We are happy to see that many new courses are working with GolfNow.com to post tee times. Our community is growing, tournaments are doing great and we are having fun organizing them.

We are working hard to bring more areas on line and you will read about them here first.

With 11,000 public courses available, we have some heavy lifting to do. Make sure you tell your home course about our community and service.

Mashup Camp

We are out in Mountain View, CA for the first Mashup Camp where I have bumped into some of the most energistic and smart internet entrepreneurs and investors on the planet.

Next to GolfNow.com, edgeio.com and eventful.com looked to be the coolest web applications. Not far behind is flyspy.com.

Tonight we had a chance to present GolfNow.com to fellow internet developers and the response was good.

Looking forward to the conference tomorrow.

You have to really love golf to play in the San Francisco Bay area during the winter. I forget how spoiled I am living, working and playing golf in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

We have had 120 days without rain, San Fran - seems like 120 with. What to wear?

My partner Brad was going to pass on a round last weekend in Phoenix because it was a little windy (guests to 12/hour). I reminded him it is 85 degrees and his wife was letting him. Go brave Brad and don’t forget your cardigan!

Problems, Problems!

Anyways, thanks to all the hearty golf707 folks that continue to book rounds through the winter weather that sweeps across the bay from time to time.

Exciting stuff for our community of golfers at GolfNow.com. The good people of Golfsmith have decided to partner with us in our exciting Event series.

Our tournaments in Phoenix and now Chardonay in Northern California have all been sellouts and prove that our community is working. Real golfers just want to play and compete.

Great prizes from Golfsmith and more great deals are coming your way.

For those that want to join our list of event sponsors - we have lot’s of ideas cooking - email me at howard@lindzon.com or better yet, Gary Larcus - glarcus@cypgolf.com.

I have been spending much of the last six months scouring the internet and specifically, the blogging world, in search of great golf editorial and equipment reviews.

Although not nearly as far along as the financial blogging world, the meteoric improvement is worth noting. Just a few weeks ago, Time Warner purchased Golf.com which shows that even in Golf media, the internet is powerful. My view is that the bloggers offer just as much value and cost you - the community of GolfNow.com and the web - nothing. With time being the main cost (and sinking fast from community filters), the value proposition for readers is staggering.

At our GolfNow community, we now have links to bloggers and news. Technology has advanced to the point where small companies, not focused on media, but services, can offer much of the same content as their big media brethren. Great news for companies focused on unique services in many industries.

This is a trend that will intensify. Five years ago, the Time Warner acquisition of a great piece of internet golf real estate like Golf.com, would have struck fear in the heart of any golf ineternet entrepreneur and doubled Time Warner’s stock. When announced a few weeks ago, it was a YAWNER for AOL’s stock and scared few golf bloggers. Personally, I think it just made Golf.com too corporate for what golfers need from the internet. Congrats to investors in Golf.com, happy hunting for good bloggers.

I have had the sheer joy of playing Pebble Beach - once! It was an invite from a generous friend and I took it - leaving my family behind in San Diego to fly up for the night.

Of course, it lives up to every expectation. It starts out rather nicely, gets seriously tougher as you go and by the end of the round, when your score is not that important anymore, the beauty takes over to ease your suffering.

The one thing that I still can’t get over was/is - the tiny size of the greens. After seeing the course hundreds of times on television and EA Sports, it was just the one thing that stood out when I got the chance to play.

I hope everyone is so lucky.