SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – For the second time in as many Open Championships Royal Birkdale has surrendered the lowest score ever posted over a single round in a major championship. Twice actually, as Australia’s Lucas Herbert posted 62 to finish the first two rounds at 8-under...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – This will be a fascinating year to watch the statistics for individual golf holes, because Royal Birkdale and the R&A believe that they – with the help of golf architect Tom Mackenzie – may have solved a pesky issue. For decades, the book on Birkdale...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – American Jackson Suber, on his first trip to Europe, leads the 154th Open Championship, but a cartographer’s dream are on his heels as once again the Open Championship proves itself the de facto world championship of golf, as players from around the world...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – They are, perhaps, the two biggest names in the game right now, and both are chasing even more glory at the 154th Open Championship, held this week at quintessentially English venue Royal Birkdale. Scheffler, winner of last year’s Open Championship at...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – Agincourt. Westminster Abbey. William Shakespeare. Lord Nelson. Elizabeth the Second, The Beatles, The RAF. Wimbledon. High tea. Royal Birkdale. What do they all have in common? They are all iconic gifts of England. Royal Birkdale may be one of the...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – It’s been ten years since the world’s greatest golfers have tackled mighty Royal Birkdale for an Open Championship. There are some changes to the golf course, primarily to equate the difficulty of the nines and to diversify the par-3s. But the links golf...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – Like a dream from which you never want to wake, a walk amidst the heaving dunes and rumpled fairways of Royal Birkdale is a golfer’s greatest wish come to life. The sting of the salty spray in your nostrils, the wild, whirling winds whipping the flag, and...
Small but mighty, on two different continents one global mission of sustainability is championed by the unlikeliest of mountains. Deep in the heart of the Andes, Cerro Chapelco has been at the vanguard of implementing a zero-carbon footprint since 2017. Meanwhile at home, western...
Southport and Ainsdale – Ancient and Venerable, Rare and Wonderful —Special to JF.com and Golf News Net— [Editor’s Note: Last year our Indomitable Sportsman, Jay Flemma, spent a glorious eight days lost amidst the fabulous dunes of northwest England – England’s Golf...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 15 – Black Mountain —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— NORTH CONWAY, NH – There is a bit of black magic going down in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. With some timely, last-second...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET —BY JAY FLEMMA SOUTHAMPTON, NY – What looked like a runaway turned into a dogfight as Wyndham Clark watched his six-shot 54-hole lead at the U.S. Open shrink to just one, but then held on for dear life on the back nine to hold off a hard-charging fellow...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Six stroke lead or not, Championship Sunday at Shinnecock Hills will be a five-hour golf round as difficult as a doctoral dissertation for Wyndham Clark as well as the rest of the field chasing him at the 126th U.S. Open. Should he falter – and that’s just one bad swing...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Just an hour or so after he finished up a stellar opening round 64, Wyndham Clark turned around and posted a solid 69 to lead the 126th U.S. Open at 7-under. Among the other early finishers among the leaders are a gaggle of former major winners, including Xender...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – It Wyndham in the wind on Thursday at the U.S. Open as Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open Champion at L.A. Country Club, fired a sizzling 8-under 64 in blustery conditions to lead the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills by three shots. Meanwhile a...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Early morning tee times and a pairing together proved just what some of the U.S. Open favorites needed as Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, and Tommy Fleetwood all posted solid rounds to Open the 126th playing of the national golf championship. McIlroy, reigning back-to-back...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – The warning came Sunday: “The Knicks won the title, the City has gone absolutely mental. You better be prepared for everyone to be over the moon.” Then came the airport, where fans from across the globe were streaming in for the World Cup. Futbol...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Isn’t it great when something, anything lives up to the hype? We live in a world where journalists have to build everything up to such a degree of hagiographic hero worship, that it takes work to discern what’s culture and what’s a commercial. Happily, this week at the U...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Nowhere will Shinnecock Hills reveal its slavering jaws as a U.S. Open venue more than at its formidable par-3s. For mere mortal golfers, the par-3s can often be a welcome refuge from the course. Occasionally – not often, but occasionally – the shortest golf holes...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – For everyone asking “Who is going to win the U.S. Open at Shinnecock this year?” I have the answer for you, and it’s obvious. The golf course will win this year’s U.S. Open. Is Shinnecock Hills the hardest U.S. Open venue? Tough call with Winged...
NORTH CONWAY, NH – There is a bit of black magic going down in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. With some timely, last-second prestidigitation, a once beloved mom and pop ski resort has been saved from being relegated to the “No Longer Exists” file. It’s another victory for the Indy...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 13 – Sugarbush —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— WARREN, VT – Any conversation of the greatest ski areas in North America must include Sugarbush. End of story. Sugarbush is too important historically...
The Royal and Ancient announced that Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s near Blackpool, England will host the 2028 Open Championship, the 12th in Lytham’s illustrious history. The Open was last held there in 201 when Adam Scott bogeyed the last four holes coming home, while Ernie...
Murdered by a llama, reborn as a Loon…Loon Mountain Resort! Enormous props to the venerable Skiing History magazine for running my sory on New Hampshire’s Sherman Adams. Here is the link. From the story: “The logging industry, previously the beating heart of the state’s...
[Author’s Note: This story also appears at Golf Course Trades Magazine] SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The Open Championship – the de facto world championship of golf – returns this summer to the northwest coast of England, a cradle of the game and home to eight of the most...
I’m still astonished that the tour pros shredded Aronimink to the tune of 20-under back in 2018 during the FedEx Cup Playoffs. I’m hoping to see 13 or 14-under and nine players tied for the lead with seven holes to play. We’ll be live from Shinnecock Hills and Royal...
Golf News Net on iHeartRadio returns with my post Masters review. Ryan Ballengee, head of all things GNN joins us with his thoughts on the wild ride that is Rory McIlroy. First he looks like the Rory of the early 2010s, then he looks like the Rory that ran from that tennis chick like she...
The dream is postponed indefinitely; it will be at least another two years before Americans will have a chance to vie for the FIDE World Chess Championship. Americans Fabi Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, the number 2 and 3 players in the world respectively were upset by 20-year old Uzbeki...
What’s the difference between at Titleist golf ball and a Cadillac Escalade? Tiger Woods can drive the Titleist 300 yards. Whaddya know? The rest of the world finally got to where I was two accidents ago. Tiger Woods is a dangerous, pain killer-addled menace potentially any time he...
[Author’s Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series on Sugarbush. Click here for A Sugarbush Love Story] MOUNTAIN GAZETTEER – SUGARBUSH RESORT With the exception of the gondola being eliminated and the Slide Brook Express added to connect Mt. Ellen to Lincoln Peak...
It’s always an announcement that generates excitement in golf circles: what will the defending Masters champion serve to the former champions gathered for dinner the night before the Masters par-3 contest begins? Angel Cabrera served Argentinian steaks – well received...
