If your looking for a fun golf read that gives you some insight to the innerworld of the PGA Tour, I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Caddie Confidential by Greg “Pidler” Martin.  Martin has been Dan Forsman’s caddie for 23 years and he’s put together a great collection of stories and intriguing facts on some of the most popular PGA tour pros, directly from their caddies.
Want to know who’s the best tipper on tour?  Or which players are in need of some anger management?  Caddie Confidential has …

Ok, first let me say that I’m not giving away a thousand bucks…Sorry if I got your hopes up.
But hypothetically speaking, if you had a grand, just burning a hole in your pocket, and you had to spend it on something golf related, what would you buy?  A new driver?  New irons?  Lessons with a top golf coach?  Or how about a trip to Pebble Beach or another golf destination?   There’s hundreds if not thousands of possibilities for this one.
So how would you spend $1000 bucks if someone had a …

Aaron Stewart, son of the late Payne Stewart, is playing at the Pinehurst No. 2 course in this weeks North South Amateur event. It’s only the second time the 20 year old has played the course where his father won the first U.S. Open played at that venue.
“A lot of people talk about, ‘It’s been 10 years,’ (and) if this is going to be particularly hard because it’s been 10 years,” Aaron Stewart said. “Anybody that’s lost someone who has been such a big part of their lives, …

Even though Tiger didn’t win this year’s U.S. Open, it’s still fun to see what he was playing.  (We should really find out what was in Lucas Glover’s bag).  While Tiger’s setup doesn’t change very often, the glaring change is the 10° Driver
Here’s what TW used at Bethpage 2009
Driver: Nike SQ Dymo (10°) with a Mitsubishi Diamana White Board 83x shaft
Fairway woods: Nike SasQuatch Sumo (15°, 19°) with Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board 103g shafts
Irons: Nike Forged Blades (3-PW) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts
Wedges: Nike Victory Red (56°), SV …

Yesterday in early coverage of the U.S. Open (prior to the monsoon conditions) I happened to notice that the lovely bird sounds that you ordinarily hear in the background of any normal golf tournament seemed extremely amplified. This got me thinking about how one of the major T.V. networks was busted a few years ago during the Masters for “importing” bird sounds into the broadcast. If you didn’t hear that story, apparently the bird noises they were using were from birds not native to the Augusta, Georgia region.

Not many thoughts for the mess that was Day 1 at Bethpage.  Tiger showed some moments of averageness, and with the rain delay 3 hours after the first tee time, there’s still a lot of players that haven’t even left the first tee…Mickelson being one of those.   Needless to say, the course is soggy.  Every shot is carry and the greens are considerably slower due to the rain.
Weather is supposed to be better Friday and part of Saturday, however the outlook for Sunday is poor at best.  Mike Davis of …

There’s a new player in the Golf GPS game, the Callaway uPro. To this day, I will still tell people that the best piece of golf equipment I’ve ever purchased was my Skycaddie SG4. I swear it saves me at least 2-3 strokes per round, and even more if it’s a course I’m not very familiar with. But this new Callaway GPS has me thinking that I’m not quite on the cutting edge anymore with my Skycaddie.

I just want to take a moment, number one, to thank you for your loyalty. I really appreciate all of the comments and great feedback I receive. It makes for good motivation when you have people enjoy all of your efforts. Secondly, I want to reassure all of you that my number one priority at TGB will always be the reader experience. There are other blogs that have a tendency to just slap up a video of what ever they want to feed you for the day, and not give you much opinion or comment.

The Florida Gators recently decided to launch their old Women’s golf coach, who led the team to an uninspiring 16th place in the NCAA East regional tournament last year. And they hired ex Big Breaker Jan Dowling, who was on BB III back in the day. You remember that one right, with Pam and Danielle at each other’s throat for half the series. Man was that great.