I recently did an interview with the folk at Leaderboard Golf across the pond.

USA Today has picked up the GolfBlogger story on signing Tiger Woods.

See the original GolfBlogger Signs Tiger Woods post here.

Looks like my April 1 Day post made Forbes.

See the original GolfBlogger Signs Tiger Woods post here.

This week marks the seventh birthday of GolfBlogger.Com—my “blogiversary,” if you will.

The first GolfBlogger post appeared on March 22, 2004.
In the past year, I’ve published 1,300 posts, bringing the grand total to 6,478. In doing so, I continue to avoid the fate of thousands of others who have started a golf blog—that of writing a few pieces and then losing interest; the internet is littered with the corpses of abandoned blogs. And yet, through it all, GolfBlogger remains a part-time effort. I like teaching high school, and have no intention of turning the blog into a full time gig.

GolfBlogger is, to my knowledge, the second oldest golf blog (the other is less than two months older), so when I started, there really were no models to follow. I did not want to turn it into a site that simply recycled news on the PGA Tour (and I’m glad I didn’t, for there are far too many of those now). Instead, my models were Instapundit, Gizmodo and BoingBoing. Like Instapundit, I decided to offer short, pithy comments and links to (golf) news; as with Gizmodo, I planned to link to new (golf) products and review them; and following BoingBoing’s lead, I would simply write about and link to (golf related) things that interest me or that I found cool. Finally, as with any blog, I would offer observations on life—in this case, my golfing life.

I’ve kept the blog going because I love to write. Before I changed careers to become a teacher, I was a professional editor and ghostwriter. I also love golf, so the match was a natural. In fact, I find that writing for GolfBlogger has become a compulsion.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the many, many thousands who make a habit of visiting the site, and the sponsors who make it financially possible for me to keep it all going.

This post represents a milestone, of sorts, for GolfBlogger: six thousand posts. I’m not sure what that it represents, though—dedication or insanity. I do know, however, that it’s a labor of love. I started GolfBlogger back in 2004 because I love to write and I love golf. It was a natural fit.

Here’s the first GolfBlogger.Com post, from way back on March 22, 2004. It’s prescient, if you ask me.

SI.com - Golf - Woods continues to struggle as Bay Hill winning run ends - Sunday March 21, 2004 8:40PM

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters)—Tiger Woods’s bid for a fifth straight Bay Hill Invitational title ended in miserable fashion on Sunday when the world number one shot a one-over 73 in the final round to finish on even-par 288, 18 off the leader.

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You’ve got to wonder what’s happened to Tiger. He’s been in slump for some time now. Is Elin Nordegren bad for Tiger’s game? Jack Nicklaus said that his own marriage was good for his game—and that the same would hold true for Tiger. But everyone reacts differently to love and romance.

Quite unexpectedly, I found that some comments I wrote regarding Tiger’s news conference has made The Week magazine’s online edition. Thanks, guys.

GolfBlogger.Com proudly announces the hiring of Roger Cleveland, legendary golf club designer, for an as-of-yet undisclosed project.

Or at least, that’s what Google seems to think.

I got this letter from Google in the GolfBlogger mailbox yesterday.

Not sure what to make of it.