MJ on golf returns
I just barely got over the sadness of MJonGolf’s hanging up his golf blogger shoes. Now he’s back, with a clear mission: “to help golfers achieve their full potential, and highest level of enjoyment, by teaching Moe Norman’s single-axis swing and properly fitting them to their equipment.”
Best of luck MJ. Glad to see you back. You’re back on the blogroll.
Go visit MJ…now.
Found some interesting golf balls
My kids and I finally went through the HUNDREDS of golf balls we’ve found over the last couple of weeks here on the course. I’m living on the #17th fairway for about 2-4 more weeks 🙁
These two particular balls seemed interesting. The Nike ball is obviously some kind of prototype. Perhaps they try some stuff with different prototypes and give them numbers. Then they wait for feedback from the testers and cross reference the numbers with the tester’s opinions… Sounds logical.
The Spalding ball I can’t believe we found. This course we’re on is only about 4-5 years old. But this ball is considerably older than that. And was someone playing this thing? No wonder they lost it. It’s so oblong it wouldn’t fly straight with a 120mph tail wind.
Amazing poll results so far
Current poll numbers
I’m pretty amazed that at this point 38% of you folks play 20 or more rounds per month of golf! You guys are crazy, just like me.
Vote if you haven’t already!
The Experiment
I played a round of golf today with my pop at his awesome country club. Rough life eh?
It was lawn mower day out there so we found our share of chewed up golf balls. Since I had already shot a number much higher than my regular round I decided I’d do a small experiment.
I often retire golf balls that have scuffs, scratches, dirt or other blemishes. I put them in the shag bag or use them on tight courses during heavy winds. I’ve often wondered how much damage a golf ball’s cover can have without seriously compromising it’s performance.
Hooked on tweaking
I’ve been fairly happy with the 3 column layout of the site. It doesn’t look like many other blogs, and I haven’t seen ONE golf blog that looks similar.
BUT I am about to start a bit of a “tweaking” period for the site. I’m going to play with some different column sizes and most likely a fixed width. I’m still researching the average screen resolution of my visitors to determine the size, but I’ve found that something like 98% of most web surfers are at 800×600 or higher. So if you’re smaller than that you’ll soon be SOL here (unless you like scrolling).
The first tweak is not a visible one but it has already been implemented. This tweak is adding a link to the golf ball graphic at the top of all pages to the main page. You no longer have to click on “blog home” to get to the home page. You can click the golf ball. Thanks to skostiuk for that suggestion.
The 2nd tweak (also a skostiuk idea) was to move the recent posts up higher. That only made sense.
There will be more to come, so be aware you may see some slight changes. And once again, keep the suggestions rolling in!
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