Instead of this text you should’ve read here the report of my first tournament this year – the ICE Open at Gut Kaden in Hamburg. I really have been looking forward to playing today, but instead I’m at home in Berlin sick. F#+*!

It’s not always easy to manage family life and golf and once you’ve organised yourself a weekend off you don’t want to have some stupid noro-virus come around and pin you to the bed (or the bathroom). Dayum!

… and the PGA and Nike and who know else is desperate to have him back. The PGA Tour had a Tiger Woods special on his return:

Link: www.youtube.com

And now from my inbox I get the news that Nike has set up an own microsite for the occasion and even did produce an own commercial (which I quite liked):

Has the golf world really been so much less during Tigers absence? What do you think?

Wednesday, 25. February 2009

22:10 Eurosport, US PGA Tour, Northern Trust Open
23:10 Eurosport, European Tour, Johnnie Walker Classic
23:40 Eurosport, Golf Club

After day one at the Malaysian Open shooting star Anthony Kim was nowhere in sight of the top of the leaderboard. Actually he was found almost at the very bottom of the field after posting a disastrous uncharming 78.

I was tempted to write a short article about that yesterday, but then decided to wait for day 2 of the tourney. And what a comeback AK made, he shot the best round of the tournament, with a 65 he managed to get just inside the cut line (together with Marcel Siem, congratulations):

Just how much more difference can there be between two rounds of golf:

Don’t we just love the game for that?

Link: www.youtube.com

Nice summary, great shots!

Welcome to this world, little boy. And congrats to the parents (who have a sligthly odd way of naming their children).

Wednesday, 11. February 2009
21:10 Eurosport, US PGA Tour, Buick Invitational
22:10 Eurosport, Golf Club

… oder hat nur einen bescheuerten Redaktions-Praktikanten, der nicht verstanden hat, daß Golfturniere über 4 Runden gespielt wird und der Sieger im Regelfall nicht schon nach dem Samstag fest steht.

Lieber bescheuerter Redaktions-Praktikant, ein Blick auf die PGA Tour Website wirkt manchmal Wunder!

Charley Hoffmann didn’t have the start he wanted on his third round at Torry Pines. His first tee shot got stuck in a tree and he had to take a penalty stroke and fire shot #3 off the tee. I wonder if Bernhard Langer had played it differently.