Golf On TV This Week – AT&T, Irish Open, More

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Categories: Champions Tour • European Tour • LPGA Tour • PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Tiger Woods • Web.com Tour

PGA Tour

AT&T National
Dates: June 28-July 1
Venue: Congressional Country Club, Bethesda, Md.

Tiger Woods, K.J. Choi and Nick Watney headline.

Airtimes: Thursday 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel Live) / 8:30-11:30 p.m. (Replay)
Friday 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel Live) / 8:30-11:30 p.m. (Replay)
Saturday 1-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel Live) / 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. (CBS Replay)
Sunday 1-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel Live) / 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. (CBS Replay)

European Tour

The Irish Open
Dates: June 28-July 1
Venue: Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Rory McIlory, Darren Clarke, Graeme McDowell, Padraig Harrington in action.

Airtimes: Thursday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (Golf Channel Live)
Friday 9-11:30 a.m. (Golf Channel Live)
Saturday 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel Live)
Sunday 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel Live) (more…)

First Look: Cobra Baffler Fairways And Hybrids

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Categories: Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Site News
Tags: Cobra Golf

Golf Gear Head Alert

In for review here at Hooked On Golf Blog are the new and cool looking Cobra Golf Baffler hybrids and Baffler fairway woods.

Cobra Baffler Hybrid & Head Cover – click to zoom

I spent some time shooting a few pics of them yesterday and have uploaded them to the HOG Cobra Image Gallery for you gear heads to enjoy in the mean time, while I’m in the testing period. Click either photo to see more. (more…)

Nationwide Tour Becomes Web.com Tour

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf • Web.com Tour

WOW. I logged in to PGATour.com for my regular morning drive by and saw an odd name in the upper menu where the Nationwide Tour link used to be: Web.com Tour. Big news announced today that Web.com has signed a 10 year deal to be the umbrella sponsor of the PGA Tour’s development league, which is now formerly the Nationwide Tour.

For full details here’s a link to the press release from the Tour on Hooked On Golf Blog HOGWire news wire.

Another new addition to the PGA Tour web site is the Latinoamérica tab.

Justin Bieber’s Golf Game Interrupted By Paparazzi – Needs Steve Williams On The Bag

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Categories: Boneheads • Hackers • Miscellaneous

I have to admit that I had no idea who “Justin Bieber” was until recently. Every time I heard the name I thought people were saying “just in beaver.” I thought WTF? The guy is an 18 year old teenie bopper singer who produces fluffy pop songs I’m told. Being a metal head rock and roller and drummer, I’m sure his material is far from anything I’d want to listen to.

While playing a round of golf at Calabasas Country Club, Bieber apparently ran into some problems with paparazzi snapping photos and making noise in his swing. The desperate photographers even resorted to yelling in Bieber’s swing to get his attention for a better photo.

Bieber took to Twitter to voice his anger:

“Dear paps…golf is supposed to be a relaxing sport..u aren’t supposed to be in the bushes yelling at me with cameras. let me finish the game”

“Gonna stay focused. back at it. not gonna focus on the negative. just a little respect would help.”

Comments

Did the photogs yell “mashed potatoes,” or “get in the hole,” or “you da man!” like the idiots who seem to be at every PGA Tour event these days?

Perhaps this kid should enlist the caddie services of Tiger Woods’s former looper and now Adam Scott’s current, Steve Williams. Professional camera smasher Williams knows how to deal with photographers.

Review: 2012 Bridgestone Tour B330-S Golf Ball

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Golf Videos • Reviews
Tags: Bridgestone Golf

It was a bit of an accident that I got to this review at all. I’ve I had a box of Bridgestone Tour B330-S golf balls sitting in my garage for some time. I hadn’t intended to try them any time soon based on my experience with the previous models. They were simply too hard feeling. During a recent round I was struggling a bit and had lost a few balls. When looking for for one of the lost balls, I found a brand new B330-S, the 2012 model with the dual dimple pattern. I threw the ball into play on the next tee, the 15th hole. 15 is a very tough 440 yard par-4 which is uphill. I knocked that B330-S inside the 150 marker, the longest drive I’d hit on that hole all year. I was hitting a wedge into a green I normally hit 5-7 iron. At that point, the ball had my complete attention. I’ve played the B330-S now for the last roughly eight rounds with very good results.

Bridgestone Tour B330-S Golf Ball – look closely for the dual dimples. Click to zoom.

Bridgestone Golf Tour B330-S Overview

The Tour B330-S is Bridgestone’s higher spin “tour” ball. “Tour” meaning what most tour players would use. Tour balls are typically higher compression and higher spin. That higher compression is one of the reasons I’d avoided trying the ball. That avoidance was clearly a mistake on my part, as I’m able to compress the ball just fine despite not having the swing speed of someone like Matt Kuchar or Fred Couples. (more…)

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