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Afternoons with Mr. Hogan by Jody Vasquez This is a non-fiction, first person collection of stories from the seventeen year old kid who used to shag balls for Ben fifteen years after the Greyhound bus accident. It’s a good read if you are, as I am, a fan of Mr. Hogan.

His career was over the day after his 2001 Honda Classic win.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team… Keep your chin up kid. Who knows, this might be the motivating factor that takes you all the way to Augusta.

My father got me a Nike VR Staff Bag with my name embroidered on it for Christmas. It’s really an incredibly nice looking bag. However, the only way that I would put it into play is if I had a caddy to tote it around the course… because I am sure as hell not going to carry it. It’s a big ass bulky bag – it really doesn’t fit all that well on either a push cart or a golf cart, but it sure looks good in my living room though.

At the risk of sounding like a dilettante… You call all that “simplified?” Simplified is “grip it and rip it.”

First, it might be in your best interest to contact TM and see if they can replace the old driver or give you some kind of credit to get a new one – something to that effect. I’m not a big fan of simulators as they are, after all, simulators. I don’t think that they “lie,” but my feeling is that they can be manipulated to produce results that are commensurate with closing a sale. My mantra is: The swing is the thing. If one has sound swing mechanics one should be able to play well with a shillelagh.

I adhere to the architectonics of a Post-Modern Straightforward Reductive Physicalism – which is a nice way of saying that I am an atheist. But, if I were to sift through the tellurian grab-bag of spirituality and settle on one, I think I’d like to be a Taoist.

I wear visors exclusively. Although, this season I am seriously entertaining the idea of wearing the new Titleist kevlar helmet replete with a plexiglass face shield so as to protect my super soft melon from someone’s errant shot.

I have a friend who attended the 3 day mini-school at Red Sky Golf Club in Vail. He said that he enjoyed the experience; but for the cost, he wished he had sought out a local instructor with whom he could have worked on his game over the entire summer.

The PW is usually part of the iron set so it is around 4 degrees up from the 9 iron. There really is no prescribed designation relative to the degree of wedge. For instance; my PW is 49⁰, Approach Wedge (which is also a Gap Wedge between PW & SW) is 54⁰, and my Lob Wedge which also serves as my Sand Wedge is 60⁰.

Getting fitted could cost you nothing (if the place at which you are getting fitted believes that you plan on making the purchase from them), or it could cost you between $50 - $75, and others could go as high as $100. As for used clubs, there are lots of on-line options: 3Balls.com, Callaway pre-owned, etc. But in the final analysis it really comes down to how you “feel” standing over the shot. If the clubs you’re gaming right now feel good to you then there really is no reason to make a change. I mean… why spend the money on equipment when you spend the money on playing regularly.

It would be in your best interest to go to a golf shop to get dynamically fitted. But there is also the consideration regarding what kind of resources (money) you have at your disposal. If I were you… I would pick up some “top of the line” used clubs (commensurate with your swing specs) and go from there.

As Tiger is intensely involved in damage-control for his philandering; I think it’s high time we get past the moral implications, and get right down to rating his choice of strange (reports indicate that there will be many more from which to choose too). I gotta go with Rachel as the hottest. I can’t get past Jaimie’s last name (I actually misspelled her first name in the poll, but I bet the little trollop won’t mind since she’s still on the 15-minute fame clock). And there's something about Kalika's face... appears as if she stood too close to a microwave oven throughout puberty.

I’m not a big fan of the “being human” defense as a way to excuse one’s behavior. We are all human, and that should ultimately go without saying. The real question is, “Are we all rational creatures?” Without delving too deep into the deontology of Kant… Tiger’s fungle in the jungle, and subsequent cover-up, was universally idiotic. And, as we are all “human,” it is human nature to ridicule other humans when they fuk-up .

A good read for Hogan fans… Afternoons with Mr. Hogan by Jody Vasquez: 2004

Regarding the voicemail Tiger left to cover up his philandering… I think Tiger was considering things on too small a scale. If I were a billion dollar athlete, and sponsored by AT&T;, I would have simply asked SBC to redirect the orbit of one of their satellites and crash it into the satellite of my mistress’s cell phone carrier… problem solved.

The Ref (1994) Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey, and Judy Davis

I have a Bushnell Tour V2. It’s a nice little device. Whatever rangefinder you choose I would recommend that it has some kind of “pinseeker” technology – this makes it easier to zero in on the flagstick.

You may want to consider different shafts (either in conjunction with new irons, or to replace the shafts with the Callaway irons that you currently use) to dampen the effects of vibration… True Temper Dynamic Gold SensiCore shafts purportedly work very well.

If that’s the shaft for which you were fitted, then that’s the shaft that fits you. When the teaching pro at the place at which I practice utters the occasional unsolicited comment to me… I very politely say, “Don’t you have some sweaters to fold in the pro shop.”

Sandra is a good looking chick. Anna has a face like a bucket of worms – put that golf bag over her head and she would qualify as a playable lie. Finally, I think even Botticelli would have asked Christina to drop a few pounds before she posed nude for him.

One should always play the ball down – that’s how golf is played. Unless, of course, one is justified by a ruling to declare that the ball is situated in an unplayable lie. On a side note; and don’t go nuts when I write this, but by admitting to improving your lie you’re also admitting that you are not really playing to a six… right.

I actually bring a mirror to the range. The mirror is 12” by 18” and it’s mounted on a collapsible PVC frame.

I like this video of Tiger’s swing. The rock wall in the background gives the viewer a static reference point to note the lateral move (slo-mo starts at 12-13 sec.).

Allow me to recommend a book that I find useful. Saving Par: How to Play the 40 Toughest Shots in Golf By: Todd Sones with John Monteleone