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Happy 80th birthday to the King Arnold Palmer

Before I head out this morning to get on the waiting list at my favorite public course here since I forgot to get a tee time, I need to send happy birthday wishes to the KING! Happy 80th birthday to…

Golf on TV this week

BMW Championship PGA TOUR Thursday 9/10 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF Friday 9/11 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET GOLF Saturday 9/12 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET NBC Sunday 9/13 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET NBC…

Category: Golf Media, Miscellaneous

Saw my pal Casey Jones on TV at last week’s Barclays

I forgot to mention this Sunday. I was watching the end of the Barclays when I say my pal Casey Jones at the scorer’s table! As you may recall, Casey is the maker of really cool golf scoreboards and has…

Category: Golf Media, Miscellaneous

Speaking of too much Flash in web sites, I made it through 5.74 seconds of Ian Poulter’s site before I bailed

OMG. Another Flash programmer just bought a Porsche at the expense of the web viewer’s time and bandwidth. Just two posts ago here I mentioned the fact that Tiger’s new site was better because it had less Flash. Then I…

Category: Golf Media, Miscellaneous

Bad golf press releases, and golf media members who have the golf balls to call ’em out

I just stopped laughing, barely. When did I start? Monday. My pal Jay Flemma forwarded me an email response he had to a, shall we say, “over the top” golf press release. If you want to laugh now and skip…