Tiger Woods 1st USA course design
Yes Tiger Woods needs more gigs. He doesn’t make enough dough yet. $130,000,000 a year just isn’ t enough so his new design company, founded in 2006, is starting to roll. The top designers in the world can fetch a million or two for their design gigs. Tiger’s fee is $25 million.
Tiger Woods will be designing a course near Asheville, North Carolina. Ever been to Asheville? I have. It’s one of the neatest towns in the country. I have fond memories of my short time in Asheville. I considered moving there.
If Tiger’s fee is $25 million I’d hate to see what the green fees would be at that course.
Foozle Golf Game
My golf pals and I play all sorts of betting games on the course. We play a rabbit on each nine, which is where if you get a skin you get a leg. Four legs at a time, or having any legs after each nine wins you two bucks. We play “barkies” which is where the last guy to hit a tree pays (or if you hit a tree and make par you get paid), “sandies” where the last guy to get in the sand pays or say a “snake” which is were the last guy to three-putt buys everyone a beer at the 19th hole.
Foozle Golf Game
Foozle is a fun golf game along the same lines as those games I mentioned. The game has six coins representing positive and negative things that can happen on the course. If you end up with a coin at the end of the round, you pay out for negatives and get paid for positivies.
Foozle was created by Dave Kapan. He’s a single father with a sever year old son with autism. He’s hoping to sell games to help offset the costs of his medical expenses.
The Positive Coins
Birdie – Whoever ends up with the birdie coin at the end of the round gets paid.
One-Putt – Whoever ends up with the one-putt coin at the end of the round gets paid.
The Negative Coins
Snowman – You don’t want the snowman coin because you’ll have to pay.
Three-Putt – Whoever ends up with this coin pays.
Hazard – If you go in a water hazard, lateral hazard or trap you get this coin.
OB/Lost Ball – Lose a ball and get this coin.
On The Course
Foozle is fun to play on the course. You really hate getting a negative coin but you are glad when one of your opponents messes up and you can give him grief when you hand over the coin to him.
In my golf group all the players are five handicappers or less. So the we have yet to even take the snowman coin out of the bag. We decided to change that to the double bogey coin, but still haven’t used it in two rounds. The one-putt coin however, sees action on nearly every hole. Someone is bound to one-putt in my group on every hole. So we altered the one-putt rules a bit. In our group, to get the one-putt coin the putt has to be for par or better.
Conclusion
Foozle adds a fun dimension to playing golf and betting.
You may need to alter the rules a bit to suit the players in your group, but Foozle is a fun game to play with your pals. I love it when I’ve been carrying around that damn hazard coin and I get to toss it to my opponent when he gags on the 18th and knocks his shot in the sand.
Tiger thumps Rory Gaggatini
Rory Sabbatini shot his mouth off a bit, saying Tiger was as beatable as he’s ever been. Tiger came back with a great comment, saying Sabbatini had won three tournaments in his career while Tiger had won three this season. Touche’.
Rory Gaggatini
Sabbatini started out at Firestone Sunday with a two shot lead over Tiger. Tiger proceeded to pound him into submission, shooting a bogeyless 65. Sabbatini could only answer with a gaggalicious 74. Thus, his new name: Rory Gaggatini.
Man did Tiger look good
Tiger looked as good Sunday as he’s looked all season. He was perfectly in balance, perfect timing, calm, in control… He was in the zone. I was wondering about him, but I’m not wondering any more. Even when he hit bad shots they went in, like one of his two chip-ins. I was thinking that Tiger would go for 2007 without a major win and I’m still leaning that way. But, he looked SO good this week it’s hard not to pick him.
Tiger ended up being the only player in the field under par. He lapped the field by 8 shots and outplayed Gaggatini by 9 shots!
Enough about last week. PGA Championship week has begun! Bring it on!
Green Reading Lesson In The Rain
Yesterday I had a tee time with my pop at his club. This club is a beauty. It has been rated the best in my state a few times by Golf Digest.
It was raining very hard when we got there so we had to wait it out for a while. While having a drink in the clubhouse, we looked over the 9th green and were discussing how the water was gathering on the green. We discussed how we didn’t realize the green’s low point ran from the back right (as you approach) to the front left. We always considered it to be straight from back to front downhill. This explained to us some of the subtle breaks that we haven’t been able to read. The water on the green showed is breaks we didn’t know were there.
In the 2nd picture below I’ve drawn in some arrows to show the breaks in the green. The arrows obviously run downhill. Oddly enough, this was the only hole I birdied after the rain stopped and we got out on the course. I didn’t birdie it because I knew the breaks though. I birdied it because I knocked a lob wedge to one foot and gave myself a no-brainer putt with no break…
Scorecard Caddie
If you’re like me, you probably save a bunch of golf scorecards randomly stored all over. They’re in boxes in the garage, drawers, folders, the car and many random locations throughout my place. I’ve got some cool cards from some pretty special golf places, like St. Andrews. Some of them have gotten trashed from having other junk piled on them or from just being shoved in a drawer.
Scorecard Caddie
Enter the Scorecard Caddie. The Scorecard Caddie is an elegant storage case for your scorecards. You can keep them all in the same place and keep them protected.
Outside
The outside of the caddie is a nice forest green color and slightly padded. It would show nicely on a coffee table or in a bookshelf.
Inside
The inside of the caddie has many different pages with varying configurations to store just about every possible size score card. There are a total of 40 pages, capable of holding 220 score cards.
Refills
Refills are available for the album as well so when you fill up your current album you can add more pages.
Custom Logos
Custom imprinting onto the cover of the Scorecard Caddie is also available for those corporate giveaways, goodie bags and tournament prizes.
Conclusion
I’m thrilled to have a Scorecard Caddie to store all my special score cards. I’ve got a ton of cards in it already and it’s not even half full. Every time I play a new course or shoot another round in the 60’s (like a couple of days ago), I can’t wait to file my card in the Scorecard Caddie.
More images of the Scorecard Caddie can be found here.
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