<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”; title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen></iframe> While I finish the last of this summer’s assignments, we’ll take a...
That roar you hear isn’t thunder; it’s the ovation from skiers and boarders across the country, but especially in the northeast celebrating Pacific Group Resorts’ winning bid to operate Vermont’s Jay Peak, jewel of the Northeast Kingdom and a bucket list destination for any serious skier or boarder who truly wants to test his or her mettle...
Take a deep breath before the next plunge. Ski season is coming faster than you can thank me for the reminder. Now is the time to get the gear ready! Now is the time to shop for anything you;re lacking. Now is the time to line it all up to be ready at the drop of a hat. Insert voice of Jay’s friends:Â “Jay it’s not even September 1st…”...
Super Eight and Counting – Maine’s Sunday River is an American Classic —by Jay Flemma special to JF.com and NASJA— NEWRY, ME – ” You can’t help but love plucky, authentic Sunday River, the winter resort that just keeps getting bigger and better with every passing decade. A little bit rustic, a little bit opulent...
We’ll have a long article on how fantastic JF.com’s weekend at Sunday River was this winter coming imminently. (And yes, we’ll be covering all the LIV developments in golf as well, just as soon as we get the lowdown on Tiger Woods’s confab with the rest of the PGA Tour players.) But for right now, let’s have a little fun with Eddy the...
PORTLAND, OR – Doug Fish isn’t just beaming this time, he’s dancing. Not only as his brain child, the Indy Pass, legged past the 100 resort mark, Fish has added his own home mountain – from boyhood to middle age! – Mt. Hood Meadows. Here’s the downright ebullient (and rightfully so) press release blared joyously: “The Crown...
Bad news out of New Hampshire. “There’s war in them thar hills” as they said back in the old wild west days. Gunstock Mountain, a staple of the New Hampshire repertoire may transfer from public to private hands, and locals, employees, and officials are not happy with the proposal. First, crediting the Laconia Daily Sun for the scoop, the team over...
My iHeartRadio show for Golf News Net proceeds apace. This is our Open Championship show with John Hopkins of Global Golf Post and formerly the chief golf correspondent for the London Times. We also talked with Doug Fish, founder of Indy Pass about all the latest resort signings and plans for the ski and snowboarding season. You can stream the show here. And look for...
“May you live in interesting times.”                —Ancient Klingon Curse It’s Championship Sunday, and not just any Championship Sunday, but the 150th Open Championship Sunday at the Old Course of St. Andrews, the home of golf. It’s supposed to be a time of joyous celebration and poignant...
Perhaps the only sight in golf more annoying than watching the player in front of you make everything he looks at on the greens is watching the player in front of you make everything on the greens while you make nothing all day. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Niente. That was the dismal fate the Golf Gods resigned Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy to at the 150th...
“I was thinking ‘What the Hell am I doing here?'” That was a bemused but grateful Viktor Hovland, the Norwegian golfer who now finds himself tied atop the leader board at the 150th Open Championship after a second consecutive 66 over the Old Course at St. Andrews. After three rounds, he stands at 16-under, along with four-time major winner and 2014...
It sounds like an old school comic book exclamation:Â GREAT SCOTT! Maybe it’s Spider-man, or maybe Superman, or maybe it’s Captain America, but whomever, add Adam Scott and Scottie Scheffler to that list as they both shot themselves into contention at the 150th Open Championship, the de facto world championship of golf. Reigning Masters champion and...
He’s the hero we need right now, but don’t deserve. Golf’s current white knight, Rory McIlroy, opened the 150th Open Championship with a scintillating 6-under 66 over the Old Course at St. Andrews, delighting the over 40,000 attendant fans and millions more worldwide hoping to see him win his first major championship in eight years and his second...
It’s not just any Open Championship week, it’s the 150th Open Championship at the home of golf, the Old Course at St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. We’ll be covering the even for Golf News Net, with a piece a day all week, followed by coverage on iHeartRadio and updates for 92.7 the Drive. We’ll take our usual walk through golf history, get into...
BROOKLINE, MA – Ever since network television broadcast Ben Hogan bringing “the Monster” that was a Robert Trent Jones, Sr.-sharpened Oakland Hills South Course to its knees in the 1951 U.S. Open there has been one inescapable mantra: At a proper U.S. Open, the golf course is the star. Oakmont, Winged Foot, Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Olympic Club...