OK, so I’ve only been playing golf for about two years now but it’s definitely something that has significantly garnered my attention (probably because it absolutely frustrates me to play a sport that I am not immediately good at but want to).  Though I hate to admit it, the computer geek in me is really surprised how much technology has played a part in the sport and my interest in it.  From hitting balls in the golf pods at my local PGA Tour Superstore (before it closed last December), to CBS’s swing vision and ball flight tracker while watching golf on TV, and to the awesome quality of the live webcast on masters.com this year, it’s kind of amazing how far golf has gone from the view that it’s just an old rich white man’s sport.  Adding to this commentary of the change in the game was an interesting article in this weekend’s wall street journal.  It was about the white belt making it’s comeback onto the golf course, brought on by some of the more youthful (and european) fashion forward players .  (Apparently, if you wear both the white belt and white shoes, it’s called a “full cleveland” and if you wear just the one of the items, a “half cleveland”.  Who knew?)  Anyways, the most interesting thing that I got from reading it was a new golf blog source.  So I thought I would share it and some other golf sites that I follow that are a little off the path from your traditional golf sources.

Wei Under Par

Blogger, Stephanie Wei, is a former Yale golfer, living in NYC, commenting on her love of the game from the interesting viewpoint of a young hip city girl.

In Golf We Trust

I like their golf galleries like their Golf in Showbiz one and who can go wrong with a section dedicated solely to Tiger Woods?

Golf Punk

Magazine based in the UK that has interesting interviews with today’s top golfers and I personally like their golf junk section.

Yes, I know.  It’s been a while since I have posted anything.  But I finally have something worthy that I definitely wanted to get out there to recommend to the people who actually follow this site… ProShow Gold.

Here’s the story behind it: my cousin and her fiance (well now, husband) asked me to put together a wedding website for them.  With our family being the size that it is and people coming from all over the country (and even across the pond), they wanted to be able to keep everyone up to date quickly and easily about all the events surrounding the wedding.  Working full time and also going to school for my MBA leaves me very little time for much else, but I was still able to quickly put together something custom and be of a quality I could live with.  The result: www.chasandmatt.com.  But no, my work was not done just yet.  I also created and sent their “Save the Date” email and also the invite to the rehearsal cocktail reception.  But still, I was not done.  They needed me to put together a slideshow for the rehearsal reception also.  Now, I could have done something quick using Powerpoint but this is my favorite cousin (and Matt’s okay too I guess even though he’s a Red Sox fan – j/k Matty) and I wanted to make it special for them.  So after some searching around, I finally found ProShow Gold.  I started with their 15 day free trial download and was hooked.   The animations were great and it seemed super easy for me to use.  The result turned out fantastic and everyone enjoyed it, especially Chas and Matt.  I only used photos for the slideshow, but after the wedding, I was able to use it to make their wedding DVD of a combination of the many photos everyone took that day along with video.  There are actually two versions of ProShow, Gold and Professional, but of course being a novice and someone not going to use it all the time, the Gold was just fine for me.  You should check out their website as it has other products, including classes and plugins, and you can see demos of what others have produced using it.  So if you’re looking for something to make you presentation more professional, I definitely recommend it.

Rehearsal Slideshow from champ20 on Vimeo.