The PGA Tour will begin allowing the use of mobile devices during tournaments on February 28th at the Honda Classic. People will be allowed to use their phones to make calls and use their devices in designated areas. They must keep phones on silent, and not take photos or video during play.
Yeah right. They think they’ll be able to police that? If you think Tiger Woods gets mad when the press click their shutters in his back swing, just wait until someone in the gallery receives a phone call and their phone isn’t on silent mode…
Events like the Masters however, are not under the umbrella of this policy. Don’t think you can sneak your cell phone into the Masters.
PGA Tour’s press release is below – click the read more link if you can’t see it (more…)
Nike and DuPont have teamed up to produce a new golf ball, the 20XI. Rather than going with a rubber core, they’ve developed a new thermoplastic resin core. The technology in this ball allows for it to go farther, yet spin more around the greens. In other words, what everyone wants in a golf ball.
Here’s a short video on the new Nike 20XI golf ball featuring Tiger Woods, Michelle Wie, Stewart Cink, Paul Casey, Suzanne Pettersen, Justin Leonard and Nike designer Rock Ishii.
Press Release Below – If you can’t see it, click the read more link (more…)
Dancin’ Dog Golf makes the coolest personal golf simulator, called the Optishot. This system is $399, and is beyond what systems costing over $50K were not too long ago. My buddy Brandon tells us about the system during this year’s PGA Show, and we even go through a shot to see how it works in this video below:
Tiger Woods must have learned some spitting techniques from Sergio Garcia. He spit on the #12 hole in Dubai and was subsequently fined by the European Tour. The amount of the fine will not be reported, but I’m guessing TW can afford it.
“Tournament director Mike Stewart has reviewed the incident and feels there has been a breach of the tour code of conduct and consequently Tiger Woods will be fined.” ~European Tour statement
Apparently Tiger was spitting up a storm while moving himself from one shot behind the lead to a final positions of seven shots back with a final round 75.
“You look at his work ethics and he is a credit to the game and an inspiration to all of those who are trying to become professional golfers. But there are some parts of him that are just arrogant and petulant. Somebody now has to come behind him and maybe putt over his spit. It does not get much lower than that.” ~Sky Sports announcer Ewen Murray.
Tiger is the real winner in Dubai
Why is Tiger the real winner in Dubai? First, it was reported that he pocketed about $55 million for his fees for the billion dollar golf development in Dubai. It was announced last week that the development was halted due to the economic conditions and the golf course would “return to sand.”
Tiger is also the winner of the tournament because of his $3 million appearance fee. His appearance fee is far greater than the winner’s check, and is more than half of the total purse for the tournament.
That was the right thing to do…
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