Archive for CL Blog
Waste Management Phoenix Open Media Day
Each year before the Waste Management Phoenix Open, The Thunderbirds, hosts of the event, treat local media to a preview of the challenges that the TOUR players will be facing during tournament week. This year they teed it up on Tuesday, January 12 at TPC Scottsdale. As always, the golf course was in great shape, [...]
Farewell to Favre
It appears like Brett Favre’s career is slowly crawling to an unceremonious conclusion and despite his brilliant play on the gridiron, his off-field transgressions seem to take center stage. From his hokey-pokey retirement dance to his recent sexting incident, Favre certainly has managed to prove that he’s much like the rest of us – human. [...]
Holiday Golf Gift That’s Better Than Fruitcake
Until one dives below the surface of the golf world, it’s hard to appreciate the game’s unique lifestyle, culture and language. This becomes glaringly obvious every holiday season when well-meaning loved ones sit down to make their gift list for the golfer in their life. They know that they hold a deep fondness for this [...]
RIP Frank Drebin
In November 2010, the world lost a comedic genius. Leslie Nielsen was admitted to a Fort Lauderdale, Florida hospital for pneumonia. On 28 November, Doug Nielsen, Leslie’s nephew, announced that his uncle had died in his sleep, due to complications from pneumonia. But as Frank once said to Nordberg’s wife: “That’s no way for a [...]
Rocco Mediate, En Fuego
Let’s say you’re a PGA Tour professional playing in a tournament. Things are going well…maybe even very well. In fact, you finish one stroke off the lead, only one bloody stroke! Oh well, great effort, great second-place check, time to move on to the next event. Then you realize that the guy who beat you [...]
PGA TOUR’s Fall Series: More at Stake than You May Think
Although the golf season appears to run year-round, it “officially” ends after The TOUR Championship (September 23-26, 2010), but the competition doesn’t end there. The battle to avoid Qualifying School heats up during the TOUR’s Fall Series, which consists of five events. During this stretch, players on the bubble are trying to earn enough cash [...]
The value of authenticity
Do you think Australians have ever heard of an Outback Steakhouse? Having never been to Australia, I can’t really say…but I have a strong suspicion the answer is no. My sense is all the Aussie G’Day-ness is sheer marketing hokum designed to create a distinction for the restaurant chain amidst a sea of blandness in [...]
Golf courses and kids…there something to love about all of them.
Doing what we do, quite often we’ll get asked by people “What’s your favorite golf course?” Seems like an easy enough question, right? Well, for you parents out there, try answering this: which one of your kids is your favorite? Go ahead. Pick one. Are we equating a golf course to one’s own offspring? Well, [...]
In Memory of Erica Blasberg
Although The Clog will rarely, if ever, address a topic as tragic as this, I felt compelled to comment about the passing of Erica Blasberg. After weeks of investigation, her death was ruled a suicide. What a kick to the gut! There is just no way to fully comprehend the loss to the game and [...]