Just like newly-minted Masters Champion Danny Willett, the due date for Ryan and Katie Ballengee’s second child was…Masters Sunday! Yup…planned that well! :):) Still, the ever clever Ballengee, publisher, producer, and editor of the Golf News Net came up with a brilliant birth announcement for little Rose Carmela: Genius! So now little Carrick has a...
It was the 66 that was the illusion — that and the four consecutive birdies to close the front nine on Sunday. But those 22 holes are what made us believe that Jordan Spieth was headed into Butler Cabin for another Green Jacket Ceremony to close out the 80th Masters as back-to-back champion. Surely the steely-nerved, iron-willed, icy-veined two-time major...
Congratulations to England’s Danny Willett on his Masters win. GNN has my recap here, while we’ll have Tony Dear back on the Jay’s Plays show to celebrate his correctly calling Willett to win.
And yes, Willett looks like Theon Greyjoy.
Jason and the Argonauts, contrary to popular belief, are not a pop punk band from Staffordshire, nor a football team from Toronto. Jason was an old Greek hero whose kingdom was wrongfully usurped, so he had to go on a quest for the fabled Golden Fleece to reclaim the throne. He got it in spectacular fashion, slaying a dragon to do it, and all manner of other...
Tony Dear, European correspondent to the Jay’s Plays Show and my colleague over at Golf News Network stopped by to preview the European side of the Masters field. We also had a great talk with Alan Fadel about the amateur golf season coming up, reviewing both the venues and the great names that we’ll get to meet at the US Amateur, the Fourball, and other...
Big hat tip to Ryan Ballengee for fantastic editing and support over at Golf News Net for my Oral History of the 1986 Masters, my first piece of the week. Also thanks to Jaime Diaz, Tom Watson, Tom Weiskopf, Art Spander, Kenny Knox and of course to my idol Dan Jenkins, whose book Jenkins at the Majors had his remembrances in it. From the article: “Golf...
It’s here: Christmas in April. We here at AWITP and at Golf News Network are Masters ready. Here’s our schedule for the week, both writing and broadcasting: Sunday Night – Masters Preview premieres at GNN. [Editor’s Note: All GNN articles will be posted here on a 24-hour delay.] For those of you scoring at home, I wrote an oral history of...
While everyone else was waxing beatifically about Jason Day passing Adam Scott in the World Rankings, Day also took the top spot on another list – he just became the new Vegas favorite to win the 2016 Masters. Day has won seven of his last 14 starts internationally and has taken the last two PGA Tour events with more difficulty from this back than the field. He...
Ryan Ballengee and the rest of the GNN team have wall-to-wall coverage of everything going on at the Match Play in Austin, Texas this week. For today, Ryan has this excellent breakdown of how ties in the 16 groups will be broken. Remember – the winners of the respective groups advance. Moreover, a head-to-head victory over another player in your group does not...
“Take your bottom lip, and pull it up over your head.” That was how comedienne Carol Burnett described labor pains, but it also depicts how it feels to flush a 4-up lead in golf to the drummer of a punk rock/top-40 band, but I’m getting ahead of myself. The stars were still bright when Gary Wiseman’s Escalade pulled into the Quik-E-Mart so we...
The Masters is less than a month away, and this year being the 30th anniversary of Jack Nicklaus’s miracle win in 1986, we have a special preview piece commemorating the event. Also, we’ll be reporting on thee Masters with Friday and Sunday recaps and columns here and at Golf News Net. In other news, coming up on the Jay’s Plays Show we’ll...
It’s an all new Jay’s Plays Show on the Golf News Net Radio Network. First golf architect Bill Love and Director of Golf Will Hutter talk about Olympic Club and how it might play for the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open. Then golf architect Stephen Kay and golf course magnate Chris Schiavone jump on the show to talk about Shackamaxon’s 100th anniversary...
Golf News Net founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief Ryan Ballengee had this interview with golf legend Gary Player. Terrific stuff, Ryan.
In other news, watch for my Masters preview whee I interview, among others, Tom Weiskopf, Tom Watson, and Kenny Knox!
My first Golf Course Trades article is up! It’s my review of the architectural and agronomic changes to Poppy Hills, the great RTJ, Jr. course on the Monterey Peninsula that shares hosting duties with Pebble Beach, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Spyglass Hill. You can click on the entire article here. Here’s a teaser: “Pine Valley’s...
The USGA announced last week that San Francisco’s hallowed The Olympic Club Lake Course will host its first U.S. Women’s Open in 2021. Site of 11 previous USGA championships, including five U.S. Opens in the last 60 years, The Olympic Club’s devastating combination of length, trees and reverse camber should provide one of the sternest tests the...