Sergio Garcia presser

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: Sergio Garcia

Sergio answers questions...

Being a golf blogger can be tough sometimes. We aren’t taken seriously by certain entities sometimes, like “journalists” or organizations of professional golfers, if you know what I mean. I had one “journalist” tell me that since I was a blogger I didn’t know how to spell and I didn’t have to check my facts. All I had to do with that rude person was let him know that my traffic numbers beat his by over 3 million hits per month.

The popularity of blogs and social networking is real and we ought not be ignored. The pull and exposure some of the popular blogs have could crush the stats of some of the more “traditional” media outlets. Perhaps that is why some of them are rude. They’re afraid.

As a blogger I don’t have a sports network paying my bills and therefore I don’t get to many tour events. I hope to get to more in the future but finding a budget to do that is tough.

Here’s a newbie alert now that I’ve made all these preliminary statements. I just attended my first PGA Tour press conference ever. Yes, my training wheels are coming off. The presser featured Sergio Garcia as the player.

Garcia talked about the infected finger and how it forced him out of the British Open qualifier on Monday, as well as talking about the course and the HP Byron Nelson tournament. But the best moment was when a reporter accidentally addressed Sergio as “Seve” (Ballesteors) following some conversation about the late golf great.

Golf On TV This Week

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Categories: Champions Tour • European Tour • PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: HP Byron Nelson Championship

For those of you who aren’t lucky enough to be here at the HP Byron Nelson Championship to enjoy the SPECTACULAR weather, here are the television coverage times below for the PGA Tour, Champions Tour and European Tour.

HP Byron Nelson Championship
PGA TOUR
Thursday 5/26 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Friday 5/27 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF
Saturday 5/28 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS
Sunday 5/29 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET CBS

BMW PGA Championship
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Inside the Titleist tour truck

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: HP Byron Nelson Championship • Titleist

Making a new 910 driver for a Titleist player - click to enlarge

I managed to sneak into (okay “force” my way into) the Titleist Tour ~~van truck semi~~ rig here at the HP Byron Nelson Championship. Inside the truck were busy club technicians tweaking and building clubs for the Titleist players in the field. I mean BUSY. I watched as my new pals built and tweaked Scotty Cameron putters, Vokey Wedges and 910 drivers.

I gained a lot of cool bits of info on how each player likes his club setup, specific wraps under the grips, the lie and lofts they like etc. It was quite an experience and I thank the folks at Titleist for letting me get in the way watch them work for a while.

Fan and media tweets LIVE on giant screens at the HP Byron Nelson

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Categories: Golf Videos • PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: HP Byron Nelson Championship

This is so cool. There’s a system installed here which takes the HP Byron Nelson Championship twitter hash (#hpbnc) feed and shows the updates live on the big screens by many holes and in hospitality areas of the course. Here’s a tweet of mine being shown by the 17th green: