Archives for: November 2008
Good riddance: Tiger Woods wasn't a Buick guy anyway
Tuesday November 25, 2008 | 09:44:39 498 words, 3436 views
In a surprise announcement, we now learn that Buick, after nine years, will not be renewing its contract with Tiger Woods. Perhaps GM had a choice: lose the Tiger endorsement or lose the private jets. Pretty easy decision if that’s the case because I can’t believe the folks at GM were getting much of an return on investment with the Tiger deal anyway, and well, you know how hard it is to travel first-class on a commercial airliner. You don’t know about that one, you say? Yeah, I can’t relate either.
Anyway, back to the Buick-Tiger deal: First off, this had ...
San Antonio golf, tourism fending off recession - for now
Friday November 21, 2008 | 04:42:44 349 words, 3149 views
This week I got a sneak preview of the new JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa well under construction in the northwest part of the San Antonio, Texas. The scene doesn’t exactly jibe with current economic woes, and you can’t help but feel like it’s a race to get this mega resort up and running before the economy really goes in the tank. Although one Marriott official admitted that like everyone else, there is concern over how to fill these rooms after the resort opens, the official company line is that conventions and conferences will go on ...
Golf without Titleist Pro Vs, the strongest name in golf balls, pretty unlikely
Wednesday November 19, 2008 | 10:05:14 295 words, 3176 views
It’s difficult to imagine golf without the Titleist Pro V1, but if you take a recent court ruling literally, then you might be led to believe it could happen starting next year.
But for those of you who are married to you Pro V1s, relax, that’s a pretty unlikely scenario - even though last week the United States District Court in Wilmington, Del., granted Callaway Golf’s request for a permanent injunction to stop sales of the Acushnet Co.’s current line of Titleist Pro V1 family of golf balls, effective no later than Jan. 1. The court also rejected Acushnet’s request ...
Out with the PGA and LPGA: Bring on golf's silly season
Wednesday November 12, 2008 | 10:06:44 368 words, 2887 views
Man, you’ve got to be a hard-core golf fan to absorb the last few events of the Fall Finish. It’s tough to watch guys you never heard of sweating it out trying to secure their card for next year. I don’t like grinding in my own game, much less watching someone else do it, unless it’s the U.S. or British Open.
So bring on the events I really look forward to in late fall, like the Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge, the LG Skins Game or the Del Webb Father/Son Challenge, for example. The PGA Tour likes to call them “Challenge Events,” ...
Travel tip: Southwest is the golfers' airline - for now
Monday November 10, 2008 | 10:56:01 514 words, 3156 views
You know the commercial with the two-faced ticket agent who tells the traveler his fare is $69 only to spin her head around Exorcist-style to reveal another face? Then the guy finds out that the airline has various miscellaneous charges that more than double the cost of the trip. As a traveling golfer, I can relate. Those charges are for items like telephone-booking fees, seat preferences and the one that really grabs me - checked baggage fees.
If you’re not flying business or first class or not an elite frequent flyer, airlines such as Continental, American, Delta/Northwest, U.S. Air, United and ...
Are you kidding me? Golfer Curt Hocker draws five aces
Monday November 10, 2008 | 10:10:13 308 words, 2531 views
You may have heard by now that 22-year-old Illinois golfer Curt Hocker recently recorded five aces in one week, including two during a single round. But it gets even better: Of his seven aces this year, five are on par-4s, and he also recorded two double eagles.
The odds of making a hole-in-one during a round, according to Golf Digest, range from 3,000 to 1 for a tour player to 12,000 to 1 for an average player. But that’s just one ace, not five in a week. The odds of making two aces in a round are 67 million to ...
The Accidental Golfer
The Accidental Golfer (AKA Mike Bailey) has spent more than 15 years writing about the game that has brought him unbridled joy and temporary bouts of insanity. Now on staff at WorldGolf.com, Bailey is a former senior editor for PGA Magazine, senior writer for Golfweek's SuperNEWS and Turfnet magazines and past president of the Texas Golf Writers Association. He has covered every facet of golf, including the PGA and LPGA Tours, equipment and course architecture, as well as the bane of his golfing existence: instruction. The last has led to at least 30 different golf swings, which all feel different but appear to his playing companions to be the same.
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