This week’s top tee time:
EVENT: CA Championship
WHEN: Today-Sunday
WHERE: Miami
COURSE: Doral Golf Resort & Spa, par 72
DEFENDING CHAMP: Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods has one this one three years running. I don’t how anyone works down there! I’d just be layin’ on the beach.
San Francisco golfers will see a some of the worlds best golfers on local courses over the next few years. The City and the PGA is nearing a deal that would put six major golf tournaments at Harding Park starting in 2009. The deal is great news for Bay Area golfers. Just last week we wrote about how the San Francisco owned golf courses are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars and have begun to lose their quality. Hopefully this big deal will bring some needed bucks to the Golf Association.
GolfNow doesn’t offer teetimes at Harding, but we do have some great deals for Presidio, Crystal Springs and Poplar Creek. Golf on.
GolfNow.tv is our fun webshow featuring the lovely and talented host Keri Murphy. The show is based on daily golf trivia. Correct answers win a spot in the GolfNow drawing for tons of prives including clubs, rounds of golf and dates with Keri. (Just kidding, no dates with Keri. But I’m tryin’!) Here’s today’s episiode:
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Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is a collection of 432 holes of championship golf on 10 sites around Alabama.
The Wall Street Journal said the Trail “may be the biggest bargain in the country” and the New York Times called the Trail “some of the best golf on earth”.
Free golf alert! The Fine Living TV show The Wandering Golfer is running a contest offering “A Golfers Dream Extravaganza.” The grand prive is a ticket to play in the Michelob ULTRA Open Pro-Am, a spa package, 4 nights at a resort, VIP tickets to the golf tournament AND $10,000! Wow. Enter here: Golf Extravaganza. (Or don’t ’cause we don’t need any more competition, hehhe.)
The Wondering Golfer also has a new host in hottie Gia Bocra. Whoa girl! Here’s her audition tape: Gia Bocra.
Nike is offering free drivers to anyone who purchased one of their square Sumo2 drivers because they are loaded. Turns out the design of the drivers exceeds certain parameters laid out by the USGA. A competitor to Nike ratted them out. The Sumo2 drivers break the allowed characteristic time. I can’t figure what that means, so here’s an explaination from ESPN:
Characteristic time (CT), which is measured by the so-called “Pendulum test,” refers to a driver face’s tendency to deform slightly at impact, resulting in improved ball speed. The USGA and R&A set a characteristic time limit of 239 microseconds, plus a tolerance of 18 microseconds. This correlates to the previous coefficient of restitution (COR) test and its limit of .822 with a manufacturing tolerance that extended to .830. By comparison, a wooden-headed driver has a COR of about .780.
Nike has a little video on their golf site saying ‘oops.’
A couple pro golfers have been using the Sumo2, including K.J. Choi. Choi won the Chrysler Championship back in October. The Nike Golf video says Choi used an honest driver. But looking at his 2007 performance maybe he should switch to the loaded ones.
