Blog: Bomb & Gouge

Dumb Idea, eh?
BOMB: Oh those crazy Canadians. One of our co-workers just passed along the following gem, suggesting it might be blog fodder. It's from Callaway Golf Canada and it puts forth that "the answers to a...
Published Feb. 23, 2009
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Hugh Laurie deserved the Emmy
GOUGE: We knew it would eventually come to this. What we didn't realize was maybe how soon we'd get there. The problem, of course, is just what to do about it. We have reached an...
Published Sep. 18, 2007
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The Great Threat? Puhh-lease
GOUGE: In our ever-increasing quest to answer those screaming for a rollback of equipment technology, I found it interesting to look at some of the recent qualifying scores for this year's Mid-Amateur and Women's Mid-Amateur...
Published Sep. 07, 2007
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Industry Armageddon
GOUGE: Although it probably went by unnoticed at countless courses and clubs across the known universe, a staggeringly important deadline came and passed a week ago. It is perhaps comforting that the entire equipment industry...
Published Aug. 08, 2007
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Test of Times
BOMB: Interesting article in last Friday’s USA Today where the paper had Brandt Snedeker play a round of golf at the Plantation Course at Sea Island, Ga., with both his current set and a set...
Published Jul. 17, 2007
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The Weak are Inheriting the Earth
BOMB: Well, after spending 8-plus hours with you in a car driving back from Toronto, some of the thoughts are starting to come to the surface. Chief among them is this: Last week saw K.J....
Published Jul. 14, 2007
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Statistics for dummies
GOUGE: Remember all that talk about tougher course conditions on tour placing a premium on driving accuracy. By my calculations, (a) those course conditions never happened, or (b) consistent driving accuracy still doesn't matter...
Published Jul. 06, 2007
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Girls Gone Wild
BOMB: Well, it’s about freaking time we got the redesigned web site up. Least we can do is start the blog thing again. Lets start with this: Pine Needles last week tipped out at 6,664...
Published Jul. 02, 2007
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Hooray for Vijay?
BOMB: You know what? I gotta hand it to Vijay Singh for speaking the truth on a question probably 99 and 44/100ths percent of the tour players would have ducked. When asked at the BMW...
Published Jun. 01, 2007
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What a Stupid He Is
GOUGE: Because Geoff Shackelford deserves to be arrested for incompetence, a clarification: When I mentioned the other day that the Overall Distance Standard had not changed, I was technically incorrect. In truth, it has gotten...
Published May. 25, 2007
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Jack being Jack
BOMB: So, Jack Nicklaus is at it again. In a piece written by Gene Wojciechowski for ESPN.com, Nicklaus responded to a question as to what he would do if he had been named golf czar...
Published May. 16, 2007
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The New York Times: Incompetent
BOMB: OK, I know I’m sounding a little like Ronald Reagan, but here we go again. Can people who know nothing about golf equipment please stop writing about it? This time the source of my...
Published Mar. 23, 2007
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