Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson two highest earning athletes

Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Categories: PGA Tour • Tiger Woods
Tags: Phil Mickelson • Tiger Woods

SI has come out with their “Fortunate 50” list for 2010. Once again the top to highest paid athletes are golfers!

#1: Tiger Woods has been the highest paid athlete for seven years in a row, despite a drop in $22 million last year. Boy how much could you do with an extra $22 million per year? Was it worth it? Despite dropping $22 million, Tiger still brought in $90 million. I suspect that number will be smaller for next year.

#2: Phil Mickelson is once again #2 in earnings and brought in $61 million.

Review: Gran Melia resort in Puerto Rico

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Golf Courses • Golf Life • Golf Lifestyle • Life • Reviews • Travel
Tags: Puerto Rico

I couldn’t have imagined that starting a golf blog in 2004 would result in my attending the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open and staying at the beautiful Gran Melia Resort in Puerto Rico six years later. But that’s one of many great events which has occurred as a result of being the web’s #1 golf web geek.

Location Location Location

Let’s start with Gran Melia’s location, Puerto Rico. This was my first time there and I loved it. The weather was rainy the first day or so, but even then it was beautiful. The resort is located in the city of Rio Grande, about a 30 minute drive from the Puerto Rico airport and from the most well known PR city of San Juan.

The resort sits on Coco Beach in the northeastern coast, where the water is very calm and shallow.

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Happy Birthday Sophie Sandolo

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Golf For Women • Miscellaneous

Birthday wishes to golf babe Sophie Sandolo. For some reason which I can’t quite pinpoint, I really like Sophie….

The Ball Is FLYING Right Now

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Categories: Golf • Hackers

100 degree temperatures. 4200 above sea level. No moisture in the air. The back is loose. The ball striking is pretty good. Bridgestone B330-RX golf balls.

These are all reasons why the ball is FLYING right now. Every summer I have to readjust my yardages. “Summer yardages” are now in effect.

During Saturday’s Sandy Amateur, which I had great ball striking except for three swings, I had all sorts of trouble with yardages. I hit a gap wedge with no wind with no elevation change, about 150 yards. I was hitting my sand wedge about 130 yards. On the 1st hole (my 9th because it was a shotgun start), I hit my 6-iron onto the green from 200 yards and made an eagle putt from about 12 feet. That was the highlight of the day. The lowlights are that the ball was going so far I was flying over greens. On the 5th hole I had 135 to the back pin. I flew my gap wedge to pin high, it bounced off the green into the hazard behind it. Blech.

League play is today, and the temps will be 95-98. I’ll be using summer yardages today for sure.

Is Tiger Woods’ reign of dominance over?

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Categories: PGA Tour • Tiger Woods
Tags: Tiger Woods

Thanks to my buddy Jason W. for referring me to an article from Joe Posnanski from SI. Had he not pointed it out I never would have read it. I rarely read articles by the regular sports media, or as they like to be called, “journalists.” I prefer to read my fellow golf bloggers. Most journalists love to point out that us bloggers are not journalists. In my case I take that as a compliment. Actually, I insist that I’m a blogger and not a journalist. That whole discussion is for another day.

All that circular gibberish aside, I officially like Joe and I’ll check out more of his pieces.

Joe’s article basically ponders the possibilities of Tiger’s “time” being over. Has his incredible run of regular PGA Tour and major championship victories ended? The bookies and many people in the media sure don’t seem to think so and neither did many of my buddies. I had Lee Westwood, Paul Casey and Padraig Harrington at the top of my list.

I reckon back to my golf round Tuesday in my men’s club when my buddy Dan asked me how Tiger would do in the (British) Open Championship. He asked me “field or Tiger?” I clearly and confidently answered “field.” Then I told him that despite the fact that St. Andrews seemed like a pitch and putt for Tiger in 2000 and 2005, I doubted Tiger would record a top 10 finish. My reason wasn’t that Tiger’s time was done, but rather his mind can’t be clear enough to concentrate at a level high enough to win a major so close to his personal issues and (apparent) divorce.

The next few years will be interesting to say the least. Can Tiger break Jack’s record or even threaten it? Many new players are surfacing and the fields do nothing but get stronger. Winning a major for anyone continues to get more and more difficult. Meanwhile, Tiger gets older. The mental drain he endures with his personal life and the ever irritating (to him) media grinds away at him and his ability to focus. It has to. He’s human.

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