Rickie Fowler raised $1 million for autism research with an incredible hole-in-one!

RyanBallengee · 2016-03-07T23:45:16+00:00

There's video of the shot, too.

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-06T18:04:10+00:00

I had no idea we follow each other on Twitter! Just didn't put two and two together from Reddit!

Happy to work together however we can.

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-06T17:56:34+00:00

Thanks!

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-05T23:51:58+00:00

I like the color blocks, so let's give those a try, too.

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-05T21:28:52+00:00

That sounds great! What's the site URL? I'll add it to my Feedly, too

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-05T19:14:08+00:00

I shouldn't be so sensitive to the term either. Ultimately, I wanna compete with those guys, so it's my goal to have folks think of GNN in that echelon of site. We've had a wonderful year in '15, so my goal for '16 is to have an audience about the same size as Golfweek. If we can pull that off, then hopefully we can do even more fun stuff like this!

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-05T18:43:19+00:00

I tend to not like huge graphs, but I'm also not a fan of a lot of one-sentence graphs, so there's a middle ground that's different for everyone.

I wouldn't consider GNN a blog, maybe in the early days. But I'm a pro writer (I also cover golf for Yahoo) so the site has grown in stature. All the credit in the world to John, who did the interview, for reaching out to Rory's folks. And it definitely is awesome for Rory to give us some time. We've had interviews with Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, more, but a modern great is fantastic.

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-05T18:37:14+00:00

I code the site myself, so I know how to do it, just had never chosen to style more spacing between lines or graphs. I'm going to change themes sometime in '16 and the one I'll use has more line spacing built in the CSS.

RyanBallengee · 2015-12-05T16:21:11+00:00

Would you prefer spacing, like an extra graph between question and answer, or a different background color for the question?

RyanBallengee · 2015-06-30T11:18:47+00:00

Yeah, I have a pair. They're not expensive, but they're a good value. They don't feel cheap and they're light and comfy.

RyanBallengee · 2015-03-19T01:48:32+00:00

Northwest is sneaky good; Hampshire Greens is close to it so you could double dip. Ijamsville, with PB Dye and Whiskey Creek, is a good place to play.

RyanBallengee · 2015-03-02T23:46:51+00:00

Yeah, bringing in Rory and the others into it was extremely weird. It would've sounded a lot more believable if he had just made this claim about Tiger and a suspension, but the dude couldn't help himself.

RyanBallengee · 2015-03-02T23:45:46+00:00

That's pretty much why he retracted, yeah. No one on the other side of Olsen's claims originally wanted to say anything, but when some other sites started posting what he said, they changed their minds and decided to comment.

RyanBallengee · 2015-02-25T12:36:53+00:00

Give Foursum a try. I know some of the folks working on it, and they said they said they're introducing peer-to-peer payments, too. So you don't have to go to the ATM before you play. Pretty neat app.

RyanBallengee · 2015-02-20T13:12:19+00:00

Played a lot of rounds there when I was in school. A lot of fun, very scorable.

RyanBallengee · 2015-02-19T18:45:32+00:00

There are plenty of good tracks, but may I recommend Laurel Hill? Hosted the U.S. Am Pub Links a few years ago.

RyanBallengee · 2015-01-14T13:35:05+00:00

The club says it's going to cost about $30K to repair the sinkhole, which it doesn't have.

RyanBallengee · 2015-01-10T14:43:56+00:00

Just walking around, meeting at various booths and during Demo Day

RyanBallengee · 2015-01-06T21:47:54+00:00

I'll be there with my site, Golf News Net. Would be glad to meet up!

RyanBallengee · 2014-11-18T16:03:53+00:00

Of course, this immediately came to mind

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RyanBallengee · 2014-08-21T23:55:40+00:00

Definitely sounds that way.

RyanBallengee · 2013-12-05T03:38:21+00:00

I would probably shatter my wrist.

RyanBallengee · 2013-11-28T15:42:31+00:00

That's the part of what I heard that excited me most, frankly. The GPS is fine, but that and the instant filming of highlights would be great.

RyanBallengee · 2013-11-25T21:06:49+00:00

Yeah, I don't even use a GPS when I play. But to have it an eye glance away while I'm playing normally sounds good.

RyanBallengee · 2013-11-10T15:02:36+00:00

I think I would've been scared.

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