And as Zorak would say, “BONUS!” Tony Korologos and Ryan Ballengee joined me on Jay’s Plays for a wrap-up of the Open Championship and a preview of the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
And as Zorak would say, “BONUS!” Tony Korologos and Ryan Ballengee joined me on Jay’s Plays for a wrap-up of the Open Championship and a preview of the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
We interrupted our Open Championship coverage on Jay’s Plays to have a tremendous talk with Crestwood’s Barb Presky and the PGA of America’s Allen Wronowski about Crestwood, golf design, the Open, and various Folds of Honor tournaments. Crestwood raised $30,000 in their FoH tournament this weekend!
—If these be our last moments men, Let us live them with honor. J.R.R. Tolkien— Somewhere on the road between Spokane and Seattle, I could hear the pain in Jeff Shelley’s voice through the Bluetooth speaker, though four hours of driving distance still separated us. My spider-sense was tingling. Stammering…hurt…disappointment…I had...
Special to AWITP by Rodney Zilla MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – For the seventh time in eight years the storied Banks Course at Forsgate Country Club will play host to the Writer Cup, the annual head-to-head battle between Philly and New York City golf writers. Brainchild of wunderkind Chris Schiavonne, who has resurrected numerous golf courses in his career, the Banks...
So Golf News Net ran my first article for them – the biopic of Old Tom Morris! Here’s the link to the article. Look for a new series of mine starting there soon called “The Rock-n-Roll Golf Diaries about my adventures playing with musicians and celebrities or playing golf between rock gigs. We’ll also be on Matt Cahill’s DC radio show...
[Editor’s Note: While Jay is playing in Boston this weekend, we’ll re-publish Jay’s article from his Golf Observer days about Old Tom Morris, St. Andrews, and the early days of the Open Championship.] He could be the patron saint of golf – few people had more influence in elevating golf from its adolescence than Old Tom Morris, (1821-1908.)...
We had a terrific discussion on Jay’s Plays about Chambers Bay and the US Open with Gary Van Sickle of Sports Illustrated and Bruce Charlton of RT Jones 2 Designs. Click here for the show! Coming next: Dr. Russ LaFrance on Rory McIlroy’s injury and our GNN Open Championship previews!
World Number 1 golfer Rory McIlroy was given only a 10% chance of defending his Open Championship title at St. Andrews next week when he suffered a “total rupture of his left ATFL” on Saturday. He posted a photo of himself on crutches and in a cast on various social media sites Monday afternoon GMT. “Total rupture of left ATFL and associated joint...
Jay’s Plays on the Golf News Net Radio Network, U.S. Open Recap and Tournament Coverage! Tom Rinaldi of ESPN – Tom Terrific talks turkey about Chambers Bay and the Open leaderboard. Cybergolf’s Jeff Shelley – Jeff talks First Green and its wild success with the USGA. Dave Christiansen of Gamble Sands GC in Brewerton, WA – a fantastic...
[Editor’s Note: Bringing back an old favorite column, Jay writes this U.S. Open wrap-up in the form of a Father’s day letter to his 91-year old Dad.] SNOQUALMIE, WA – Dear Dad: For the 11th year in a row, because of the U.S. Open I’ll miss seeing you for Father’s Day. I’m really sorry for that, and I wish it were different. The...
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA – Everyone complaining about capricious bounces, difficult greens, and links golf courses might want to just skip the U.S. Open for a while, because the USGA will be giving the pros a steady diet of all three over the coming seven years. Gargantuan green undulations, cloak and dagger claustrophobia while walking down fairways single file...
UNIVERSITY PLACE – “It’s too brown! It’s too bumpy! It’s too British!” they moan plaintively. Yes, the whiny blockheads are out in force this year, as they usually are at the U.S. Open, complaining about how unusual golf’s annual Final Examination is. It’s actually flabbergasting: They’re not complaining about how...
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA – Chambers Bay Co-architect Bruce Charlton smiles and claps his hands as a stat appears on the TV broadcast of the U.S. Open listing the brutish, uphill, 508-yard, par-4 seventh hole as the hardest hole on the golf course thus far in the tournament, a 4.43 stroke average as we go to press. “We wanted there to be swing holes. We wanted...
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA – I have to weep for our society because we have lost it as a species when we can’t all instantly fall in love with Chambers Bay, the site of the 2015 U.S. Open, hard by Puget Sound’s rugged waters, where forest-fragrant air gently caresses verdant, dew-dripped tree-covered hills. “Idyllic” is the first word that...
Has Everything Changed in the 2015 Calder Cup Finals? By Jay Flemma, Special to Facewash Magazine In the span of just ten minutes the entire Calder Cup Finals between the Manchester Monarchs and Utica Comets took on a new complexion. It may even have turned on a dime. When the puck dropped for Game 3, Monarchs led the Comets 2 games to 0, a nearly impossible state of...