Golf News

Did you know that you can bid on a chance to caddy for Boo Weekley, Woody Austin or Justin Leonard ?

Me neither…til I got an email this morning from my new friend Ben.
They’re currently running auctions at CarityBuzz.com for the good folks at Caddy For A Cure.

Bidders have the opportunity to caddy for the three golfers mentioned above while they’re at the upcoming Verizon Heritage.

Caddy for a Cure CEO Russ Holden (Bernhard Langer’s longtime tour caddy) gives away all of the money raised to support a charity of the player’s choice. This truly is an opportunity of a lifetime for a golf fan and they need all the support, links, articles and bids they can get.

Currently the starting bid for all three bags is $2500 and that includes a gift pack including a trip to Arizona valued at well over $2000 !

Here’s the link to the auction.

Click that link right now and see if you can help !

According to the PGA Tour website, the screen shot below shows that per event, Tom Watson, a young 58, is 67.5 % more effective per event, than Loren Roberts, the leader of the Schwab Cup Points race.

Watson averages 184.7 points per event and Roberts averages 124.7.

Tom’s only played 11 events, compared to Loren’s 21, yet he’s still not too far behind him.

Had Watson played 21 events, and still maintained that average, he’d be way, way ahead in the race for the Charles Schwab Cup.

Too bad Tom’s hip, which needs to be replaced, is bothering him and keeping him from playing as many events as the younger guys.

Jay Haas said it best this weekend, when he said basically the same thing. He knows Watson could still be kickin’ some senior butt, except for a bad hip and other things to do besides play golf every single week, like Dana Quigley.

Hat’s off to Tom Watson, one of my favorite golfers of all time and still a force to be reckoned with on The Champions Tour.

Trying to do some research for an article, I used The Golf Channel’s website and their search box, which, in my estimation … simply sucks.

Here’s a screen shot of the results, along with the search term I used.

As you can see, I searched for Schwab Cup Standings. As you can also see, their search function has no idea what that means, yet you’d think they’d be an authority on that subject or at least could enable their search bot to return results that were relevant to the search.

I’ll just go to Google and use their search box and get some results that are a wee bit more relevant to my search.

My golf blog buddy Tony K., over at Hooked On Golf, alerted me to a new golf blog written by Master Club Designer Jesse Ortiz.

In The Studio with Jesse Ortiz looks like it will be a great read, although the posts look like they’ll be longer than the average golf blog post, if the first couple are any indication.

We’ll see how it goes for Jesse, but there’s a glitch or two as of now, since I tried to register to comment and was sent an email thanking me for signing up to receive updates, which I didn’t do. And, it didn’t get me registered either.

I added Jesse to my Blog Roll and subscribed to his RSS feed and I’ll try to give you an update on how it goes.

Click thru and join Jesse In The Studio.

Did you happen to read The Presidents Cup Report Card written by ESPN.com golf writer Jason Sobel ?

If not, click HERE to open it in a new window.

Just in case you don’t normally visit ESPN for your golf talk, I think it’s worth it to read Jason Sobel’s Five Things We Learned During The FedEx Cup.

In it, he says Rory was right. Tiger is beatable… once in every five tries.

Thanks kinda funny, since Tiger won more times in the last month than Rory has in his career.

The sad part of the whole thing is that Tiger could have skipped the last and did skip the first event and still won this thang.

That’s an indication that the points part of the process needs serious tweaking. Serious.

Anybody got any ideas on how to fix it ?

Tim Finchem’s a big TravellingGolfer.com fan, so I’m sure he’ll see it if we leave him a tidbit or two.

Jus’ kiddin’.

My friend Mike Pedersen just went live with his newest golf blog, Mike Pedersen Golf.

It’s a visual masterpiece and I can guarantee it’ll be edutaining.

Mike’s an expert at teaching you how to use fitness to improve your golf game and your life while you’re at it.

Click thru and subscribe to his RSS feed, like I already did and leave him a comment, like I already did.

At the end of the FedEx Cup rainbow sits a pot of gold named Eldrick “Tiger” Woods.

The Best Golfer On The Planet By Far. Easily. Comfortably. Totally.

He won the year-long event and earned the $10 million prize with talent, hard work and mental fortitude.

He won the Tour Championship at East Lake, home of the legendary Bobby Jones and I have to imagine that Mr. Jones would be delighted and proud to have such a man as champion.

Congrats to Tiger and Steve Williams, too. I’d say the best golfer probably has the best caddie as well.

Now, let’s get back to our regularly scheduled golf programming.

As I’ve tried to watch the last tournament in the FedEx Cup Playoffs on TV this weekend, I was confused, at times, by what The Golf Channel was showing and what I was able to”see” was actually happening live thru the internet coverage.

As I read the NYTimes (online version) this morning, I finally found my answer.

The Golf Channel was delaying their broadcast and was choosing to show Tiger, not the action, not the entire 30 man field, not much of anything except Tiger.

Here’s the link to the NYTimes version of this story. You have to be a registered member to read the content, but it’s a free membership. I’ve had mine for years and it hasn’t hurt me yet, so don’t be afraid of them. They love you. They want to feed you content and info. Really.

The gist of it, in case you’re too paranoid too go thru that one little step is:

” If a logical reason exists for The Golf Channel spending the day in taped coverage when live action was available, it is this: for five hours, it had Woods full-time. It’s not a good reason to look foolish and shameless, but it’s a reason. “

That’s not what I expect or want from the network covering golf for me. I want to watch the event, as it unfolds and with whomever is playing or leading to be shown.

Just like ABC, The Golf Channel is all-Tiger, all the time. Numbers over common sense is par for their course.

Over in the left-hand sidebar is a blog syndicator from BlogRush.

If you’re a golf blogger you may want to click my link and read about what BlogRush can potentially do to bring you more traffic.

I’m testing it out and will report back about what does or doesn’t happen for me, but you can click thru and watch a video and the sign-up is at no cost, so it’s basically a no-lose situation that only takes a couple of minutes to set it up.

There’ll be 5 blog posts in the Sports category shown on the widget. A click will open a new window, so you won’t lose the reader.

For every page view you serve back to them, you get your posts shown on another widget somewhere in the system.

Potentially, you could really see some staggering numbers, if your headlines are attractive to readers and if the widgets are easily seen on the other blogs in your category.

We’ll see if it does me any good.

For now, free and easy is the right cost at the right time, so go signup and try it out.