you took from my bag. What was this mysterious hazard you removed TSA?

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Pre-WGC Cadillac Rory McIlory Interview In 7 Words

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Categories: Boneheads • Golf Media • Miscellaneous • Rory McIlory • Tiger Woods

Rory McIlory made a booboo and walked off the course at the Honda last week. He’s young. Really young. He has some learning to do, yes. He faced up to the press on Wednesday before the WGC Cadillac Championship to talk about that and his struggles. I’m not sure if the press guys keep asking the same question in hopes that one of the million times they ask it they will get the answer they’re looking for, or if they’re just plain boneheads. They must have asked Rory about 1,500,003 times if his struggles were because of his new Nike Golf equipment. Instead Rory mentioned he was working on an issue with his swing. This went back and forth… forever. I reduced the entire interview down to 7 words:

Press: Is it the equipment?

McIlory: No. My swing.

See how easy that was? Next question.

For those of you who think it is the equipment, what about Tiger Woods this week. He WON the WGC Cadillac convincingly, with the same Nike gear. How about the other players on the LPGA Tour, Web.com Tour and in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open who won this week with the same gear? I’ve been as critical of Nike gear as anyone when it deserves the critiques and touted it when I felt it deserved it, like the season I played a Machspeed Black driver and hit 80% of my fairways.

Rory finished T8 this week after a 65 on Sunday. I guess he overcame the gear issues…

The main point is that it is no wonder guys like Tiger can’t stand these interviews. They have to answer the same questions over and over. It must be frustrating.

Photo Gallery – Puerto Rico Open’s Trump National Golf Club

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Categories: Golf Courses • HOG World Tour • PGA Tour • Pro Golf

The WCG Cadillac at Doral is this week AND the PGA Tour is in Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Open. I’ve had the pleasure of covering the Puerto Rico Open in years past. So for your enjoyment here’s a gallery of the course. Click the image below to view. This image below, by the way… I climbed up one of the Golf Channel TV towers to get this shot. Fun times…

Trump National Golf Club – Puerto Rico

Golf On TV This Week – WGC-Cadillac Championship & Puerto Rico Open

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Rory McIlory • Tiger Woods

WGC-Cadillac Championship
Dates: March 7-10
Venue: TPC Blue Monster, Trump Doral Golf Resort and Spa, Doral, Fla.

Golf Channel Airtimes (Eastern):
Thursday 2-6 p.m. (Live) / 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. (Replay)
Friday 2-6 p.m. (Live) / 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. (Replay)
Saturday 12-2 p.m. (Live) / 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. (Golf Channel and NBC Replay)
Sunday 1-3 p.m. (Live) / 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. (Golf Channel and Replay)

NBC Airtimes (Eastern):
Saturday 2-6 p.m. (Live)
Sunday 3-7 p.m. (Live)

In the field: Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Lee Westwood, Luke Donald, Keegan Bradley, Justin Rose, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Dustin Johnson, Brandt Snedeker, Sergio Garcia, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, Adam Scott, Ernie Els, Jason Dufner, Nicolas Colsaerts, Matteo Manassero, Nick Watney, Rickie Fowler.

PGA Tour
Puerto Rico Open
Dates: March 7-10
Venue: Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

Golf Channel Airtimes (Eastern):
Thursday 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Tape Delay) / 1:30-3:30 a.m. (Replay)
Friday 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Tape Delay) / 1:30-3:30 a.m. (Replay)
Saturday 6:30-9:30 p.m. (Tape Delay) / 3-5 a.m. (Replay)
Sunday 7:30-10:30 p.m. (Tape Delay) / 3-5 a.m. (Replay)

In the field: Ryo Ishikawa, Y.E. Yang, Camilo Villegas, Paul Casey, Henrik Stenson, K.J. Choi, Angel Cabrera, Robert Karlsson, Sang-Moon Bae, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Shane Lowry, Harris English, James Hahn, John Daly.

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