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Annika Sorenstam had her baby

Congrats to Annika and Mike: Mike and I are happy to announce that I gave birth to our little girl at 3:30AM this morning. Ava Madelyn McGee is six pounds 10 ounces and 19 inches long. We are all doing well…

Category: Miscellaneous

I need to classify cameras as consumables

I’ve broken yet another camera. I was taking a picture of a golf polo when a gust of wind blew it off the back of the golf cart. The camera hit the ground lens first of course. Now the lens…

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…

Category: Golf Media, PGA Tour, Tiger Woods

Tiger will be glad to hear that I approve his web site redesign

TigerWoods.com has been revamped. Not sure exactly when since I don’t frequent it a ton, but fairly recently. I’m much happier with the new function and features of the site versus the old one. The old one looked cool, but…