Entries from June 2009

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

The Return of the Shades

In the days of old, when golfers were men,
Before Camilio, Sergio, Adam came to fame,
Wearing their tight shirts and girly white pants,
There was the Shades, cool was his middle name.
Who is the Shades? Also called Mr 59,
Yep, 59, not 69 to those with an unsound mind,
At Bob Hope, eagling the back nine,
The fans call [...]

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Double D, Please don't screw up

12:51 AM (Malaysian Time)
David Duval just stuffed in his third birdie in a trot for the lead.
I thought of just putting in this post considering this is the most excitement we’ve seen in a long time.
And this guy triple bogeyed his first hole this morning!
But he made a crap shot on the 17th and now [...]

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Here We Go Again…

For those who have been following this blog faithfully (I can sense the dwindling enthusiasm due to my complete lack of updates), you would know for each of the major championship of golf in a calendar year, we (the Gilagolf team–we sound like a big group of editors and writers but so far I have [...]

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Golf in Tough Times

Face it.
We’re possibly facing the toughest times these days in most of our relatively short lives. (When I say relatively, I am comparing us to giant tortoises that can live up to 155 years…another useless information to digest). I mean seriously, how many of you reading this actually lived in the depression era in the [...]