MCWETHY’S TAVERN and MCWETHY’S SPORTS BAR are open again for indoor dining. The Tavern at Mistwood Golf Club on Renwick Road in Romeoville. The Sports Bar in the dome on Rt. 53 in Bolingbrook. The dome is open for golf, lessons, and club fittings. The dome opens daily at 8 Am. See MistwoodGolfDome.com (630)-739-7600. ____________________________________________________________________
SHOWTIME-Virtual Showtime that is.
Virtual-Virtual.. a word I didn’t want to use in 2021. Because it’s a word I need to get out of my vocabulary ASAP.
But to be honest, this is pretty much the end of my covering events in this format. Unfortunately I still have some Zooms left in covering our local sports teams in the four major sports.
But I do recommend to everyone, to turn down any event that goes virtual in the months ahead. Low participation will put an end to these silly things a little quicker. At least one can hope that’s the deal anyway. Rant over, and back to golf.
BUT IT IS SHOW WEEK for the 2021 PGA Merchandise Show. A special thanks to those who have worked hard to give the industry some type of show this year. Because it is better than the alternative. Which is nothing.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT to expect this week. The list of exhibitors is down, and local Chicago area companies like Wilson Golf, Tour Edge, Bettinardi and Golftini are not exhibiting. So later in the week, Len Ziehm and I will break it down, and spray it to all fairways like we do at the show every year.
ZIEHM WILL BE in the Orlando area part of the week coming up and seeing a couple of travel properties. So do stay clicked in for Ziehm and Spears podcast series 2021-Volume 3 sponsored by the Schaumburg Golf Club.
The northern winter indoor golf shows are all cancelled. So if your looking for one of the indoor golf shows in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota. You can forget it, they are all in the wait until next year mode.
NORMALLY I would be in Florida by now. But I’m not and the snow is coming today and tomorrow. Really makes me wish I was in Florida. I find the PGA Show so much fun, it’s one of the best weeks of the year. Because it’s the opening tee shot for the golf season (no offense to the Eskimo Open at Cog Hill that’s the first Sunday of the new year).
But what the PGA Merchandise Show does is bring over 40,000 industry professionals, and not just the ones in the pro shop or on the lesson line, together to talk the game. And to see why the new year, will be better than the last year.
It gets the northerners out of their homes, and onto a driving range or a golf course. It’s a chance for some fresh air, and a chance to come home to their members, or customers with hope for another year. A why this year your game will improve, your handicap will drop, and you might finally win the club championship, or make a hole-in-one. But better yet, maybe you won’t lose all your bets. It’s a chance for us media types to tell the world, why the new golf equipment is better, the golf balls are better, the apparel looks and feels better.
TITLEIST has announced that they have made the Pro-V golf ball, all models even better than before.
But then again they have to. Because Callaway, Bridgestone, and Wilson are all creating golf balls that compete with the Pro-V. At least on some levels.
So the good news is that you won’t have to wait long to buy the new Pro-V’s. Because this Wednesday, for $50.00 a dozen you can start buying them.
If they look a little more different, it’s because they are. Pro-V1 will have 388 dimples. The Pro-V1x will have 348. Each ball does a few things different than the other, of has better, distance, spin, or trajectory. But you can learn more at Titleist.com
ANGEL CABRERA the former U.S. Open and Masters Champion has been arrested in Brazil, and was extradited to his home country of Argentina. Cabrera is facing multiple charges for crimes committed over the last 5 years. Things got so bad, Cabrera ended up on Interpol’s Red List of criminals. Because there is a list of charges, including issues with his past wife, and a complaint from a female partner who says Cabrera beat her, and tried to run her over with his car. Don’t look for Cabrera in Augusta come April.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS NATIVE Doug Ghim with a nice week on the PGA Tour this past week. A T-5 and a $247,500 pay day. Congrats Doug-well played, and great bounce back from the missed cut at Sony.
I’M NOT RULING OUT a trip south this winter, it just might start 30 days later than normal. By now I should have had some days in Pinehurst, or maybe Myrtle Beach, with a night at the French Lick Resort. Places you have to go in person, because virtual just doesn’t cut it.
IT’S SHOW TIME. The Gog Blog returns all week. So stay clicked in. RS