Randolph and DeJohn Derail Ferocious Carolina Comeback, Win 86th Anderson Memorial Fourball at Winged Foot —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— MAMARONECK, NY — I’ll paraphrase an old pop-punk song lyric that describes the happy conundrum facing Trevor Randolph and Chris DeJohn after winning the 86th John G. Anderson Memorial Fourball Tournament at...
MAMARONECK, NY — They jokingly refer to themselves the “Back Nine Bandits,” but despite the saucy nickname Holliday Farms Club’s duo of Blair Webb and Andrew Rhodes have rallied their way into the semi-finals of the 86th John G. Anderson Memorial Fourball at Winged Foot Golf Club with late, high-flying, hair-raising, stand-up-and-cheer heroics...
MAMARONECK, NY — Though grey clouds shrouded Winged Foot Golf Club for much of Friday’s second round of the 86th Anderson Memorial fourball tournament, there was joy in the heart of every member and competitor. Winged Foot celebrates its centennial anniversary this year: 100 years of rousing cheers, of frothy beers and smiling peers, of hearts sincere and...
Forget Brooks Koepka, Michael Block won the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — Brooks Koepka may take the Wanamaker Trophy back to Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabia, but club professional Michael Block won the 2023 PGA Championship. He won all our hearts as well. Block turned the year’s second...
A Workingman’s History of Oak Hill Country Club’s East Course —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — It was cold, grey, windy, and rainy Saturday in Rochester for the third round of the 105th PGA Championship. Indeed, the entire week at Oak Hill Country Club has been blustery with wind whistling through the leaves of the oaks and...
Soak Hill 2 — Another PGA Championship, Another Rain Storm to Soften the Golf Course —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — It’s a sequel ten years in the making. In the second round of the 2013 PGA Championship, everybody’s favorite Dockers-wearing zombie, Jason Dufner, starred in “Soak Hill,” biting off Oak...
After Hot Start, Dustin Johnson Loses Ground in Second Round of PGA Championship at Oak Hill —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — Never known to be much of a raconteur to begin with, Dustin Johnson beat a hasty and silent retreat from Oak Hill Country Club after a sloppy and disappointing 74 dropped him to 1-over par at the halfway point...
Future PGA Championship Venues are Mixed Bag of Masterpieces, Old Favorites, and That Laughable, Ludicrous Valhalla Mess —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — How wonderful to see Oak Hill polished to its highest shine in perhaps a century or longer. It may never have played better for any major championship. Better still are the broad...
Fine Weather Light Winds Allow Low Scoring at Oak Hill for Opening Day of 105th PGA Championship PITTSFORD, NY — After nearly a two-hour frost delay, light winds and mild temperatures allowed for low scores at the 105th PGA Championship being conducted at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club. As we go to press 16 players were under par and a whopping total...
PITTSFORD, NY — Without question some of the new holes designed by renovation architect Andrew Green stand tall among the most interesting that Oak Hill’s East Course has to offer. Full of strategic nuance and perplexing hazards they may well see the most swings of fortune at this 105th PGA Championship. Let’s take a closer look at the changes to...
PITTSFORD, NY — “TRAITOR!” “BACKSTABBER! “HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?” “DISLOYAL!” Those were some of the incendiary comments I had to endure from my upstate New York golf friends back in 2013 when they asked me to compare their beloved Oak Hill to other major championship venues. They did not like hearing that I preferred a...
The Pre-Tournament Zen of Defending PGA Champion Justin Thomas —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — The undercurrent running throughout this 105th PGA Championship is patience. Oak Hill East a much different golf course than the golfers and patrons have ever seen before, and definitely harder than any of them will have seen it play. The...
With a nod to vegasinsider.com, my one-stop shop for all things line and prognostication related, here are the betting odds and money line for the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, to be contested Thursday through Sunday, May 18-21. Justin Thomas is the defending champion after his riveting come-from-behind Sunday charge and playoff win and...
You are tuned into the right place for all things Rochester, Oak Hill’s East Course, and the 105th PGA Championship coming up May 18-21. We’ll be writing two articles a day Tuesday through Sunday for Golf News Net, we’ll have two hour-long radio shows:Â one pre-tournament and one post, and we’ll have twice a day radio reports from Thursday...
Another year, another epic photo essay from our European Correspondent Andrew DiGiovanni. Last year, Andrew reported from St. Anton and the Dolomites with some of the most breathtaking photos of the season. He returns triumphantly, this time after a successful sojourn to Schladming, Valluga, and more. Andrew, an American ex-pat teaching English in Austria, publishes...