A little milestone went passed unnoticed—even by me—this past week: I entered post number 2,000 in Golf Blogger.

The first one, published in March of 2004, commented on Tiger’s romance with Elin Nordegren. At the time, he was in a slump, and people were questioning whether he was being distracted by romance. I offered the idea that Jack Nicklaus said that his marriage was the best thing that ever happened to his career and that maybe it would be the same for Tiger.

The original intent of this blog was that it would be a mix of two of my favorite sites: Gizmodo and Instapundit—but with a golf twist. Gizmodo offers a daily list of the latest general purpose gadgets and gizmos; each day I try to offer at least one golf product for people to take a look at—hopefully it’ll be something you haven’t seen before. Instapundit offers links to interesting political stories with a short commentary; I try to offer links to interesting golf stories—although my commentary tends to be longer than Instapundit’s. 

I have also added original reviews of equipment and golf courses, as well as commentary on my own golfing and coaching experiences to the mix. I’d like to do more reviews—I know that others’ opinions always help me in my purchase decisions—but that’ll still be limited to the stuff I buy for my own use, and to products sent by manufacturers for me to try out. (If you are a manufacturer, and need some publicity, send your stuff along—blogs are a good way to get the viral marketing going).

The course reviews also are necessarily going to be limited to those in Michigan—or in places that I visit for reasons other than golf. I can’t possibly afford to take trips to golf resorts or better known courses. Still, with more than 800 courses in Michigan, there are a lot of places to be reviewed.

In the future, I also intend to add more essays and commentary on my own golfing experiences—although I am never going to bore anyone with a blow by blow description of a round. If you want to hear that, you can head out to the bar at your local course. There are plenty of blowhards there who will regale you with accounts of their latest eighteen.

Thanks to all my readers, and here’s to the next 2,000 posts.

I’ve installed a new gallery module to my blog so I can display some of the pictures that I take as I visit various courses. My most recent visit was to the Whiskey Creek Golf Club in Ijamsville, Maryland. I’ll have a review in the coming days.

You can visit the gallery by clicking on the link above.

Join the conversations in the Golfblogger Forums. Right now, they’re talking about

Was Byron Nelson’s 11 consecutive victory streak any less impressive because it ocurred at the end of WWII.

Golf in the Traverse City, Michigan area.

Whether or not John Daly should be allowed to continue on the PGA Tour.

What’s a GolfBlgger to do?

On the one hand, I’ve got forum software set up, but with only minimal participation.

But on the hand, I get thousands of daily visits to the GolfBlogger site.

The question is how to get the two to meet.

The answer is a contest.

The prizes: Sleeves of the new—and not yet released—TaylorMade TP Black or TP Red balls. (Yes, your friendly neighborhood Golf Blogger has these in hand).

I’ll give out two sleeves. One sleeve will go to the person whose post generated the most quality replies. The other will go to the best reply. (Thus, there is an incentive to both start new topics and reply to others.)

The Golf Blogger will, of course, be the final judge. I’ll make the decision on May 8, and ship them out on the 9th, ensuring that the winners have these hot little babes in their hands before they arrive on the retail shelves. (Sorry, but I’ll ship to US addresses only; can’t afford foreign postage).

There will be more prizes and contests in the very near future.

To join the discussion, just click on the Forums link above. You’ll have to sign up (if you haven’t already). Then you can start posting.

Lets get the conversations started.

I’ve lost an email from a guy in Michigan who wrote to tell me that he was starting a new golf website—that he had been working on it for a couple of years and that he was going to launch it in April ...

If this is you and you happen to read this, please send me another email. I’d love to help you promote your site.