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The 2013 Jazzy Awards – Best Sports Writing – Kevin Cook, The Last Headbangers

While it was a lean year for sports books (and golf books in particular), former Sports Illustrated editor Kevin Cook provided us with one for the ages, a true instant classic. His new book, “The Last Headbangers,” traces the NFL from the Immaculate Reception, Franco Harris’s miraculous, last-second, shoestring catch and touchdown romp against the...

The 2013 Jazzy Awards – Best Courses – Pine Valley (Classic) Dye Fore at Casa de Campo (Modern)

Course of the Year (Classic Golden Age Division) – Pine Valley The Shangri-La of golf courses, Pine Valley appears out of the mists of history like a reverie, both figuratively and literally. Deep in a forested section of suburban New Jersey, you have to get lost to find it. Moreover, the moment you step on the property, you walk back 100 years in time. There...

The 2013 Jazzy Awards – Greg Tallman PGA Head Professional

PGA Head Professional of the Year – Greg Tallman Greg Tallman isn’t just the Director of Golf at the number one golf resort in all Mexico and Central America, Cabo del Sol. He’s a regional jefe of the tourism and travel industries – powerful, resourceful, and remarkably well-informed. He has a hand in everything, golf operations, travel...

The 2013 Jazzy Awards – Player of the Year Adam Scott

You can clamor all you want about Tiger Woods winning five tournaments this year, (three of them early, limited field events and one – Sawgrass – besmirched with an ugly asterisk for a highly questionable drop), but Adam Scott had by far and away the best year of any golfer. A. Scott won the Masters. Woods wasn’t competitive in a single major except...

2012 Jazzy Awards – Best Restoration, Rockaway Hunting Club

There were some outstanding restorations that came on-line this year including the remarkable resurgence of Crestwood G.C. from the brink of extinction and Tom Doak’s superb work at North Shore C.C., but Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner take home top honors this year for the astounding restoration work at Rockaway Hunting Club. We’ll have a longer article soon...

2012 Jazzy Awards – PGA Head Professional of the Year Steve Nacewicz of Crestwood

They are like doctors with a patient, priests with a penitent; the PGA Head professionals devote their lives to golf and golfers far from the cameras, lights, and microphones, but they are the beating heart of the game nonetheless. Christmas is a little brighter in upstate New York this year as they celebrate the golf world’s rejoinder to the Miracle on 34th...

2011 Jazzy Awards – Laurie Hammer Wins Golf Instructor of the Year

He was a College All-American, a PGA Tour event winner, a National Club Pro Championship Winner, one of the founders of venerable Delray Dunes Country Club, and overall Great Friend of Golf, but for 41 years Laurie Hammer has served golf in his most important capacity – a PGA Head professional and teaching pro. We wouldn’t get far without those dedicated...

2011 Jazzy Awards – Best New Public Course Jim Engh’s Awarii Dunes

Crank up the Van Morrison in Parker, Colorado (Turn it up! Turn it up! Radio!) because Jim Engh should be celebrating yet another Best New Course Award, and this time it’s for an instant classic, Awarii Dunes, the first world-class public golf course in the fabled Nebraska sand hills region. For years golfers have regarded Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s...

The 2011 Jazzy Awards – the Dry, Stringy Turkey of the Year

If it’s the day after Thanksgiving, then it must be time for our annual Jazzy Awards to start the holiday season! As usual, we kick off with the Turkey of the Year, where we celebrate the ludicrous, lunatic lunkheads and lugnuts that have ruined the sports year. As always, we do this feature in conjunction with our buddy and colleague Tony Korologos of Hooked...

Tony Korologos Makes the Coolest Par in Road Hole History!

It may not be the greatest or most historic, but it’s definitely the coolest, most unlikely, and most memorable par in Road Hole history. Tony Korologos, the Media Guru, chief mucky-muck of the Golf Space, and AWITP contributor, made four on the 17th at The Old Course at St. Andrews in style. After sniping one off the Old Course Hotel observatory with a...

2010 Jazzy Awards – Graeme McDowell, Player of the Year

In the interests of transparency, I publish my vote for Player of the Year each December. For the record, like my brethren in the BWAA, I will never cast a vote for a player under a cloud of suspicion for steroid/PED use. This year, Graeme McDowell made the quantum leap form potentially great player to major champion and Ryder Cup hero. It was a tough ballot. Jim...