It is an amazing site built by Frank Halpin and Brett Darrow. They are still in charge.

I worked so freaking hard after I invested that it’s hard to just stop calling Brett anymore (Frank stopped taking my calls back in 2006 and Brett now actually loops me through Comcast customer service). There is so much growth ahead for this amazing yield management tool, that even Comcast can’t wreck it (I kid the cable behemoth).

We had Amy Banse on Wallstrip back in 2007. She runs Comcast Interactive. She’s a smart cookie. Although we have never met I had asked Lindsay and the team to subliminally play a GolfNow mantra in the background during the shoot. It worked…bigtime! It may be why the media bigshots are shying away from the interview segments on Wallstrip of late – they know I have other companies to sell :) . You can hide, but you can’t run!

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Since I am thinking about golf for the first time in a while, check out the sweet Golfnow.com redesign . Still in beta, but wow.

The company is growing so fast in the US, UK and now Mexico that it’s hard to believe.

Disclosure – I am an investor

Next month is my annual pilgrimmage to Bandon Dunes and I need to get my game in shape for 4 days of sweet golf.

At Golfnow.com, the team has completely integrated the TeeTines Hawaii acquisition and we are live with tee time inventory . It’s so sweet.

Golfnow.com is a very locally focused business, but Hawaii changes the game now as it is ‘The’ travel golf destination and we have the top courses and their inventory. Mexico too actually.

At GolfNow , the Hawaii and Mexico integration has been awesome. You can click on the map for tee times all over Hawaii or go to TeeTimesHawaii directly. We now have the largest inventory of courses and inventory to choose from in those areas.

We also have a big tee time partner in the UK. Today’s Golfer is a huge magazine in the golf crazed UK and they have licensed our software to sell tee times to those tea drinking people. There are over 900 courses to come on board. To put it in perspective, California is our biggest market today with 400 courses so obviously a great opportunity. Congrats guys.

Alex keeps cranking out the widgets and smart links at Adaptive Blue. First a revamped homepage .
They also now support Movie Stars and Music Artists in both organizer and SmartLinks .

Most importantly for bloggers and potential income through affiliations, SmartLink Feeds are now all viral, JavaScript and Flash widgets . They are currently supporting and weekly updating 8 feeds so go check them out and spread the word. Make a little money as well from the best of lists.

The BlogTalkRadio team has been on fire as well. Thousand’s of new hosts have been signing up and politics seems to be the hottest category . I loved BlogTalk from the minute The Fly linked me to it. It’s live voice blogging and they have a twitter app as well. Talk Radio will ALWAYS be a big market and BTR has a global opportunity to get people heard. BTR had a big voice in getting the CBS show ‘Jericho’ back on the air .

Have a great weekend everybody.

We have also blasted into Atlanta and Washington DC with over 20 great courses in each city using our middleware. The golfers are loving it as always. Time, we need more time.

By next summer, New York and Toronto golfers will be enjoying GolfNow’s simple tee time solution. Yields…it’s all about the yields.

Disclosure – Investor in GolfNow

Not complicated, just a lot of Keri.

Disclosure – Long Golfnow.com (private investment)

Lindsay is kicking some butt in the ‘Hot News Babe’ Valleywag contest. Please remember to vote .

In all the excitement of the markets and Lindsay’s romp, I forgot to mention that Golfnow’s Keri Murphy was dissed and not included.

Seems I am not alone. Jack is leaking his disdain for today’s golfers – save Tiger.

Eddie has the full story on the GolfNow blog .

Eddie is doing just that at the GolfNow blog. I sent him a few articles this weekend and he put together a great post on the woeful state of the business of golf for the manufacturers.

I saw the new squarehead drivers that Callaway and Nike are offering up. They are turds. If Tiger were to win 10 tournies in a row with a square driver – no one will switch. The technology is in the shaft these days and if you can swing a club, that’s where you will tweak your game. The GolfBlog is reporting that Taylor made is avoiding this marketing and product fiasco .

Even Nike will suffer in the golf industry this year. Tiger winning, while great, is rather boring already for consumers.

Also – I totally dig the Adidas golf apparel. They have nailed it the last three years.

Something not in need of repair is Keri at GolfNow.tv. Oy. Check her out today. I asked the guys to buy her the blouse in every color.