Happy Holidays Everyone! I hope you’re having a great December and hope you have a great Christmas! I’m taking the rest of the year off, to do a bit of traveling and spend some quality time with the family. I don’t anticipate I’ll be writing anymore blog posts until January 1st, 2010. I want to…
Rick Reilly Is Wrong (via intothegrain.com)
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Fellow Golf Blogger and badass golfer John Duval wrote really good post entitled “Rick Reilly is Wrong.” Rick Reilly made an appearance on ESPN and had some advice for Tiger Woods on how to repair his image. He said that to fix his image, Tiger Woods would need to fire most of his entourage, skip…
Play Mystic Dunes Golf Club for cheap!
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If you’re looking for a good round of golf this weekend consider trying out Mystic Dunes Golf Club. GolfNow.com has some pretty cheap rates presently for the course. I’ve played Mystic Dunes quite a few times and wrote a review on the course for FloridaGolf.com. Check it out. Orlando Golf Course Review – Mystic Dunes…
Tiger Woods has a new house
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I hate to do it…. but I can’t resist…. Received a picture of Tiger Woods walking out of his new house after the alleged divorce settlement is finalized.
Golf Humor – Murphy’s Laws of Golf
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Here’s a little Thursday golf humor for you! It’s a welcomed change to any further discussion of the Tiger Woods Scandal. Murphy’s Laws of Golf Golfers who claim they never cheat, also lie. A two-foot putt counts the same as a two-foot drive. Never wash your ball on the tee of a water hole. There…
Spain – Not just for the bulls
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When you think about Spain, what comes to mind? For me, thinking about the country conjures up images of matadors and bullfighting, the nine day running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, I think of the world cup and “real” football (soccer for us yanks :)), the Spanish Armada and the Conquistadors and wine. Occasionally…
Say it ain’t so Tiger!
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Below is a comment posted by Tiger Woods today over at TigerWoods.com responding to the cover story on U.S. Weekly alleging an affair between tiger woods and a Vegas cocktail “waitress” named Jaimee Grubbs. I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true…
Golfer’s 21 Minute Yoga Warm-up
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I’ve always been interested in Yoga and it’s benefits on a person’s golf game, so when I received the email from Tony DiMaggio to review his new golf yoga DVD, I jumped on the opportunity. The timing couldn’t be better, since I’ve just began a series of Golf Fitness blog posts. Tony is the producer…
Tiger Woods fights off a pack of bloodthirsty beasts
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By now, you’ve probably heard about the single-car accident involving Tiger Woods, if not, here’s the link. Tiger Woods involved in a single-car accident Since the story broke, the media has been on Tiger’s tail like a pack of bloodthirsty jackals trying to dig up anything they can on the circumstances surrounding the accident. What…
Tiger Woods involved in a single car accident
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I’ve been pretty disconnected from the computer today, figured I’d spend the day with the family and take a day off from the blog. So, after putting the boys down for the night, I figured I’d hop on real quick and check my email before watching a movie with the wife. I received an email…
Happy Thanksgiving!
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As I sit here fighting the onset of a major turkey coma, I wanted to write a quick post and say thanks to everyone of you awesome friends and readers of Orlando’s greatest golf blog, Orlando Golf Blogger. Through writing the blog, I’ve been able to meet many awesome people and I’ve made some new…
Interview with Golf Zen Master Dr. Joe Parent
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Fellow Golf Blogger and all around good guy Doug from golfdashblog.com posted up an awesome interview with golf mental game master Dr. Joe Parent. Dr. Parent is the author of some of the greatest mental game books out there; Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game, Zen Putting: Mastering the Mental Game on the Greens and…
Fearless Golf – Mastering the Mental Game
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Over the weekend, I had the opportunity (whilst doing laundry for nine hours… yeah, we’re a little behind 🙂 ) to watch Dr. Gio Valiante’s Fearless Golf – Mastering the Mental Game. Dr. Gio is a golf psychologist and currently serves as a professor at Rollins College here in Winter Park, FL. He’s also a…
Golf Humor – Are You A Golf Nut?
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Take the follow survey, if the majority of your answers are yes, than you sir/madam are a golf nut! 1. Your idea of a good time is staying home and watching the British Open on a Saturday night. 2. You curse the game only to play it the next day. 3. You haven’t puked from…
Golf Fitness Intro
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During the next few months, I’m writing a series of blog posts on golf fitness. I’m going to try and touch on every area surrounding this topic and hopefully dig up some useful tidbits in my search. Every day we hear more and more about how staying fit and flexible will lead to better scores…
How many miles do you walk in a round of golf?
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I thought this was a pretty interesting tidbit of information regarding miles walked playing a round of golf. This photo is courtesy of Harry Longshanks over at THP. Golf Digest, in their October 2009 issue compared miles walked by a man to miles walked by a woman using three different scenarios; cart (to golf ball),…
The Back Nine – One Mans Quest to play Pro Golf
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Have you ever dreamed about playing professional golf? I have, pretty frequently, but always, the cold hard truth sets in and I realize that I neither have the time, money or skill level to ever try and pursue that dream. Enter a man named John Fitgerald. After turning 40, this average golfer decides to follow…
TaylorMade Introduces TP xFT Wedge
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Below is a press release from TaylorMade regarding their new exchangeable face wedges. Easily Exchange a Worn Face for a New One to Promote Peak Spin and Performance Carlsbad, Calif. (November 16, 2009) – TaylorMade Golf has introduced the TP wedge with xFT (Exchangeable Face Technology), which allows players to easily remove a worn clubface…
TaylorMade Penta TP Golf Ball Review
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Back in August, I received word that TaylorMade was going to be releasing golf’s first five layer ball ever created called the TaylorMade Penta TP. It took them three years to develop this ball and the name Penta comes from the greek word pente, which means five. According to TaylorMade, Penta TP is the first…
Top Ten Best Remarks by Golf Caddies
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#10 – Golfer: “Think I’m going to drown myself in that lake..” Caddie: “Think you can keep your head down that long, sir?” #9 – Golfer: “I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.” Caddie: “Try heaven, you’ve already moved most of the earth.” #8 – Golfer: “Do you think my game…
OGB gets into golf course design!
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Well.. ok, not really, but it’s certainly something to dabble with during those long company meetings! Call today wacky Wednesday, and enjoy the sketch I did of a nine-hole course during an especially grueling nine to fiver.. 🙂 What do you think? Is it a course you’d like to play? 🙂 -Dave
2010 L.O.F.T Golf Polo
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Last week I came home from work, exhausted from the days toils, to find a package on the counter with my name on it. Eagerly, I tore into the package to find a new sexy color Orange golf shirt, courtesy of L.O.F.T Golf! Haven’t heard of L.O.F.T golf? Well, they’re relatively new on the scene…
TaylorMade Burner Irons Reach #1 in U.S. Sales
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This news isn’t surprising in the least. If you recall, earlier this year I had the opportunity to head out to the TaylorMade Performance Lab over at Grand Cypress Golf Club and I was able to hit the TaylorMade Burner Irons. I liked them so much that I subsequently purchased them and wrote up an…
Golf Course Review – Grand Cypress New Course
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Last weekend I had the pleasure (yet again) of playing golf with fellow golf blogger and scratch golfer John Duval over at intothegrain.com. We played the Grand Cypress New Course, which was in great shape and a lot of fun! There’s 175 bunkers and I managed to avoid them all, of course, there’s only two…
Win A Slotline SKM 600 Series Putter
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Courtesy of our friend Sean over at PutterZone.com, see below. Win A Slotline SKM 600 Series Putter How to Enter / Rules Simply send an email to sean(at)putterzone.com with “Slotline Putter” in the subject line. Inside the email, provide answers to the following easy questions (the answers are on the original post, see above link):…
