Golf is Hard TV

What is the first thing you usually do when you get off the golf course? Although your options are many, chances are they include grabbing a bite and/or a beverage at the 19th hole, or heading home to finish off your latest home improvement project. Perhaps you need to stop by the wine shop to pick up something nice for your dinner guests? Or maybe you believe that although you just spent 5 hours on the golf course, you didn’t get much real exercise, so you’re off for a workout. Whatever you typically do after a round, be sure to check out www.lifeishardtv.com first. With close to 40 video posts to date, and many more to come, chances are we talking about something in which you are interested.

Let’s take a look at what both GIHTV and LIHTV have to offer:

GolfisHardTV                                LifeisHardTV

golf instruction                                  wine education

golf humor                                           laughs with Larry

free entertainment                           free entertainment

keep your game in shape               keep your body in shape

ask questions about golf                ask questions about anything

see new equipment                          cool home projects

online golf pros                                 online wine experts

online golf pros                                 online personal trainer

online golf pros                                 online pro contractors

online golf pros                                 online chef wannabe

                                                                 (real chefs coming)

share with friends                            share with friends

You are starting to get the picture…check out LIHTV, we have a ton of stuff going on and much, much more to come. We are will be expanding soon into areas such as travel, gardening, music and hobbies. If you are passionate about something and wish to post a guest blog within a category, please give us a shout, we will be glad to consider posting your stuff. Hit ‘em well.

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Our new friends at Talk Bowling chat us up a bit.. check it out and let us know if you crazy golfers also bowl.

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Congrats to the 10 winners of GIHTV’s first-ever Sunday Scramble. Here are the answers to the questions along with our winners:

1. Computer Associates

2. Ernie Els

3. Puerto Rico. We also accepted Innisbrook (“this” week’s tourney) because my question was a little confusing.

4. Masters, US Open, British Open (a.k.a The Open Champ), PGA Championship Side note: the majors are not “run” by the PGA tour (my bad). Thanks Jeremy for clarification.

The winners, along with submission time and date, are:

1. Eric S, 5:50 pm, 3/14

2. Jeremy H, 7:41 pm, 3/14

3. Erwin Y, 10:47 pm, 3/14

4. John C, 8:00 am, 3/15

5. Paul L, 8:08 am, 3/15

6. Hugh N, 8:16 am, 3/15

7. Rodrigo, 10:45 am, 3/15

8. Tony R, 6:06 am, 3/16

9. Greg C, 7:07 am, 3/16

10. Monte K, 7:24 am, 3/16

Again, congrats to all of our winners and thanks to all who particiapted. The next step for our winners is to choose a model from http://www.heavyputter.com/mid-weight/c2-m/  Available contest models are: Mid-Weight Series C2, J2, K4, H1, H3 (satin only), and L3, choose the finish (black or satin) and the length (32″ – 36″) and R or L. Our site will be set up soon so you can order through here, we are hoping by the end of the week. Keep an eye out. For those wishing to purchase a Heavy Putter from GIHTV for a nice discount, come back next week and you will be able to order here.

The next Sunday Scramble will be Masters Sunday, April 11, and will feature the Stiletto Green Tool http://www.stilettogreentool.com/ . Thanks for watching!

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We have 7 winners, all prior submissions were correct. Need 3 more…answer the questions for a free Heavy Putter (+ nominal shipping cost)

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Sitting here trying to get excited about watching the 2nd round of whatever tournament they are playing this week on Tour. Mickelson (Phil, I think), isn’t even on page two of the leaderboard, yet during his interview after the second round he’s talking about how he can come back to win. The Tour is doing everything possible to create drama, and ratings…Tiger, please come back soon!!

There is much hype and drama being created here at GIHTV however. In addition to offering new, cool and helpful golf products in 2010 at a substantial discount from retail, we will be giving away a limited number of some items on the last Sunday of the month in which we introduce them. This is what will become famously known as the Sunday Scramble.

The Sunday Scramble is not:

• Steve Stricker trying to get up-and-down on Sunday to win a tour event
• A weekend tournament at your local club
• The guys trying to get out of the house after a day of watching football before your wife (or husband) gets home from shopping
• Peyton Manning trying to escape the pocket before being crushed by New Orleans linebackers

The Sunday Scramble is:

• A regular feature on www.golfishardtv.com where we GIVE AWAY cool new golf products, and/or offer them at substantial discounts, beginning the last Sunday of every month starting in March
• The first piece of equipment is the new Heavy Putter http://www.heavyputter.com/, free to the first 10 GIHTV fans that answer really tough (not) trivia questions (you will be able to purchase them here thereafter as well).
• A way to show off to your friends that you are hip to the latest in equipment, apparel, gadgets and the best golf websites

What you should do now:

Stay tuned for details about the big Heavy Putter giveaway and tell your friends what we are up to. GIHTV in 2010 will be very exciting and informative, don’t miss our weekly videos…beginning soon!

Oh…and good luck!

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Ok… you can just ignore this.. the gnomes (err, the groundhogs) are doing some maintenance and are upgrading the blog to a new version (Wordpress 2.9.1) and testing some new cool plug-ins… if it worked, you are reading this!

If it worked, this post should also show up auto-magically on tumblr, Twitter and Delicious! Let’s hope so…

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First, Thanks Marc for a killer New Year’s Eve party last night, great people, great food and a house full of nice kids.

For all of you folks out there living in a cold, snowy winter climate, remember that you can continue to improve your game without even touching a club. Putt and chip around the house during the winter, exercise 3-4 times per week, stretch your golf muscles (very important), review our episodes about grip, posture, putting and chipping. Incorporate some of these thoughts and you will continue to improve your game all winter long. Oh…and as you are going to sleep, think about hitting good golf shots.

We were chatting about childhood experiences last night and after reminiscing about all the wild, crazy and at times dangerous stuff we did, the topic of golf came up. “What’s the craziest thing that you ever did on a golf course?”, Marc asked. The story I chose to tell went something like this (all names have been changed to protect the innocent):

It was a slightly warmer, sunny winter day in February back in 1985, all the snow had melted and the smell of golf was in the air (what does golf smell like in February in New England you ask? In my house it smelled like fresh pasta sauce simmering for hours with meatballs and hot Italian sausage permeating throughout…on Sundays anyway. Back to the story…there was a really nice, haughty, private country club in town that you could only play if you were fortunate enough to be a member. My friends and I were not that fortunate, but we did have the major golf itch going and our sticks were shined up and ready to go. We joked about sneaking on the play the country club, the jokes progressed to plans, which later became reality.

I don’t remember many of the shots I hit during that 7-hole round except for the 1st swing with a driver. It was 40 degrees, I was wearing a heavy jacket and hadn’t touched a club in months, I thought that just making contact would be good enough. It went about 200 yards, somewhat straight. Good enough. The adrenaline rush caused by our mis-adventure made it seem even better. Oh yeah…one other thing I will never forget, my buddy Jerry had to run off into the woods to relieve himself (I still can’t believe he had a roll of TP in his golf bag!).

Email us your golf stories folks, we will gladly publish them.

We hope your New Year is healthy and happy and you get to play a bit more golf.

Coach Dave

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Dear GIHTV Fans,

We want to thank all of you for your support and loyalty throughout this incredibly remarkable year. We have made friends from around the world; more proof that golf is a sport of all ages, races, backgrounds and levels of ablility. From golf club owners, to industry folks, to beginning and advanced golfers looking for a bit of help and support, we thank you all. Hopefully we have provided insight to all.

Here are some 2009 highlights from Golf is Hard TV:

• Basement golf: putting and fundamentals made easy
• Watching golfers: a realistic look at what we are all doing out there
• Golf social networks: Marc’s opinion of the best
• Instruction: All the basics, archived on our site. More to come with real golfers
• Tashua Knolls: Our home course, interview with Bobby Brown, club fitting with
• Ron Nihoff
• Creating Passion: Teaching new golfers (Pauline and Kate), more to follow. If
• you want to be featured on this segment, let us know.
• Equipment: A look at the new Heavy Putter and interview with the inventor
• Gadgets: Our critique on funky golf items
• Q & A: Your questions, our answers

Why else do we consider this to be a remarkable year?

• Michelle Wie won
• Tom Watson didn’t, but made us all believe
• Tiger lost (dude, why did you get married? see Jeter’s website)
• The Yankees won (yay!) and the Red Sox lost (ugh!)

Things to look forward to in 2010:

• More “watching golfers”
• Creating new passioniate golfers (you are invited)
• Customized video analysis – send us your video and questions
• The “Foursome” – average guys trying to get in a round of golf
• Instruction kept simple and achievable
• New topics
• Beyond golf: max your day, keep your family happy, stay in shape, cook a great meal, get in better shape, lose weight, upgrade your tech life, have a killer lawn, coach kids’ sports, home projects, save money and tons more stuff as we think of it…

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We do appreciate the guest blog post from Mikael below, more evidence as to why golf is hard, and why we as instructors can make it that much more difficult. Although some of what he offers is helpful, his “#1 Golf Tip for Beginners” actually contains so many tips and thoughts that even I was confused. This is the opposite of what we are trying to accomplish here at GIHTV, which is, keep it simple and achievable. Not a slam on our guest blog, we just want our fans to be clear as to the source of instruction here at GIHTV. Be confident knowing that you can find what you need here broken down into various simple instructional episodes. Just click on the links on the left.

Marc and I are jacked to move into our second year. We have learned a ton from you and truly appreciate our thousands of fans. Keep an eye out for an interesting look at the golf world and beyond in 2010. If there is anything you would like us to address in ‘10, let us know. Send an email, comment on our site, or attach a video. We answer all.

We wish you all a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season and New Year!

Thanks again for your interest in GIHTV!

Coach Dave and Marc

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Here’s to a fully belly, time with family and perhaps… a round before watching football

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