A fire has destroyed more than one million in golf equipment at the Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, Michigan. Officials say it shouldn’t have any effect on play in the spring.

The other house cat.

Taken with my new Canon Rebel and a macro lens.

A Golf Course of Rhymes is a new golf blog of golf poetry.

A nice idea, and thoroughly original. I’m absolutely no judge of poetry, but thought the first few on the blog were nice. I hope he manages to keep it up. The most difficult thing about blogging is dedicating yourself to writing on a regular basis. It’s far too easy to take a day off—and then a week—and before you know it, you’ve got another abandoned golf blog.

Good Luck Rhymer.

Bob Burns No Bananas 460cc Driver

Here’s a driver that promises to end your slice forever.

The Bob Burns No Bananas driver incorporates every trick in the book to fix the banana shot. It’s supposed to maximize center-of-gravity location, face angle, shaft flex, lie, and hosel offset to dramatically decrease the left to right spin. The two-inch deep, incredibly thin face achieves maximum trampoline effect, while conforming to the USGA legal COR limit. Available in both offset and non-offset 310-cc forged head models, it even features a Magilla Gorilla headcover.

A photo of the house cat taken with the macro lens on my new Canon Rebel Xsi.

There’s no golf connection, but I liked the photo.

When Buick dropped Tiger Woods (or was it the other way around?). Mrs. GolfBlogger wondered aloud if Cadillac would drop Fred Couples—a favorite of hers.

It’s happened.

While Fred surely makes a pittance compared to the Striped One, I guess with the slide of the car industry, every dollar counts.

Couples has been with Cadillac since he won the 1992 Masters, and I think its going to be a bit weird seeing his shirt without the Cadillac crest.

Tiger and Couples losing their sponsorships is surely just a sign of things to come for professional golf. If these two prominent golfers can’t deliver sufficient return for the dollar, you know that the second and third tier players are also on the chopping block. I think its possible you’ll see players dropped from various golf product sponsorships. The big boys—TaylorMade, Titleist, Callaway, et. al—likely will remain in the game because they want to be able to claim that they’re they Number One Driver In Golf, and so on. But the little guys could very well go the Tour Edge route and eschew sponsorships as a strategy. I also think its possible that the big guys could refocus their efforts. Callaway, for example, might figure out that it’s never going to be the number one driver on Tour and instead focus its efforts on irons.

It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

Interesting Couples trivia: He roomed with Jim Nantz in college.

The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons (New Yorker Book of Cartoons)

New Yorker magazine is justifiably famous for its cartoons, and in this volume, the editors have collected the best of their golf-themed works. It features works by Charles Addams (yes, THAT Charles Addams), Peter Arno, George Booth, Roz Chast, Edward Koren, and William Steig. They’re good for a lot of laughs—something sorely missing these days.