The Golf Channel’s Big Break series is now on Big Break V and I can say I’ve never watched a single episode of any of the five series. Is it anything special? Am I missing out on some good golf TV?
I’ve caught a glimpse here are there for a few minutes as I was flipping through channels, but never stayed tuned in. I love playing golf and I love watching pro tournaments on TV. There’s just something about watching wanna-be pros fighting for a spot on one of the tours that turns me off. It would have to be really good TV to get me interested.
So, if you’re a BB fan convince me…
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April 25, 2006 - 9:57 am
GolfDigest has a great photo of David Toms and his son taken during the par 3 tournament at the Masters. Golf is a rare game where age doesn’t matter much. It’s all about the love of the game.
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April 5, 2006 - 3:08 pm
I always enjoy watching the Masters. It’s unlike any other golf tournament and I think a lot of it has to do with the green jackets of Augusta National Golf Club. The TV coverage provided is better than any other sports event the world has to offer. Sometimes they don’t have any commercials at all, but they’ll usually stick to a maximum of 2 minutes of commercial time for every hour of coverage. You can’t beat it.
Is the Masters Tournament over-hyped? Probably. Do I care? No. The pros don’t seem to care either. They all look forward to the Masters because of it’s history and the special honor of wearing a green jacket if they end up with the best score on Sunday afternoon.
What’s your favorite golf tournament to watch and why?
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March 17, 2006 - 9:53 am
With this weekends win at the Doral Ford Championship Tiger Woods now has 48 career PGA Tour victories in what is his 10th year on the tour. Over this time he’s entered a total of 189 tournaments which equates to a win percentage of 25.39%. That’s quite an amazing stat if you ask me. It’s unthinkable to imagine someone beating the best golfers in the world on such a consistent basis in today’s age of golf technology. Tiger is truly a freak of nature and one hell of a golfer.
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March 6, 2006 - 12:50 pm
I’ve taken way too much time off from posting here at Primary Rough. I seemed to have started the blog and only kept at it for a couple of weeks. I never meant to post daily, but I sure meant to post more than once ever couple of months!
Speaking of time off, it looks like taking some time away from the golf course can really help a player’s game. Tiger Woods went 24 days without swinging a club and then won his first tournament of the year last week at the Buick Invitational. Retief Goosen went 5 weeks without touching a golf club and is tied for the lead in Dubai right now.
As a weekend hacker during the Michigan summers I’ve found that I sometimes play my best game after taking a week off from golf. Golf is such a mental game that I think it really helps to get away now and then to clear our heads. Twenty-four days or 5 weeks are probably too long for us normal folk, but for professionals who play every day it’s probably right on par. I know it takes me a couple of weeks after the winter to find my swing again.
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February 3, 2006 - 10:44 am
After two rounds of the Tour Championship, I thought Retief Goosen would take over. Was I ever wrong! Bart Bryant dominated the toughest field in golf by winning the Tour Championship by 6 strokes.
If you asked me 5 days ago who Bryant was I would not have known. He has never made golf headlines that I can recall, but he led the entire tournament and built up a big lead on Sunday afternoon. Goosen started Sunday only 3 strokes back, but quickly fell off the radar. Tiger Woods was 4 strokes back, but couldn’t string anything together. Check out Bryant’s scorecard to see just how dominating of a win it was. He ranked 1st in birdies, eagles, driving accuracy, and greens in regulation. He was also 3rd in putts/GIR, 7th in putts/round, and tied for 13th in sand saves.
The Tour Championship is a field of the top 30 golfers on the PGA Tour money list and I’m really surprised Bryant was even in the list. Who is this guy? Check out his player profile for a few unknown details.
Bart Bryant is one of the reasons I love the game of golf. On any given day, a virtual no-name can dominate the best players in the world.
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November 7, 2005 - 1:33 pm
Halfway through the Tour Championship, Retief Goosen is tied for the lead at -10 with Bart Bryant. Retief opened the tournament with a solid 64 and backed it up with a 66 yesterday. He looks to be playing well and is due for a win. Tiger Woods is in the mix only 3 strokes behind before play started today, but I don’t think this is his week. He’ll make the top 10, but come Sunday afternoon he won’t be hoisting another trophy. Why? Because he has a 5 wood in his bag instead of his trusty 2 iron!
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November 5, 2005 - 11:36 am
This morning PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem announced the schedule changes which will take place for the 2007 PGA Tour season.
- The establishment of the FedEx Cup, a prestigious and lucrative season-long points bonus program for players and the centerpiece to the entire PGA TOUR season.
- A conclusive PGA TOUR Championship Series of four tournaments that focuses on the final push for the FedEx Cup title. The Championship Series will culminate with THE TOUR Championship Presented by Coca-Cola, which will move from early November to a mid-September slot in the schedule.
- The creation of the PGA TOUR “Quest for the Card” Fall Series, which follows THE TOUR Championship Presented by Coca-Cola and determines the remainder of the 125 players who will become eligible for the next year’s FedEx Cup.
Read the full story at PGATour.com.
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November 2, 2005 - 1:21 pm
Posting has been well overdue here at Primary Rough for the past week and a half. Here’s what I missed…
- Paula Creamer won a second Japan Tour title, giving her a total of 4 tournament wins on the year. Pretty impressive for a girl fresh out of high school.
- Ryan Moore earned his PGA Tour card for 2006. The last player to skip Q-school, going right from college to the pros was Tiger Woods.
- Michelle Wie will once again play in the Sony Open, which is the first event of the 2006 PGA Tour schedule.
- Jean Van de Velde wants to play in the women’s British Open next year. Is he for real? He couldn’t even hold on to a 3 stroke lead with one hold to play against the men. I guess he wasn’t embarrassed enough.
- Phil Mickelson will not be playing in the Tour Championship.
- Tom Watson came from 6 back to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
- With his win at the Chrysler Championship, Carl Pettersson became the ninth player in his 20s to win on the PGA Tour this year.
- Ernie Els announced that he’ll be back in the “swing” of things for the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa which starts on December 1st.
- 17-year-old Angela Park has decided to bypass college and head straight for the LPGA Tour.
- Casey Martin most likely has called it quits.
- Colin Montgomerie claimed his record eighth money title on the European tour.
- PGA Tour charity donations to hit $1 billion. That’s a lot of money! No other sport can come close to that number.
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November 1, 2005 - 10:17 pm
The top two golfers in the world, Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, failed to make the cut this weekend in the Funai Classic at Disney. During his ten seasons on the PGA Tour Tiger has only missed a total of three cuts, but two of those have been this year. Since Singh also missed the cut it means Tiger locked up the money title, but he didn’t seem to care.
If money titles meant anything, I’d play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it’s been a good year.
Tiger Woods
Even though Woods has missed two cuts this year it’s been a season about him finding his golf swing again. He’s had 6 victories with two of them being major championships and won nearly $10 million. I’d say it’s been a pretty successful year for Tiger.
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October 22, 2005 - 10:22 am