Possible Callaway takeover bid?
Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment
My buddy BogeyMan has posted an article about a possible takeover bid of Callaway Golf.
Click here to read the article.
He mentions that Callaway is the nation’s largest golf manufacturer. Is this the case? This has made me wonder just who the top 5 or 10 golf manufacturers are in sequence.
I thought Titleist was the largest. Starting google search…
US Open Champion’s Official Site
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Categories: Golf Media • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
Categories: Golf Media • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
Now that Michael Campbell is the US Open champ, I’ve found his official web site!
Campbell has some good stuff there including news, results, schedule, photos and his own clothing line.
Check it out at: http://www.cambogolf.com/
US Open Blog A Complete Failure?
Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
Categories: Golf Media • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
Categories: Golf Media • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
Check back June 16? It’s June 21 now….
A while back I posted that the US Open would be blogging this year. Here is the link to their blog.
I was pessimistic that they’d be able to put a decent “blog” together. My pessimism proved to be warranted.
I could call their blog a complete failure, but they would have to actually try blogging in order to fail at it. So this looks like they were just trying to jump on that old buzzword blog bandwagon I mentioned before.
OK USGA boys, next time you want to do a blog why don’t you hire me to do it? Hell, you don’t even have to “hire” me. Just bring me in next time, give me a hotel room, some grub and an 802.11b wireless network to latch onto and I’m good to go.
If not me perhaps any of the select golf bloggers that can be found in my golf blogroll like Bogeyman, Rich from EatGolf, Jay Flemma, Golf Blogger etc. They would all do a bang up job…
By the way, I like how they called it a “web blog.” Any bonehead knows that “blog” is short for “web log.” So they were actually doing a “web web log.”
UPDATE
iacas points out that they did blog and there was some interesting stuff there. So where is it? I wonder why blog and then get rid of it and put back the “check back soon” message.
BogeyMan pointed out there may have been TWO different URL locations…. But the other location http://blog.usopen.com/index.htm only has info on the US Women’s Open now. Once again, why nuke the entries?
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE!
Here’s a 3rd url: http://www.usopen.com/news/blog.html Seems the entries are there so they didn’t nuke them after all. So a while back I find a link to the original blog locale, and they changed it. I bookmarked it, checked it regularly and nada. Just great. And they just left that locale and notice there (I bet they just completely forgot about it). They must have changed their mind about the locale while setting it up and neglected to put redirect or a link to the new one. Meanwhile I’m stuck there on the old one wondering where the entries are 🙁
OK credit where it is due, they DID “web web log.”
BogeyMan hits this point better than me, check it out.
Coming Soon…
I’ve recently added a “coming soon” page to the site. Pages within this site are not like normal blog posts. They are not related to time or post order. They are a constant. These pages are in the Internal Links category at the top left.
Coming soon will have what I’m working on. Currently I’m working on a few reviews: the new TaylorMade r5 TP driver and r7 TP fairway wood, the Ogio Grom golf bag, PeakVision sunglasses, the new Callaway HX Tour 56 ball and more. You can always click the coming soon link to see what the future holds here.
Of course tons of other golf nuggets will appear on a daily basis that won’t be on the coming soon page…
Would you pay $40,000 to play with Tiger?
Instamarv has somehow found this link on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7161142939 where someone won the “privilege” to play with Tiger in a Buick Pro Am. Cost: $40,200 bones.
Something is a little fishy here though. First, the ebay user selling this item joined in June of 2005 and has zero feedback. Second, the funds need to be paid to via paypal and within 3 days of the auction close. Third, look at the photo they used. Tiger is hitting his old Titleist there. You’d think Buick and whoever handles Tiger’s promotional material would come up with a more recent picture wouldn’t you?
Perhaps this deal is legit and I’ve just missed it by skipping over it with my Tivo. I don’t pay attention to the ads much anyway so that is probably the case. At any rate I hope the poor sucker who is rich and dumb enough to pay $40,200 to play with Tiger actually gets the chance and doesn’t end up trying to track down some internet scam artist…
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