The Potty Putter. Seriously.
If you really feel it necessary, you can pick one up at your local Golf Town, or you can order online here.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
work on your stroke
For those who just can't get enough practise, you will be pleased to know that you can work on your putting while availing yourself of your facilities.
The Potty Putter. Seriously.
If you really feel it necessary, you can pick one up at your local Golf Town, or you can order online here.
The Potty Putter. Seriously.
If you really feel it necessary, you can pick one up at your local Golf Town, or you can order online here.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
stephen ames - canada's answer to scott hoch
For the past four or five months now, PGA Tour professional Stephen Ames has been showing up in bold in the weekend's golf results in our Canadian papers - a typeface treatment usually reserved for born and bred Canucks. Canadian media is always quick to latch onto something with the slightest Canadian angle to it, but apparently the US media has caught on, as witnessed at the most recent World Golf Championship event (the NEC Invitational), where the Canadian flag flew next to his name on the leaderboard during the television broadcasts.
Ames was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and played for TnT (with his brother who sometimes caddies for him) at last year's World Golf Championship team event (dubbed the World Cup) - an event for which Canada did not qualify. However, Ames married a woman from Calgary, and now makes his primary residence there, and has recently become a Canadian citizen back in the spring.
And here I am, having just started to come around to the thought of how it would be nice to see another golfer representing Canada at the World Cup and at the President's Cup when I read this story. Ames landed in hot water with US Immigration authorities a few years back when he attempted to enter the US from Canada without the proper paperwork, an issue which while long resolved, didn't do much for the gentleman's image either.
If he was not already precluded from officially representing Canada internationally, this was perhaps Ames' first and best opportunity to engratiate himself to the Canadian golf fan, and he blows it. And how is it that he's not into team events if he's competed in the World Cup? Did he do so grudgingly to appease some childhood debt to his brother? Whatever the case may be, you might bet getting the idea that I'm not really a fan of Ames - be he Canadian, TnT'er, or Martian. I must grant taht Ames has been having a lovely year on tour, ranking eighth on the money list and climbing to 19th on the World Golf Ranking, and certainly deserves buckets of credit for his play.
Ames could have easily blown some PR-driven smoke about how it would be nice to represent his new country, but I may have lambasted him for that too. I may just not like the cut of his gib. Plain and simple.
However, if Ames isn't careful, spouting off about not enjoying team play and indirectly implying that he isn't terribly interested in representing Canada, he'll quickly become this country's answer to Scott Hoch.
Ames was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and played for TnT (with his brother who sometimes caddies for him) at last year's World Golf Championship team event (dubbed the World Cup) - an event for which Canada did not qualify. However, Ames married a woman from Calgary, and now makes his primary residence there, and has recently become a Canadian citizen back in the spring.
And here I am, having just started to come around to the thought of how it would be nice to see another golfer representing Canada at the World Cup and at the President's Cup when I read this story. Ames landed in hot water with US Immigration authorities a few years back when he attempted to enter the US from Canada without the proper paperwork, an issue which while long resolved, didn't do much for the gentleman's image either.
If he was not already precluded from officially representing Canada internationally, this was perhaps Ames' first and best opportunity to engratiate himself to the Canadian golf fan, and he blows it. And how is it that he's not into team events if he's competed in the World Cup? Did he do so grudgingly to appease some childhood debt to his brother? Whatever the case may be, you might bet getting the idea that I'm not really a fan of Ames - be he Canadian, TnT'er, or Martian. I must grant taht Ames has been having a lovely year on tour, ranking eighth on the money list and climbing to 19th on the World Golf Ranking, and certainly deserves buckets of credit for his play.
Ames could have easily blown some PR-driven smoke about how it would be nice to represent his new country, but I may have lambasted him for that too. I may just not like the cut of his gib. Plain and simple.
However, if Ames isn't careful, spouting off about not enjoying team play and indirectly implying that he isn't terribly interested in representing Canada, he'll quickly become this country's answer to Scott Hoch.
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Thursday, September 09, 2004
work on your stroke
For those who just can't get enough practise, you will be pleased to know that you can work on your putting while availing yourself of your facilities.
The Potty Putter. Seriously.
If you really feel it necessary, you can pick one up at your local Golf Town, or you can order online here.
The Potty Putter. Seriously.
If you really feel it necessary, you can pick one up at your local Golf Town, or you can order online here.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
stephen ames - canada's answer to scott hoch
For the past four or five months now, PGA Tour professional Stephen Ames has been showing up in bold in the weekend's golf results in our Canadian papers - a typeface treatment usually reserved for born and bred Canucks. Canadian media is always quick to latch onto something with the slightest Canadian angle to it, but apparently the US media has caught on, as witnessed at the most recent World Golf Championship event (the NEC Invitational), where the Canadian flag flew next to his name on the leaderboard during the television broadcasts.
Ames was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and played for TnT (with his brother who sometimes caddies for him) at last year's World Golf Championship team event (dubbed the World Cup) - an event for which Canada did not qualify. However, Ames married a woman from Calgary, and now makes his primary residence there, and has recently become a Canadian citizen back in the spring.
And here I am, having just started to come around to the thought of how it would be nice to see another golfer representing Canada at the World Cup and at the President's Cup when I read this story. Ames landed in hot water with US Immigration authorities a few years back when he attempted to enter the US from Canada without the proper paperwork, an issue which while long resolved, didn't do much for the gentleman's image either.
If he was not already precluded from officially representing Canada internationally, this was perhaps Ames' first and best opportunity to engratiate himself to the Canadian golf fan, and he blows it. And how is it that he's not into team events if he's competed in the World Cup? Did he do so grudgingly to appease some childhood debt to his brother? Whatever the case may be, you might bet getting the idea that I'm not really a fan of Ames - be he Canadian, TnT'er, or Martian. I must grant taht Ames has been having a lovely year on tour, ranking eighth on the money list and climbing to 19th on the World Golf Ranking, and certainly deserves buckets of credit for his play.
Ames could have easily blown some PR-driven smoke about how it would be nice to represent his new country, but I may have lambasted him for that too. I may just not like the cut of his gib. Plain and simple.
However, if Ames isn't careful, spouting off about not enjoying team play and indirectly implying that he isn't terribly interested in representing Canada, he'll quickly become this country's answer to Scott Hoch.
Ames was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and played for TnT (with his brother who sometimes caddies for him) at last year's World Golf Championship team event (dubbed the World Cup) - an event for which Canada did not qualify. However, Ames married a woman from Calgary, and now makes his primary residence there, and has recently become a Canadian citizen back in the spring.
And here I am, having just started to come around to the thought of how it would be nice to see another golfer representing Canada at the World Cup and at the President's Cup when I read this story. Ames landed in hot water with US Immigration authorities a few years back when he attempted to enter the US from Canada without the proper paperwork, an issue which while long resolved, didn't do much for the gentleman's image either.
If he was not already precluded from officially representing Canada internationally, this was perhaps Ames' first and best opportunity to engratiate himself to the Canadian golf fan, and he blows it. And how is it that he's not into team events if he's competed in the World Cup? Did he do so grudgingly to appease some childhood debt to his brother? Whatever the case may be, you might bet getting the idea that I'm not really a fan of Ames - be he Canadian, TnT'er, or Martian. I must grant taht Ames has been having a lovely year on tour, ranking eighth on the money list and climbing to 19th on the World Golf Ranking, and certainly deserves buckets of credit for his play.
Ames could have easily blown some PR-driven smoke about how it would be nice to represent his new country, but I may have lambasted him for that too. I may just not like the cut of his gib. Plain and simple.
However, if Ames isn't careful, spouting off about not enjoying team play and indirectly implying that he isn't terribly interested in representing Canada, he'll quickly become this country's answer to Scott Hoch.
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