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USGA Announces Local Qualifying Sites for U.S. Open

From the USGA: A total of 114 local qualifiers will be conducted in 44 states and Canada for the 117th U.S. Open Championship, which will be contested June 15-18 at Erin Hills in Erin, Wis. The 18-hole qualifiers are scheduled to take place from May 2-18. Those players who advance out of local qualifying will compete in sectional qualifying, which will be conducted...

Golf Course Trades Runs my Piece on Kyle Phillips’s California Golf Club of San Francisco

Golf Course Trades did a wonderful job on my Cal Club article. (You can read it here on-line or pick it up in print.) Cal Club is one of those golfing wonders of the world you have to savor at least once in your life. With the shining city on a hill in every picture window green, it’s as magical and transportive as any Shangri-La. Bravissima, Kyle Phillips...

Early Betting Odds to Win the 2017 Masters

Interesting…despite a mezza-mezza finish season (comparatively) Jordan is still top seed in Vegas betting, along with perennial fave RoRy McIlroy. The biggest joke is, of course, Tiger Woods at 22-1. That has his lsted above Henrik Stenson, Justin Rose, Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler, and Patrick Reed to name a few. Again – the line is not where Vegas...

Jay’s Plays NFL Picks Finishes Season at 24-16-3

So Ernesto the Prediction Iguana and his band of merry animal handicapping friends finished the season with exactly a 60% winning percentage – 24-16-3 in teasers, (69-23-3 overall). With his win in the Super Bowl parley, the Patriots and the OVER, Ernesto also finished the playoffs 8-3-1, 2-3-1 in teasers. So as Lord Football descends his throne for another...

Bayonne Golf Club – An Interview with Eric Bergstol

BAYONNE, NJ – A funny thing happened when I went to interview a golf course architect about his design strategies. I got a grad school-level lecture in landscape architecture, construction, and golf course permitting instead. It was every bit as fascinating. Eric Bergstol lives the dream of everyone who enters one of those Armchair Architecture contests they...

Jay’s Plays NFL Picks – 2017 AFC and NFC Championship Predictions and Bettor’s Guide

Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went .500 last week, 2-2 over all, 0-2 in teasers, putting the playoff record at 5-2-1 overall, 1-2-1 in teasers. That puts the season totals at 66-23-3 overall, 23-15-3 in teasers, a solid total. Here’s this week’s winner – and remember what Paulie Walnuts said about gambling on the Sopranos, “Bet wi’ ya...

Jay’s Plays NFL Picks – 2017 Divisional Playoffs Predictions and Bettor’s Guide

Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went 3-0-1 last week, hitting on the Texans and the OVER against Oakland, and the Seahawks in their shellacking of Detroit. He got lucky pushing the STEELERS-dolphins game on the back end. That makes us 1-0-1 for the playoffs (64-21-3 overall this season, 23-13-3 in teasers). Here’s this week’s winners before they happen. As...

Jay’s Plays NFL Picks 2017 Wild Card Predictions

With Ernesto the Prediction Iguana at the helm for the final week of the season, we here at AWITP and GNN went a surprising 3-1, 1-1 record. Week 17 is always tough, what with who sits and rests and who plays, but we finish the season at 61-21-2 overall and 22-13-2 in teasers. Solid numbers. Now for the playoff push… There are a lot of new faces in unlikely...