Tallahasse.com’s Becky Sauers doesn’t write her content, she steals it

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Categories: Boneheads • Golf • Golf Media • Miscellaneous

Could you stand idly by and watch your friend be the victim of theft? I can’t.

I have a friend and fellow golf blogger named John Duval and his site is called Into The Grain. I had the pleasure of meeting and even playing golf with John in Orlando earlier this year. John wrote a nice article with 10 pointers on playing winter golf back in January 2010. There are some great pieces of advice in there which will really help golfers deal with golfing in the winter.

Apparently Tallahasse.com’s Becky Sauers liked John’s piece so much, she decided copy and paste it into an article and call it her own. She made a couple of small changes to John’s work, like changing the words “ski parka” to “big heavy jacket” and such. That way she must have thought nobody would notice that she was stealing someone’s work. Of course she gave no credit to John and had no permission from John to use his material.

The biggest no-no in journalism is plagiarism or stealing material. Where I come from we string up people who do that and stone them. Then we take them to Detroit to be tortured.

See Becky’s article below left and John’s article below right and click the images to see larger versions:

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Becky Sauers’ next move needs to be removing that piece from Tallahassee.com’s web site, and then posting a public apology and admission that she stole someone’s content.

Man up Becky. Golf is an honorable game. We call penalties on ourselves. We’re waiting.

Fortune Brands to sell off golf unit which includes Titleist – Shall we take up a collection and buy it?

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Apparel • Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear

Fortune Brands is going to split into three units and sell off its golf and home products units, keeping its most profitable division which is in the alcohol realm (Jim Beam).

Fortune’s golf unit would include anything under the Acushnet umbrella, Titleist, Footjoy, Pinnacle etc. Cobra has already been sold off to Puma.

This essentially means that golf’s biggest brand will have one of those WalMart happy face stickers and be up for sale to the highest bidder.

“While the breadth and balance of our portfolio have served shareholders very well, we see the potential for even greater value by separating our businesses into focused companies,” ~ Chief Executive Bruce Carbonari.

So, I’ve just gone through my wallet. I managed to gather up $19.60. I’m willing to throw that in the pot. What do you say we pass around a golf hat and see if we can come up with enough dough to make the purchase? I think that would mean we could get a great deal on, or perhaps even scam some free ProV1’s…

Who should be the 2011 fantasy golf provider?

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Categories: Fantasy Golf • Site News
Tags: Fantasy Golf

Ok it is that time of year my friends. It is the time of year where we discuss where we would like to call home for the 2011 fantasy golf season. I’d like to hear your suggestions below.

Let me tell you why we are where we are now:

We used yahoo for a few years. I have a small connection at yahoo and they were cool enough to expand the league sizes from 50 to 100 players. But we routinely have around 200 competitors so that still meant we had to have two leagues. Remember “HOG Space 1” and “HOG Space 2?” This made doing the results and figuring out winners even more difficult than it already was.

So last year we went to Kerplookee. The good thing about Kerplookee is that there was no league size limit. That meant all the standings and results etc were in one place, easy to find and display. Kerplookee is not without its issues, some which I complained about all year but they were not fixed. While irritating these may not be deal breakers as those are less of issues to me than having the league split into two groups.

I’m open to suggestions. But if you suggest a league there are a few requirements I’d like to meet:

1. The provider can occupy ONE group and not have to be split up.

2. The provider is FREE.

3. The provider is TGS and HOG friendly.

4. The provider doesn’t suck.

5. The provider’s sole purpose is not to suck you into their site with a free game only to pressure and solicit you into joining their “pay” game.

I’ve started a thread in the The Golf Space forum to discuss this. Please go to this link about it in the fantasy golf area or comment in below to discuss. Thanks.

Deadline to claim fantasy prizes extended to December 15th

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Categories: Fantasy Golf • Site News
Tags: Fantasy Golf

I’m extending the deadline to claim fantasy prizes for 2010 by another two weeks.

For those who haven’t contacted me yet, please claim your prize by 12/15/10. After that, the prize will be forfeited.

For those who have contacted me and haven’t gotten anything yet, I was out of town last week so I didn’t ship anything. I’m still waiting to hear back from a couple of prize sponsors, but I do have the 3rd, 4th and 5th place and weekly prizes ready to ship. Whoever won 3rd has not claimed the prize and I want it out of my garage!!!

I will have to implement a stipulation for 2011 fantasy that shipping of prizes will be to continental USA only. Any players from outside that area, will have to pay for the extra shipping charges!

Palmilla Golf Club – Los Cabos, Mexico

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Categories: Course Reviews • Golf • Golf Courses • Golf Life • Golf Lifestyle • HOG World Tour • Reviews • Travel
Tags: Golf Travel • Travel

I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, and this time won’t be the last. There isn’t a better gig out there than running this golf blog. As a result I have the pleasure of reviewing some of the best golf courses and golf travel destinations in the world. Los Cabos, Mexico is home to many of those courses and is certainly in the top tier of resort destinations. My tough duty today is posting a review of the splendid time I had at the Palmilla Golf Club in Los Cabos.

Palmilla Arroyo Course, #7 Tee – Beautiful view of the fairway and the Sea of Cortez – Click for more images

Palmilla Golf Club Overview

Palmilla is a Jack Nicklaus designed, 27 hole facility comprised of the Arroyo, Mountain and Ocean nines. The track meanders through the hilly desert terrain of Los Cabos, taking advantage of the local scenery, cacti and views of the Sea of Cortez. A large percentage of the holes have ocean views. There’s something very cool and relaxing about the contrast of the green fairways and having that cool blue background of the ocean. Contrast that with the perfectly manicured and colorful local vegetation, numerous types of cacti, and you get 27 holes of photo opps. As a result, I shot about 120 photos during my round.

I played 18 of the 27 holes, so my review and image gallery features the Mountain and Arroyo nines. I’ll have to return soon to review the Ocean nine. Hint, hint.

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