Fatigued Tiger Woods bails on the Tour Championship. Your opinion?
The Tour Championship is this week. The Tour Championship is the last big tournament of the year and the one where only the top 30 money winners are qualified to play. It’s a big deal to be in this tournament, for most.
Poor Tiger is “fatigued” and is bailing on this tournament for the first time in his career. Tiger cited having to travel to Europe a couple of times at the end of this year as one reason. Yeah, flying coach to Europe is a real draining experience. You’ve got the screaming, runny nosed baby with overwhelmed mother who hasn’t slept in weeks in the window seat, Tiger in the middle seat, and a big stinky fat guy in the isle seat who takes his shoes off and stinks up the whole plane while snoring with his head resting on Tiger’s shoulder. That’s tiring.
Being in such terrible physical condition must also contribute to Tiger being so tired and not being able to golf for 4 days in the last big tournament of the year. Perhaps if Tiger hit the gym once in a while and got rid of some of that body fat he’d have a little more endurance so he’d be able to handle the incredible physical requirements of…. playing golf for 4 days.
It must also be really tiring counting all those millions of bucks for Tiger. I can see it now somewhere in Tiger Woods’ house:
Tiger: “$66,663,003 $66,663,004 $66,663,005…”
And then his Swedish model wife Elin comes in the room in a see through nightie and says “Come on Tiger, let’s go to bed.”
Tiger: “Damn it Elin! I lost count again. Now I have to start over. $1, $2, $3…”
Yup, really tiring.
On Tiger’s side he is an independent contractor and he can play whenever he wants. He did also have the death of his father Earl earlier this year so I’ll give him that. But come on.
The FedEx Cup starts next year and is supposed to prevent this type of thing from happening by offering a huge bonus of $10 million to the winner. We’ll see. It’s fairly obvious guys like Tiger & Phil Mickelson aren’t playing for the money.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem called this a “lame duck year” following the news of Tiger and also Phil bailing on The Tour Championship. I’m no expert but if the commissioner is calling it a lame duck year that’s no good. And what about the sponsors and fans? Is this really the “Tour Championship” now or just some lame duck tournament?
VOTE IN THE NEW POLL and tell us your opinion on Tiger not playing this week.
HOG readers voice their opinion on golf balls
The pundits have spoken! The latest Hooked On Golf Blog poll has closed and the votes have been counted. It was a very tight poll, in fact a tie occured.
The poll question: What is your most important factor in choosing a golf ball?
Spin -> 30% (39 Votes) 30%
Distance -> 32% (42 Votes) 32%
Durability -> 7% (9 Votes) 7%
Price -> 32% (42 Votes) 32%
The Golf Space logs 300,000th visitor
A little status update about my “other” golf site The Golf Space @ http://www.thegolfspace.com. The Golf Space is the original golf social networking site where you set up your own profile, write your own blogs, make golf connections etc.
TGS just logged it’s 300,000th visitor last night to go along with it’s 1100+ members, 560 golf related articles and 118 user submitted WebLinks.
To this point there are STILL NO ADS of any sort on the site and it’s totally free to use. Check it out.
Hell Day Tournament Format
Happy Halloween!
Hell Day Tournament Format
Here’s a fun idea for your golf league for this time of year. My league has started doing “Hell Day” for it’s final tournament of the year since it’s so close to Halloween. During Hell Day we set the course up to be extremely difficult. This year we had it so tough that 9 over par (for 9 holes) was the winner and he was 5 shots clear of anyone else.
Tee Boxes
Put the tees in crazy places like bushes, dirt roads, side hill lies, behind trees etc. On one hole this year we put the tee over 100 yards farther back than the black tees on a par 4. One person out of 60 got a par and won a skin. It was a 310 yard carry to reach the fairway.
On #12 this year we forced all players to tee off with their driver. The problem is that #12 is a 162 yard par 3 over a hazard!
On #10 we put the tee waaaay back. In the pic below you can see the tee box. It’s about 320 to the fairway from here and the fairway is only about 10 yards wide at the opening with hazard on both sides!
It’s 320 yards to a 10 yard wide fairway with hazards on both sides!
Fairway
We brought a bunch of pumpkins in for Hell Day. Some pumpkins we’ll place in the fairway and the players are required to hit the fairway pumpkin on a par 4 or par 5 before they can hit their approach shot to the green. The funny thing is that when the ball hits the pumpkin it doesn’t go very far. The ball ends up so close that the pumpkin interferes with your swing.
Another hellish thing we do on par 4’s or 5’s is make the player hit into a fairway bunker before he’s allowed to go for the green.
Greens
On Hell Day we put the pins in the worst possible place you can imagine. Some pins we’ll put on the fringe and some we’ve even put IN a greenside bunker.
This year on #14 we put the pin on a severe tier (pic below). This is a drivable par 4. I drove the green and proceeded to score an 11 as I 10-putted. I’d putt the ball up to the hole and it would roll 25 feet right back to me.
I drove this par 4 but 10-putted for an 11!
We also took some small pumpkins and put them around the hole to make players putt around them.
#15 this year we put 3 pins in the green: front, middle and back. I kept telling everyone “hey you’re pin high” but no one got the joke. A couple of years ago we put about 10 holes in a green with no flags. You just putt to the nearest hole.
Another fun thing to do is put one big hole in the green. One year we did this on a hole which had two greens. The hole was about 2 feet wide. It was funny to hear people saying “play it right edge” or “I lipped out on a that one.”
Other ideas
I’ve heard many crazy and great ideas for tournaments like this. One good idea is to have set of right and left handed rental clubs on one hole and force the player to tee off left handed (for right handed players).
Valley View Golf Course Images
I played a wonderful golf course yesterday in Layton Utah called Valley View.
I’ll be writing a review of Valley View soon but for now you can enjoy 47 pictures in the Valley View Photo Gallery.
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