A New Beginning

Welcome everyone to the new and improved (we’ll see) Life on Tour.

If you look around, many of the pages from the old site may be found or soon will be. The picture gallery is much improved since I used an online photo site. Click the slide-show option and it’ll fill the entire screen. Tried Flickr at first but realized that only the last 200 pics are visible unless the premium package is purchased so I chose Google’s Picasa instead. 1 GB of space is offered which is plenty. All you need is a Google account and Picasa on your computer.

Past blogs will remain on the old site which may be accessed through the Additional Pages category. Of course, a category for the players sites is there and I’m open to any I’ve might have missed. Just drop me a note through the “Contact Me” page.

Like most blogs using this type of software, you may send in comments regarding my post. All I ask is that you be civil about it. I don’t mind criticism but vulgarity will not be tolerated. Correct punctuation would be nice but not mandatory. It’s just easier to read.

Now let’s get down to business.

Time to head West: I left the Mobile area a few days ago and settled in the Dallas TX vicinity. Since time was of no consequence, about half way there I chose the “avoid motorways” mode on my GPS and took to the countryside. Soon after departing I10, a golf course appeared and the vision of players teeing it up should have been last thing I would see. After all, it was 34 frigin degrees out! But no. There they were all bundled up getting in a round. Tell me this game doesn’t fry your mind.

I’ll be in this local until Thursday then move across the state and within striking distance of my Hawaiian departure city of Phoenix AZ. Cant’ wait to get to the islands and back to work.

Signed, sealed. and delivered: Mexico City is officially on the the schedule . Makes the beginning of the season more palatable.

Enough already! The Kelly Tilghman saga has gone way too far. An innocuous comment has turned into a firestorm thanks to the overly zealous, politically correct Rev. Al Sharpton. To the well informed, the last thing on his mind is justice for Tiger (he was not offended) but just another spurious move to keep a hold on his position of leadership in the black community. Falling into the trap of the reverend’s vitriolic attack on Tilghman and the Golf Channel, Golfweek publicizes an issue with a noose on the cover! What were they thinking? The answer clearly is that they were not. The ax fell on the editor in quick fashion.

Lets hope the day will come when the term “lynch” will reference the fate of a horse thief in a late night rerun of a John Wayne flick instead of the injustices dolled out on blacks in the antebellum South. That day just can’t come soon enough for me.

Wolf in sheep’s clothing: After my last post, an email arrived offering the comments and queries of a self-described “normal business man” ripping me a new one. Everything from that bogus “can’t read greens’ story by Tom Hanson (AKA Doofus) to I should be “living in my car” since all my players had “stunk it up” to “nobody good” will hire me cause I “bad mouth” players.

I replied refuting his scurrilous allegations then found out his real motive in his next email. Turns out his name is John Springer and is a veteran looper on the PGA. Seems John does not approve of the treatment afforded to players of a certain ethnicity in my blog. I would have discussed the subject in a civil manner but since deception was used to gain my confidence, all subsequent contact form John will be dispatched to the trash bin without being opened. If he just would have been up front.