Big ups to Golf Course Trades for running my welcome back piece. Now that I’m settled in the great northwest, my regular column resumes. This was a fun; no pressure, just stretch my legs a bit as a writer and tell it like it was: ZANY! Here’s a snippet. Click here for the...
GRANBY, CO – The Snow Angel Foundation will unite with quintessential American snowsports venues Killington and Jay Peak to promote skiing and snowboard safety at the annual North American Snowsports Journalists Association (NASJA) meeting and symposium in Boston on November 15. Held...
INDY PASS BECOMES THE TEMPORARY OWNER OF BLACK MOUNTAIN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE From the press release: Black Mountain will open for its 90th season and will implement a community-operated (co-op) business model by the start of the 2025/26 season JACKSON, NEW HAMPSHIRE—Indy Pass and Entabeni...
Whaddya know! The IOC didn’t trip over itself and picked fabled Riviera Country Cub as the site for the 2028 Men’s and Women’s Olympic golf competition. From the press release: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (Friday, 12 July 2024) – The International Golf Federation alongside...
Resorts across America have released projected opening days. Some of them may be optimistic, especially in the east, but the good news is, snow is falling. Some light dusting hit Colorado last week, the signal for everyone to start breaking out the boards and trying on the boots. And of...
FROM THE OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: ISHPEMING, MI – The U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is excited to announce the ten-member Hall of Fame Class of 2024 that will be inducted, along with Class of 2023 member Jeff Brushie, at the annual Snowsports History...
BROOKFIELD, Wis. –The American Society of Golf Course Architects has chose pre-eminent golf architect and their Past President Robert Trent Jones, Jr., as the 2024 recipient of the ASGCA Donald Ross Award. The award, given annually since 1976, is presented to a person who has made a...
BOISE, ID – While east coast boarders and skiers routinely high-five each other when they review the Murderer’s Row line-up of Indy Pass resorts – two free days each year at Cannon, Waterville, Jay Peak, Magic, and Saddleback for openers – west coasters would be...
The US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame hosts its 4-person golf tournament in Lake Placid, N.Y. at the Whiteface Club on Wednesday September 11th, 2024 with a 9 am shotgun start. The golf outing will be followed by the CLASS of 2024 ANNOUNCEMENT & MEDIA PARTY at the Whiteface...
[Author’s Note: Soon I’ll be filing the follow-up to this article. It’s a triumphant return to Golf Course Trades, the wonderful magazine that hosted my Elysian Fields column for close on a decade. As you’ll read below, GCT became just one thing too many in the...
What an honor – my first story in Skiing History, the official publication of the International Skiing History Association, Viva Catedral. It was the ski trip of a lifetime. Huge shout out to Aaron Scorsch and Savor the Journey, the athletic and culinary outfit I hooked up for my...
Once again, venerable Royal Troon Golf Links – 142 years young – hosted a legendary Open Championship, one that should shine brightly through the ages: proper weather, a scintillating links, and a worthy victor in Xander Schauffele, now a two-time major winner and one of only a...
The last time we saw Royal Troon Golf Links for an Open Championship the blessed old links gave us what golf history now refers to as the Second Duel in the Sun. Hearkening back to 1977 when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus separated themselves by 1o shots from the field at Turnberry...
Huge news: Golf News Net is now a TV station. Yes, you’ll be seeing me make show appearances. I’ll also have Jay Flemma Sports Report rocking special guest episodes all the rest of the season. Here’s the detailed press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Golf News Net...
(Sand Creek Station, pictured above, was designed by Jeff Brauer, a rising star of a golf course architect from the great state of Texas.) The 3rd U.S. Adaptive Open – a national championship that showcases the world’s best golfers with disabilities – begins tomorrow at Sand Creek...
GRANBY, COLORADO—Indy Pass announced today that Ragged Mountain in New Hampshire, three others in New England, four in Japan, and one each in the Southeast and Nova Scotia will join the pass, adding skier capacity for the 2024/25 season. A limited number of passes will be available for...
(PICTURED ABOVE, THE BOSTON GLOBE’S MOIRA MCCARTHY STANFORD WAS HONORED AS ONE OF NASJA’S AWARD WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN WINTER SPORTS JOURNALISM) MANCHESTER CENTER, VT – The North American Snowsports Journalists Associatin has announced its writing and media contest...
Who doesn’t love a good monster fight? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! And the glory days are actually back! With modern technology the new Godzilla movies are totally worthy, and for once the inability to pick which monsters to...
Albany’s Out of Control Ski Club won the Inaugural G.E. Ski Club Cup Golf Challenge, easily coasting to victory in the medal play tournament. Hosts G.E. Ski Club finished a distant second. OOC’s Matt Zeist was medalist, with his teammate Steven Ford finishing second. Indeed...
GRANBY, COLORADO—Indy Pass previewed its latest innovation today, announcing it will release a new digital and interactive Indy Pass in the fall of 2024. The digital pass leverages BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) technology and is supported by additional secure on-screen redemption options...
Finally, the dominos are set. After interviews is three different languages and four different time zones we will have stories of skiing in the northern regions of Patagonia. There are so many thank yous to too many people to list here, but I look forward to taking everyone back in time...
It was a moment long coming. Ever since Xander Schauffele reached the PGA Tour in 2015 in 2016 he’s been in contention in the biggest events. He was PGA Tour rookie of the year in 2016-17 and even finished T-5 in the U.S. Open at Erin Hills, his bogey-free 66 in the first round...
The 105th PGA Championship and the second major golf championship of the year is in chaos today as a pedestrian was killed by a shuttlebus in early morning darkness, and world number one golfer and reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested on a total of four felony and...
DURANGO, CO – Colorado-based Mountain Capital Partners is preparing to purchase Chilean resort La Parva and unite it with Valle Nevado, already pwned by MCP. The union of the two areas will create the largest ski resort in the entire Southern Hemisphere. MCP purchased Valle Nevado...
Ski Area Management, one of the most respected, intelligent, and important magazines in the winter sports world ran my story about how ski area golf courses can improve their designs with minimal cost. They really made it look good. And – BONUS! – Mt. Snow is renovating their...
[Author’s Note: As we all know, the PGA Championsbip is next week at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky. As we also all know, Valhalla sucks. We will all be playing better golf courses next week than the pros will. So while I search for houses in Idaho, I leave you in the capable hands...
—Special to AWITP, NASJA, NSCF, and Golf News Net — FAYETTEVILLE, NY – In a brilliant coup, the small but historically important G.E. Ski Club of Utica, New York has challenged all ski clubs in New York and New Jersey to a golf tournament June 8 at Green Lakes Golf Club...
A mid round birdie barrage and a textbook Sunday back nine powered world number one golfer Scottie Scheffler to his second Masters Championship in three years. His sparkling final round 68 featured seven birdies, including three consecutive at holes eight through 10, a tricky if not...
It was 1977, and before their famous “Duel in the Sun” at Turnberry for the Open Championship, Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus had another duel for the ages at the Masters. Watson had been in contention the entire way, tied for the lead after both the second and third rounds, and was in the...
JAY PEAK RALLIES BACK FROM FORMER OWNER’S EB-5 PONZI SCHEME SCANDAL You can’t discuss the history of Jay Peak without a timely, candid, open assessment of the Ponzi scheme scandal in which Jay Peak was embroiled from 2016 when the SEC seized Jay Peak from its owners and put it under...