The world’s most extreme golf courses, courtesy of adidas Golf
adidas Golf has a pretty interesting vlog/promotion going on at http://wearintheworld.adidasgolf.com/ The idea is for team members Josh Sullivan and Lindsay Knowlton to chronicle a 30-day golf trip to some of the world's most extreme golf courses, play...
Turnberry, Kingsbarns, Muirfield, more vying for Scotland’s Golf Course of the Year
A release just hit my desk announcing nominees for this year's Golf Tourism Scotland's Gold Standard Awards. The nominees for Golf Course of the Year are:
Ailsa Course at Turnberry
Balcomie Links (Crail)
Castle Stuart Golf Links (Inverness)
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Charles Barkley is dead wrong about golf
In this press release that just came across my desk, NBA legend and noted golf nut Charles Barkley is quoted as saying "Golf is no fun when you suck."
Charles, if you're reading this (and I'm pretty sure you are), on behalf of the entire g...
Whisky and golf in Scotland: A perfect pair
I get tons of press releases. I mean, if I had a nickle for every press release I got, I'd be able to take a year off and just travel around playing golf at PGA Tour host courses. So I have no idea why this one from Visit Scotland caught my eye. It's e...
Free golf book: Get Pete McDaniel’s ‘Uneven Lies’ from Titleist
Titleist has a very cool promotion going on on their web site. While supplies last, they're giving away copies of Pete McDaniel's excellent book, "Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf." Click here to get yourself one.
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Vote now to get golf into the Olympic Games in 2016
Do you want to see golf in the Olympics? The International Golf Federation is busy "lobbying the International Olympic Committee for one of two open spots on the sports calendar for 2016, and with a decision on the 2016 sports roster to be made in...
At 41 mpg, golfers are as efficient as a hybrid
Allow me, dear readers, to take zero credit for this observation; reader Elliot DeBear just e-mailed it in:
A recent study found the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found golfers drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a ...
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me John Daly’s Mercedes-Benz …
I just read that John Daly auctioned off his Mercedes on Ebay. I won’t bore you with rehashing the other Daly lowlights of late (Bruce Stasch and Mike Bailey can bring you up to speed).
But I did want to ask if anyone still doubts my prediction ...
Golf Channel awards: Who’s gonna to win Tim Rosaforte’s Rosies?
This just came across my desk…
Tim Rosaforte will announce The Rosies, his annual year-end award winners from the 2008 golf season tomorrow and Sunday on The Golf Channel’s “Sprint Post Game” (6 p.m. EST) and “Golf Centra...
St. Andrews, Dornoch, Inverness, Carnoustie? Rate Scotland’s golf courses at ScotlandGolf.com
Fans of the TravelGolf.com This Week podcast heard me talking a few weeks back about a whole slate of improvements at ScotlandGolf.com, the top source on the web for info about golf in Scotland.
We just rolled out another improvement there: reader co...
LPGA instructor and TravelGolf.com blogger Beverly Fergusson named among 50 Best Teachers
It seems the LPGA has made official something we knew when we asked golf instructor Beverly Fergusson early last year to blog for TravelGolf.com: She’s among the very best teachers in the U.S.
The LPGA just released its first-ever list of The 50...
Gatorade studied Tiger Woods’ sweat – Budweiser should study John Daly’s
As Bill Wolfrum blogged at WorldGolf.com, a team of scientists studied Tiger Woods’ sweat when creating the formula for the new “Gatorade Tiger … a new line of Gatorade Thirst Quencher formulated for Tiger Woods in great-tasting flavo...
