Every company thinks they need to use social networking to promote their brand. OK that is fine. But if you are going to start a social networking campaign for your company, make sure you have someone do it who knows what they are doing. Otherwise you may lose more fans than you gain. Here’s a good example below.
EA Sports is trying to promote their new Tiger Woods PGA game which features Augusta National Golf Club. Great. But they make a Tweet asking people to click “like” if they’ve pre-ordered the game. The only problem is that there isn’t a like button on Twitter. They’re confusing Twitter with Facebook. DOH.
There are some events which are entertaining coincidences. There are some coincidences which are so freaky, you can hardly believe there isn’t some other sort of supernatural force at work. The latter happened yesterday.
Active Wrap elbow wrap was waiting on my doorstep the day I injured my elbow!?! Woa.
As many of you who read this golf blog know, I separated my shoulder almost three weeks ago. I’ve been recovering and the pain level is bearable. I’ve got 75% of the function back in my right arm now. I’m confident enough to go out and about without my sling now.
So I’m at a store yesterday and I need to put something in the middle passenger seat of my van. And as was pointed out on my Facebook page, yes I no longer have a sports car. That was two wives and three kids ago… But I digress.
I’m loading some stuff into my van with my right arm. I didn’t realize that I failed to open the door far enough for it to catch and stay open. So the van door slid closed and hit my right elbow so hard, it brought me to the ground in pain. Yes, of course it was the elbow of the arm with the separated shoulder. There’s a part of your elbow which has no meat around it. Just a few layers of skin and then bone underneath. That’s where it hit. Kill me now.
The wrap and two thermal pads
I get home, and as is normal there are some boxes on my doorstep; the normal stuff, some golf clubs and a bunch of golf accessories companies send in for me to review. Lo and behold, one box is from Active Wraps. What was inside took me aback. Inside that box was an elbow compression wrap, complete with two thermal pads which could be frozen or heated depending on the treatment needed. Within 20 minutes of incurring an elbow injury, I had an elbow wrap on my doorstep.
Supernatural or simply a coincidence? You be the judge.
I’m currently using the elbow wrap for my bum elbow. It is helping to reduce the swelling and elbow pain, as I’ve frozen the thermal packs and am using them like ice packs.
As a golfer, I’ve suffered from some pretty bad cases of tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow. There is a difference between the two and if you are really unlucky, you’ll have both like I did. The Active Wrap elbow system will surely help if and when those golf elbow injuries flare up.
What is .003? The amount of time in seconds it took for me to turn off my TV after seeing George Lopez shank a shot into a house at Pebble Beach during the AT&T Pro-Am. That and watching Chris Berman attempt to hit a golf ball. Excuse me while I barf. #dontlikewatchinghackers #touronlyplease #lopezisnotfunny #bermanshouldstayawayfromgolf
Is there anyone, ANYONE out there who really likes watching these people in pro-ams like this? Anyone out there who enjoys watching bad swings and hacks who can’t dub it out of their shadow and then go into some lame comedy routine with the audience? If there is, I’d like to interview you so comment in here.
I just found a straggler video I hadn’t even uploaded to YouTube yet! This is an interview I did from the 2011 PGA Show with my buddy Brett. We cover the new Titleist 910 driver and its adjustments, as well as the 910 series metal woods.
I had to cut out a lot of my babbling at the beginning of this interview. What is there on my part isn’t great. I’d separated my shoulder a few days before and I was experiencing a lot of pain. The painkillers were kicking in and making my brain work a little slower than normal… Fortunately my buddy Gary from TaylorMade handled it like a pro and made me look better as he talked about the new TaylorMade TP Irons. In this video we talk about the TaylorMade forged irons: Cavity Back, Muscle Back, Muscle/Cavity (CB, MB, MC).
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