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...
PRESS RELEASE FROM ENTABENI AND INDY PASS: “ENTABENI SYSTEMS AND INDY PASS RELOCATE HEADQUARTERS TO NEW HAMPSHIRE; REASSUMES FULL OWNERSHIP OF BLACK MOUNTAIN Historic Ski Area Reborn as Innovation Hub for Independent Ski Areas JACKSON, N.H. — March 12, 2026 — Black Mountain will...
A SUGARBUSH LOVE STORY Early 1964 was bitterly cold along I-90 in upstate New York. The Beatles “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” was in the midst of a seven-week run as number one song on American Top 40. NASA’s Ranger 7 spacecraft snapped and transmitted back home the first close-up...
Two tidbits of skiing news for this week: First, Indy Pass is announcing the addition of sixteen new ski areas for the 26/27 season, including Les 7 Laux, France; Bergbahnen Hohsaas AG, Switzerland; Valmorel, France; Stöten i Sälen, Sweden; Levi, Finland; Murray Ski Ridge, BC; Pebble...
The field is set for the 2026 FIDE World Classical Chess Championship Candidates Tournament, and for once Americans are favored to win not only the Candidates Tournament, but the entire FIDE world title later in the year. Eight players from seven different nations will play each other...
Doug Fish’s appearance on Jay Flemma Sports Report revealed the latest on Snowvana – the new Boston ski and snowboard show replacing Snowbound which moved to Connecticut. Click here for the full interview. Snowvana has had a terrific run in Portland, Seattle, and now Minnesota...
Best-selling author and former New York Daily News sports columnist Hank Gola joined us on Jay Flemma Sports Report to talk about his amazing book racing up the charts, Ryder Cup Rivals. We’ll have a more in-depth review soon, but clearly this is the front-runner for Golf Book of...
Snowsports industry magnate Doug Fish, the founder of Indy Pass and the genius behind the Snowvana series of winter sports trade shows, will sit for a probing interview with North American Snowsports Journalists Association vice president Jay Flemma on Thursday, February 12 at 7pm Eastern...
Free solo climbing wizard Alex Honnold has done it again. The man who was first to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park has summited…err…climbed the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101, topping out at a dizzying 1,667 feet and 101 floors. Honnold made it look...
BOISE, ID – NASJA, the North American Snowsports Journalists Association, will host a meeting and party at New Hampshire’s Black Mountain March 8-10, 2026. This marks one of the first times since Covid that snowsports writing’s most historic and venerable body will hold...
JACKSON, WY – Mighty, venerable Jackson Hole celebrated its 60th anniversary last weekend with a blowout party that would have impressed even Bilbo Baggins of the Shire. Tree lightings, DJs, costume contests, and holiday good cheer had the hundreds of weekend patrons absolutely stoked to...
