Author’s Note: In a first for Golf Course Trades, we are publishing a two-part piece on Marblehead, Massachusetts’ Tedesco Country Club, a course designed and redesigned by many hands, including Wayne Stiles, Jon Van Kleek, and Donald Ross, and most recently renovated by Ron Forse. The course is named after one of the most famous shipwrecks in New...
The fat lady is warming up in the green room, and there’s an iguana warming in the bullpen. Torrey the Prediction Cat went 4-2 lasy week to move to 11-7 on the season. But his third straight 1-2 record in all-important teasers has this column off to its worst start in 12 years of predictions, a dismal 3-6 record. So much for changing starting quarterbacks...
Just like anything, there’s good and bad in the new international golf handicapping system that will be rolled out in 2020. The good part is that, (theoretically), any round at course anywhere world wide can be included and equated on a basis that’s a fair match for the combatants. Theoretically… There are some ridiculous loopholes though. First...
Torrey the Prediction Cat, our intrepid NFL prognosticator had another rough week, going 3-3 for the week, 1-2 in teasers, sinking the young season’s tally to 75 overall, 24 in teasers. The Steelers defense actually showed up to play football instead of ballroom dancing, although they only managed to play 56 minutes. Better shore that up fast, black and gold...
Torrey the Prediction Cat went 4-2 last week to open the season, but just 1-2 in teasers. As usual, the Patriots were a shoo-in, and the Seahawks were their usual, reliable selves. He also hit with the Panthers and Saints tough to do in the unpredictable NFC South. The two losses were the putrid Giants laying an egg at home against the Vikings and a surprisingly weak...
What a treat it was to get to sit down for a conversation with Golf Course Superintendents Association of America sitting president Rafael Barajas. As always, Golf Course Trades did a masterful job of editing, layout, and publishing. You can read the interview here and in print. From the interview: GCT: If you could take students to five courses in the U.S. to study...
Welcome to the opening week of this season’s Jay’s Plays football picks. Let’s also have a big hand for our new starting prognosticator: Torrey the Prediction Cat. Here’s this week’s picks. As always we use the lines from www.vegasinsider.com and move the line six points in our favor since we do 2-team teasers. HOME TEAM IN CAPS. RIDE...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 5 – Mount Snow —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— DOVER, VT – If Smugglers’ Notch is “America’s Family Resort,” then Mount Snow is Party Central. 3-1/2 hours drive from Manhattan, 2-1/2 hours from Boston, and just over 1-1/2 hours from...
Jay’s Birthday Observed festivities began Thursday at work with rum cake and continue this weekend with golf, steak, and lobster. See you on the other side of the weekend with updates on Saucon Valley, Irondequoit, and Hollywood Golf Club.
Future President’s Cup venues:
2019 – Royal Melbourne -Composite, Melbourne, Australia
2021 – Quail Hollow, Charlotte, NC
2023 – TBD
2025 – Harding Park Golf Club, San Francisco, CA
Thank yous all around on this one: GolfTripX, Green Lakes super Kevin Carroll, Rocky the PGA Head Professional, and the rest of the team, and Matt Mulcahy of WSTM. GolfTripX made the piece look great, Kevin was an invaluable resource regarding the restoration, and Matt, the reliable face of Central New York News for over a generation, has played the course for over...
Are you ready or some football picks? We are. Jay’s Plays NFL Picks is back for it’s 14th blockbuster season. First we want to welcome back all our readers from Golf News Net. Glad to have you aboard again. Also welcome to all the listeners on the Jay’s Plays Radio Show. We’ve been kicking ass and taking names for much of the last decade...
FAYETTEVILLE, NY – We all know the rags-to-riches story of Bethpage Black: a municipal golf course built in the tumult of the Great Depression survives long decades of languishing and mismanagement before being restored to its former glory and ascends into the rarified air of a major championship venue. It’s an inspiration to every public golf course. But...
The deaths of 11 climbers on Mount Everest this year has spurred the Nepalese government into action…sort of. Yes, Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism has released a 59-page report proposing changes to rules covering guiding and mountaineering on Mount Everest. But according to seminal climber and mountaineering expert Alan Arnette, much will remain the same, and...
Golf Course Trades did a magnificent job with my latest piece: St. George’s Golf and Country Club, a true Devereux Emmet faithfully restored by Gil Hanse. St. George’s shows that you don’t need 7,500 yards and forced carries over water to defend par, you need curvaceous greens with terrifying false fronts. You need tilted fairways and uneven lies to...