Whaddya know! The IOC didn’t trip over itself and picked fabled Riviera Country Cub as the site for the 2028 Men’s and Women’s Olympic golf competition. From the press release: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (Friday, 12 July 2024) – The International Golf Federation alongside LA28 announced today The Riviera Country Club, annual host of The Genesis...
Resorts across America have released projected opening days. Some of them may be optimistic, especially in the east, but the good news is, snow is falling. Some light dusting hit Colorado last week, the signal for everyone to start breaking out the boards and trying on the boots. And of course, we’ll be at Snowbound Expo in Boston to open the season. Your...
FROM THE OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: ISHPEMING, MI – The U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is excited to announce the ten-member Hall of Fame Class of 2024 that will be inducted, along with Class of 2023 member Jeff Brushie, at the annual Snowsports History Celebration in Lake Placid, NY in March 2025. The Class of 2025 was unveiled at the...
BROOKFIELD, Wis. –The American Society of Golf Course Architects has chose pre-eminent golf architect and their Past President Robert Trent Jones, Jr., as the 2024 recipient of the ASGCA Donald Ross Award. The award, given annually since 1976, is presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to the game of golf and the profession of golf course...
BOISE, ID – While east coast boarders and skiers routinely high-five each other when they review the Murderer’s Row line-up of Indy Pass resorts – two free days each year at Cannon, Waterville, Jay Peak, Magic, and Saddleback for openers – west coasters would be well advised to consider Indy as well for its breadth and depth in both the...
The US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame hosts its 4-person golf tournament in Lake Placid, N.Y. at the Whiteface Club on Wednesday September 11th, 2024 with a 9 am shotgun start. The golf outing will be followed by the CLASS of 2024 ANNOUNCEMENT & MEDIA PARTY at the Whiteface Clubhouse from 3-5 pm. SCHEDULE September 11th, 2024 | 8-8:30am | Check in at Whiteface...
[Author’s Note: Soon I’ll be filing the follow-up to this article. It’s a triumphant return to Golf Course Trades, the wonderful magazine that hosted my Elysian Fields column for close on a decade. As you’ll read below, GCT became just one thing too many in the hurly-burly whirlwind my life became before the Idaho move. But I did manage to...
What an honor – my first story in Skiing History, the official publication of the International Skiing History Association, Viva Catedral. It was the ski trip of a lifetime. Huge shout out to Aaron Scorsch and Savor the Journey, the athletic and culinary outfit I hooked up for my ten day Patagonian sojourn. Shortly, I’ll publish my Mountain Gazetteer...
Once again, venerable Royal Troon Golf Links – 142 years young – hosted a legendary Open Championship, one that should shine brightly through the ages: proper weather, a scintillating links, and a worthy victor in Xander Schauffele, now a two-time major winner and one of only a handful of golfers to win both the Open Championship and the PGA Championship in...
The last time we saw Royal Troon Golf Links for an Open Championship the blessed old links gave us what golf history now refers to as the Second Duel in the Sun. Hearkening back to 1977 when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus separated themselves by 1o shots from the field at Turnberry, Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and the USA’s Phil Mickelson played Troon like a...
Huge news: Golf News Net is now a TV station. Yes, you’ll be seeing me make show appearances. I’ll also have Jay Flemma Sports Report rocking special guest episodes all the rest of the season. Here’s the detailed press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Golf News Net (GNN), a leading golf media company focused on news and entertainment content, and...
(Sand Creek Station, pictured above, was designed by Jeff Brauer, a rising star of a golf course architect from the great state of Texas.) The 3rd U.S. Adaptive Open – a national championship that showcases the world’s best golfers with disabilities – begins tomorrow at Sand Creek Station in Newton, Kan., and will be contested until July 10. The USGA received...
GRANBY, COLORADO—Indy Pass announced today that Ragged Mountain in New Hampshire, three others in New England, four in Japan, and one each in the Southeast and Nova Scotia will join the pass, adding skier capacity for the 2024/25 season. A limited number of passes will be available for purchase starting today. Newly added resorts include: Anihari Ski Resort, Japan...
(PICTURED ABOVE, THE BOSTON GLOBE’S MOIRA MCCARTHY STANFORD WAS HONORED AS ONE OF NASJA’S AWARD WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN WINTER SPORTS JOURNALISM) MANCHESTER CENTER, VT – The North American Snowsports Journalists Associatin has announced its writing and media contest winners for 2023-24. Recreational cross-country skiing pioneer Bill Danner is the...
Who doesn’t love a good monster fight? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! And the glory days are actually back! With modern technology the new Godzilla movies are totally worthy, and for once the inability to pick which monsters to showcase in any particular movie gave way to the most excellent solution of...