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Public Courses – Mid-Atlantic

Architect’s Progress Photo Essay – Crestwood Phase 2 and Happy 75th Voss’

MARCY, NY – The restoration of Crestwood G.C. proceeds apace, even in the face of the Biblical floods which have devastated the region and indeed the entire eastern seaboard. As you recall from this article from last year, Crestwood was rescued two years ago from the scrap heap by PGA Head Professional Steve Nacewicz and family. The course had not only...

The Architect’s Progress – Stephen Kay Improving New York City’s Marine Park

BROOKLYN, NY – There is hope in New York City for a golf course that was once a lost cause. Brooklyn public course Marine Park, under new operators since 2010, has engaged golf architect Stephen Kay to begin renovations to the golf course, and initial reaction from New York City public golfers has been uniformly supportive. The course used to be a Hell hole...

Pete Dye Day Trips: PGA Golf Club, Bulle Rock, Brickyard Crossing

You know you’ve got a great girlfriend when she turns to you and says, “I want to play a Pete Dye course!” That’s what my new girl did yesterday evening as she perused the yardage books and scorecards on my nightstand, and it made my day. But once I got over the elation of learning that my girl has serious golf street cred, I thought, where do...

The Architect’s Progress: Crest-oration! Steve Nacewicz and Family Resurrect Mighty Crestwood

MARCY, NY – We had given her up for dead, but she came back to us. After almost two decades of mind-boggling neglect, Crestwood Golf Club – the beloved home course of many upstate New Yorkers – had been utterly destroyed: annihilated, vaporized by what regional golfers called, “chronic malpractice and mismanagement.” Horrifyingly, it...

The Architect’s Progress – Great Greens and Fairway Undulations at Long Island National

[Author’s Note: For Barclays week, each day we will profile a different regional public course for everyone to play while in the area for the tournament.] RIVERHEAD, NY – It’s tough to get a pulse on Robert Trent Jones, Jr.’s architectural style since he’s done so much globetrotting and designed in so many different ecosystems. He also...

Jay’s Mailbag – Tournament Schedule for Fall 2012

Time to answer the mailbag: 1. Dear Jay, Will I see you at the Barclays? Where else will you and AWITP and Cybergolf be this year? Bob from Parsippany Bob, we’ll be at the Barclays and the Ryder Cup this fall as well as the Forsgate Battle of the Sexes between Paula Creamer and Gary McCord (hosted by David Feherty). Should be great fun. 2. Dear Jay, we had a...

Opening Salvos – Olympic Club and other Major Venues that Start with a Bang

SAN FRANCISCO – There was once a time when the U.S. Open was far more than just “Golf’s Toughest Test.” As far back as the 1970s golf journalists christened the event “The Tricked-up Open” for all the cloak and dagger claustrophobia of criminally narrow fairways, parquet floor greens, and mine fields of unexploded double bogeys...

Invasion of the Senior Golfers

On a sunny summer Sunday in 1971, deep in the Catskill Mountains, my Dad brought my Mom to the practice range of the second hardest golf course in America at the time, spent 45 minutes teaching her how to hit the ball, and then turned her loose on the golf world. He created a monster. By the time I was 15, she was playing 27 holes a day. But the idea was a great one:...

It’s the New York Post vs. Trump in Ferry Point Imbroglio

While I finish writing up all the notes from my trip to the Pacific Northwest, the New York Post takes Mayor Bloomberg and Donald Trump to task over the boondoggle that is Ferry Point golf course. what was supposed to be a high quality, yet affordable public golf course has turned into a jack Nicklaus signature design (read: mess), that will essentially be a taxpayer...

Riviera to get U.S. Amateur? Bethpage a Ryder Cup/PGA Championship?

FOREST HILLS, NY – AWITP sources have confirmed that discussion between the PGA of America and the governing bodies in New York that Bethpage may be considered for the 2020 or 2021 PGA Championship and the 2028 Ryder Cup. Sources also confirm that Rees Jones’s restoration work at Baltusrol has gone so well in preparation for the 2016 PGA Championship...