Sergio Garcia was fined an estimated $9,220 for kicking an advertising board after he three-putted the 17th during the third round at last week’s European Masters.
That fine will seem like pocket change to Sergio anyway since he won the tournament.
At least he didn’t kick a camera man. (You see, golf is a gentleman’s sport).
The rules of golf can be quite dry, boring and downright hard to interpret. They can also be hard to remember. Gimme A Ruling is a “Trivial Pursuit” type of game which will make the rules of golf fun, interesting and easy to remember.
Top notch quality
The first thing I noticed when I opened up my Gimme A Ruling game was how nice all the components are. The game comes in a very elegant wooden case, somewhat like a humidor for cigars. The case has a protective draw-stringed bag. Inside the case you’ll find a matching wood game card holder, score cards, dice, pencils and instructions. The print components are on top notch paper and have excellent print quality. In short, this is a game has a classy look and is built to last many years.
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There are a bunch of golf blog posts and other articles regarding DVR’s or Tivo’s this week. Personally I think the DVR is one of the best inventions in the past several decades. I love to record a golf program and skip over the commercials. You save yourself a good 15-20 minutes per hour. This gives you more time to…..golf! Besides, who needs to see another Celtic Woman advertisement?
PGA.com Business Insider “The rise of TiVo and DVR technology has clubmakers considering many ways to maintain their dialog with golfers…”
Golfblogger asks “will Tivo kill advertising?”
Golf Chick has a great article outlining Tivo tips for golf fans.
Geoff Shackelford asks “DVR’s impacting golf advertising?”
Might I suggest that the way clubmakers can maintain or even strengthen their dialog with golfers is to HAVE a dialog with them. What better way to do that than golf blogs and golf forums?
I’m still living on the #17 hole at my local club River Oaks. I’m here for about another 8-14 days when I move into my new house. My men’s league here at RO has a year long match play tournament and I had arranged a match today at 3pm.
When I got to the course I found out that my match would have to wait until the Nationwide Tour got off the course! The Nationwide Tour is in town for the Envirocare Utah Classic, at a country club down the street. But the country club wouldn’t let them play their pro-am today due to the holiday. So they moved the pro-am to my home course! One Hooked on Golf Blog’s resident PGA pros, Guy Lester, actually got to play today! I’ll make sure we get a report from him.
I hung out there a bit today and hit some balls on the range, and stopped the Nationwide Tour players as they went by during their round. They were all very cool and I asked them about the tour, their standings on the money list, where they were from etc.
I talked to Gabriel Hjertstedt. I told him about the golf blog and he thought that was cool. I got some info from him about where he lives, and what place he is on the money list (125) etc. He was very nice and told me to make sure I’d come to the real tournament this weekend. I assured him that I already had my tickets.
I do plan to make a report or two and post some pictures from the Nationwide Tour Envirocare Classic this weekend so stay tuned.
By the way, I won the match tonight…
Vijay Singh has withdrawn from this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship. He won’t be defending his 2004 DBC title due to suffering a back injury during a ping-pong game with his son. He’s consulting with his doctor and evaluating his upcoming schedule.
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