{"id":850,"date":"2005-07-18T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T15:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/volume_eighteen\/"},"modified":"2005-07-18T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T15:18:28","slug":"volume_eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/hittin_the_links\/volume_eighteen","title":{"rendered":"Volume Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by thanking Brian for filling in last week as I was celebrating my birthday. (Presents are still welcomed, in fact they are encouraged!) Second, I need to preface my next few sentences with the following: I&#8217;ve forever hated Colin Montgomerie.<\/p>\n<p>But, was it just me, or did you find yourself not exactly rooting against him this weekend at the Open? I&#8217;m not saying I wanted him to win, but I am saying I wasn&#8217;t trying to squish his head with my fingers or hope that Tiger would mistakenly hit him with a 2-iron. I&#8217;m just saying, it might have been okay to see him do well in his native land. I could tell he desparately wants to win a major.<\/p>\n<p>No? Okay, uh, me either. On to the links.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Hole 1: Famous Caddie and Player Combos<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Rocky Mountain News takes a look at some caddie programs in their state. The best part of the article for me was the famous player\/caddie duos. My favorite has to be Lee Trevino and Herman. What&#8217;s everyone else&#8217;s? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/sports_golf\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_57_3922629,00.html\" title=\"Famous Caddie Player Combos\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 2: I Golfed in Holland. Isn&#8217;t that weird?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was in Holland earlier this year (in February, so this article couldn&#8217;t have helped me then), but I was wondering if there were golf courses there. I was all over the country-side and cities and didn&#8217;t see a single course. Luckily, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be heading back there, and when I go next, I&#8217;ll take some clubs. But for anyone headed there check out this guide. [<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/tlgolf\/invoke.cfm?ObjectID=01CE0F7F-AA2B-494A-AE946144E5E25033\" title=\"I Golfed in Holland. Isn't that weird?\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 3: Kid Tiger<\/strong><br \/>\nRaf in the forum pointed this out, and now I can&#8217;t stop watching it. This is awesome. I&#8217;ve always been a Nike whore. Not to mention they were a case study in college for me in my advertising class, so I love these ads. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nike.com\/nikegolf\/flash_reg.jhtml?mainID=&#38;navID=experience&#38;catID=kidtiger\" title=\"Kid Tiger\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 4: Golf with and Entourage<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m a fan of HBO&#8217;s Entourage, but I do enjoy the premise. Plus they have a cool game on their website where you can hit golf balls off the roof. I spent last Thursday in the office hitting the house. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/entourage\/games\/index.html\" title=\"Entourage Golf\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 5: Golf Glossary<\/strong><br \/>\nMost of these are obvious, but I have never ever hear of a goldie bounce. Am I the only one or is this a familiar term? I think I might start a slang dictionary of golf terms. [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golf_glossary\" title=\"Golf Glossary\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 6: Golf Styles<\/strong><br \/>\nFor those of you in the Washington DC area, there&#8217;s a great (and free) golf resource magazine, Golf Styles. Go sign up for your free subscription. There&#8217;s also one for Philadelphia, New Jersey, Boston, Atlanta and Ohio. And yes, I am pimping my girlfriends newspaper company. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfstyles.net\/golfstyles\/index.htm\" title=\"Golf Styles Magazine\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 7: New GolfObserver Writer<\/strong><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s play a little Buy or Sell here. I&#8217;m selling Jay Flemma&#8217;s first piece with Golf Observer. In fact, I read it this morning and had to get a Starbucks in the middle to stay awake. I think GO has added some &#8220;press&#8221; to his site. Whether bad or good, Jay sure knows how to get some attention his way. By the way, you need to work on the picture Jay. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfobserver.com\/features\/flemma\/flemma_oldtom.html\" title=\"Jay Flemma now with Golf Observer\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 8: Using a Caddie<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Reluctant Jam Boy has a great piece on using a caddie. I&#8217;ve used a caddie once in my life at the Inverness Club. I was 18 playing with my dad and his buddies. I ended up getting the only girl caddie at the club, and wouldn&#8217;t you know, she was hot. Seeing as this was my first time using a caddie I was already nervous, but now that she&#8217;s hot, I&#8217;m sweating bullets. First tee, I shank one into the trees. Luckily, I snapped out of it and shot a 77, and got her number. How do you like them apples!? Okay, I made up the part about getting her number, but the rest, as they say, is all true. [<a href=\"http:\/\/jam-boy.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/using-caddie.html\" title=\"Using a Caddie\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hole 9: Golf Tan<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Golfchick has a great post about the dreaded golf tan. When I was a kid and golfing wasn&#8217;t exactly the cool thing to do, I remember going to the pool after playing 18 and taking my shirt off to reveal a beautiful whiteness that resembled a white undershirt. The ridicule that followed was never pleasant. Now a days, I just don&#8217;t give a rats arse about tan lines, but golfchick, I too have been there and can empathize. [<a href=\"http:\/\/golfchick.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/dreaded-golf-tan.html\" title=\"Golf Tan\" class=\"external external_icon\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some links for your viewing pleasure after a great weekend of golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hittin_the_links"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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