Natalie Gulbis on Celebrity Apprentice

For those who might have missed it, Natalie Gulbis is on this season’s Celebrity Apprentice 2. She’s playing for the Boys and Girls Club of America. She has a strong affinity for the club, one of her long term goals is to open up a boys a girls club of her own. Now, I’ve never…

Eyeline Golf

I’m sure you’ve all heard about these guys and if not, get out from underneath the rock you’ve been living under! 🙂 Eyeline Golf makes products to help us hackers improve our putting game. Well, not only us hackers, last year 245 touring pros picked up EyeLine Golf equipment. As you know, one of my…

Tiger Woods Slow Motion Drive

Not sure how many have already watched this video, but it’s incredible.  Just look at the movement of his body and the club, totally ridiculous.. I’ve been trying to watch a lot of pro’s drive videos trying to pick up some pointers.  So far, the only thing I’ve learned is that my entire swing is…

Winter Park Country Club Lecture Series

Huge news for all you Orlando based folks!  Brendon Elliott who is the head golf professional out at Winter Park has been working very hard to put this together and I for one can’t wait to check it out. WINTER PARK COUNTRY CLUB TO HOLD MONTHLY GOLF LECTURE SERIES WINTER PARK, Fla., an internationally recognized…

Line Golfer – a way to waste an hour

I saw this over at Golf Girl’s Diary.  It’s a time waster called Line Golfer. You get to design your own golf course and others can play and rate it. It’s worth checking out, I *highly* recommend trying out some of the courses before attempting to build your own. It’s not quite what you expect…

4th Annual Emma’s Miracle Golf Invitational

There’s a charity golf event taking place April 19th, 2009 to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.  It’s taking place out at Hawk’s Landing and the start time is 1:00pm. This is a great story about a miracle child named Emma.  What I love about this is the fact that a family is trying to do…

Free Drawing for “Following The Roar”

Fellow Golf Blogger from Armchair Golf Blog is having a drawing for a FREE copy of Bob Smiley’s “Following The Roar.” Check it Out -> Armchair Golf Blog You can enter if you want, but I should warn you, the book is as good as mine! 🙂 -Dave Book your next Discount Orlando Tee Times…

Little Linksters – Weeks Three & Four

I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the next redition and I have to apoligize for missing a week. For those that have no clue what I’m talking about, please refer to Little Linksters.  As a quick recap, Brendon Elliott is a local golf pro who runs a junior golf program called…

Battle of the Golf Blogs

Tony over at Hooked On Golf Blog said it best.  See below link. Guru -vs- Orlando Golf Blogger We played a round together out at Disney’s Lake Buena Vista and placed a friendly wager on it. We wagered Nassau Style with yours truly losing all four bets.  Below is a picture of the trophy.  A…

GolfDotz – A new way to mark your ball

Many thanks to Dave over at GolfDotz for sending me these to check out. What are GolfDotz you ask?  Well, according to the website, “GolfDotz are a new generation transfer that simply bond with the skin of the ball when firm pressure from your thumb is applied. In 5 seconds or less you are ready…

Shank-a-potimis

The Fellas at GolfIsHard posted this up and I had to share it.  Love this E-Trade Baby. TGIF -Dave Book your next Discount Orlando Tee Times through our new online tee times booking engine.

He’s Back! Tiger Woods has returned

Straight from the horses mouth, I’m now ready to play again. After 253 days of golf sans Tiger Woods, #1 is back. He is going to make his 2009 debut at the World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championship February 23rd – March 1st. Not surprising, really, considering that he has a newborn to keep …

Don’t give up on golf, America

I was perusing the forums over at Stracka and one of the members posted up this article. I wanted to share it with you all because it’s a fabulous article written by a page two columnist over at ESPN.com named Mary Buckheit.  She tells a great story from a daughters perspective about her father and…

World Association of Left-Handed Golfers

All right-handed golfers beware! World Association of Left-Handed Golfers First Golf, next, the world!! 🙂 and if you are not inclined to world domination…yet, here’s the National Association link. National Association of Left-Handed Golfers (crosses fingers) now that we again have a left handed president who plays golf, perhaps we can start seeing a better…

Local Golf Pro Faces Seven Years in Prison

Local Golf Pro, Jim Thorpe has been charged with four counts of failing to pay $1.6 million taxes. If convicted, Thorpe faces up to seven years in prision and a $3 million dollar fine. The charges filed Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 (just 10 days after his 63rd birthday) in federal court in Orlando accuse Thorpe…

Orlando Golf Lessons Week 2

Last Saturday, I had my second short game lesson from Brendon Elliott. If you missed the first weeks lesson you can find it here – Orlando Golf Lessons. For a quick recap, the first week was a putting evaluation, complete with video, pictures, dixx putter stats and a review of my last 10 golf scores.…

Golf Is Hard TV

Check out this video blog entry from Marc and Coach Dave over at the Golf Is Hard blog. Seems like a lot of golf bloggers are breaking the trail into vlogging.  Buried within this video are a couple nuggets of golf wisdom, but I think there’s a little too much filler.  I especially like the…

Disney Partners with Golfnow.com

Figured I’d share this for all those non-Orlandoians. 🙂 Disney has partnered with Golfnow.com and you can now book online, discounted tee times for: Disney’s Lake Buena Vista Disney’s Magnolia Disney’s Palm Disney’s Osprey Ridge The rates are not quite as good as the rates offered for those of us with the Disney Annual Golf…

PGA Merchandise Show – SNAG Golf

In an earlier post, I made reference to this company SNAG Golf. My Son is taking lessons and the training equipment they use is from this company. I had the pleasure of meeting these guys at the PGA Merchandise Show last week. I spoke with Dave Shein from SNAG and he gave me a run…

PGA Merchandise Show – iQuest Golf

While perusing row upon row of golf goodies at the PGA Merchanise Show, I stumbledf upon iQuest Golf.  I’ve got to admit, when I first noticed the sign, I had a different idea as to what the product would be. iQuest Golf, is a card game that you incorporate into your golf game. Each deck…

Orlando Golf Lessons

As many of you might know, I’m not exactly a scratch golfer, mostly, not even a good golfer. 🙂 So in the pursuit of a better golf game, I’ve signed on to take golf lessons from Brendon Elliott. He is a short game master and will be helping me improve those aspects of my game.…

Little Linksters – Week 2

Two Saturdays ago, OGB Junior had his second golf lesson out at Brendon Elliott‘s Little Linkster’s Junior Golf Acacemy. I know, I know, I’m a little late in posting..  I’m going to have to ask you to cut me some slack as it was a busy week last week with the PGA Merchandise Show and…

So much to do, so little time!

Sorry for the lack-o-communication last week!  While attempting to climb Mt. Everest, I was caught in an avalance and had my leg trapped under a rock. It took me a couple days, but I was able to chew off my leg and make it to safety, just in time for the PGA Merchandise Show and…