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Q&A With Robert Trent Jones, Jr. on Chambers Bay

While I get a few more interviews and course reviews finshed, here’s some great insighta o Chambers Bay from Robert Trent Jones, Jr., who by this time next week = may pull a come from nehind victory in the Rio primary:) (I.E. The Olympics election…err…selection…) JF: Now those hummocks look like berms that Seth Raynor did at flat courses like...

The Walla to Walla Tour – a Cybergolf Diary (Part 1)

Day 1 – The Road to Chambers Bay Warm clothes? Check. Laptop? Check. Clubs? That’s a big check! And we were off to Seattle for the Walla to Walla Tour – golf in Washington state during the first week of January. The weather report called for highs between 45 and 25 degrees, with lows in the teens, but no snow, thankfully. So I added four layers of...

Tour Announcement – Washington State

Bag? Check. Laptop? Check. Clubs? Check. We’re ready to launch our first of many tours this year for the Magazine, for Cybergolf, and for my first book. This is a big one: tomorrow it’s Chambers Bay, site of the 2015 U.S. Open where we will play the course and interview Mike Davis – the head of the U.S.G.A. himself and get his thoughts on many...

The 2011 PGA Championship – Playing Future Venue Ping-pong with Ron Whitten

JOHNS CREEK, GA – Ron Whitten’s recent Golf Digest article on the new turfgrasses being tested this week at Atlanta Athletic Club’s PGA Championship is another excellent observation by one of the most intelligent voices in the game. His knowledge of architecture and travel is unparalleled. In his article he mentions a number of southern and western...

2010 Jazzy Awards – Best New Course, Old Macdonald

Tom Doak and George Bahto are collecting a lot of hardware this year for their terrific course at the Bandon Dunes Resort, Old Macdonald, a course that hearkens back to all the design concepts that C.B. Macdonald, Seth raynor, and Charles Banks all championed. Ran Morrissett has a terrific breakdown of the course at Golf Club Atlas. Doak has already collected the...

Events Coming up at AWITP

Let’s quickly reset the schedule of events, coverage, and articles for the next few weeks: 1. The British Open! 2. My preview and live coverage of the PGA Championship 3. Article on Pasatiempo 4. Atlantic City Country Club 5. Golf along I-84 in the NE corridor 6. Book reviews of Titanic Thompson (Kevin Cook) and Ancestral Links (John Garrity). 7. Stephen Kay...

Cybergolf Piece: Day 1 of the U.S. Open is Just Getting to Know You

Here’s my latest Cybergolf piece. Enjoy. From the article: “From personal experience, let me tell you that any windy, forested road called “17 Mile Drive” is no place to get lost, but that’s exactly what happened to the biggest names in golf, as the U.S. Open leaderboard is left to forgotten major winners from 2003, a couple foreign...

A Hole-by-hole Breakdown of Pebble Beach

PEBBLE BEACH, CA – In 2000, when Tiger Woods Years lapped the field, broke or tied nearly every important U.S. Open record, and turned our beloved Pebble Beach into flotsam and jetsam in the wake of a yacht insultingly called Privacy, some pundits mistakenly thought Pebble Beach had become obsolete. Those same pundits ignored the rest of scoreboard. 3-over tied...