Monthly Archives: November 2009

Tiger Woods fights off a pack of bloodthirsty beasts

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By now, you’ve probably heard about the single-car accident involving Tiger Woods, if not, here’s the link. Tiger Woods involved in a single-car accident Since the story broke, the media has been on Tiger’s tail like a pack of bloodthirsty jackals trying to dig up anything they can on the circumstances surrounding the accident. What…

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I’ve been pretty disconnected from the computer today, figured I’d spend the day with the family and take a day off from the blog. So, after putting the boys down for the night, I figured I’d hop on real quick and check my email before watching a movie with the wife. I received an email…

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As I sit here fighting the onset of a major turkey coma, I wanted to write a quick post and say thanks to everyone of you awesome friends and readers of Orlando’s greatest golf blog, Orlando Golf Blogger. Through writing the blog, I’ve been able to meet many awesome people and I’ve made some new…

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Fellow Golf Blogger and all around good guy Doug from golfdashblog.com posted up an awesome interview with golf mental game master Dr. Joe Parent. Dr. Parent is the author of some of the greatest mental game books out there; Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game, Zen Putting: Mastering the Mental Game on the Greens and…

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Over the weekend, I had the opportunity (whilst doing laundry for nine hours… yeah, we’re a little behind 🙂 ) to watch Dr. Gio Valiante’s Fearless Golf – Mastering the Mental Game. Dr. Gio is a golf psychologist and currently serves as a professor at Rollins College here in Winter Park, FL. He’s also a…

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Take the follow survey, if the majority of your answers are yes, than you sir/madam are a golf nut! 1. Your idea of a good time is staying home and watching the British Open on a Saturday night. 2. You curse the game only to play it the next day. 3. You haven’t puked from…

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During the next few months, I’m writing a series of blog posts on golf fitness. I’m going to try and touch on every area surrounding this topic and hopefully dig up some useful tidbits in my search. Every day we hear more and more about how staying fit and flexible will lead to better scores…

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I thought this was a pretty interesting tidbit of information regarding miles walked playing a round of golf. This photo is courtesy of Harry Longshanks over at THP. Golf Digest, in their October 2009 issue compared miles walked by a man to miles walked by a woman using three different scenarios; cart (to golf ball),…

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Have you ever dreamed about playing professional golf? I have, pretty frequently, but always, the cold hard truth sets in and I realize that I neither have the time, money or skill level to ever try and pursue that dream. Enter a man named John Fitgerald. After turning 40, this average golfer decides to follow…

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Below is a press release from TaylorMade regarding their new exchangeable face wedges. Easily Exchange a Worn Face for a New One to Promote Peak Spin and Performance Carlsbad, Calif. (November 16, 2009) – TaylorMade Golf has introduced the TP wedge with xFT (Exchangeable Face Technology), which allows players to easily remove a worn clubface…

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Back in August, I received word that TaylorMade was going to be releasing golf’s first five layer ball ever created called the TaylorMade Penta TP. It took them three years to develop this ball and the name Penta comes from the greek word pente, which means five. According to TaylorMade, Penta TP is the first…

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#10 – Golfer: “Think I’m going to drown myself in that lake..” Caddie: “Think you can keep your head down that long, sir?” #9 – Golfer: “I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.” Caddie: “Try heaven, you’ve already moved most of the earth.” #8 – Golfer: “Do you think my game…

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Well.. ok, not really, but it’s certainly something to dabble with during those long company meetings! Call today wacky Wednesday, and enjoy the sketch I did of a nine-hole course during an especially grueling nine to fiver.. 🙂 What do you think? Is it a course you’d like to play? 🙂 -Dave

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Last week I came home from work, exhausted from the days toils, to find a package on the counter with my name on it. Eagerly, I tore into the package to find a new sexy color Orange golf shirt, courtesy of L.O.F.T Golf! Haven’t heard of L.O.F.T golf? Well, they’re relatively new on the scene…

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This news isn’t surprising in the least. If you recall, earlier this year I had the opportunity to head out to the TaylorMade Performance Lab over at Grand Cypress Golf Club and I was able to hit the TaylorMade Burner Irons. I liked them so much that I subsequently purchased them and wrote up an…

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Last weekend I had the pleasure (yet again) of playing golf with fellow golf blogger and scratch golfer John Duval over at intothegrain.com. We played the Grand Cypress New Course, which was in great shape and a lot of fun! There’s 175 bunkers and I managed to avoid them all, of course, there’s only two…

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Courtesy of our friend Sean over at PutterZone.com, see below. Win A Slotline SKM 600 Series Putter How to Enter / Rules Simply send an email to sean(at)putterzone.com with “Slotline Putter” in the subject line. Inside the email, provide answers to the following easy questions (the answers are on the original post, see above link):…

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Orlando Sentinel is putting on an “Orlando’s Rockin Blogs” contest and Orlando Golf Blogger was nominated in the sports category. Voting runs from now until November 20th at 5:00pm EST. You can vote once a day in each individual category as well as best over all category. Gonna need your help here, all 13k of…

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Palm Beach Gardens, FL (October 20, 2009) – Titleist announces its plans to participate in the 2010 PGA Merchandise Show to be held in Orlando, Florida, from January 28-30. Titleist also will participate in the Outdoor Demo Day at the Orange County National Golf Center on January 27. “The PGA Merchandise Show continues to evolve…

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My friend and fellow local golf blogger John Duval who writes intothegrain.com has launched into a series of blog posts discussing the mental aspects of the game. In the first post he mentions there are various components to mastering the mental game and the first being the pre-shot routine. In this first series of posts,…

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