Captain Pavin blogs too

by Mark B on September 4, 2010

the genius cup blog

Captain Pavin blogs too

Who knew? Corey's a blogger! On his most recent post Corey says he's working over his ideas for pairings. And Monday, right on (marketing) schedule...

Who knew? Corey’s a blogger!

On his most recent post Corey says he’s working over his ideas for pairings. And Monday, right on (marketing) schedule, he’ll begin sorting it all out:

Monday night, Sept. 6, my Assistant Captains and I will all get together, have a great dinner (with the exception of Jeff Sluman, who will hopefully be able to teleconference us from South Korea) and have a meeting of the minds to make the final determination of who will round out Team USA.

These picks will be very important for the 2010 United States Ryder Cup team so the evening may very well last into the wee hours. One thing I know for sure: This will be a very difficult evening.

If I may suggest, Captain Pavin, just go to GolfTripGenius.com and get started with our one-of-a-kind pairings engine. Then you and your assistants can start tweaking.

{ 0 comments }

Montgomerie chooses …

by Mark B on August 30, 2010

the genius cup blog

Captain Pavin blogs too

Who knew? Corey's a blogger! On his most recent post Corey says he's working over his ideas for pairings. And Monday, right on (marketing) schedule...

According to Golf360 this morning, Colin Montgomerie has made two critical, if not controversial choices for his Ryder Cup team.

Sergio Garcia has been named a vice-captain, Monty’s fourth, along with Thomas Bjorn, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley. “There’s one word that describes Sergio Garcia, and that’s ‘passion.’ I think it’s a great asset to the European cause to regain the Ryder Cup to have him on board.” (Oh, brother.)

Also reported by Golf360, there will be Welsh representation on Team Europe as well. Apparently, Monty has named Rhys Davies his … driver?

“Rhys will become my personal buggy driver,” Montgomerie said. “He’ll look after me around the course. He is a Ryder Cup player of the future, the very near future, the guy with the million-dollar putting stroke.

“I felt it was important to have some Welsh representation on the golf course that week.”

Sorry, but I don’t know where to put the names of the vice-captains and the “buggy driver” on my Ryder Cup team roster in GolfTripGenius.com.

{ 0 comments }

“I like what I see,” Pavin says

August 27, 2010

That was this past Monday, before the first round of the Playoffs, reported on the PGA’s website. What Corey Pavin is probably liking now is the way Tiger played on Thursday. Pavin wants to choose Tiger. And he wants Tiger to play well. They both have a lot to prove. If Tiger is one of [...]

Read the full article →

Bring back the stymie!

August 22, 2010

Let’s put aside for a few minutes Captains’ picks and optimal pairings and remember an earlier day, at least before 1952. That was the year the Rules of Golf changed to no longer allow, even encourage the stymie. Years ago I wrote a short blog post about the stymie, stimulated by Eric Gordon’s finding an [...]

Read the full article →

Team USA takes a trip

August 22, 2010

OK, so what if … What if Captains Pavin and Montgomerie did as I fancifully suggested and began their team tasking on GolfTripGenius.com? After all, The Ryder Cup at its simplest is just a big – very big – golf trip, isn’t it? First thing Captain Pavin as organizer might do is insert his eight qualifying [...]

Read the full article →

The Ryder Cup Then and Now: It’s All About the Pairings

August 22, 2010

Steve S sent me a refresher  - and some fresh thinking – on Ryder Cup history. Millionaire seed merchant Samuel Ryder could never have imagined a place like Celtic Manor, he writes, the site of this year’s Ryder Cup matches. The 7,493-yard Twenty Ten [get it? 2010?] course is about as far removed from the [...]

Read the full article →

Sclaffing, Topping, Slicing and Hooking

August 13, 2010

I last complained about my experiences in sand bunkers as a kind of pain not too unlike what goes on in a back room with a sadistic interrogator sporting a car battery and electrodes.  I also referenced a classic golf book called The Nine Bad Shots of Golf and What to do About Them, first [...]

Read the full article →

Golf’s “Greedy, Lurking Enemies”

July 19, 2010

Why is one of the easiest shots for the golf professional so freakin’ hard for me?  I am talking, of course, about the bunker shot.  Just seeing those monsters at St. Andrews on TV made my palms sweat. I remember watching Seve Ballesteros years ago entertaining the Open gallery at the Royal St. George’s practice [...]

Read the full article →

Possible but Unlikely Golf Trip ManVan Discussion: Why Are Golf Balls Dimpled?

July 10, 2010

Only the software development geeks at GolfTripGenius.com will read this entire post. Golf ball dimples, paradoxically, do increase drag slightly. But they also increase “Magnus lift”, that peculiar lifting force experienced by rotating bodies travelling through a medium. Magnus lift is present because a driven golf ball has backspin. The same Magnus effect can cause [...]

Read the full article →

Which Golf Pro Would You Invite on Your Next Golf Trip?

June 27, 2010

“Champagne” Tony Lema — the name alone evokes late nights and good times.  Going through piles of golf books, I spotted an old paperback copy of “Golfers’ Gold – An Insider’s View of Pro Golf and Pro Golfers” by “Champagne” Tony Lema.  Johnny Miller says the author, who died tragically in a 1966 airplane crash [...]

Read the full article →