Lorena wins, Ernie wins, and the PGA Tour caves to crybabies.
Lorena Ochoa wins in her season debut, but she’s still no Tiger. Ernie Els hasn’t beaten Tiger, but at least he’s won again. Also, waiting on LPGA drug testing, the Saturday cut, and more in this week’s Golf Talk.
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TaylorMade comes out with a spider for a putter. Don’t be scared, its a cool spider.
Ah, it’s finally March, which means for us in the non-golfing areas of the United States, we can see the light at the end of our long, dark winter and finally play golf again.
What does that have to do with TaylorMade’s new Rossa Monza Spider putter? Not much except that you’ll be able to roll one of the bad boy’s out on the putting green when they become available to the golfing masses later in March.
The Rossa Monza Spider has already appeared in the winner’s circle as J.B. Holmes used one to win at the FBR Open about a month ago. Let’s take a look at one of the more interesting looking putters for 2008.
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The Mark Wilson Rule
Hello and happy March to you from Hittin’ the Links. Can you smell that? That is spring coming! Golf season is rapidly approaching. Have you gotten those clubs out of the closet and given them a preseason pep talk? Well you best get to it.
It is the time of the year where everyone starts to make those preseason goals and begin dreaming of a season free of double bogeys and full of low scores. Don’t forget to join the forum and post your 2008 goals. At the end of the season it’s always nice to look back and see how you progressed.
In this volume of Hittin’ the Links say “Good day mate” to the captain of the International Presidents cup team, look at the amended PGA Tour cut policy, find out what the Mark Wilson rule is, and see how the PGA Tour is trying to entice Tiger into the playoffs. Also, we check in on the Honda Classic, investigate extreme golf, and introduce golf’s newest comedy team. Read on!
What’s in the water in Sweden?
Have you noticed how many Swedish golfers are in contention these days? Jesper Parnevik (who has been showing signs lately of getting his game back) is the volcano-dust eating, wafer-thin leader of the crew. Then there’s Helen Alfredsson, Daniel Chopra, Niclas Fasth, Mathias Grönberg, Sophie Gustafson, Maria Hjorth, Fredrik Jacobson, Per-Ulrik Johansson, Richard S. Johnson, Robert Karlsson, Carin Koch, Liselotte Neumann, Carl Pettersson, Jarmo Sandelin, Louise Stahle – to name a few of the more famous – and naturally, Annika Sorenstam – the most famous.
If you spend much time watching Golf Central, you probably recognize most if not all of these 17 names. There are several other notable Swedish golfers, but there’s one in particular that is emerging as one of the top golfers in the world…
Tiger wins, go figure. Creamer comes back to win, good. Gay wins, who cares. Michelle Wie collapses, who didn’t see that coming?
Tiger wins yet again, but struggles early. Paula Creamer gets her first win of 2008, Brian Gay gets his first win on the PGA Tour, and Sergio Garcia uses two putters. Plus, Michelle Wie is back, Boo Weekley, Captain Freddie, and more in this week’s Golf Talk.
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ClubGlider inventor and Fore Inventors Only finalist Gary Sherrell gives us the scoop on how he came up with his idea on a napkin and dishes some dirt on being on a reality show.
Today’s interview is with Gary Sherrell, inventor of the ClubGlider travel bag which was one of the finalists on the Golf Channel’s Fore Inventors Only show.
Gary was nice enough to give us a few minutes of his time to share a bit of history behind the development of the ClubGlider, his relationship with Sun Mountain as well as to provide some insight on some of the other products featured on the show. We hope you enjoy the interview.
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Well it’s official: Tiger is good!
Good day from The Sand Trap and Hittin’ the Links. I don’t mean to gloat but we had glorious weekend weather here. Spring fever is now in full swing. Probably just in time for the next snow storm. Golf season cannot get here fast enough.
Wow, what a weekend of golf. The Accenture Match Play championship delivered the goods, beautiful golf course, great golf, what else could you want? And that Tiger guy, he’s pretty good isn’t he?
In this edition, we take a couple of looks at the Accenture Match Play, check in on the other PGA Tour event south of the border, and also take notice of the rest of the professional tours around the world. In addition, we see who is our next Presidents Cup captain, take a peak at Michelle Wie’s opening weekend, take a glimpse at the state of golf in Cuba, and investigate why Americans are giving up our great game.
Some day soon, there will be golf again. Until then I can dream.
It’s dream season here in Ohio. By that I mean the only golf we’re getting to play right now is in our dreams. But it’s also close enough to spring (just over a month away) that we can start thinking about playing. One of these days, the snow is going to melt and the mercury’s going to rise into the 40s, 50s, and (dare we hope?) 60s.
Unlike many years when it’s possible to play at least a few times during the winter, it just hasn’t worked out this year (my wife and I even left the clubs at home on a weekend trip to Florida last month… What were we thinking?). Most of the warmer, dry days this winter have fallen during the work week. On the one or two weekend days that have been playable, I’ve been tied up with other commitments. So, needless to say, now is the winter of my discontent.
Vijay: FAIL! Phil, Annika, and Chambers Bay: FTW!
Vijay Singh tries to get back on track but fails. Phil Mickelson and Annika Sorenstam fare better, winning their first events of 2008. Also this week, Chambers Bay hosting the U.S. Open, a Saturday Cut, Drug Testing, and more in this week’s Golf Talk.
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