CATCHING UP WITH DR. RICHARD HURLEY, A.K.A. DR. TURFGRASS [AUTHOR’S NOTE: Back in the April 2021 issue of Golf Course Trades (see ), we caught up with Dr. Richard Hurley, a.k.a. Dr. Turfgrass, the scientist behind nearly every great advancement in turfgrasses for the last 50 years. By...
We got a scoop, and a really good one at that. Dr. Richard Hurley has released a new strain of turfgrass It’s the latest generation in his ling-running series, an upgrade from 007XL called ULTRA 7. It’s all in my latest interview with the good Doctor, and it’s over at...
HUGE catch for Indy Pass as long time pass holdout Smugglers’ Notch has joined the Indy Pass, starting this season. Once again, the east proves to be the biggest and best of Indy’s areas of coverage, at least as far as depth goes. Smuggs joins an already sterling Vermont cast...
Sadly, Rutgers University was never in the running in their own event as the Kansas University Jayhawks held off a furious rally from the Purdue Boileermakers to win the inaugural NCAA Harbor Cup at Bayonne Golf Club. Kansas finished the three day tournament 25-under to Purdue’s 23...
Modern masterpiece Bayonne Golf Club, just a jaunt across the river from Manhattan by their private ferry, is hosting a nine-team NCAA tournament hosted by Rutgers University this weekend. The tournament is called the New York Harbor Cup, a 54-hole stroke play event running Aug. 29...
It seems rank has its privileges. Ryan Fox got away with some airport extra special care, but then again, he did just win the Open Championship. Fox was boarding his commercial flight home when he had to ask the gate agent for permission to bring on TWO carry on items instead of...
Golf Course Trades has done its usual terrific job with my latest story for them. This one is short, but we’ll have two more stories for them soon, including a catch-up with Dr. Richard Hurley, a.k.a. Dr. Turfgrass. In the mean time, the link to the story is here. From the article:...
The news out of the Karakoram is shocking. An avalanche ripped through the section between Camps II and III of the Standard Line up the mountain at about 9:30 a.m. local time killing 10 climbers, including the legendary climber Nirmal Purja – a.k.a. Nims Dai – who was about...
The International Skiing History Association will be hosting its annual Ski Week in Europe this year, with Lech, Austria selected as the epicenter. From the press release from ISHA: “Our annual awards banquet, celebrating the year’s award-winning books and films (link to...
SUN VALLEY, ID – Two items of glorious news from the Gen State and from the grande dame of the west, Sun Valley. First, local writer and historian John Lundin has been inducted into the Ski Jumping Hall of Fame as a journalist. Humble as ever, the graceful septagenerian attorney and...
The Open Championship, a Wonderland of Golf SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – For some of us out there – kids with wanderlust for example – the Open Championship was always our favorite of the majors. Yes – gasp! – even more than the Masters. Remember: we get Augusta National every year...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – There is a saying in sports: Beware the joyous father! The birth of a child is so overwhelming that the love travels right down the golf club to the ball. Now, Sam Burns, whose wife Caroline gave birth to his daughter Belle last week, stand one round away...
SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – Bryson DeChambeau took a 2-stroke penalty at The Open Championship on Friday night after R&A officials deemed he had improved his swing path by trampling some tall grass near his ball on the short par-4n 5th hole. Bryson was seen making his way...
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...
