A new Cybergolf article here! Highlights: 1. Pete Dye’s recent ace at the 3rd at Delray! 2. Analysis of the courses and clubs! 3. Laughs at Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller:):)! And more! From the article: Dye explained the formative years of his design philosophy in an earlier interview with your author: “Back then, Trent [Robert Trent Jones, Sr.] was...
How many times have we seen country clubs – even prominent, historic, and celebrated ones – go temporarily insane and, when seeking to restore or redesign their golf course, choose a golf architect unwisely? It usually turns out to be an expensive panic and a grim disappointment. Solid golf architecture must be the first and foremost consideration: not...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – It was Yankees-RedSox, Steelers-Patriots, and Celtics-Lakers all rolled into one, and it went into the bottom of the ninth, the two-minute warning, and the last possession of the ball before it was finally settled. A steely-nerved Delray Dunes Golf Road Cup team withstood Quail Ridge’s furious Sunday charge to eke out a narrow 12-10...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – With a roar worthy of the 18th green at Augusta National on Masters Sunday, Quail Ridge members rattled every palm tree from Seminole to Sawgrass celebrating head pro Dan Brosnihan’s miraculous birdie on the final hole that rescued their team’s chances to wrest the Golf Road Cup from their rival Delray Dunes. Snookered behind a...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – One of the undisputed truths of golf is that it is a celebration of both the unquenchable human spirit and the altruistic virtues even though the competition is as fiercely contested as though American hegemony were at stake with every shot. Football players “swagger.” Hockey players fight. Soccer players roll around on the...
You might remember all the talk in late 2009 about how it looked like Tiger could run the table and win the Grand Slam of golf, (until a bunch of Ulricas and Jezebels got in the way), but 2011 looks like a great year venue wise for Woods as well. The Masters – Woods plays well at Augusta National. Even with his world in flames and his wife screaming like Nancy...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. – Indiana native Ron Carter won the 28th Society of Seniors Championship today at Quail Ridge Country Club – the de facto Tour Championship of Senior Amateur golf – but not before channeling his inner Lon Hinkle on the back nine. With his feisty demeanor, you thought he might pull a Mister Roberts instead. After a scintillating 5...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – Forget the old adage “Don’t get mad, get even,” because getting mad has done wonders for Indiana’s Ron Carter. In fact, getting mad has landed Carter atop the leaderboard at the 28th Society of Seniors Championship at Quail Ridge, and now he is just 18 holes away from capturing one of senior amateur golf’s most...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – Quail Ridge’s North Course bowed her head in homage to golf’s venerable, honored veterans today as 25 of the 92 golfers who started in the championship flight shot par or better to open the 28th playing of the Society of Seniors Championship – the de facto Tour Championship of senior amateur golf. Five players sit atop the...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – The festive white lights gracefully circling the swaying palm trees are an unmistakable sign that Christmas is coming to Florida, but for world-class caliber senior amateur golfers, Christmas comes early this year. Over 200 of the greatest American and international players over the age of 55 – from Sarasota to San Diego, from Fargo...
Beloved, admired, and an inspiration to everyone around him, the death of rising star golf architect Mike Strantz at age 51 was a crushing loss to all of golf, not just his many friends, fans, and family. Oral cancer claimed his life just as he was reaching virtuoso heights in his profession. Time and again he worked in the shadow of greatness and designed a world...
While I work on an article about Lawsonia, here’s some more on Bulls Bay. ON THE COURSE What was once an old tomato field with one foot of elevation change over the course of 200 acres has been completely transformed into a majestic, tumbling landscape of broadly sweeping fairways, eye-popping waste bunkers – bunkers so other-worldly they have drawn...
I’m thrilled to announce I’ll have not one, but two chapters in a new book by Paul Daley and Full Swing Publishing called Golf Course Architecture Vol. 6. I’ll be writing chapters on Bulls Bay and Lawsonia. PAul said it was okay to run some teasers, so here is the first: TITLEIST – THE NUMBER ONE BULL IN GOLF! In the zaniest, most madcap...
This is hysterical. Run, don’t walk to join this club. The Banks Course is one of the best layouts in the country and the members are more fun than a celebrity roast. Comedy, thy name is “Wayne and Skippy.”
Rollin’ over on that poor ole hack Jeff Gates for a $5 credit??? Dang, I’d have held out for free dinner at least:)
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – When most people think of world-class golf in New Jersey, the first two courses that come to mind are Pine Valley and Baltusrol, the former because of its perennial number one ranking in American golf, the latter because it has hosted seven U.S. Opens and one PGA Championship. To most golfers, merely playing either course is a once-in-a...