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Poor JD, even when he is minding his business, he is getting in trouble.

Hi most recent commercials for Maxfli have been yanked by CBS.  In the ads, Daly is driving a golf cart and drinking a beer. 

“It did not meet the standards of the CBS network,” spokeswoman LeslieAnn Wade was quoted Tuesday by the The Los Angeles Times. “Any implied or direct reference to excessive consumption of alcohol would not meet network guidelines.”

The story continues with;

“We went into this with the idea that John Daly is fun, exciting and approachable,” Bob Maggiore, senior director of marketing for TaylorMade-Adidas of Carlsbad, Calif., also told the newspaper. “In hindsight, maybe we should have seen the risk. But we looked at John Daly as someone who lights up a room, not someone with a troubled past.”

Looks like Bob Maggiore might have some explaining to do to his bosses once the bill for the commercial arrives!  The rest of the story is HERE.

Good news for Canadians: better tee times this summer.
 
Lots of Republican golfers won’t be coming up this way any time soon.  You see, this past January the Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives vigorously launched into ethics legislation, which banned golf junkets on corporate jets used for government business. These new laws were part of an effort by legislators to clean up Washington’s culture of corruption, brought to an unprecedented level by Jack Abramoff, the top Republican lobbyist.
Abramoff, now serving an 11-year sentence in a Maryland minimum facility, is ratting out his colleagues in a plea bargain and is helping prosecutors win guilty pleas or convictions from a long list of his friends who were once among the rich and powerful.
 
What triggered the scandal were the costs of a “recreational” golf trip to St. Andrews, Scotland in 2003, led by the now-disgraced Abramoff.
 
These days, Abramoff might be in a work party wearing a safety orange jumpsuit along the highway. If he were allowed to talk to the public he could tell you about the time he and Tom Delay, majority whip of the House, flew across the Pacific in a charted plane to play golf at a luxury resort in the northern Marianas Islands in the South Pacific, paid for by special interest groups who wanted permission to keep Asian sweat shops in US territory. Abramoff could also tell you stories about the time he and his friends played the old course at St. Andrews and spent $156,000 for a few days of green fees and other legitimate political expenses. They flew there and back in a corporate jet. Abramoff now spends his time along the highway looking out at the tall fence surrounding his new home. He will seldom have enough space to swing a club. The only bag they will be carrying around is one that holds garbage or his laundry.
 
He is far from his country club set where he and his cohorts extorted, bribed and conned people into giving them tens of millions of dollars to leverage political clout in Washington. These include lobbyists, senior government officials, governors, Congressmen and appointed Bush cabinet members, who circumvented national security laws and the loathsome Patriot Act they helped legislate into existence.  Some twenty of them are under indictment, another twenty are already serving their sentence, while a dozen or more have been targeted for further indictments. 
The most chilling part is that Abramoff conducted his lobbying in such an arrogant manner that it makes federal investigators wonder whether he ever worried about getting caught.  
 
As for those who are now awaiting sentencing, their best days on the links are behind them. Their weekends will be spent preparing their testimony rather than teeing off. They will soon face the House Ethics and Rules Committee members.
 
“Sir, did you play golf in Scotland with Jack Abramoff?”

Justin Timberlake has sold millions of albums world-wide, dated Britney Spears (in her prime), Cameron Diaz, Jessica Biel and is now on his way to playing in a PGA event, or at least he hopes too. 

Mr. Timberlake is a 6 handicap and has hired a coach with hopes of one day gaining a sponsors excemption and playing a PGA event.  The man is truly living the dream!

To read more click here: Justin Timberlake Golf

I was embarrassed to admit this even to Nigel a few weeks ago - for the last six months I have been in the market for my very first set of golf clubs (I played 35 rounds last year with a WIDE variety of rental and borrowed clubs ranging from vintage to brand new…) but I am finding myself completely overwhelmed by the variety and price range of options, colours, names and all other considerations. 

I have spent SO many hours in golf stores, actually playing on the course (last year and a few weeks ago in Arizona) and surfing the web, reading every detail about the various manufacturers and individual clubs, even bidding on eBay sets that now I’m starting to find them all interchangeable. 
·          Someone told me Jazz is a good Canadian company;
·          Caroline last year got a lot of complements on her Mizuno set;
·          When I played Wilson rental clubs they just felt heavy like lead (the shaft was steel);
·          The Cobra I could take or leave for play but they looked pretty;
·          I’m curious as hell to try out Element 21 Golf Clubs!
·          Doesn’t Callaway make ladies clubs?
·          It sounded to me like the PING set Nigel has did pretty well for him & I like the idea of being personally custom-fitted

I just really want a set that plays well & feels comfortable, which I can’t see knowing until I’m at least 5 rounds into them. 

Does price really make a difference?  And if not, then why would I spend $2,500 for a well-known brand name set when I could spend $300 on the clubs and the remaining $2,200 playing golf in Panama or England or Michigan? 

Well whatever the case, I’m sure I’m not the only woman who finds the prospect of choosing golf clubs a little bit overwhelming, so regardless of which set I choose to try, I’ll let you all know how I find them as we go through the season - and I’ll definitely let you know if I ditch them and trade up before the season is over!