Suggestions needed for 4th annual turkey awards
The 4th annual HOG Turkey Awards is coming this week. I’ve got a list of candidates going which you can read here, but I’d like to hear your suggestions in case I missed any.
Comment in or email me your suggestions for boneheads in the golf world for 2008!
Previous HOG Turkey Award Winners
~ 2007 winner was Sergio Garcia for spitting in the hole and also for gagging away the British Open.
~ 2006 winner was Phil Mickelson for gagging away the US OPEN.
~ 2005 winners, Vijay for withdrawing due to a ping pong injury, and David Duval for earning $381 per event.
LPGA loses three tournaments and $5 mil for 2009
The LPGA Tour has suffered yet another tough blow. Due to sponsorship losses, they’ve dropped three tournaments. Overall prize money for $2009 on the LPGA Tour has dropped by $5 million. Unfortunately for the LPGA this surely isn’t the last setback they’ll encounter in the near future.
Perhaps Annika is even smarter than I thought before for ejecting this year.
14 year old knocks Garcia out of #1 spot
There’s been a lot of discussion about Sergio Garcia being #2 in the world, and some even more entertaining discussion here about where Sergio ranks #1.
14 year old makes cut in European Tour
Jason Hak, a 14 year old, became the youngest to make a cut on the European Tour. How cool is that? To top it off, he replaced Sergio who was previously the youngest at 15 years 46 days.
Seve out of ICU
This news came down the pipe while I was in server hell. But in case you missed it, Seve Ballesteros is out of the ICU, though still in the hospital. This is ver good news and I continue to wish Seve my best.
HOG move to dedicated server complete
HOG back at 100%
I’ve now got the header banner running, which was (I hope) the last thing to get working since the big move to a dedicated server. Please let me know via comments or email if you find something messed up so I can fix it.
Dedicated server
For those who don’t know what a dedicated server is, basically it is an entire computer (server) in a data center. The “box” only has one client on it, me. It is “dedicated” to my site. Previously HOG has been on “shared” hosting servers. Shared hosting is cheap, but can be very problematic as I’ve found out. Shared is good for starters, but when a site moves as much traffic as this one does shared hosting won’t work. Shared hosting is often hacked and slow, because there can be many hundreds or even thousands of web sites on one server.
What to expect
Now that HOG is on a dedicated server, we should expect a serious speed increase. Those times when it took several seconds to load the page, or when the site would hang, should be gone for the most part. The gallery should run and load faster.
Room to grow
There’s plenty of room to grow too. The storage capacity available now is 100x what I had before. Plenty of room and plenty of horsepower. HOG has upgraded from a Yugo to a Porsche SUV.
Back to our regularly scheduled blogram
Now that this is done I need a mental break. I’ve gotten hardly any sleep the last couple of days and my brain, back and body are toast. I’ll get back to my regular blogging when I’ve recharged my batteries and put some fresh ProV1’s in my bag.
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