Rory McIlroy has joined Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer in saying “no” to the PGA Tour and the FedEx Cup for 2011.
If you’re not playing well in the States it can be a lonely place. But if you’re not playing well on the European Tour you still have plenty of mates to hang out with.
The $10,000,000 FedEx Cup prize isn’t enough to entice these great players to play here full time. They don’t like being forced to play in events they don’t want to play in, to be eligible for the Cup.
I wish I had enough dough in the bank and a good enough golf game to be able to say no like that… Maybe in my next life.
I’ve been receiving a lot of women’s golf accessory submissions lately. Though I can’t (or perhaps shouldn’t) wear them, I’ll still try to do my best to review them a bit and take some photos. I’ll see if I can get some of them in the golf bags of lady golfers (or even lady golf bloggers) I know.
Lady Classic Golf Gloves
Lady Classic makes many different models of golf gloves for women. The unique qualities of these gloves is that they offer UV filtering to provide skin protection and a longer lasting suntan. Since the gloves allow the hand to be tanned, ladies don’t have to walk around with a nice tan and a white hand which doesn’t match! The SPF 10 gloves also provides cooling to keep the hands free of moisture.
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Leaving sunflower seed hulls on the greens is a prime example of how not to be considerate of other golfers.
Please, please do not discard your sunflower seed hulls on the greens! It is completely LAME to do that, as other golfers have to pick them up to prevent them from knocking their putts off line.
If you run a golf shop or the food and beverage of a golf course, do not carry sunflower seeds in the hull. If you must carry sunflower seeds, make sure they are the kind with the seed removed!!!
Thanks in advance.
A while back I posted an incredible piece of golf blogging and writing genius, with my review of the Potty Putter. Being the authentic golf blogger I am, I didn’t post a promotional photo from the makers of Potty Putter. Instead, I posted a photo of myself using the unit.
A few months later I head into the bathroom at the local muni course. Up on the bulletin board above the urinals is my photo, testing out the Potty Putter.
After six years of perfecting my craft, I may have reached the golf blog precipice. The peak. The summit.
Not Done Yet
I’m not done yet. Can I push the limits, the boundaries of journalistic excellence even higher? I know it will be difficult, but I’ll be trying my best. I’ll be working hard to become even better at golf blogging.
Stay tuned.
I was hanging out in the office of my good friend (a.k.a. Director of Golf at my home course). He showed me an email he’d gotten from a guy who wanted to book a golf travel package with him. They were willing to “pre pay” for 10 people, including hotel rooms and who knows what else. This would all be paid in advance, but since they were based outside of the USA, we’d have to process the payment for other parts of their travel and “reimburse” their agent who was booking the travel. They would allow us to charge $10,000 or something like that for the hotel, golf and transportation but we needed to wire them the difference of the travel/golf back to them, about $3,000. Uh yeah right.
What this guy booking the travel failed to realize, was that he was willing to book travel to our course when it would be closed for winter, when it has two feet of snow covering it.
That was about a month ago.
Today I received the same solicitation through the HOG contact form, even though I’m not even a “golf course.” Obviously these scammers are scouring the net hoping they can get some bonehead to bite.
I really hope none of you directors of golf, or course operators are dumb enough to fall for a scam like this. Just in case you are I’m posting the entire email below in quotes. I’m also leaving their email address too, in hopes that they get picked up by all the spam bots and get added to all the porn lists. May their in box be full of the same sort of junk they’re sending out!
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