Book your holiday, build up your browny points and start saving up. It's that bleeding game again.

8/1/2007 3:24:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

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11/15/2006 6:07:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Fresh from the Reuters website and the world of absurd ventures...

Seeking the perfect holiday gift for the golfer who has everything? Try flavored golf tees.

U.S. inventors John Packes and Ramon Peralta have come up a product line called Tasty Golf Tees in various flavors including mint, cherry, strawberry, and grape.

Mint is the strongest-tasting flavor in the range.

"It will knock out the foulest of cigar, beer breath within five seconds," Packes of Norwalk, Connecticut, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Packes said they came up with the idea while walking along the fairway one day and noticing that many golfers popped a tee in their mouth as they headed to the next hole or waited to tee up.

Tasty Golf Tees, which cost about 25 cents each, are made from uncoated wood, which is sanitized and flavored. They look and play like regular wooden golf tees.

"Some people just look at you funny," said Packes. "'Do you really put it in your mouth?' They give it a shot and say 'This is kinda cool.'"

11/15/2006 6:04:29 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

If you can't view this video go here

9/29/2006 9:56:27 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Once, these wayward balls plopped into ponds on courses across the state, and then a scuba diver scooped them up and gave them to David and Steve Blocher.

The father-and-son team gives the balls new life, scraping off the mud and ink to reveal shiny white spheres ready to be launched by another golfer.

In unmarked crates that only they know the names of, they toss Nikes, Callaways, Pro V1's. The beat-up ones will be sold for pennies to be hit far into fields. Unblemished ones, packed into neat sea-green egg crates, will sell for $23.99 a dozen.

In a week's time, the Blochers lay hands on 20,000 balls from 17 courses in the state. Golfers across the country buy them at half price or less at T & D Golf Stores in Tampa and Oldsmar. Some customers pull the Pro V1's right off the delivery truck.

There's even a picture!!!! Link:http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/10/Hernando/Giving_golf_balls_a_b.shtml

8/10/2006 6:39:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Parents are falling over themselves to send their children to high-class sport training to cultivate high-class manners.

Golf clubs in the capital including the SGA Golf Club, the Beijing Sports Bureau Training Division and Tianyi Golf Club are offering summer classes and weekend training courses for young children.

Golf camps became popular in Beijing last year, and the popularity has peaked this summer. The high tuition fees of these courses hasn't deterred parents.

"We received hundreds of calls about the courses before our first summer term began. The number of applicants was double last year's figure," The First newspaper quoted an executive from Tianyi Golf Club as saying.

The cost of tuition ranges from 2,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan (200 U.S. dollars to 500 dollars).

Long-term courses are also available. At 800 yuan (100 U.S. dollars) for a half and an hour training at SGA Golf Club. It costs about 10,000 yuan (1,250 U.S. dollars) for a kid to take a three-month course, according to Li Nan, principal of the club.

"Most of the children's families are well off," Li said. "Many parents work for multinationals and their children were born abroad. Many of the parents play golf themselves."

Young trainees at the SGA camp have no problems communicating with their Australian coach.

"Playing golf can help children cultivate high-class manners, " a trainee's mother said.

Just as her young child wiped his nose on the bottom of her skirt...(no, that didn't really happen)

8/2/2006 3:00:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Posted 6/18/06, 2:52 PM ET
I'm about to head out to the first tee to begin my round. >

6/20/2006 12:50:57 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

A national golf magazine made and distributed the take-it-easy on Colin Montgomerie buttons for the 2002 U.S. Open just down the road at Bethpage Black.

The buttons were a call for golf fans to put an end to the full Monty treatment — namely, the American tradition of heckling and harassing a certain Scottish golfer who bears an uncanny and unfortunate resemblance to Mrs. Doubtfire.

If you'd like a deal on one of those buttons, get in touch with Montgomerie. He has them by the thousands.

"I don't know why they made so many," Montgomerie said, smiling.

For full details click here:

6/16/2006 10:37:27 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This story has just appeared on the BBC website. I would've loved to been a fly on the wall during this conversation:

I mean what do you say to someone who has just asked you to literally shift earth? Montrose is also the fifth oldest golf course in the world, so could quite easily argue that it has been alright so far and wil take its chances, thank-you very much.

Bosses at one of Scotland's oldest golf courses have been asked to move it inland, due to costal erosion fears.

Angus councillors said part of Montrose Golf Course had to be realigned because of increased sand dune erosion.

Council officials warned the issue at Montrose beach was posing a public safety risk and that increasing tides would make the dunes more unstable.

Councillors also concluded that more research on how to tackle the erosion problem had to be undertaken.

                                                                         'left a bit'

6/9/2006 1:04:21 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Those of you cocooned in some anti World Cup bubble may have missed the furore that has surrounded the 4cm of metatarsal in the left foot a 19-year-old scouse striker, Wayne Rooney.

If so, here's a brief update. In April, the poor fella was the victim of a late challenge and broke his foot. The country proceeded to plunge in apoplectic meltdown, claiming that his nimble feet were the only way that England were ever going to win this year's World Cup. Cue overblown newspaper headlines, bizarre websites devoted to healing processes and a four million per cent increase in the number of newborn children named Wayne.

The latest twist in this saga is that young Rooney actually might make the squad after all. In fact he told England manger Sven Goran-Erikksson today that he is "300% sure he will make it." So to join in all the fun here are a few other things that we are '300% sure' about:

The ham in my sandwich today was definitely from Wiltshire

Rubiks Cubes are hard

Red Bull gives you wings

'Celebrity' anything will always be shit

Seedless grapes are the future

Hayfever sucks

We all want to be in the pub right now

6/8/2006 12:42:34 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

And to cultivate my new found hatred, I started roaming the net trying to figure out why anyone who be so pointlessly moronic as to devote their life to a task as inane as spamming and I couldn't work it out for the life of me, until....

A group of would-be thieves were tripped up going back for a second load of alcohol from the Skyline Golf Club in Beaver Creek Township, the Crawford County Sheriff's Department said.

The owner of Skyline Golf Club, Gerald Balmes, interrupted the break-in shortly after 2 a.m. Friday when he found a vehicle sitting outside of the clubhouse, Sheriff Kirk Wakefield said in a release. The vehicle sped off and Balmes attempted to follow. The driver of the suspect vehicle, identified as a 21-year-old Grayling woman, lost control at the intersection of Five Mile Road and Old 27 South and hit a billboard. The occupants then fled on foot.

Deputies discovered several cases of beer and bottles of liquor inside the car. When they returned to the golf club, they discovered numerous cases of liquor stacked for removal by the side door.

The driver plus a 22-year-old female and four males ages 15, 17, 19 and 20 were arrested and all but the 15-year-old were lodged in the Crawford County Jail. All are from the Grayling area. Names of the suspects are being withheld pending arraignment.

'Would-be' is even a fraction generous, I think.

6/6/2006 10:00:04 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

The Columbia Democrat uses his new golf cart to go from his home to the State House, as well as his downtown office and courthouses. Rutherford says he bought the electric vehicle last fall when Hurricane Katrina sent gas prices to around $3 a gallon.

Rutherford says he spent an impatient winter waiting for the weather to get warm so he could drive the cart again.

The cart has a stereo and 15-inch flat screen TV, which Rutherford promises he watches only when it's parked.

State law allows residents to drive a golf cart on secondary roads within two miles of their home or office during daylight hours, as long as they obtain a $5 permit and insurance.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

5/3/2006 6:33:11 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's a comforting thought for all those who are saving up the pennies to join their local golf course. All you have to do is find a load of lost golf balls and return them to the members, a la Deuce, and a passport to the links could be yours forever.

A MONGREL with a talent for fetching lost balls is taking the rough with the smooth after he was awarded lifetime membership of his local golf club.

Deuce has been rewarded for returning more than 3,000 balls to members of Pontnewydd Golf Club.

But despite the honour he is still the only member not allowed in the clubhouse as canine visitors are banned.

The friendly white terrier mongrel collects the balls on his daily walks with owner and golf club member Jim Phillis.

Mr Phillis, who lives on the perimeter of the course in Monmouthshire, South Wales, then returns all Deuce’s finds to the club, providing members with a ready supply of replacement balls.

4/19/2006 5:27:23 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]