Catch Me If You Can

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Equipment • Golf Media • Miscellaneous

Could this ball be a fake?

Did you watch the movie Catch Me If You Can? In that movie which is based on a true story. A guy (Leonardo Dicaprio) fakes and forges his way into millions counterfeiting checks. He poses as an airline pilot and flies 2 million miles. He poses as a doctor etc…. He eventually got caught by an FBI agent (Tom Hanks).

Apparently Titleist has caught a large retailer that has been selling COUNTERFEIT PROV1 balls!

I think I have found one of these counterfeit balls. Last week at my local club I found a bin of used ProV1’s. Some were the old kind that you could “seam up” and hit them longer, and some newer. But there was one in there that looked “wrong.” The print was thicker, and the “< ProV1 >” lettering was not on the seam. I’m going golfing there today so I’m going to try to find that ball and post a pic of it here.

Why two green jacket ceremonies?

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
Categories: PGA Tour

In this post I have a pic of this year’s green jacket ceremony inside the Butler Cabin. I think it is interesting that you can see Bobby Jones in the background looking at the action. I wonder if he approves?

15 minutes after there is another green jacket ceremony on the practice green. Do they need two of these? I guess they do.

My poor caddie

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, April 11th, 2005
Categories: Hackers

I’ve had the pleasure of having a caddie only a few times. One time I was at Burning Tree in DC. If you don’t know about Burning Tree I’ll have a review coming. If you do know about Burning Tree then “la dee da.”

So I’m in the midst of the round and I get to the green on a hole. I mark my ball, look over at my caddie who is looking straight at me. He’s about 10-15 feet from me. I toss him my ball for him to clean. The billionth of a second I tossed the ball he looked away. While the ball was in the air he turned back and WHACK. My Titleist hit him square on the nose.

I know it hurt bad. His eyes got very watery and you could tell is was “unhappy.” I felt terrible and I apologized profusely. He had to do the “It’s ok sir. No problem sir.” But I knew he’d rather give me a 4 letter laced tyrade.

Always make sure your caddie is ready when you toss him the ball.

2005 Masters Final Leaderboard

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, April 11th, 2005
Categories: PGA Tour

POS	PLAYER	TOTAL	ROUNDS				TOTAL
POS	PLAYER	TOTAL	1	2	3	4	TOTAL
1	T.Woods	-12	74	66	65	71	276
2	C. DiMarco	-12	67	67	74	68	276
T3	L. Donald	-5	68	77	69	69	283
T3	R. Goosen	-5	71	75	70	67	283
T5	M. Hensby	-4	69	73	70	72	284
T5	M. Weir	-4	74	71	68	71	284
T5	R. Pampling	-4	73	71	70	70	284
T5	V. Singh	-4	68	73	71	72	284
T5	T. Immelman	-4	73	73	65	73	284
10	P. Mickelson	-3	70	72	69	74	285
T11	T. Herron	-2	76	68	70	72	286
T11	D. Howell	-2	72	69	76	69	286
T13	T. Lehman	-1	74	74	70	69	287
T13	J. Leonard	-1	75	71	70	71	287
T13	T. Levet	-1	71	75	68	73	287
T13	R. Moore	-1	71	71	75	70	287
T17	D. Clarke	EVEN	72	76	69	71	288
T17	K. Triplett	EVEN	75	68	72	73	288
T17	C. Campbell	EVEN	73	73	67	75	288
T20	B. Langer	+1	74	74	70	71	289
T20	J. Maggert	+1	74	74	72	69	289
T20	S. Cink	+1	72	72	74	71	289
T20	S. Verplank	+1	72	75	69	73	289
T20	J. Kelly	+1	75	70	73	71	289
T25	C. Parry	+2	72	75	69	74	290
T25	J. Ogilvie	+2	74	73	73	70	290
T25	T. Bjorn	+2	71	67	71	81	290
28	J. Furyk	+3	76	67	74	74	291
T29	K. Perry	+4	76	68	71	77	292
T29	S. Flesch	+4	76	70	70	76	292
T31	M. O’Meara	+5	72	74	72	75	293
T31	M. Jimenez	+5	74	74	73	72	293
T33	L. List	+6	77	69	78	70	294
T33	K. Choi	+6	73	72	76	73	294
T33	A. Scott	+6	71	76	72	75	294
T33	C. Wittenberg	+6	72	72	74	76	294
T33	S. Katayama	+6	72	74	73	75	294
T33	I. Poulter	+6	72	74	72	76	294
T39	R. Palmer	+7	70	74	74	77	295
T39	T. Hamilton	+7	77	70	71	77	295
T39	T. Clark	+7	74	74	72	75	295
T39	F. Couples	+7	75	71	77	72	295
T43	J. Kaye	+8	72	74	76	74	296
T43	S. Appleby	+8	69	76	72	79	296
T45	N. O’Hern	+9	72	72	76	77	297
T45	S. Ames	+9	73	74	75	75	297
47	E. Els	+10	75	73	78	72	298
48	J. Haas	+13	76	71	76	78	301
49	C. Riley	+16	71	77	78	78	304
50	C. Stadler	+18	75	73	79	79	306
	C. Howell III	+5	73	76			149
	C. Franco	+5	76	73			149
	G. McDowell	+5	79	70			149
	S. Garcia	+5	77	72			149
	P. Harrington	+5	72	77			149
	R. Allenby	+6	77	73			150
	A. Cabrera	+6	77	73			150
	L. Westwood	+6	78	72			150
	F. Funk	+6	72	78			150
	D. Love III	+7	76	75			151
	J. Haeggman	+7	79	72			151
	J. Parnevik	+7	77	74			151
	B. Van Pelt	+7	76	75			151
	R. Floyd	+8	76	76			152
	P. Lonard	+8	75	77			152
	D. Toms	+8	77	75			152
	F. Jacobson	+8	77	75			152
	Z. Johnson	+8	81	71			152
	R. Sabbatini	+8	80	72			152
	D. Duval	+8	75	77			152
	B. Curtis	+8	80	72			152
	R. Beem	+8	75	77			152
	S. Lyle	+8	74	78			152
	J. Olazabal	+9	77	76			153
	T. Watson	+9	77	76			153
	S. Micheel	+9	75	78			153
	J. Nicklaus	+9	77	76			153
	L. Mize	+9	78	75			153
	J. Daly	+10	80	74			154
	N. Price	+10	78	76			154
	T. Purdy	+11	77	78			155
	B. Crenshaw	+12	76	80			156
	I. Woosnam	+12	78	78			156
	P. Casey	+13	79	78			157
	A. Eaton III	+14	81	77			158
	S. Maruyama	+14	82	76			158
	T. Aaron	+17	79	82			161
	F. Zoeller	+18	84	78			162
	S. Wilson	+20	82	82			164
	G. Player	+23	88	79			167
	C. Coody	+27	88	83			171
	N. Faldo	+4
	B. Casper	+34	106				106

Tiger wins 4th green jacket

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, April 10th, 2005
Categories: PGA Tour

If I was a professional writer, I’d come up with a lengthy and eloquent story about this year’s Masters. Since I’m not, I’m going to say this: WOW!

Chris DiMarco and Tiger started their 3rd round back nine this morning at -13 and -9 respectively. The 3rd round back 9 would be nightmare for DiMarco. Tiger blasted a drive down #10 “80 yards ahead of me” according to DiMarco. DiMarco doubled that hole while Tiger birdied #10 and #11. Soon the -13 -9 figure would be reversed with Tiger out front and DiMarco shooting a 41. Tiger’s 65 in round 3 included a stretch of 7 birdies in a row. The only people to see this great 9 holes were the “patrons” who were there.

I sat and watched the final round in the clubhouse at my Sunday men’s league tournament, after placing 2nd and winning two cases of bottled water. Big money. What a great atmosphere. Half the crowd wanted Tiger and half DiMarco.

The battle on the back 9 was epic. At points in time when it looked like Tiger could run away and hide, DiMarco would fight his way back into it.

On the par 3 16th, with Tiger up by two shots, DiMarco hit the green and had an uphill birdie putt. Tiger pulled his tee shot to a collection area left of the green and had a near impossible chance at chipping the ball close. So what does he do? Chips it in! Given the time and place, that is one of the best shots I’ve ever seen and could be the best in Masters history aside from Gene Sarazen’s “shot heard round the world.”

Tiger pushed his drive on 17 a good 40-50 yards right. He had to sky a wedge over the trees between 17 and 15 fairways and ended up short. He was unable to get up and down for par and gave up one of his 2 shot cushion as DiMarco parred.

On 18 DiMarco missed the green short. Tiger flared an 8 iron into the right bunker. Tiger was unable to get up and down and made his second bogey in a row, opening the door for DiMarco to make par and force a playoff. That’s just what he did.

Overtime would start on the 18th hole. Once again DiMarco hit the green on 18, but spun back and rolled almost into exactly the same location he did in regulation. Tiger hit the green, almost in the same spot that Phil Mickelson birdied from to win last year’s Masters. DiMarco hit an even better chip and left himself a tap-in par. All Tiger has to do is make birdie to win his 9th professional major. He did.