I just discovered the Golf Stinks Blog. There’s some good stuff there. Give it a read.

The Good Walk blog has a moving piece on a family member’s struggle with paralysis and what the game of golf means to him. An excerpt:

What is it about the game of golf that instills such passion in the people who play it? That after an accident like Bart suffered; one of his first thoughts is about getting back out on the course. It’s something about being out on the course, in nature, taking a good ribbing from a playing partner, or a $2 Nassau bet, or the feeling of that purely struck drive that happens all too infrequently, that keep us coming back out for more. For Bart it will be baby steps for sure. Just being able to swing a golf club is going to take some serious time. But he’s determined and I believe him when he says he’ll be back out there.

The Golf Professors is a new golf website that promises online lessons, including video analysis. Press release follows:

A team of some of the most talented golfers, and long time professionals, launch a website featuring online golf lessons taught by qualified professionals and professional instructors across the country.
The Golf Professors gives the golfing community the unique opportunity to learn from professionals at an affordable rate. A golfing industry-first, the Golf Professors not only offer online golf lessons, but also provide
members with live online clinics and personal Q&A sessions from the professionals.Future plans for the website include an individual swing analysis, giving users services with direct feedback on their golf swing from the Professors themselves. All of the golf lessons are filmed in high definition and cover a variety of topics designed to benefit any golfer from beginner to competitive golfers alike.
For more information about The Golf Professors, visit thegolfprofessors.com

The Itinerant Golfer is trying to play the top 100 courses in America. He’s got a blog about his efforts.

Sky Clock, which I wrote about in a previous post, has released a free iPhone app, Sky Clock lite.

I’ll say it again. I think this is a terrific app—amazingly useful for anyone who needs to know twilight and dawn: fishermen, hunters, photographers and of course, golfers. The app—desktop or smartphone—offers a graphical representation of your geographically targeted sunrise, sunset and twilight times.

The company also has a YouTube channel which explains it further.

City Golf Tour is an online golf league where you can regularly compete against players from across the country without ever actually meeting them in person. Using USGA handicaps and scores recorded from your local course, City Golf Tour lets you compete for prizes against 156 other hackers. The press release follows.

CityGolfTour.com Celebrates the Hacker in Us All

Not since greenskeeper, Carl Spackler, fired the shot from the Mum bed heard around the world of Bushwood C.C., has the amateur golfer been more celebrated.

Until now.

I’m proud to bring you, now on the first tee, playing out of Seattle, Washington, CityGolfTour.com.

Today, we launch a revolution in fantasy sports. CityGolfTour.com provides ANY golfer the opportunity to compete in national tournaments that you can play from your favorite home course. All you need is a USGA handicap and a City Golf Tour membership in this new concept in tournament golf.

Play begins in the inaugural tournament on July 12, 2010.

CityGolfTour.com is the brainchild of husband and wife team, Jack Hutt and Wendy Anderson. They have been running a Seattle golf league for amateurs by the same name for around ten years, when they decided to expand their vision online.

Golfers at every skill level are invited to compete.

CityGolfTour.com uses a combination of the player’s USGA handicap, the slope rating of the course they’re playing, and some secret sauce algorithm to level the playing field for fair competition. This way a 15+ handicap hack like me can compete with the Eubank phenoms of the world.

A total of $500 in cash prizes are awarded to the top 20 players, while 10% of all tournament entry fees goes to charity. Really, though, I think it’s going to be more about bragging rights than bucks. There’s still that competitive streak in all of us, even if it’s just with ourselves.

So tee one up for charity and make CityGolfTour.com a part of your game.

In the words of Carl, “It’s a Cinderella story.”

They’ve got rules to help prevent cheating, but since so many will cheat on their own handicaps with nothing on the line but pride, I’m not sure how they’ll avoid cheaters in the league. Maybe that “secret sauce algorithm” will compensate for that.

At any rate, it sounds like a neat idea.

The Pink Diva Golf Blog covers the sport from a woman’s perspective. They also sell a nice selection of Swarovski embedded shirts and towels. Give it a visit.