They do things a bit differently in the outback of Australia; for instance, here is a grounds keeper raking out a “green” at the Coober Pedy golf course in South Australia.
Looks nice!
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John Daly continues to ooze class out of his swamp-assed shorts; here he is giving an interview while playing golf shirtless and shoeless at a place called Murder Rock Golf Club.
On a side note, why name a place “Murder Rock,” doesn’t come off as very family-friendly…
06
May
09
Mind if I Play Through?
From this weekend’s Quail Hollow Championship, one of Jason Dufner’s tee shots squarely landed in the lap of one very embarrassed Miranda Cooper. Rules official Tony Wallin allowed Dufner to take his next shot from a spot on the ground underneath where the 18-year-old was sitting.
Miranda Cooper, right, was quite embarrassed when one of golfer Jason Dufner’s tee shots landed in her lap during the Quail Hollow Championship. After the rare occurrence, rules official Tony Wallin allowed Dufner to take his next shot from a spot on the ground underneath where the 18-year-old was sitting
If you’re a golfer, you might as well just quit now; that’s because Nolan Hayes, age 4, is already a better golfer than you. While playing a round with his dad at the Springs Hills Golf Course — which to me seems like too many plurals but whatevs — in suburban Cleveland, Nolan sank his first hole-in-one, and his dad managed to catch it all on video! Sure, he was only hitting from 80 yards away, but this is also a four year old, so, you know, stop being such a downer.
According to his dad, Nolan has been playing since he was one years old and has also parred 15 other holes. Look out Tiger!
Vodpod videos no longer available.[WKYC]
21
Apr
09
Tony Romo Really Needed that 69
21
Apr
09
Golfers Flip Out
Two men who wanted to get out on the green and just blaze through a fun golfing outing at the Beekman Country Club in East Fishkill, NY, instead suffered head injuries and abrasions due to a bizarre accident. Thanks to a funnel cloud, the two men were trapped underneath their golf cart when it was flipped over. Police Sgt. Kevin Keefe who reported to the scene said that the two men, and other witnesses reported seeing the funnel cloud, “What we had was a weird little wind event,” Keefe said.
The two men, proving the toughness of golfers, refused treatment and then finished their game.
13
Apr
09
Birdies Make Me Grabby
During his pursuit of the top of the leaderboard at the Master’s yesterday, a hard-charging man-boobed Phil Mickelson seemed poised to maybe pull off a great upset. After shooting a robust 30 on the front nine, Phil came awfully close to wearing the green jacket once more. The fans in the galleries were right there with Phil, living and dying on every shot; some fans even found themselves getting excited by the play in front of them. Take for instance, this man who amidst the excitement of Mickelson’s birdie on 15 went for a boob grab. His wife/girlfriend/whatever wasn’t too upset by it, but she also wasn’t too psyched. I’m just glad he didn’t take anything out of his golf bag, after all, you shouldn’t be using a wood on the fairway anyways…
13
Mar
09
Whistle Sound
Tiger Woods is making his return to stroke play golf at the World Golf Championships but Sweden’s Henrik Stenson made the big news when, on the third hole he stripped off his clothes down to his boxers. After his drive landed in some sticky mud, Stenson opted to go for it rather than taking the penalty strokes.
“Because of the mud I couldn’t really afford to play in any of my clothes as they would have been a real mess down the last six or so holes so I had no option.
“I was only wearing two things when I hit the shot, my jocks and my golf glove – that is the only thing that will appear in the picture aside from the golf club – just the way God created me.
“Shirt, trousers, socks, shoes, hat – the lot was off.”
Stenson was well-prepared for any of the jokes from the other golfers, saying “You never know, I might have a new endorsement with Playgirl or something like that.”
Now, all we have to do is make sure that someone gets Anna Rawson to hit a ball into a similar location and is forced to take off HER clothes… Please…
12
Mar
09
It’ll Never Get Better Than This
Unni Haskell, 62, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida to enjoy retirement, while there she decided to take up playing golf. After two months of lessons, Haskell felt ready to take on the course itself.
At the 100-yard first hole, she teed up her ball, swung her purple driver as hard as she could and watched as the ball went about 75 yards, then bounced to avoid the bunker, landed on the green and rolled into the hole. Her first swing in golf resulting in an astounding hole-in-one. “I didn’t know it was that big of a deal,” she said. “I thought all golfers do this.”
While not completely unprecedented, this is still pretty remarkable, the odds of an amateur hitting a hole-in-one on any par-3 hole are roughly 12,500 to one.
“We were going to do a putting lesson that day,” her instructor Rick Sopka said. “She said, ‘no,’ she wanted to play. She didn’t even hit a range ball. No warmup at all.”
“I haven’t played since, but I want to,” Haskell said.
Unni, learn a lesson from George Costanza, go out on a high-note. Take up Jai Alai or something instead.
While doing normal tree maintenance work along the first tee at the Norwich Country Club in Norfolk, England workers discovered a surprise buried in the wood of one of their felled trees. While sawing into smaller pieces some diseased trees that were felled, greens keeper Richard Mitchell discovered a golf ball inside the trunk!
“We think the ball came off the first tee, went into the trees and was lost. It must have lodged in a fork or embedded itself in the trunk and the tree just grew round it,” said club manager Peter Johns.
The cross-section of tree trunk was saved and given to a member of the club who is also a skilled wood worker and there is a thought to make it into a trophy plaque honoring members who score a hole-in-one. Regardless, it’s a pretty neat thing and something that nearly didn’t happen.
“It’s an incredible find,” said Johns. “It was pure luck that it was discovered. If Richard had cut the trunk an inch or two either way we’d never have known the ball was there.
[EDP24]
26
Dec
08
The Scots are Some Weird Folk
Golfers in Scotland have been finding something quite unexpected in the woods off the courses, deer mauled to death. In some cases the deer were found hanging from trees. Clubs in Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Milngavie all reported finding deer carcasses and the SSPCA believes that deer poachers have been using lurcher type dogs to kill the deer for sport.
Tom Gatherer, from the SSPCA, said: “Using dogs to kill deer is cruel and callous and it is unthinkable in this day and age that people still consider this sport.
“The deer in these areas, although wild, are used to seeing people either out playing golf or walking their dogs so they may not have the same flight response as deer in remote areas.
“The people involved in this activity are getting easy pickings and it is deplorable.”
[BBC]
26
Nov
08
Land Mines Ruin Everyone’s Day
It’s a Saturday, and all you want to do is be out of the house and get away from the wife and kids, play a nice 18 holes and enjoy yourself. So you’re walking along the 13th hole, you just hit a nice 6 iron and you’re lying in the middle of the fairway, life is good. You walk over to your ball and BOOOOOM! Land mine.
In the Japanese southern prefecture of Kochi, this exact situation could take place. The Casio World Open men’s tournament is supposed to begin this week but on Tuesday a Kochi newspaper received an anonymous call claiming that there were land mines buried on the course and insisting the event be canceled. Since last week a grenade was detonated outside the clubhouse and also by the warehouse of one of the event’s sponsors, organizers and police are taking the threat seriously. “We have announced today that the event will go ahead as scheduled, but we are making sure that heavy security is in place,” said Chieko Hataguchi, spokeswoman for the the Japan Golf Tour Organization.
What the hell is going on in Japan? This is something I definitely expect out of Americans, hell, I wouldn’t put it past the Germans either, but really? Grenades? In Japan? What happened, did this guy’s Casio watch just totally crap out one day and he missed some important job interview and now he can’t let go?
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