USGA executive director David Fay to step down after 21 years
FAYd Away
USGA executive director David Fay announced that he’s stepping down after 21 years.
It’s been a rewarding, satisfying and fun run. My heartfelt thanks to all of you, with a special salute to the women and men of the superb USGA staff, who helped make it so.
Some of the accomplishments Fay has to be proud of are bringing golf to the Olympics and bringing U.S. Open play to public courses like Torrey Pines and Bethpage Black.
Golf mecca of St. George, Utah hammered by flooding
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Categories: Golf Courses • Golf Life • Golf Videos • Miscellaneous
Categories: Golf Courses • Golf Life • Golf Videos • Miscellaneous
This is deja vu from back in 2005 when floods hit one of my favorite Red Rock Country golf towns, St. George, Utah. We’ve been getting a lot of snow and some rain up here the last couple of days in Salt Lake, but down in southern Utah where it is warmer, rain and some snow in higher elevations is causing some massive flooding and damage.
Below are some photos courtesy of twitter user @beautifulsuzieq. In this first photo you can see a bridge floating down stream. That bridge is from Southgate Golf Course. My buddy Randy from the local Fairways Magazine tells me on facebook that Southgate’s holes 1, 2, 4 and 9 are significantly damaged.
Bridge from Southgate Golf Course floats downstream - click image for more flood pictures
Southgate green surrounded by flood water - click for more images
I’ve also gotten word that one of my favorite courses down in St. George, Sunbrook, has had some major damage. The bridge on #1 tee of the Blackrock course is gone and there is major damage to #9 green.
St. George Flood Videos
Below are some youtube videos of some of the flooding. In the first video you can see a bridge lodged under another bigger bridge. I know that a bridge was lost at Southgate Golf Course and also the bridge off of #1 tee on the Sunbrook Blackrock course. I’m trying to figure out if this bridge is one of those two.
If you don’t see the videos below, click the read more link. I don’t like putting youtube videos on my home page because they slow down the load time.
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Nike Sport Cart Bag
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: Golf Bag • Nike
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Reviews
Tags: Golf Bag • Nike
Nike Sport Cart Golf Bag
Last month (November 2010) Nike released the new Nike Sport Cart Bag. I’ve had one in play now for a couple of months and I’ve enjoyed using it. I can be quite a critic of golf bags because there’s not a piece of gear which gets used and abused as much as the bag itself. If they’re poorly made or designed in a way which makes golfing harder rather than easier, that bag is going the way of the junk pile.
Sport Cart Bag Overview
This bag is designed for golfers who prefer to use some mode of wheeled transportation for themselves and/or their bags on the golf course. Those modes may include push carts, pull carts or riding carts.
The top of the bag is designed in such a way that the clubs organize well in two directions, making club access easy for vertically mounted orientation or slanted mounts like those on push/pull carts (trolleys in the UK, aye?).
Sydney Love Women’s Golf Handbags
Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf For Women • Golf Gear • Reviews
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf For Women • Golf Gear • Reviews
Women have all the fun when it comes to golf accessorizing. In fact, I think some women enjoy accessorizing more than they do actually playing golf. Take these Sydney Love Women’s Golf Handbags below. They’re imprinted with a golf shoe pattern so they look cool and fun, but they’re also very well made and useful. To view bigger images, go to my Sydney Love Gallery or click the images to go to their Amazon pages.
Sydney Love Golf Satchel
The Sydney Love Golf Satchel Sydney Love Golf Satchel (right) is a fun and functional large handbag.
The bag features a zip pocket on one side and an outer pocket on the other side, as well as a detachable lady golf shoe keychain (not pictured). By the way, the green heart shown above I do not believe comes with this purse. I may be wrong on that. But I just attached it for fun…
The inside of this bag has one large zippered pocket for loose items, as well as two pockets with no zippers (cell phones, iPods etc).
Sydney Love Cosmetic Bag
The Sydney Love Golf Cosmetic Bag/Ball Holder
This bag is designed for cosmetics, but works great for golf balls too. For me, it would be good for putting iPods, iPhones, headphones and adapters inside.
There is also one zippered pocket on the inside of this bag.
Sydney Love Across The Body Bag
Finally there’s the Across The Body Bag (right). This bag has two front zipper pockets with golf ball zipper pulls, and one back zipper pocket with the same golf ball zipper pulls.
The liner of this bag (and the other bags for that matter) is the standard Sydney Love polka dot fabric, green background with lighter dots.
Inside this bag are two pockets for cell phones or accessories, plus a zippered pocket.
FORRRE! – Golf Card Game
FORRRRE! – Card Game for Golfers is 
Forrre is a game which can be played by 2-5 players and includes cards for standard golf scores (birdies, pars etc), but also has some wildcard types of cards for mixing up play a bit. For instance you can steal an opponent’s card with the Gopher card, block an opponent from posting a score with the Shankin It card etc.
Though not real golf, the FORRRE! golf card game beats sitting inside, staring out the window and waiting for the snow to melt.
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