BETHPAGE, NY – From the home office in lovely Melville, NY, the pearl of the civilized world, it’s… Top 10 Things to do while waiting for this boring nightmare to be over 10. Sit in Long Island Expressway traffic getting to the course 9. Learn how to spell “Janewattananond” 8. Learn to pronounce “Janewattananond.” (HINT:...
[Golf writer to Your Author: “Why are you writing about a mountain? Your Author: “Because it’s there.”] BETHPAGE, NY – The putt that won Tiger Woods his fifth Green Jacket hadn’t even tumbled into the cup before golf media were almost uniformly waxing poetic about “the greatest comeback in sports history!” Let’s...
BETHPAGE, NY – Like a dragon incinerating Daenarys Targaryen’s enemies, a fire-breathing Brooks Koepka scorched Bethpage Black in round one of the PGA Championship with a 7-under 63 and a one shot lead over New Zealand’s Danny Lee. England’s Tommy Fleetwood is in third place, four shots back at 3-under. The rest of the field needs binoculars...
BETHPAGE, NY – Much has been made of Bethpage’s brute length, elevated greens, and deep, dangerous, whimsically shaped Rees Jones inkblot bunkering. Most players are convinced this PGA Championship will feel much like a U.S. Open in terms of difficulty, partly because the Black Course hosted the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Opens before becoming a PGA of America...
BETHPAGE, NY – The stars are shining brightly on Broadway this week as the reigning Masters champion Tiger Woods, the defending champion Brooks Koepka, and the world’s number player Dustin Johnson all are favorites to win the 101st PGA Championship this week at Bethpage Black. While not as relentless as Winged Foot, as penal as Oakmont, or as windy as...
As well as a whole week of articles for Golf News Net, we’ll also ve doing the sports updates for 92.7 The Drive FM. So be sure to check it out at the top of every hour!
BETHPAGE, NY – Babe Ruth and Derek Jeter. Joe Namath and Bill Parcells. Mark Messier and Mike Bossy. Willis Reed and Patrick Ewing. The Harlem Globetrotters. Bobby Fischer. John McEnroe. If there were ever a Pantheon of New York Sports Immortals, those are names that would forever be enshrined. But who should represent golf as New York’s hero? Sure, they...
The National Ski Council Federation has run the second article in my VT vs. NH skiing series – Magic Mountain. The link to a shortened version of the article is here. So glad to see tiny, but feisty little Magic battling so successfully against much bigger mega-resorts. They already added a new Green Chair this winter and look to add another upgraded chair...
With the PGA Championship just two short weeks away, here is a list of future venues. We’ll be at Bethpage Black for the whole week reporting live and doing video and audio spots as well. Best of all, we open the week with an interview with Rees Jones. 2019 – Bethpage State Park, (Black Course) Bethpage, N.Y. 2020 – TPC Harding Park, San Francisco...
ExplorersWeb.com has a terrific two-part interview with Alex Txikon, the expert climber and expert rescuer who was sent to try to find Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi after they went missing on Nanga Parbat two months ago. From the interview: “At first, I didn’t worry too much: I thought their lack of contact was some communication issue. Nardi had an old...
A sports dynasty rekindled today as Tiger Woods breezed past third-round leader Francesco Molinari, then held off a Who’s Who of modern golf en route to his fifth Masters Championship at Augusta National Golf Club and 15th major golf championship overall. Woods didn’t just defeat Dustin Johnson and Francesco Molinari; he defeated shame and humiliation...
Somewhere in Heaven Dan Jenkins is smiling, because this is what a major championship leader board is supposed to look like. Our great lion of a sports writer may be watching his first Masters from Heaven, but the heart of a true golf writer always aches for the greatest names to be in contention, not puzzling strangers. So right now, with five former major champions...
Defending Masters Champion Patrick Reed selected Bone-in Cowboy Ribeye as the main course for the traditional champions dinner. Side dishes included smoked gouda mac and cheese, creamed spinach, corn creme brulee, and steamed broccoli with sea salt and shaved parmesan. What, no pink Himalayan salt? He offered three different desserts: tiramisu, vanilla bean creme...
[Editor’s Note: We’ll be filing two game stories this week, one during the first three days of play and our usual tournament recap for Sunday night. You can follow all the action at Golf News Net and here.] The Masters is the greatest sporting event of the year: period, full stop, end of sentence, end of paragraph. Not the Super Bowl, not the World...
So just like we started a career as a golf writer with a blog and a dream, so too has my foray into writing about skiing borne its first fruit. The National Ski Council Federation has begun to run and syndicate my skiing columns. They’ll be running excerpts of each article in the Border War: Vermont vs. New Hampshire series. Their link to my first article in...