September 2007

Have you seen the new blog by the folks at Hireko Golf ?

I found out about them thru an email and have been reading their blog and checking out their website lately.

The driver head you see to the left is one of many innovative designs I found while cruisin’ their website.

Maybe I’ll convince ‘em to send me one for review (hint,hint) !

I need a new driver anyway. I got a new Callaway 3-wood earlier this year and I’ve been playing it off the tee for several months.

Just this weekend I played 9 holes with two young guys at the club and out drove them on 5 of 7 driver holes. They were noticeably upset when they figured out I’d hit 3-wood every time.

Check out Hireko and see if they have anything interesting enough that you’d give ‘em a try and subscribe to their RSS feed on their blog, which happens to use WordPress.com. Wise choice, except for not getting their own domain name.

Well, well, well. Steve “Striking Distance” Stricker’s sitting in a good spot.

Phil may or may not be there to try and hold his lead at Cog Hill.

Tiger may be due, and he may be historically great there, but you never know.

Vijay, Ernie and Jim Furyk are persona non grata on top of the leaderboards, which must make Timmy F. squirm a bit.

Wouldn’t it just blow Timmy F.’s mind if the Steve in the winner’s circle, holding the $10 million check, was named Stricker and not Williams, Tiger’s caddy/buddy/camera smasher ?

Would that make these playoff’s a joke or would it make them more interesting ?

Personally, I would really, really love to see him win this thing.

Ummm, because he’s a better putter ? Or at least he was on Monday.

I captured that graphic while I watched the coverage of the 16th hole on PGATour.com, which is the only way I could see any of Monday’s round.

BUT, and this is a big but, Tiger’s gonna be hard to handle at Cog Hill.

In Illinois, in big events, he’s REALLY, REALLY hard to beat.

Look it up.

Write it down.

Count on it.

I’m not going to complain about the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, but I hope the PGA Tour finds another way to televise the Monday round of The Deutsche Bank Championship next year.

My local NBC affiliate, which I receive thru my Dish Network package, chose to show the telethon. In light of all that it does, versus golf, which is, after all, a game, I can’t complain.

What I can complain about is that the PGA Tour chose to have a Monday, Labor Day, finish, knowing full well that NBC’s been showing that telethon on Labor Day since time began.

This FedEx Cup thing is one snafu, one glitch, one more negative comment after another.

Even the current leader, Phil “I just beat Tiger while in the same twosome” Mickelson said he may not play next week and he’s the freakin’ points leader. He asked Timmy F. for some considerations, got none and now has to make a decision to be with his kids as they start school and soccer or play this silly game for money…which he already has in beaucoups.

I did get to watch several groups play the 16th hole, a par 3, as that was the only coverage that PGATour.com gave me. That’s where I captured the photo’s above.

Even worse, it’s on XM satellite radio and I have Sirius.

No wonder the Tour players aren’t excited about this mess. It’ll need some tweakin’ before next year’s playoffs.