Monday, February 06, 2006
New friends

This turned up on one of my favourite new blogs.. for the jilted generation

Inspired by classic cartoons like Tintin and Popeye, the British illustrator JAMES JARVIS has created his own three-dimensional casts of characters as the World of Pain and In-Crowd plastic toys. He also invents imaginary worlds for his characters each of whom has their own role and personality.

When James Jarvis dreamed up a group of bikers as a new collection of the plastic In-Crowd characters he designs for the toy company Amos, he pictured them as “reasonable, sound, sane, wise, balanced, rational, sagacious, prudent, judicious and level-headed”. He even invented a club for these do-gooding bikers – the Forever Sensible Motorcycle Club.



There's loads of great stuff on there so check it out. www.yardwear.net/blog
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2/6/2006 7:03:19 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
The stairs, the Steinberg and the Superbowl.

I stayed up and watched the Superbowl last night, the one time I will ever watch American Football these days. It takes me back to lazy Sunday evenings as a child when my dad used to let me stay up and watch it on channel 4.
It was a decent game, but takes far too long to play and as such I only managed to crawl into bed on the wrong side of 3am, which had severe reprecussions when I had to go to work three hours later.
A bit of the bloodshot eye is nothing compared to the one man rampage that Jay Flemma went on. I've put my personal highlight on here but you have to read the whole thing to put in perspective how bad he felt.

A rope was tied to the door and dangled off into space near the bottom of the first floor.
“You sawed the bottom stairs off with a chain saw and threw them on the bonfire.” I think it was the throbbing in my head that made me momentarily forget “bonfire” for the moment.
“Chain saw?!? What chain saw?”
“The one you had Chuck Cordova bring over. The one that’s now sticking out of the keyboard of the piano.”

Jay mate, I'm definitely interested in meeting for a game but let me assure you now that you'll probably win because I'm scared of what'll happen if you don't.
Yours nervously, Shaun
http://www.jayflemma.blogspot.com/

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  Sunday, February 05, 2006
Tapas and golf

I went out and hit some balls today, at flags, with a pencil and card in my pocket. The 2006 revolution has begun!!

January on these shores can be a bitter experience, so I confined my golfing to the driving range and a solid month of tweaking and blister inducing discipline. The one flaw about the range, however, is that the fairways are pretty wide, in fact there is no fairway, there's no rough either and there's no nervous chipping over bunkers and the like.

It's all very well beating balls and working on your game (I even had a lesson - I have 'floppy hands at takeaway') but you can't really assess how you're playing. Your head might be right, technique may be spot on, but the one hole the 'rebuild speculum' can't see up is the one 450 yards away round the dogleg.

Two things inspired me to get out on course. Tiger Woods and tapas. 

I watched Tiger at Dubai 'playing badly' and still winning in a play off. Say what you like about the fella, and I'm not exactly running the fan club, but he knows how to win. Sat watching him (8am GMT) I thought 'Balls to it' I can do that and headed up to the course.

This is where the tapas comes in. Not exactly orthodox but hey, I was on my own. The night before I went out to a Spanish restaurant trying to educate my little sister's palate and had a huge selection of tapas. It was wonderful and I heartily recommend it to all, but something was said about how the meal was 'a series of little good things but the whole dinner was spectacular' (she's very eloquent for 15). Herein was my new golfing analogy. Golf, when you break it down is one hole of good things replicated 18 times. You could go further and say, one good swing replicated x times etc. The important thing is that you just try one little good thing at a time and keep trying little good things and then you walk off at the end thinking 'that was something spectacular'. I beat my handicap (just) with a 79.

So my advice for 2006? Think Tigers and tapas.

Web bloke Shaun


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  Friday, February 03, 2006
What are the odds?

Worth a quid at the bookies each time you go out...

Two golfing brothers aced the same hole during a round at Singapore's Sembawang Country Club, defying odds of 17 million to one.
Chiang Hock Woo, 48, and Chiang Hock Tew, 46, aced within minutes of each other at the 147-yard, par-3 second hole.
The calculated the odds of two players in a foursome acing the same hole has been estimated a 17 million-to-one chance.
Sembawang Country Club awarded the Chiang brothers a certificate and a trophy, as well as covering S$500 ($306) each of a drinks bill from an insurance payout for holes in one. Some 124 golfers got a couple of free drinks each, Clayton said.

Nice touch that from the club. I'm definitely going to start betting on myself from now on.

To read the full story click on the link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news
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2/3/2006 1:39:33 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
Straight Talking

The media keeping Golf's governing bodies firmly in check....

BLUNDERING European golf chiefs have been bailed out by their Asian colleagues after a cock-up over tournament dates. The Euro Tour needed help after admitting they made a mistake in the late announcement of their scheduling. Their timing of the Indonesian Open from March 2-5 clashed with a new event, the Amby Valley Masters, in India. But after delicate negotiations, the Asian Tour - who had threatened to ban co-sanctioning status - have agreed to postpone their showpiece until May for "the good of Asian golf".

The guys at the Daily Record certainly don't sugar the pill. Call a spade a spade....
To read full article click on the link: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/
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2/3/2006 1:30:55 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
Cracking new Belle

GolfPunk Towers are recruiting quicker than Google at the moment and we'd like to welcome our latest member of the advertising team, Miss Arabella Daglish. (cue smatter of applause)
Young Bella, will be in charge of meeting all the lovely advertising agencies and filling the GP coffers with loads of moolah. But, as per every recruit here, there's more to her than a winning smile and cool acumen. She's a dab hand at back cracking, a skill she learnt after years of frustration in osteopath lounges. Once she gets past the gaggle of back complaints in the office she will be available for evening appointments.

GP - There ain't anything we can't do.


Auditioning for 'Murder She Wrote'

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  Thursday, February 02, 2006
Planet Golf

We've missed the scoop on this but then we're not really feeling bad about it as so did millions of scientists over the centuries.
It seems that they've found a new planet hiding just behind somewhere near thee Milky Way. It's more like Earth than any planet in the universe and five times the size, so easy to miss. People have already started blogging on the possibilities. The GolfChick speculates...

Do you know how many golf courses we could fit on that? No wonder they call it OGLE.

While Jay Flemma has started coming up with potential names that the Americans can call it when they inevitably try to claim that they in fact built it

Some of you may remember the British running afoul of this rule last time some blighted rock was thought to be a tenth planet when they tried to have it named "Rupert." Hmmm, let's see what other names were passed on also by the impromptu U.S. Planet Naming Committee:
1. Seinfeld. What? The show was about nothing. There's nothing on the planet. It fits.
2. He-Man. Well, if we're gonna nominate names based on post-apocalyptic fantasy worlds, Xena's just gonna have to wait her turn cause He-Man's got it all over that chick.
3. Zorak. C'mon, work with me people, Zorak had not one but two successful TV stints and he even plays mad keyboards.

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Workie Watch

Nice to see that the under 7s are getting off their lazy backsides and contributing to the British economy. Inspired by the good old days when kids used to sweep chimneys and go down mines rather than sit there twitching in front of the Playstation, we recruited Finlay William Bowen George for a spot of work experience. Truth is, we took advantage of an opportunity while he was being kept away from infants school, because staff were concerned that he might be suffering from impetigo (it’s a cold sore for crying out loud!) Staff members were heard commenting that his Lego hair is frighteningly reminiscent of the style sported by Owen Blackhurst, currently on a 10 day trip to Arizona (boy that guy works hard). His tea-making skills were, frankly, disappointing and he kept himself occupied playing online games and constantly asking how long he’d been here (“’cos it feels like 20 hours,”). Just like any other workie, then.
Crap tea, but is he bothered

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  Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Arse!

Proving that we aren't the only football mad bozos in golf land, Ian Poulter has landed himself in a spot of bother for wearing an Arsenal shirt during the third round of the Abu Dhabi Championship.
The Gooner-mad Londoner faces a possible fine by the European Tour's players committee after complaints from officials.
Poulter told the BBC:
"I just wanted to spice it up a bit and would be very disappointed if I was fined,
"I suppose if everyone turned up in the football shirt of the team they support, all hell would break loose.
"But it was just a bit of fun and I didn't mean to upset anybody."
The main complaint seems to be centred on the size of the sponsors logo on the Arsenal shirt, which is O2 if anyone needs to know. It would be a shame if advertising money was the reason for reigning in some individuality and character on the Tour and hopefully this incident will pass without reprimand.


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  Monday, January 30, 2006
FA Cup 5th round draw

Not that football takes an overriding influence at GolfPunk but it is the FA Cup, the greatest footballing event in the entire world. So ladies and gents, without further ado, here's the fifth round draw.

Preston/Crystal Palace v Coventry/Middlesbrough
Newcastle v Southampton
Aston Villa v Manchester City
Everton/Chelsea v Colchester
Charlton v Brentford
Liverpool v Manchester United
Bolton v West Ham
Stoke v Reading/Birmingham

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  Saturday, January 28, 2006
Adams golf. Bryan Adams that is.

One of the'biggest stars of his stature'.Yeah, crap canadian pop star. Rock on Bryan....

Hitmaker Bryan Adams is set to become the first Western pop star to perform in Pakistan since the start of the war on terror, according to organizers. The star's Vancouver-based publicist Marlene Palmer says he may be one of the biggest stars "of his stature" to ever play in Pakistan. Adams will perform in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday at the Karachi Golf Club. He is trying to raise awareness and funds for Zindagi Trust

For full article click on the link: http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story
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1/28/2006 2:10:38 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
Buick Invitational

The Buick Invitational is proving to be quite an interesting show with many big name players coming unstuck over the Torrey Pines layout.
Here are some interesting comments from World number one, Tiger Woods....

"On this course, the way it's playing, it's not easy," Woods said of the South Course, "It's hard to take it deep on the South Course."

Take it deep? Is this some new technical term for ripping the skin off the ball and sending it miles from the tee? Phil Mickelson was also finding the South Course tough going. He said:

"I love coming out here. I think Torrey Pines South is one of the hardest golf courses I've ever played, day in and day out. It's the longest I've ever played. -- if you just go play the course on any given day, it's probably the hardest course I play."

I think there's a challenge there. If anyone has played Torrey Pines South Course let us know what you shot and we'll get a blog leaderboard going. See if anyone can take on Big Phil.

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1/28/2006 2:07:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
LIVE FROM ORLANDO

We've had a fresh batch of photos from the PGA Show in Orlando and have posted them up for you to see. Equipment editor Dan Owen told me he had to bit a bit sneaky getting a few of these shots, so if you see a shifty looking English bloke at show leave him alone. He's working for us.
Here are some of the titbits he's found...








What the Furyk is going on here?<


'Well Jim, it's some sort of show'









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  Friday, January 27, 2006
WORLD EXCLUSIVE:FOWLER SIGNS FOR REDS

We've just heard from a source up north that ROBBIE FOWLER aka 'God' has just resigned for Liverpool. We will confirm this breaking news story as it happens



All together now: Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart......


This blog is completely impartial and does not care that Robbie stuffed one past Manchester United in the Manchester derby just three weeks ago.
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1/27/2006 5:24:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
European Championships 2008

We haven't even got to the World Cup yet and Fifa is already planning the 2008 European Championships. Talk about walking before you can run.
Not to lose face, the FA have also announced that they will schedule a meeting with the scriptwriters shortly after the World Cup final to decide on future plot lines and dramas that will play out from their headquarters.

Here's the British groups for the qualifying stages:

England, Croatia, Russia, Israel, Estonia, Macedonia and Andorra.

Scotland, France, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania, Georgia and the Faroe Islands.

Wales, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Cyprus and San Marino.

Northern Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Latvia, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

To view the whole draw click on the link: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4650140.stm
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1/27/2006 12:10:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #  Comments [0] 
VOTE MAGGOT TO WIN BIG BROTHER

It's the last day of Celebrity Big Brother and you only have nine hours left to get your votes in and make sure that Maggot wins.
The bookies are backing Chantelle to win. Typically British that we would vote for a non-celebrity just to prove a point then go and read about it in Heat, Sure, OK....etc.
You can get one over on the bookies by backing Maggot. He's currently 12/1, so if all the golf punks of the world get behind him we could all make a killing.

GET VOTING NOW


Text MAGGOT to 84444 (50p plus your STD network rate) or Call 09011 32 33 06

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