Golf Spelled Backwards

Did I say ugly? Maybe I meant cool! Whether Loudmouth Golf apparel is ugly or cool is in the eye of the beholder. And now you can "behold" Loudmouth golf bags: Actually, the company has been working its way into other product areas (in addition to apparel) for a while. Loudmouth partnered with a company called Molhimawk Inc. to make its new bag: Loudmouth Cart Bag by Molhimawk measures 35" tall and features a single putter tube, 14-way top, and anti-slip rubber feet. The cart bags are currently available in some of Loudmouth's most popular patterns including Shagadelic White, Disco Balls Black, and Lightning Rod. ... Loudmouth Golf also offers stand bags by Molhimawk. The stand bags come equipped with a one-of-a-kind Loudmouth hip pad, comfy straps, three roomy pockets, and an over-sized felted valuables pocket with a water resistant zipper. Would you be willing to go the full Loudmouth in outfitting your golf game?

Did you know that the youngest golfer to shoot his age was only 59 years old when he did it? The golfer in question is Bob Hamilton , and his feat was followed by a couple of remarkable achievements related to Hamilton's own. First, about Hamilton and his 59: Hamilton was born in, and lived most of his life in, Evansville, Indiana. He was a professional golfer who won five PGA Tour titles, including the 1944 PGA Championship (he beat Byron Nelson in the final, 1-up), and played in one Ryder Cup. Obviously, a golfer with many notable accomplishments. In the mid-1970s, Hamilton and his family opened a golf course in Evansville, the eponymous Hamilton Golf Course. And in 1975, when Hamilton was 59, he shot a round of 59 on that golf course. That made him the youngest-known golfer to shoot his age. At the time, the course played a little over 6,200 yards. (Note: I have seen one reference to Hamilton's score being 58, but most sources — including the Evansville newspaper — agr...

The Iberostar Cancun Golf Club is one of the ritzy golf resorts in the Mexican resort area of Cancun. Unfortunately, it's also been the site of two recent attacks by crocodiles on golfers. The second attack just occurred: A golfer vacationing from Toronto was attacked by a crocodile that came out of tall grass, latched onto the leg of 58-year-old Dougie Thomson, and tried to drag him away. Thomson's story is told in an article by the UK's Daily Record newspaper (Thomson is originally from Scotland). The three golfers playing with Thomson eventually freed him from the croc's grasp: “I didn’t think anything about it until I heard him screaming. I just ran over with my 9-iron in my hand and started beating the crocodile about the head. “It had already dragged him four or five feet towards the water behind the bushes. When I started hitting it, it stopped but it didn’t let go of him.” Dougie and Brendan’s cries alerted their friends Gordon Victory and Marti...

Here's a fun little list: the golfer who've made the most money on the PGA Tour without winning a single PGA Tour tournament. 1. Briny Baird: 365 career starts, 0 wins, $13,183,237 2. Brian Davis: 282 career starts, 0 wins, $11,860,745 3. Jeff Overton: 217 career starts, 0 wins, $11,052,307 5. Brett Quigley: 403 career starts, 0 wins, $11,048,433 6. Charlie Wi, 209 career starts, 0 wins, $9,646,852 7. Steve Marino, 160 career starts, 0 wins, $9,137,743 8. Brandt Jobe: 331 career starts, 0 wins, $8,987,448 9. Greg Chalmers: 337 career starts, 0 wins, $8,614,231 10. Brendon de Jonge: 181 career starts, 0 wins, $8,304,826 Hey, it's good work if you can get it! Of the players listed above, Overton is the youngest at age 30. Marino has made the fewest starts with 160, and de Jonge is the only other golfer on the list with fewer than 200 career starts on the PGA Tour. Baird has finished second six times; Davis, Quigley and Wi five times each. It's tough to ...

I was on TigerWoods.com today and clicked on the navigational tab that reads "Sponsors." This takes you to a page where Woods' sponsors are listed. And that page is looking pretty skimpy these days. I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that Woods' endorsement deals have shrunk in recent years, post-scandal. But still, I was suprised at just how short and unimpressive the list is. You can see it yourself here . Since EA Sports dropped Tiger a couple weeks ago, Woods' list of sponsors really only includes two major global brands: Nike Golf and Rolex. The website list is stretched out by including the PGA Tour and the Dubai development for which Woods is designing a golf course. But that's kind of cheating. The tour isn't paying Woods anything (it's listed because of a content-sharing arrangement), and Woods' deal with the Dubai company is centered around his golf course design company. Other brands on the list of sponsors include ...

Awwww, ain't that sweet: Two golfers who appeared together during a season of the Golf Channel's The Big Break are getting married. They found love in a reality TV show. Congratulations to Julien Trudeau and Mallory Blackwelder, castmates who got busy mating in real life after their time on Big Break Ireland . Trudeau outlasted Blackwelder on the show; in fact, Trudeau made it all the way to the championship match before losing to series victor Mark Murphy. Here are a few engagement photos that Mallory posted on Twitter (photos by Honey Heart Photography ):

The BBC has a show called Strictly Come Dancing , the British version of Dancing with the Stars (or maybe DWTS is the American version of SCD?). And one of the contestants this season was British golf legend Tony Jacklin, a U.S. Open and British Open champion. But he's not a dancing champion. He got kicked out after the second week of performances. Here is Jacklin's Week 1 dance, a waltz: The only surprise is that he lasted to Week 2. But last to Week 2 Jacklin did! Which led to this atrocious performance, "dancing" the Charleston: But hey, even though he embarrassed himself, kudos to Jacklin. It takes guts to do that, and guts is something Jacklin always had on the golf course. And still has.

Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro are two of the costars of a new old-coots-go-wild movie called Last Vegas , opening soon. An interview with the cast appears in the Oct. 18 issue of Entertainment Weekly , and Freeman - an avid golfer - has this exchange with De Niro in which he warns De Niro not to take up golf: EW: Bob, do you ever think about retiring? De Niro: What am I gonna do? Play golf? I don't play golf. Not that I want to offend anyone who plays golf. Freeman: Well ... De Niro: You play golf? Freeman: I play golf. De Niro: OK, I'm sorry. ... I'm sure that's a whole other experience that I just don't ... Freeman: Don't involve yourself with golf. It's the most humiliating game anybody ever invented. Truer words have never been spoken. On the other hand, maybe Freeman is simply doing it wrong. Hey, Morgan, you do know you're allowed to put both hands on the club, right?

There are a lot of ugly trophies in the world of golf. (One website has an entire photo gallery of them.) Many tournaments these days tend to want to create a trophy that stands out from the crown - that is different, unusual, attention-getting. Something odd, out of the ordinary. So GSB* commends the folks who run the Frys.com Open who hired Malcolm DeMille Inc. to design a new trophy, and DeMille for coming up with such a classic beauty: Yesssss, that's a golf trophy. It doesn't break any new ground, but why should it? It just looks so classic and high-class. It's a bronze cup that is silver-plated and a foot tall. Wouldn't you much rather win that trophy than this one: But don't worry! The second one is supposed to be goofy. Or "whimsical," in the words of Malcolm DeMille Inc. (DeMille is a designer and manufacturer of sculptural statues, prizes, money clips, fine jewelry and accessories.) Frys.com is an electronics retailer; their mascot...

Graeme McDowell has long been considered (ahem, I'm told by lady friends) one of the sexiest players in golf. But shed a tear, ladies, shed a tear: G-Mac is now a married man. McDowell and the lovely Kristin Stape were married over the weekend at a ceremony in the Bahamas. Two photos posted by Graeme on Instagram (photos by Collin Hughes ): According to Ireland's Herald newspaper, it was a small ceremony attended by only around 30 guests. Rory McIlroy was unable to attend, the paper said, due to previous commitments with Nike Golf. Perhaps Rors will be able to make the follow-up celebration that is planned by the couple in Portrush. Who is Kristin Stape? On her Twitter page ( @kristinstape ), she writes this about herself: "Fashionista for the home, eternal optimist, foodie, sports enthusiast, professional tourist, wannabe MacGyver, and most fun of all ... a mother." Stape has a child from a previous relationship, so G-Mac didn't just become a husband, he a...