SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Just an hour or so after he finished up a stellar opening round 64, Wyndham Clark turned around and posted a solid 69 to lead the 126th U.S. Open at 7-under. Among the other early finishers among the leaders are a gaggle of former major winners, including Xender Schauffele and Matt Fitzpatrick at 3-under, Colin Morikawa and 2-under and Justin Thomas...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – It Wyndham in the wind on Thursday at the U.S. Open as Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open Champion at L.A. Country Club, fired a sizzling 8-under 64 in blustery conditions to lead the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills by three shots. Meanwhile a whopping six former U.S. Open champions shot ever par or better, and eight players...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Early morning tee times and a pairing together proved just what some of the U.S. Open favorites needed as Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, and Tommy Fleetwood all posted solid rounds to Open the 126th playing of the national golf championship. McIlroy, reigning back-to-back Masters Champion, and Swedish wunderkind Aberg fired 1-under 71s, currently tied...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – The warning came Sunday: “The Knicks won the title, the City has gone absolutely mental. You better be prepared for everyone to be over the moon.” Then came the airport, where fans from across the globe were streaming in for the World Cup. Futbol jerseys from every country: Ecuador and Columbia, Japan and Australia, Morocco...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Isn’t it great when something, anything lives up to the hype? We live in a world where journalists have to build everything up to such a degree of hagiographic hero worship, that it takes work to discern what’s culture and what’s a commercial. Happily, this week at the U.S. Open, no one will have to worry that the golf course – ancient and venerable...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Nowhere will Shinnecock Hills reveal its slavering jaws as a U.S. Open venue more than at its formidable par-3s. For mere mortal golfers, the par-3s can often be a welcome refuge from the course. Occasionally – not often, but occasionally – the shortest golf holes are the deadliest: like the 12th at Augusta National, the 17th at Pebble Beach...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – For everyone asking “Who is going to win the U.S. Open at Shinnecock this year?” I have the answer for you, and it’s obvious. The golf course will win this year’s U.S. Open. Is Shinnecock Hills the hardest U.S. Open venue? Tough call with Winged Foot and Oakmont in the mix, but Shinnecock is often just as stern a test as...
NORTH CONWAY, NH – There is a bit of black magic going down in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. With some timely, last-second prestidigitation, a once beloved mom and pop ski resort has been saved from being relegated to the “No Longer Exists” file. It’s another victory for the Indy Pass crowd, who have teamed up with developers and PR company Entabani Systems –...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 13 – Sugarbush —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— WARREN, VT – Any conversation of the greatest ski areas in North America must include Sugarbush. End of story. Sugarbush is too important historically – it is the cradle of extreme skiing in America. Sugarbush has too much gnar –...
The Royal and Ancient announced that Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s near Blackpool, England will host the 2028 Open Championship, the 12th in Lytham’s illustrious history. The Open was last held there in 201 when Adam Scott bogeyed the last four holes coming home, while Ernie Else birdied 18 to pip him at the post. David Duval won his only major there in...
Murdered by a llama, reborn as a Loon…Loon Mountain Resort! Enormous props to the venerable Skiing History magazine for running my sory on New Hampshire’s Sherman Adams. Here is the link. From the story: “The logging industry, previously the beating heart of the state’s economy, was suffocating under the combined stresses of new regulations and...
[Author’s Note: This story also appears at Golf Course Trades Magazine] SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The Open Championship – the de facto world championship of golf – returns this summer to the northwest coast of England, a cradle of the game and home to eight of the most venerable and challenging links on the planet. Three of those clubs – Royal Birkdale...
I’m still astonished that the tour pros shredded Aronimink to the tune of 20-under back in 2018 during the FedEx Cup Playoffs. I’m hoping to see 13 or 14-under and nine players tied for the lead with seven holes to play. We’ll be live from Shinnecock Hills and Royal Birkdale later this summer. We’ll have all the coverage this week over at Golf...
Golf News Net on iHeartRadio returns with my post Masters review. Ryan Ballengee, head of all things GNN joins us with his thoughts on the wild ride that is Rory McIlroy. First he looks like the Rory of the early 2010s, then he looks like the Rory that ran from that tennis chick like she was a live scorpion, then he finally (FINALLY!) tamed Amen Corner to coast to...
The dream is postponed indefinitely; it will be at least another two years before Americans will have a chance to vie for the FIDE World Chess Championship. Americans Fabi Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, the number 2 and 3 players in the world respectively were upset by 20-year old Uzbeki wunderkind Javokor Sindarov, who raced out to an early lead and dominated the...