My Weekend of Debauchery and Golf

by Ryan Ballengee on May 4, 2009 10:23 AM EDT Comment 8 comments

This weekend was a bit of a wash for me and golf. Thursday was my birthday and on Friday was when I made the trek down to Raleigh, NC, for the World Beer Festival. My fiancee and I met up with some of our friends and partied down all day on Saturday. Long story short: I tried over 100 different types of beer and played a lot of Cornhole.

This is cornhole.

I didn't get to see a lot of sport over the weekend, though. In the interlude between afternoon and evening partying, I saw the Kentucky Derby and the final four or five holes of the Quail Hollow event. I can remember thinking, "At 50 to 1, there's no way Zach Johnson is going to win." Seriously, though, seemed to me that this was going to be a showdown between Woods and Zach.

File photo.

Driving home up I-95, we followed the golf on our BlackBerrys. I was pretty surprised that O'Hair managed to keep it together. I was more surprised that people on motorcycles seem to think that driving laws don't apply to them, or that - in addition to being unable to vote right - people from Florida are awful drivers.

The end result was a great weekend of fun and a surprise winner on the PGA Tour. I know many were probably pulling for Tiger to win, but the best way that Sean O'Hair can become a household name is by winning events. He doesn't have the charisma of Phil Mickelson or the drunken stupor of John Daly. But, he has a hell of a lot of talent and, when applied often enough, he can become a household name.

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Cornhole, huh? So the game brought to life on the west side of Cincinnati has made it to North Carolina? Poor North Carolina.

Truth has a well-known liberal bias.

by dianemarie on May 4, 2009 2:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Known as "bags" in Iowa.

I’d never heard of it until I moved to Kansas City. I’m utterly terrible at it.

by Cairo on May 4, 2009 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There’s a video game called “Bags” made by the same people who make Golden Tee. I didn’t know it as anything other than Cornhole before I played it down south.

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by Ryan Ballengee on May 4, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cornholing got some national attention a few years back when some top name athlete mentioned the game on TV – then guys like Dan Patrick spread the word. Cornholing has definitely been re-energized !

I’m sure nobody was following “Frat House” week last week on 790 the Zone – there was Hooters calendar shoot at the pool and some of the girls found the cornhole game set up and were playing – live and streaming over the inter-web ! The game’s finest moment to date.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on May 5, 2009 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

C’mon, Court, isn’t that what the FanShot is for?

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by Ryan Ballengee on May 5, 2009 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought about posting it there – but didn’t want to tick off D or Stephanie. Don’t need them smacking me around anymore than they already do without the “Male Cheuvanist Pig” tag. (lol)

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on May 5, 2009 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm, that label stops me from more gratuitous posting too, haha

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by Ryan Ballengee on May 5, 2009 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh ok – you talked me into it…here’s the link to The Zone’s page. go down to the video player and scroll down a little bit – you’ll see some of the Hooters girls interviews and one of them playing Cornhole…

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