If you are a bonehead and lose your golf head covers, check out Cover Guard

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Reviews

I met some nice folks from Visioneering Sports Products recently. They were kind enough to give me a set of their new product called Cover Guard. Cover Guard is a tethering system which you use to keep your boneheaded self from losing your head covers on the golf course. Some head covers can be pricey to replace, like on the new R11 or 910 drivers.

The Cover Guard tethers attach to your golf bag on one end, and to the head cover on the other. You can even attach head cover to head cover instead.

I should use the Cover Guard to tether my car keys to my head…

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The Hip Check

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Gear • Reviews

The Hip Check The stream of golf gadgets hitting my doorstep is endless. I can’t possibly wade through all of them, but I’m trying.

The Hip Check

If you have alignment issues and can’t seem to lay a club down on the ground to help you figure out if you are aimed right, then maybe you should look at The Hip Check.

The Hip Check hooks onto your belt or your pants above your hip bone and shows where your hip is pointing in an effort to get you aligned properly.

The one drawback to attempting to use this alignment tool would be if you naturally fade or draw all of the time and you have to set up open or closed in your stance to compensate. In that case, the Hip Check would be aligning to the line you want to start the ball out on, not the intended target.

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I test my balls with Hexcaliber

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, February 21st, 2011
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Balls • Golf Gear • Reviews

Most golfers like to shag balls out of the woods, the lake, hazards etc. I’ve always wondered what sort of performance loss, if any, those balls have after sitting there for days or weeks or years. Here on my home course we have a lot of water hazards. I’ve fished hundreds of balls from there, and the swampy surroundings. We also have many freeze/thaw days and nights in the spring and fall. I’ve wondered what effect freezing and thawing has or the ball sitting submerged in water for “x” days.

Now I have a tool to test my balls

All joking aside, Hexcaliber is a serious machine. This solid chrome steel unit performs three different tests on golf balls:

Test One – compression/hardness

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Baddeley gives the stack and tilt a black eye, and wins without it

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, February 21st, 2011
Categories: Boneheads • Golf Media • PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: Fred Couples

The PGA Tour season is batting 100% this year. Every tournament has been very entertaining to watch, each with its own interesting story lines. This past weekend’s Northern Trust at Riviera had many interesting story lines.

Dustin Johnson

The tournament started off with Dustin Johnson nearly missing his tee time on Thursday. Had he shown up to the tee 10 seconds later he would have been disqualified. Johnson was penalized two strokes for showing up to the tee late, but that wouldn’t be the end to the story.

Jim Gray

Jim Gray was removed from coverage at Riviera on Friday as he attempted to interview Johnson and his caddy Bobby Brown during their Friday round. This is a no-no on tour, for media to initiate interviews during play. They can only talk to the players and caddies if approached by them. A heated and profanity laced discussion ensued, resulting in Gray’s removal from the rest of the tournament by Golf Channel.

Fred Couples

Man I was on the Fred Couples bandwagon, along with probably the rest of the golfing world this week. Freddy had a chance to win, but was derailed by a bogey – double bogey stretch on the front nine. Still he was in contention most of the round but he just couldn’t catch eventual winner Aaron Baddeley.

I’ve always loved watching Freddy’s swing, because it looks so much like my own. Ahem. Well, the part where we are both holding a golf club in our hands…

Stack and Wilt

Aaron Baddeley abandoned the stack and tilt golf swing and has been rebuilding his swing for a couple of years now. Apparently that was a wise choice, after winning at Riviera. There was one point when he doubled the par-4 12th which I thought he might break down and lose it, but he came right back with a birdie. He was steady the rest of the way and pulled off a solid win, his first since 2007. I’m happy for Badds.

This week’s tweets for 2011-02-20

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Categories: Miscellaneous
Tags: Golf

Nike SQ MACHSPEED Black Round Driver Review http://bit.ly/hqmUhQ @nikegolf #
Can't wait for someone's phone to ring in Tiger's backs wing. PGA Tour will allow mobile devices at tournaments http://bit.ly/fN8yUx #
Time to hit the sack. Hope refrigerator defrost gig pans out & I don't have to use a fork to put cream in my morning coffee. #chunks #
Is this relatively new version of twitter supposed to have a little light to indicate that you have messages? Never works. #