Welcome to the most Jekyll and Hyde of the Open Championship Rota courses, Royal Liverpool Golf Club – Hoylake to its friends. When one thinks of the town of Liverpool, rock music comes to mind first, of course, not golf. The Beatles put the town on the world map forever and are still the alpha predator of the modern music world. Everyone wants the Beatles as their...
Open Championship week begins imminently, so don’t put those strawberries and cream away. It’ll be early morning golf on the shores of Royal Liverpool, where some of the greatest names in golf were crowned de facto World Champion. Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Peter Thomson, Roberto DiVicenzo, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy all hoisted the Claret Jug at...
Dear Maine, Hey everybody from Bethel to Bangor and from Brunswick to Bar Harbor. It’s “Wrong Way Jay,” your sports writer buddy who visited Saddleback earlier this season with his barbarian friends Twang and Clang. You remember them, I’m sure… Contrary to reports, Clang and Twang are not some dingbat villain’s henchmen on Batman. They are, instead, my...
There are three new Jay Flemma Sports Report shows up at the Golf News Net iHeartRadio portal. My show is on every Wednesday and Friday at 11 am and 10 pm both days. Right now we have the shows from the Anderson Memorial at Winged Foot and the U.S. Open added to the archives. You can download any show you like right here. First, Gene Westmoreland of Winged Foot Golf...
Los Angeles Has Returned to the U.S. Open Rotation, but for How Long at L.A.C.C.? —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA – The day after the U.S. Open concluded, the USGA made an announcement met with joy across the golf-o-sphere. Lovely and historic Riviera Country Club will host the 2031 U.S. Open. For decades a yearly Tour stop, Riviera last...
Scene Stealer! Unheralded Wyndham Clark Wins Hollywood U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA – Quick! We need rewrites to the script! A bit player stole the show in Hollywood! 29-year old Wyndham Clark, unheralded before the tournament began, outlasted four-time major champion Rory McIlroy at Los Angeles Country...
LOS ANGELES, CA – Hoping to end a lifetime major championship drought, Southern California born and bred Ricky Fowler shot an EVEN par 70 over Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course to stay tied atop the leaderboard at 10-under as the 123rd U.S. Open Championship turns towards Sunday’s final round. Plucky young gun Wyndham Clark, a journeyman party crasher wo...
The Los Angeles U.S. Open Experience LOS ANGELES, CA – Mark Twain famously quipped, “Tip the world over on its side, and all the loose change ends up in California.” I’ll describe it more succinctly: Weirdsville! I won’t call California a foreign country, but even though we’re all Americans, they are an entity all their own. “Kind of like New Yorkers, Jay?” you...
Journeyman Wyndham Clark Fires 67, Will play in Saturday’s Final Group with Fowler —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA – It wouldn’t be the U.S. Open if a puzzling stranger didn’t make a surprise appearance on the leaderboard sending everyone scrambling for their Player’s Guide. Young, unknown Wyndham Clark opened 123rd U.S. Open with a...
LOS ANGELES, CA – It took almost 130 years to happen once. It only took 15 minutes to happen twice: Ricky Fowler and Xander Schauffele, playing in consecutive threesomes, fired white-hot 8-under 62s at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course during the first round of the 123rd U.S. Open Championship. They broke the U.S. Open record by one stroke – originally...
LOS ANGELES, CA – While much is being made of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood finally getting to crash a party at L.A. Country Club, (entertainment industry-types need not apply for membership), a few of the young guns in the field are hanging out with family and friends rather than rubbing elbows with glitterati. “I stayed at my parent’s house on Saturday night,”...
Will New Putter, Course Knowledge Bring Scottie Scheffler U.S. Open Title? LOS ANGELES, CA – The June gloom over L.A. had only dissipated a few moments before a downright bouncy Scottie Scheffler came beaming into the U.S. Open interview room seemingly dispelling the rest of the clouds with a smile and spreading both good news and juicy gossip about his chances this...
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 Winged Foot...
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. “We call ourselves...
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 friendships...