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 through Sept. 1 at Bayonne Golf Club in Bayonne, N.J. Rutgers will be one of nine...
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 one…the second being the Claret6 Jug he’d just won at Royal Birkdale. Outkick...
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: “NATIONAL GOLF LINKS OF AMERICA, Southampton, NY Truly the font from which...
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 to complete his third circuit of all 14 8000 meter peaks. Broad Peak, the 12th...
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 previous year’s ISHA award article) will be on April 12th, including a very...
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 writer was his typical folksy self accepting the award. No, John, it does not...
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. But courses like St. Andrews and Royal Troon, Muirfield and St. George’s? Those...
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 from golf immortality at the 2026 Open Championship at fabled Royal Birkdale...
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 into heavy, thick rough, and walking around and swinging his club. At the time...
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, then young American star Sam Burns followed with another 62, this time bogey free...
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 was simple: go low on the outward nine while the prevailing wind is with you...
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 populate the top of the leaderboard. Though six Americans are in the top 13...
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 Royal Portrush seeks back-to-back Claret Jugs and a fifth major victory. Rory seeks...
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 younger additions to the Open Rota – its first Open was 1954 – a mere 72 years...
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 challenges of Birkdale endure, as does the unpredictability of wind and weather...