Archives for: August 2006
Wednesday August 30, 2006 | 20:38:57 489 words, 6381 views
“Gain 20 yards after 1 day.” “Make more putts.” “Hit more fairways.” “Make more sand-saves.” The list goes on and on. If a training aid or golf club really had the answer to playing better golf the game would cease to captivate us; success is found from within.
Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus graced golf’s literature as well or better than its fairways. Mr. Jones perhaps more a philosopher than a technician left us with thoughtful prose on playing the game of golf (Bobby Jones on Golf). Mr. Hogan, exactly Mr. Jones’s opposite, laid out the fundamentals of ...
Tuesday August 29, 2006 | 13:32:21 337 words, 6984 views
Well, I guess it is now safe to say that the Jury is “in” on how well Phil Mickelson would rebound from his devastating blowup at the US Open. We haven’t seen him even sniff the leaderboard since, and we all know what the Tiger Woods has done.
Four in a row, and two of them majors … and I think it is safe to say that the World Championship at Firestone was close to being a major. It was a real treat to see Tiger give back 4 shots to the field on Saturday only to claw his way ...
Monday August 28, 2006 | 16:58:24 228 words, 5009 views
I did a search on the Internet and over 33,000 listings showed up for “Sandbaggers.” I knew there were a bunch of them out there but I’m a golfer and had no idea Sandbaggers are everywhere.
There are Sandbaggers who play hockey, runners, DISC Golfers, bikers, spys, NASCAR drivers? NASCAR drivers who ride in the draft of a leader? Hockey players who lose a game (or three) so they’ll be dropped into a lower skill level division so they can ONE day win?
I know about real golfers who purposefully track only high scores so they’ll win net score prizes in tournaments ...
Saturday August 19, 2006 | 15:02:22 213 words, 7529 views
The first two entries are in here at WorldGolf.com’s “Your Name Here” Golf Blog Contest, take a look at the interesting and funny blogs turned in by “The Divorced Golfer” and Karen Fish.
What to enter your own blog? Give us your own take on the game, whether its nuts and bolts or just plain silly, we want to see it.
It’s simple to enter, just write a blog entry from 100 to 500 words on any golf-related subject, and e-mail it to: dotwong@worldgolf.com
We’ll post your blog entry, instantly giving our thousands of readers access to your words and opinions. Your blog ...
Saturday August 19, 2006 | 13:58:28 398 words, 6237 views
There is a saying that “Golf is like life only on a larger scale.” Have you ever noticed how people tie their self esteem to their latest score?
Golf has golf psychologists but why not golf psychiatrists? What is the psychiatric reason for the 50 wars going on in the world today? Why can golfers from all over the world get along perfectly but family members are suing each other?
If today there was a modern young great looking Arnold Palmer clone and if he was a Muslim there would be no Middle East conflict. Japan would make any Japanese ...
Saturday August 19, 2006 | 13:48:49 468 words, 7462 views
Fans of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson don’t know how to watch a golf tournament. This is the opinion of the U.S. Open winner Geoff Ogilvy according to Michael Buteau of Bloomberg.
Ogilvy, a 29-year old Australian, talking about golf fans is quoted as saying, “Most of us, if we’ve got fans, they’re generally golf fans and they know how to watch a golf tournament.” But when referring to the fans of Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson is quoted as saying, “There’s people who follow Tiger and Phil who generally don’t know how to watch a golf tournament.”
Meeeeoooooowwww!
I wonder if Ogilvy ...