Excited to see Kansas City highlighted in this Citi commercial that just aired during The Open on NBC:
Just one of the many great things happening in this little big city!
Excited to see Kansas City highlighted in this Citi commercial that just aired during The Open on NBC:
Just one of the many great things happening in this little big city!
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Tagged advertising, Business, Citi, golf, Kansas City, Sports, Television, The Open
I love Jordan Spieth. If you follow golf, you probably do, too.
If you don’t know who Jordan is, he’s the best thing to happen to golf since Tiger Woods first entered the scene. (And keep your judgments to yourself — he who casts the first stone and all that…)
Jordan became a professional golfer after only one year of college, but no one has ever disparaged his decision to leave school early or lack of education or poor example to our youth.
I think Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari sees the irony…don’t you?
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Tagged basketball, college, Facebook, golf, golfer, Humor, Internet, irony, John Calipari, Jordan Speith, one and done, Sports, teed off, Tiger Woods
The New York City Marathon is being run today…
…and broadcast for five hours on ABC7.
And people make fun of me for watching golf on television.
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Tagged boring, exercise, golf, life, marathon, nap, New York City, running, Sports, Television
Now that Wimbledon has ended, I am suffering from my annual melancholy.
What did I watch before it was on ESPN for two solid weeks?
What did I talk about?
What did I obsess about on social media?
Sigh.
Luckily, this year The Open begins this Thursday at St. Andrews in Scotland.
It’s on ESPN, too. Coverage starts at 4:00am daily.
All the experts are picking 21-year old American Jordan Speith to win his third major of the year.
Yeah… I can totally obsess about that.
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Tagged celebrities, entertainment, ESPN, golf, Humor, Internet, Jordan Speith, major championship, melancholy, obsession, Scotland, social media, sporting life, Sports, St. Andrews, Television, tennis, The Open, Wimbledon
For a sport with such small balls, golf is an unusually large target.
People who don’t watch it or understand the nuances of the game are quick to dismiss it as boring.
My mother never understood why I watched golf on TV as a young child. But if she sat with me for even 30 minutes, she would soon be ‘oohing’ and ‘ahhing’ over some of the precision shots the pros could pull off.
And in television golf tournaments, you see a lot of golf. The cameras jump from tee to fairway to green, so you get to see sometimes 50+ different golfers swing the club or putt every 30 seconds or less.
So, contrary to what you might think, there is a lot of action in golf.
In contrast, televised baseball and football games — America’s sports — mostly involve standing around. A Wall Street Journal study calculated that a baseball fan will see 17 minutes and 58 seconds of action over the course of a three-hour game. And the football audience? A paltry 11 minutes per game.
So for pure entertainment value, swing for swing, I’d put the US Open Golf Championship up against a baseball game any day. I’ve watched both, and I feel pretty good about my chances.
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I’m so glad Tiger’s back.
#TheMasters
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Tagged advertising, golf, history, Master's, Rory McIlroy, Sports, Television, Tiger Woods, video, Youtube
Add this to the list of things that your parents never tell you…
There is a professional tour for miniature golf.
MIND BLOWN!
The 2014 US Open Miniature Golf Tournament starts today in nearby Oceanport, New Jersey at the Bluegrass Miniature Golf Course.
And if we wanted to, you and I could play!
We just have to declare ourselves professionals and join the US ProMiniGolf Association. (The fee is $25.) Then there’s the US Open tourney fee of $100. It’s a par 40 course without the typical windmills and clowns, and the winner takes home $3,500.
(So, don’t expect to see Tiger or Rory in the lineup.)
And get this — men and women play together. In fact, the favorite is a 19-year girl from the Czech Republic who has won all the miniature golf majors this year.
This tour sounds way more fun than the PGA — am I right???
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Tagged Bluegrass Miniature Golf Course, clowns, Czech Republic, entertainment, entry fee, Fore, golf, Humor, life, mini golf, miniature golf, Oceanport New Jersey, par 40 course, PGA Tour, professional tour, Sports, US Open Miniature Golf Tournament, US ProMiniGolf Association, windmills
Man — it’s really foggy at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio…
Guys, just watch March Madness like the rest of the country!
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Tagged basketball, college, design, eye on the prize, golf, golf ball, Humor, life, March Madness, photography, San Antonio, Valero Texas Open
Leftovers
I am fascinated by The Golf Channel’s coverage of The Open at Royal Liverpool.
That’s three days, 14 hours per day, of nothing but press conferences, talking heads and video of a practice round or two.
But no golf.
When the tournament begins on Thursday — at 4am ET, mind you — ESPN has the honors of showing actual rounds of golf.
Sucks to be the baby of the (cable) family, am I right?
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