The Lazy MF blog has some fascinating (as in a train wreck fascinating) copies of pages from a 1980 book put together to commemorate a golf outing in Bali.

Woot, the deal-a-day site is currently in the middle of one of their famous Woot-Offs, where they relentlessly push one deal after another. Woot is more than just the deals, though. It’s as tie that’s a lot of fun to visit just to read the hilarious product descriptions.

One of their deals earlier today was for golf balls:

Woot: One Day, One Deal.

I ran across this photo of what I presume is the award presentation for the Salonpas Cup in Japan. The Salonpas Cup is one of the Japanese Ladies Professional Golf Tour’s four majors. That is one wierdly cool trophy. I assume it has some sort of cultural significance.

From the My Caddy photo blog.

I took Thing One and Thing Two to a friend’s birthday part at a laser tag facility—and in the back there was golf! Glo mini golf, but golf nonetheless.

More photos follow:

Weird Golf News

A 40-year-old Masters patron was arrested following the conclusion of the tournament and charged with disorderly conduct.

His offense? Attempting to steal sand from one of the bunkers.

More at USA Today.

Here’s one of the stranger golf stories I’ve read: A golfer is suing his club for $13.2 million for embarrassing him by lowering his handicap.

A 75-year-old pensioner at the centre of a €10m lawsuit against his former golf club—which he claims damaged his reputation by lowering his handicap—plans to share his windfall with his extended family if successful.

Thomas Talbot, a retired insurance official, claims his reputation was damaged after Hermitage Golf Club in Lucan, Co Dublin reduced his handicap by 7.7 shots between 1999 and 2004, and wants €10m in damages.

He is suing both the club and Eddie Murphy, its former handicap secretary, in the High Court for defamation.

The issue seems to be that the club believes he was sandbagging and lowered his handicap accordingly. The issue has been going on for six years, and the trial took 21 days. A verdict is expected in two weeks.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all ...

Hobbyist woodcarvers have discovered that the materials in the core of various brands of golf balls make excellent carving materials. They strip the covers off of half the ball, and the work the rubber cores with woodcarving tools. As you can see in the photo, some of them can be quite cute.

There are more photos of carved golf balls here.

If you want to get started, you could begin with some golf ball carving patterns as found here. Woodcarvers.Org has some basic instructions on getting started with golf ball carving.

The Viking Woodcarvers Group’s Newsletter has some instructions on golf ball carving.

Instructions for converting a PVC pipe cutter to a golf ball cover remover.

Amazon has a book on the subject: The Carving Range - A Guide To Carving Golf Balls Or, if you don’t already have the tools, you can get this
golf Ball Carving Kit, (shown at right) which contains everything you’ll need.

For the entrepreneurs among you, I think that there’s a market out there for pre-cut balls. Amazon is selling a BOX OF 3 CUT GOLF BALLS for $10. I’ll also bet that the finished ones would sell to pro shops like hot cakes.

If you just want to buy some carved golf balls, you can find them on EBay: