Canadians At Q-School

Four Canadians are trying to get there PGA Tour cards this week, if you finish in the top 30 your guaranteed a trip to the big show. Everything unravels this week in La Quinta, Calif., and it includes among the 163-player field the following Canadians:

• Brett Bingham of Red Deer, Alta.
• Brad Fritsch of Manotick, Ont.(just around the corner from where I live)
  
• David Morland IV of Aurora, Ont.
• and Bryn Parry of Vancouver, B.C.

The four Canadians are even paired for the first two rounds. Fritsch and Bingham will tee off together on the Stadium Course, while Morland and Parry will walk the Nicklaus Tournament Course together. We'll have to see how everything unfolds after 6 gruelling rounds.

Cobras New Irons

Cobra Golf unveiled some pretty nice looking irons this Fall the Cobra S9, Cobra FP and Cobra Carbon CB irons. There all are designed for certain type of golfers with specific technologies and key performance benefits.

KING COBRA S9 IRONS

S9, which stands for Sweet Nine, is Cobra's most technologically advanced iron line to date. Featuring multi-material construction to produce maximum accuracy, distance, forgiveness and feel across the 9 Accurate Points on the face, S9 irons are designed for players who want the ultimate in game enhancing performance.


KING COBRA FP IRONS

FP is Cobra's Forgiveness and Playability iron line, an all-around performer that delivers that famous Cobra feel.


KING COBRA CARBON CB IRONS

The Tour-inspired Carbon CB irons are Cobra's best fit for the serious golfer, offering superior feel and workability.

Footjoy MyJoys

If your looking for some sweet golf shoes that no one else has, Footjoy has this great way to purchase a new pair of shoes and customize them to your liking. You can choose from 5 styles of Footjoys and then go crazy with the details. Choose base, saddle and lace colours, then place your initials on the left or the right one or even both. The combinations are endless. Here what I did.
MyJoys

Looking for a sweet putter, look no further.

There always a few nice looking putters floating around Internet Golf Forums but I just had to post this great looking Scotty Cameron posted in the For Sale part of GolfWRX
Here the lowdown on this sweet putter.
RARE Scotty Cameron Charcoal Mist Newport 1.5 PROTOTYPE

• Released in 2003 as a limited edition run (2003 pieces).

• Putter finish is very rare (Charcoal Mist). (There are a much smaller number of these putters with this finish. )

• The face HAS NOT been remilled. The studio only buffed the sole and applied the misted finish.

• This putter comes complete with the "peel out purple" custom shop grip, "sublime lime" and "peel out purple" paint fill, and a black pearl shaft.

Certificate of Authenticity can be found here.



Search for it on the forum it's still not sold. Good Luck

Ebay.ca item of the day

A set of Jim Furyk's practice irons used at the Canadian Open this year.(he won)
Here's the link.
Do you think this guy could of taken worse pics of the irons. He would get more bids and make more $$$ if his pics were more professional. My 2 cents.

Heroes

One of the best new shows of the Fall season. "Heroes", a bunch of regular people with some serious superpowers and how they deal with these powers. From radioactive guy, flying guy, mind reader guy and dual personality. Extraordinary people with extraordinary abilities. Save the Cheerleader, save the World.
If you've missed any episodes check them out online here.

Last game of the year.....probably

Played golf today the first time in the month of November since we moved from North Vancouver, where of course you can golf year round. The round was a bit chaotic as I never really found my swing. Had a birdie and 3 pars but the other 14 holes were a mix of 6s,7s, and 8s. Considering I've only played 3 times since the beginning of September, what was I expecting. At least the company was good and the weather cooperated. The course we played was Greensmere a short 10 min drive from the West End of Kanata. Next year they'll be opening another 18 holes for there facility, can't wait.

PGA Tour Q-School this week

There are 17 Canadians in the second stage of PGA Tour Q-School this week. A Canadian has survived the craziest of Q-School and earned his card each of the last two years. David Hearn in 2004 and Ian Leggatt last year. Good luck boys. Check out the leaderboard.

Purse increasing for Ladies Canadian Open

Nice to see the increase in money for next years CN Canadian Women's Open. The purse will increase to $2.25 million (all figures US) from $1.7 million for next year's Open making the event the fifth most lucrative tournament on the LPGA Tour schedule. This is the second time CN has upped the prize money since taking over as title sponsor last November. Whoever wins next year will pocket as cool $337,500. Next year's event is at the Mayfair G&CC in Edmonton. More info can be found here at RCGA site.

Green Friendly Golf Company

There's always golf gadgets out there that make you go, cool and other times make you go that's f#%^*&^cking crazy. Well check out this great belt that not only serves to keep up your belt but has a ball marker and divot tool to boot. The Black Croc is definitely styling. Check out there products here.

Pirate Bay has added a TV Section

For those that miss there favorite TV show and didn't have there PVRs set. Go here.

PGA Tour adjusts FedExCup format

The PGA Tour adjusted the format yesterday for the final 3 playoff events at the end of the year starting next year. Players will be reduced from 144 in the first event to 120 in the second and finally 70 in the final event. Quite the interesting format to see who'll be the top 30 golfers chasing the 10 million for the Tour Championship. Detailed info can be found at PGA.com

Graham Gunn advances to final stage of Champions Tour

He advances to the final stage after finishing four rounds with a total of 289, good for a tie for 11th place in sectional qualifying in Orlando, Fla. back at the beginning of November.
The final stage will be held Nov. 15-18 at Eagle Trace in Coral Springs, Fla.
Good Luck.

The silly season has started.

Oh the silly season is in full swing on the PGA Tour. On the weekend the Merrill Lynch shootout was won by Jerry Kelly and Rod Pampling(they pocketed $337,500 each. That is only the start as stay tuned for the likes of the ADT Skills Challenge, LG Skins Game, and Target World Challenge just to name a few.
Tiger's silly season tournament the Target Challenge coming up in December has a crazy looking field, I guess some players want to take to advantage of some last minute Christmas shopping in sunny California.
The golfers in Tiger's tournament include:

Paul Casey

Darren Clarke

Fred Couples

John Daly

Chris DiMarco

Luke Donald

Padraig Harrington

David Howell

Davis Love III

Colin Montgomerie

Geoff Ogilvy

Jose Maria Olazabal

Adam Scott

Henrik Stenson

David Toms

Tiger Woods

Technology only goes so far

Was speaking to my father-in-law over the weekend and he was saying a couple of his buddies that he plays golf regularly with got some new drivers. One a new Ping Rapture and the other an R5 draw bias model. His comments were interesting in that his buddy(a golfer prone to slicing) who got the draw bias driver was still slicing the ball. My comments back were maybe he should of spent the $$$ on lessons. The guy with the new shining "Rapture" maybe out drove my father-in-law a few times by maybe 10 yds. or so. nothing earth shattering, my father-in-law plays a Ping Si3. My thought, do we really need all the new latest and greatest golf equipment or do we all just need to take a step back and give the clubs we have a good wack. Me included.

Golf Angst

I've been trying to get out golfing lately as the weather has been cooperating here in Eastern Ontario but to no avail as the stars haven't aligned. I can only hope and pray.

Golfers' Prayer
May my swing be straight and the ball fly far.
May my round be blessed with no worse than par.