ST. LOUIS, MO – India’s Gukesh Dommeraju’s reign as FIDE World Chess Championship may have only a month left as wunderkind challenger Javokir Sindarov of Uzbekistan, his opponent, just defeated the strongest field of the season outside of the Candidates Tournament. Sindarov won the three-day, 18-game Clutch Chess event at the St. Louis Chess Club...
ST LOUIS, MO – After a miraculous comeback in the final round to force a rapid tiebreaker playoff, Fabiano Caruana fell short on his attempt to win five consecutive United states Chess Championships. Wesley So defeated Caruana 1.5-.5 in the tie break to win his fourth overall U.S. Chess title and deny Caruana a modern era record fifth title. Samuel Reshevsky won...
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND – Sojourning to England’s fabled Golf Coast to play true links golf on fast, firm, sandy soil is a reverie from which you never want to wake. The waves of the Irish Sea lap lazily to shore, shaggy, sun-dappled dunes bound endlessly along the edges of slender fairways that twist between and among them, and fickle winds blow this way, then...
With five of 11 rounds completed in the United States Chess Championship, Wesley So and Andy Woodward lead with 3.5 points out of a possible five, but four-time defending champion Fabiano Caruana lurks just a half point behind at 3/5 points, tied with Awonder Liand and Jeffery Xiong. Sam Shankland, Grigoriy Oparin, and Abhimanyu have 2/5 after five rounds of play...
[Editor’s Note: We’re back with another installment of Jay’s Insider Guides, this time from the mighty mountains of Utah. Our subject this column is a pretty public course tucked sleepily in the foothills outside Salt Lake. Say “Hey!” for the little publics that overachieve. They are the true life blood of then game.] OGDEN, UT – It was...
OGDEN, UT – The snow may not be falling yet, but skiers and snowboarders are already breaking out their gear, finalizing their passes, and planning trips around the globe. Leading the charge, the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame kicked off the ski season with their annual golf tournament and silent auction in support of the Hall and its various initiatives. 15...
While I am entertaining guests from out of town, playing in the Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Golf Classic, or climbing a mountain somewhere, here is a photo essay of gorgeous, storied Wallasey Golf Club, another bright star in Northwest England’s golf firmament.
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 request of our readers, we reached out to Dr. Hurley for an update on all his...
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 Golf Course Trades (click here). Here is a clip from the interview, where we also...
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 for Indy; Bolton Valley, Middlebury Snowbowl, Magic Mountain and Jay Peak rouhnd...
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-under. Little Rock and Michigan State finished a distant tiedc for third at 11...
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...