Played Black Mesa today and it was awesome

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Categories: Golf • Golf Courses • Site News • Travel
Tags: Black Mesa • Golf New Mexico

I’m dead tired from a long day of traveling, playing Black Mesa and then the cocktail party, dinner and lounging in the hot mineral springs here in New Mexico. Yes it sucks, but someone has to do it.

Highlights of the round include making birdie on the 9th and the 16th. I almost aced the par-3 11th hole.

Must get some sleep so until I get more time to post, here are a couple of shots from today. First is the 17th hole, which I gagged, but it is a great view….

Next is the 18th green with the clubhouse in the background. The old squeaky windmill was playin’ some great music today.

HOG world tour travel day to New Mexico

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, May 17th, 2009
Categories: Site News
Tags: Black Mesa Golf Club • New Mexico

I’m now on the flight to New Mexico blogging from my iPhone.

I should be teeing off at Black Mesa around lunch time.

UPDATE 10:48am: Just landed in Albuquerque. It will be a bit of a long drive from here but I’m getting excited to be back at BM soon!

I return to Black Mesa Golf Club, one of the finest golf courses on our planet

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, May 15th, 2009
Categories: Site News
Tags: Black Mesa • Golf Courses • New Mexico Golf

Over the last few years I’ve developed a great friendship with Eddie Peck, principal at Black Mesa Golf Club in New Mexico. Eddie and I have shared many a great meal and smoked many cigars together and of course, played many rounds of golf at some great courses around the country from Ballyneal to the TPC Sawgrass. As good as some of those courses are, Eddie’s Black Mesa is quite possibly the best course I’ve ever played. I had the pleasure of playing the course a couple of years ago and I did a review which can be found here.

I’m excited to announce that I’m returning to Black Mesa this Sunday and I’ll be there through Wednesday. I’ll be cramming in as many holes of golf on this world class Baxter Spann design when I’m not checking out the land which will soon be home for Black Mesa’s 2nd course, groundbreaking this summer. The 2nd course will be designed by my favorite course designer, Tom Doak. You may have heard of some of Doak’s previous projects like the aforementioned Ballyneal or the Doak course at Bandon in Oregon? Yes, Spock.

Down and dirty at Black Mesa’s 2nd course, which breaks ground this summer…

I can’t announce anything quite yet about what I’m doing or what the arrangements will be, because there aren’t any yet. But I’ve been in discussions with Eddie and his PR firm about being the official blog for the progress of the Doak course construction. Naturally that would require the real tough gig that I be at BM numerous times over the two years, the time it will take to get the course built. I’ll have to do a sit down or two with Tom Doak and pick his brain. That won’t suck.

For good measure here’s another shot from Black Mesa for your enjoyment below. You can access my Black Mesa Gallery here, which now has close to 300 images.

My game is now a disaster

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Categories: Hackers • Life

My game stinks

I don’t know what is up. I feel good physically. I’ve lost 20 pounds over the last couple of months and I’m looking like a younger “flat belly” player now. My back isn’t stiff at all. The swing “feels” good. I feel loose. Everything seems to be working and feeling good up until I make contact.

Tuesday I did something I haven’t done since somewhere around 2004. I shanked a shot. I handled it fairly well and didn’t get too bent out of shape.

I feel like I’m actually making solid contact but finding my concentration level is very low and I’m making poor decisions. I’m not focused.

Worst round of the year

Today I carded my worst score of the year and sent myself into an even more confused state than I already was in, which is hard to imagine. Somehow I managed to push on all my bets (won some lost some) which I can’t believe.

Game management? No. Course management? No. I’m in a state of “disaster management.”

Maybe I should just let it go

Perhaps I shouldn’t get too down about my bad rounds right now. I do seem to go through this phase a few times per year. Tomorrow is another day, and I’m golfing so it won’t be too bad. A report will follow.

My state golf association’s site has been hacked

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Categories: Miscellaneous

I played some absolutely horrid golf today. I went to punch in my worst score of the year into my state golf association’s handicapping system and found this:

This site may harm your computer

Of the 662 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 52 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-05-13, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-05-13.

Malicious software includes 93 scripting exploit(s), 32 trojan(s), 1 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 6 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 14 domain(s), including xxxx.cn/, xxxxx.cn/, xxxx.or.kr/.

5 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including xxxx.or.kr/, xxxx.cn/, xxxx.cn/.