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Happy New Year From Game Under Repair
I’m on a brief posting hiatus during the holidays. Golfing frivolity will return next week, with more pet peeves and other scatter-brained meaningless posts about this maddening sport! Happy New Year! ...
Giving Grace To Tiger Woods
This is the last post I’ll make about the Tiger Woods situation. Image: victor.lund/Flickr I stumbled upon this post today while visiting Pete Wilson’s (my pastor) blog, who linked to it. A guy named Mike Foster from People of the Second ...
Cold Weather Golf
This does not look fun to me. (Image: BPPhotography/Flickr) I’m not a fan of cold weather golf. Does anyone really enjoy it? I was reminded of this fact on Saturday. The plan was to play nine holes with my father-in-law and two family friends o...
Tiger’s Nightmare Continues
Image: Keith Allison/Flickr So Tiger’s gone. He’s taking an indefinite leave from the game to hopefully repair his family and a smidgen of his public image. As much as I’ve been disgusted with the media coverage of Tiger’s d...
Thank You, John Daly
This ghastly photo of a shirtless John Daly has Game Under Repair's traffic through the roof. So I logged on to my blog on Tuesday and noticed a tremendous spike in blog visits. Tuesday’s traffic was more than six times the normal amount, much...
News From 2009 Q School
In case you care about golf, not Tiger Woods gossip, here’s a bit of golf news for you. The PGA Tour’s 2009 version of Q School just wrapped up. Grizzled Tour vet Jeff Maggert told Q School to make him a sandwich. (Image: fortsonre/Flickr...
Golf Pet Peeve #10: Pre-Shot Routine Guy
The frustrations of playing with Pre-Shot Routine Guy can be summarized in one sentence: Will you just hit the freaking shot? It’s not that Pre-Shot Routine Guy has a pre-shot routine. Most decent golfers have one. The problem with Pre-Shot Rout...
Game Under Repair’s Annual LPGA Tour Tidbit
Welcome to Game Under Repair’s yearly nugget of news about the LPGA Tour. Life isn’t so good on the LPGA. With the economy continuing to suck, corporations are choosing their sponsorships more prudently. Apparently, professional women’s golf is...
My Must-See Golf Destinations
I’m going to be honest: I’m not a well-traveled golfer. I’ve played at a lot of nice courses over the years, thanks to high school, college, and summer tournaments. But outside of that, about 95% of the golf courses I’ve played are in my form...
Golf Pet Peeve #9: Cell Phone Guy
Sometimes, golf etiquette seems so obvious that I wonder how people miss it in the first place. Such is the case with cell phones on the golf course. When Cell Phone Guy isn't looking, throw his phone in the lake. (Image: Explosion 5000/Flickr) I...
More Props to Armchair Golfer
Armchair Golf is currently featuring another edition of my Golf Pet Peeves series. Go over to Armchair Golf and refresh your memory of The Golf Channel Guy. Golf Pet Peeve #9 to come here on the blog later this week. ...
2009 Q School Underway
The first stage of PGA Tour Q School wrapped up last week. Former world number one David Duval will head back to the final stage of Q School next month. (Image: requiemjp/Flickr) Ty Tryon was one of the familiar names who advanced on to second stage,...
Remembering Payne Stewart
Sunday was the 10th anniversary of Payne Stewart’s tragic death. I still remember where I was when I heard about Stewart being on the missing flight. At that time, I was a courier for a law firm in Atlanta, so I traveled all over the ATL delivering...
Golf Pet Peeve #8: The Intrusive Golf Course Maintenance Worker
First off, I love golf course maintenance workers. Much like cart guys, these fellows are the unsung heroes of the course. They are up at 5 a.m.—cutting grass, raking bunkers, trimming bushes, and repairing the hardly noticeable moose knuckle-sized...
Did The Tour Play This Past Weekend?
Seriously, who won? Okay, I’ll google it and find out. This guy is Martin Laird. (Image: rjdudley/Flickr) Ah, yes, I see that Martin Laird won Justin Timberlake’s tournament, picking up his first victory and earning a two-year exemption to the To...
Golf Pet Peeves Go Global
Armchair Golf is picking up my golf pet peeves series. Pretty cool. Of course, all of the new ones will appear here first. But Armchair Golf will be publishing some of the older ones I have already published here. The Shot-By-Shot Recap Golfer was pu...
Golf in 2016 Olympics?
Back to golf. On Friday, the International Olympic Committee will announce whether or not golf will become an Olympic sport in the 2016 Games in Brazil. Brazilians expected to party for weeks if golf is included in the 2016 games. (Image: Pan America...
Of Broccoli and Half Marathons
Warning: This post has nothing to do with golf! Broccoli sucks. At least that’s what I used to think. You see, it’s green, it kind of looks weird with those strangely shaped florets at the top, and it’s supposed to be good for you. ...
And now…for the PGA Tour’s Super Bowl
Will you be watching? Despite immense rain and flooding in Atlanta during the last week, the Tour Championship at East Lake is expected to carry on. Though the PGA Tour has done a lot to make this event more dramatic–even tweaking the Fed Ex...
Tiger Wins By Eight. Earth Back On Its Axis.
Woods picked up his sixth win on Tour this past weekend, reclaiming the top spot in the Fed Ex Playoffs with one tournament left to play, next weekend’s Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. So much for my Steve Stricker hype last week, h...
Steve Stricker: The Quiet Assassin
So Steve Stricker is now number one in the Fed Ex Standings. Two tournaments left, and old Stricker is ahead of you-know-who. In sum, you have one of the most popular athletes in all of sports, one of the most widely-recognized names in the civilized...
Tiger Woods on Ernie Els
Tiger Woods is rarely controversial. He’s kind of like the Derek Jeter or Peyton Manning of their respective sports. Clean cut. Nice guy. Sure, he has a temper on the course sometimes, but we write that off to competitiveness. Today, Woods took...
Golf Pet Peeve #6: The Distance Exaggerator
The Distance Exaggerator is a pretty much a self explanatory fellow. But I’ll give you an example. You’re on a sharp dog leg left par four that measures about 350 yards. The fairway turns almost 90 degrees at the 100 yard marker. So you have a de...
The PGA Tour Introduces iPhone App
This is my final iPhone app post for a while, but this one’s worth it. The PGA Tour released an iPhone app just in time for the Fed Ex playoffs. The app looks, well, really cool–with live scoring, LIVE VIDEO, course profiles, video high...
Ryan Moore: The Sponsor-Free Drummer
Watching the final round of yesterday’s Wyndham Championship, I was struck by two things about eventual winner Ryan Moore: 1) Moore has no sponsors–and that’s his choice. If you have a card on the Tour, you have a sponsor of some so...
My Inglorious Return to Competitive Golf
My golf game reeks worse than a septic tank, a five-month-old stagnant port-a-john, a flaming pile of poo. My golf game sucks! On the same day in which Y.E. Yang made history, chasing down The Great One to win his first major while becoming the first...
2009 PGA Championship Preview
Tiger Woods. ...
Golf Pet Peeve #5: The Golf Channel Guy
How do I explain the Golf Channel Guy? Perhaps there’s a better name for this character—such as “wanna-be”—but I’ll do my best to tell you about this peculiar fellow. The Golf Channel Guy watches a lot of The Golf Channel. Consequently, h...
Solitude on the Practice Green
I’ve always loved the practice green. To me, there’s just something peaceful about it, something you don’t find on the driving range—crammed in between two dozen guys wacking oversized drivers. The practice green is quiet. Most decent courses...
Can I be a Golfer and a Runner?
The last three months have been an unusual balancing act for me. I’m a one-hobby kind of guy. So if I’m into golf, then I’m into golf. I have a full-time job. I’m married. I don’t have much time for anything else. But, in May, I picked up a...
