I played 2 days ago and the weather here was finally great. The conditions were perfect. I was doing a demo on a set of irons and a putter. So I go out and use these irons on the course with no range time or swings at all. They were excellent irons and I hit them fairly well. Shot a 72. Not bad for using irons and and putter I’ve never hit before. I’m going to demo them tomorrow as well.
Tomorrow is a round at one of my favorite courses, Bonneville. This course is a country club quality course for a muni price. The picture on this post is one that I took myself at Bonneville last year. This course is not extremely long. It does have a defense in it’s greens. They are usually quite fast and have lots of interesting breaks. I takes a long time to learn the subtleties of these greens.
I’ll do a complete review of Bonneville some time in the near future.
TaylorMade has introduced some new toys!
First they’ve introduced the r5 Dual TP driver. Seems to me I remember our buddies over at TM saying “there’s no new driver coming out”… Now we know what that means next time eh?
Second they’ve introduced fairway woods to match their r7 drivers: The r7 TP Fairway Woods. Now they have fairway woods with the same cool movable weight technology as their r7 drivers!
I always seem to stumble across these news items right when I’m about to go to bed for the night. Since I’m too tired to elaborate now I’m going to include the press releases from TM (which are not easy to find, especially at the TM web site).
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Tim Petrovic won his first PGA Tour title today at the Zurich Classic. He made par on the first playoff hole to clinch his victory as James Driscoll could only make bogey.
That’s a nice story about a guy notching his first PGA Tour win. But even more of a story is Chris DiMarco. He once again had the lead on Sunday as he did in the Masters, only to give up his lead. DiMarco made quite a mediocre bogey on the 18th to knock himself out of the playoff.
DiMarco had better WIN a tournament that he leads or he may start to get a bad rep for rolling over on Sundays.
I picked myself up off the floor following Tiger’s chip in on 16. What an incredible shot. I watched replay after replay of that Nike logo slowly rolling into the hole. I said to myself “What a Nike ad. They’ll be all over this like a cheap suit.”
I just saw the ad tonight for the first time. Nike talks about “control.” I’m as big of a Tiger fan as the next but I’m not quite sure they want to be bragging about “control” quite yet. Wouldn’t having “control” mean you hit more than 57% of your fairways on the season and rank higher than 156th in driving accuracy?
But then again these days driving accuracy doesn’t matter much any more. This is true especially at Augusta where the rough….er, a… I mean “first cut” is only about 1/2″ and is probably nicer than most fairways on any other course.
Let’s just see who has the most “control” at the US Open. If Tiger wins there, then Nike can brag about “control.”
One of the coolest new golf blogs is The Reluctant Jam Boy. The view of a day in the life of a caddy with his flare is great. I just had to post this quote:
“And the other player–a member–whipped the club around so fast I think he was trying to open some kind of hole in the space-time continuum. So in addition to taking huge divots, he created little time-rifts all over the course. I should’ve walked through one of them to see if the Redskins are ever going to go back to the Super Bowl.”
Pure genius.
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