My backyard is prepared for this years Open Championship!

Wednesday, 13.07.2010
21:15 Eurosport, US PGA Tour 2010 – John Deere Classic in Silvis, IL (USA)
22:15 Eurosport, Golf Club

Businesswise I have a lot of traveling to do these days. I don’t have to tell you that my golf game suffers tremendously due to this. But that’s not the point here.

Usually on a flight I reserve an aisle seat because I prefer to have at least one side where I am not crammed in between another person or the plane hull. This week, I chose different and had a window seat to my flight from Berlin to Stuttgart and back. And I left all the papers I took with me to read and review in my bag and just looked out the window during the whole flight. We had a perfectly sunny day, little clouds and it was a feast for the eyes to watch Germany from above.

The most fun was to spot golf courses from above. Or layouting a golf course in my mind once I saw a nice piece of land down there. Very entertaining and relaxing.

On the return flight I had a chance to take a picture of the Golf Resort Berlin Pankow as we approached Berlin Tegel airport from the east. This is where I usually go for practice, as the course is a mere 10 minutes from my house.

19:05 Eurosport, US PGA Tour 2010 – AT&T National in Newton Square, PA (USA)
20:05 Eurosport, European Tour 2010 – Open de France in Paris
20:35 Eurosport, Ladies European Tour – Tenerife Open in Santa Cruz (ESP)
20:45 Eurosport, Golf Club

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Just look close and repeat!

Ich habe gerade die Startliste für mein Turnier am kommenden Samstag bekommen. Sage und schreibe einundertacht (in Zahlen: 108) Personen werden sich auf der St. Pauli Kiez Tour im GC Prenden bei Berlin über den Platz schieben. Neun Tees werden doppelt besetzt, um überhaupt alle auf den Platz zu bekommen. Und das beste kommt noch: es werden bis zu 38° C erwartet. Und wer Prenden kennt, weiss, daß der Platz so ungefähr 2,5 qm Schatten hat. Bitte definieren Sie WTF?!? neu.

Daß die Golfberichterstattung in den “klassischen” Medien in Deutschland meistens einem Armutszeugnis gleich kommt, muss ich keinem erzählen. Trotzdem könnte ich mich jedesmal aufregen, wenn ich derlei stumpfes Copy-und-Paste von Agenturmeldungen sehe wie hier:

Und diese Geunke wegen Rydercup-Nominierung hin oder her: letzte Woche schreiben alle noch brav die SID-Meldung ab, daß Kaymer angeblich seine Platzierung sicher hätte und diese Woche tröten Sie alle gemeinsam ins Rohr, daß selbige in Gefahr sei, obwohl die Nominierungen noch garnicht zur Diskussion stehen und die dicke Frau auch noch garnicht gesungen hat.

Echtjetzma!

We just had the US Open and in just three weeks time, the home of golf will host The Open Championship. Hop on over to their Facebook page, the guys are really excited!

The first round is underway at the 2010 BMW International Open in München Nord Eichenried. Sadly, it is the only remaining European Tour tournament in Germany, but that doesn’t keep the stars from coming as the list of participating players reads like the who is who on the European Tour.

Martin Kaymer hopes to follow up rather to his 2008 results (he won) than to his 2009 results (he missed the cut). He sounds quite confident in the pre-tournament interview on teeoff24.de. Despite fighting the jetlag after his return from California – where he finished T8 at the 2010 US Open alongside Alex Cejka – he feels confident in his game and hopes to keep last weeks momentum going. He currently is even par after 11 holes.

As usual, a whole bunch of german players participate in the tournament, there are the better known like Bernhard Langer, Alex Cejka, Sven Strüver, Marcel Siem and Tino Schuster (whom I followed at the 2007 Deutsche Bank Championship) but also hopeful talents like Stephan Gross, Arwed Fischer, Florian Fritsch, Max Kiefer, Nicolas Meitinger, Alexander Knappe, Jochen Lupprian and Christopher Trunzer. Let’s hope many of them make it into the weekend.

20:40 Eurosport, European Tour 2010 – St. Omer Open (FRA)
21:10 Eurosport, Evian Ladies European Tour – Swiss Open in Ticino (SUI)
21:20 Eurosport, Golf Club