Video preview of tonight’s Big Break Greenbrier episode

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Categories: Golf Videos • Miscellaneous

Golf Channel’s Big Break is on tonight. I haven’t talked much about it this season so far, but my buddy James Lepp from Kikkor Golf is still alive in the show. Here’s a little preview of tonight’s episode. I get these from Golf Channel. Let me know if they’re of interest and I’ll post them more often.

Rory McIlory named PGA Tour Player of the Year. John Huh named Rookie of the Year.

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Categories: PGA Championship • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Rory McIlory • Tiger Woods

No big surprise here. Rory McIlroy was named the 2012 PGA Tour Player of the Year. With four wins (including the PGA Championship) and 10 top-10 finishes, McIlory was a no-brainer. Others in the running were Tiger Woods with three wins (no majors), Bubba Watson, Brandt Snedeker and Jason Dufner. McIlory was the youngest to receive this award since Tiger in 1998.

John Huh (huh?) was named PGA Tour rookie of the year.

2012 Q-School Graduates – The Last Class Ever

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf

Below are the graduates of the 2012 Q-School. The players below have secured their PGA Tour cards for 2013. This is the FINAL Q-School class, as this is the final year Q-School will exist. I will miss Q-School, the process and watching players from all over the world try to make their dreams come true by making it through the most grueling golf test in the world.

Pos.	Name	Country	Age
1	Dong-hwan Lee	South Korea	25
T2	Ross Fisher	England	32
T2	Steve LeBrun	U.S.	34
T4	Richard H. Lee	U.S.	25
T4	Billy Horschel	U.S.	26
T4	Kris Blanks	U.S.	40
T7	Erik Compton	U.S.	33
T7	Brad Fritsch	Canada	35
T7	Jin Park	South Korea	33
T10	Fabian Gomez	Argentina	34
T10	Michael Letzig	U.S.	32
T10	Jeff Gove	U.S.	41
T10	Steven Bowditch	Australia	29
T14	Matt Jones	Australia	32
T14	Robert Karlsson	Sweden	43
T14	Eric Meierdierks	U.S.	27
T17	Scott Langley	U.S.	23
T17	Aaron Watkins	U.S.	30
T17	Derek Ernst	U.S.	22
T20	Si Woo Kim	South Korea	17
T20	Tag Ridings	U.S.	38
T22	Donald Constable	U.S.	23
T22	Bobby Gates	U.S.	27
T22	Patrick Reed	U.S.	22
T22	Henrik Norlander	Sweden	25
T22	Chez Reavie	U.S.	31

2012 Hooked On Golf Blog Turkey Of The Year Awards

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Categories: Boneheads • Miscellaneous • Site News

Wow I can’t believe it is December 3rd. Before I award the 2012 Turkeys of the Year I should give myself one for posting this late. I typically like to post the TOY awards on Thanksgiving. Needless to say my schedule has completely changed with the birth of my new son, baby Seve. Not much sleep around here lately.

For those who may be new to HOG, I’ve been awarding the Turkey of the Year awards now since clear back in 2005! Previous winners include John Daly, Sergio Garcia, Tiger Woods…

And now, the 2012 HOG Turkey Awards. The envelope please…

#10: Facebalk

Many golfers and golf companies use Facebook to interact with their fans. I do too. To date HOG has built up a little over 1400 fans. For a small while I paid Facebook to advertise the HOG Facebook page and gain more traction and fans. But recent changes in Facebook’s algorithm have me turned off. Those changes in the last few months mean that companies (like mine) who post status updates will only see a small fraction of their fans reading them. They admit to 15%, but that is a high number in my experience. I’ve found that posts with outgoing links have even less exposure. I worked hard to gain fans and even paid to advertise and gain likes, but I can’t reach them now? To the contrary. I can reach them if I PAY to promote them. This could be the beginning of the death of Facebook.

#9: Mashed Potatoes

“Get in the hole!” “You’re the man!” “Mashed potatoes!” If you yell this in a PGA Tour event, you are an idiot. Idiot hecklers like this get a TOY award. I especially hate it when some idiot yells “get in the hole” when Tiger Woods tees off on a par-5… Boneheads. Do us all a favor and SHUT UP. It stopped being funny about a million years ago.

#8: PGA Tour / Host Venues

The PGA Tour and its host venues receive a Turkey award for not removing the above mentioned “get in the hole” boneheads.

#7: Chicken Man

I know he was pretending to be a chicken, but the guy who danced in front of the Ryder Cup ceremony is a turkey. And I’m not posting his photo here. Too much press for this bonehead already.

#6: Phil Mickelson

Phil Mickelson was looking good at the 2012 Masters at -8 in the beginning of the final round, until he arrived at the 4th hole. Phil chose to hack an errant shot from the shrubbery right handed (he is left handed). Phil ended up carding a triple-bogey, finishing TWO shots behind eventual winner Bubba Watson. Do the math.

#5: John Daly

I’m so used to putting John Daly in the Turkey of the Year awards I’m doing it this time out of habit. Aside from a putter toss, JD has been a relatively good boy this year. He has even played some good golf.

#4: I.K. Kim

The LPGA’s I.K. Kim had a 12″ putt to win the first major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco. Instead, she blocked the putt right and entered a playoff with Sun Young Yoo. Yoo won the playoff.

#3: Adam Scott

Adam Scott looked invincible for 68 holes at the 2012 British Open. Then he recorded four straight bogeys to finish, leaving him one shot behind Ernie Els. This was the best shot at winning a major Scott has ever had, and may ever have. For all the talk about the anchored putter and the “advantage” a player has with one, it didn’t seem to help Adam down the stretch.

#2: Jim Furyk

What a year for Jim Furyk. Jim’s nerves got the best of him when he hooked his tee shot on the par-5 16th in the U.S. Open. The player who looked like a lock to win his second Open limped home, dropping the victory in the lap of Webb Simpson, who had finished earlier. It was tempting to give the TV coverage a turkey in this event too. If they covered any shot Webb hit in the final round, I must have been in the bathroom for it.

And the TURKEY OF THE YEAR award goes to… drumroll…

#1: USA Ryder Cup Team – Meltdown at Medinah

This year’s #1 Turkey of the Year is the USA Ryder Cup team. Blowing a huge 10-6 lead in front of their home crowd almost seemed impossible, but that’s why they play the game. Europe wins

HONORABLE MENTION: Lance Armstrong

I reserve the Turkey of the Year awards for the golf world. This year I have to give an honorable mention award to Lance Armstrong, who was stripped of his billion Tour De France titles because of performance enhancing drug (PED) use.

Happy St. Andrews Day

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, November 30th, 2012
Categories: Golf Life • Life • Miscellaneous

Most HOG readers know I have a big place in my heart for the “Auld Grey Toon,” the home of golf, St. Andrews. St. Andrews is one of the coolest towns in the world, if not THE coolest. The whole place is about golf. I’ve made one trip there so far, back in 2011 with three great pals. We are pictured right in the Road Hole bunker. At the time we had planned on saving up our dough and going back in 2014. Having experienced the town and the golf in St. Andrews I vetoed the proposition of coming back three years later to do it again. That was way too long to wait. The guys agreed and we will be back there in July of 2013 again. We have our first tee time on the Old Course at 1:40 p.m., July 3rd.

St. Andrews Day

Today is St. Andrews Day. Happy St. Andrews day to HOG friends and patrons.

What is St. Andrews Day? From Wikipedia:

St. Andrew’s Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew. It is celebrated on the 30th of November in Scotland.

Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and St. Andrew’s Day (Scots: Saunt Andra’s Day, Scottish Gaelic: Latha Naomh Anndra) is Scotland’s official national day. In 2006, the Scottish Parliament designated St Andrew’s Day as an officialbank holiday.

Although most commonly associated with Scotland, at least in the English-speaking world, Saint Andrew is also the patron saint of Greece, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.^[1]

In Germany, the feast day is celebrated as Andreasnacht (“St Andrew’s Night”), in Austria with the custom of Andreasgebet (“St Andrew’s Prayer”), and in Poland as Andrzejki (“Little Andrews”–diminutive).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew’s_Day

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