Forget Brooks Koepka, Michael Block won the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY – Brooks Koepka may take the Wanamaker Trophy back to Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabia, but club professional Michael Block won the 2023 PGA Championship. He won all our hearts as well. Block turned the year’s second golf major...
A Workingman’s History of Oak Hill Country Club’s East Course —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY – It was cold, grey, windy, and rainy Saturday in Rochester for the third round of the 105th PGA Championship. Indeed, the entire week at Oak Hill Country Club has been blustery with wind whistling through the leaves of the oaks and sycamores and...
Soak Hill 2 – Another PGA Championship, Another Rain Storm to Soften the Golf Course —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY – It’s a sequel ten years in the making. In the second round of the 2013 PGA Championship, everybody’s favorite Dockers-wearing zombie, Jason Dufner, starred in “Soak Hill,” biting off Oak Hill’s head and sucking out its lungs...
After Hot Start, Dustin Johnson Loses Ground in Second Round of PGA Championship at Oak Hill —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY – Never known to be much of a raconteur to begin with, Dustin Johnson beat a hasty and silent retreat from Oak Hill Country Club after a sloppy and disappointing 74 dropped him to 1-over par at the halfway point of the...
Future PGA Championship Venues are Mixed Bag of Masterpieces, Old Favorites, and That Laughable, Ludicrous Valhalla Mess —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY – How wonderful to see Oak Hill polished to its highest shine in perhaps a century or longer. It may never have played better for any major championship. Better still are the broad smiles and...
Fine Weather Light Winds Allow Low Scoring at Oak Hill for Opening Day of 105th PGA Championship PITTSFORD, NY – After nearly a two-hour frost delay, light winds and mild temperatures allowed for low scores at the 105th PGA Championship being conducted at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club. As we go to press 16 players were under par and a whopping total of 48...
PITTSFORD, NY – Without question some of the new holes designed by renovation architect Andrew Green stand tall among the most interesting that Oak Hill’s East Course has to offer. Full of strategic nuance and perplexing hazards they may well see the most swings of fortune at this 105th PGA Championship. Let’s take a closer look at the changes to the golf course and...
PITTSFORD, NY – “TRAITOR!” “BACKSTABBER! “HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?” “DISLOYAL!” Those were some of the incendiary comments I had to endure from my upstate New York golf friends back in 2013 when they asked me to compare their beloved Oak Hill to other major championship venues. They did not like hearing that I preferred a long list of courses – Oakmont, Winged Foot...
The Pre-Tournament Zen of Defending PGA Champion Justin Thomas —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY – The undercurrent running throughout this 105th PGA Championship is patience. Oak Hill East a much different golf course than the golfers and patrons have ever seen before, and definitely harder than any of them will have seen it play. The rough...
With a nod to vegasinsider.com, my one-stop shop for all things line and prognostication related, here are the betting odds and money line for the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, to be contested Thursday through Sunday, May 18-21. Justin Thomas is the defending champion after his riveting come-from-behind Sunday charge and playoff win and...
You are tuned into the right place for all things Rochester, Oak Hill’s East Course, and the 105th PGA Championship coming up May 18-21. We’ll be writing two articles a day Tuesday through Sunday for Golf News Net, we’ll have two hour-long radio shows: one pre-tournament and one post, and we’ll have twice a day radio reports from Thursday...
Another year, another epic photo essay from our European Correspondent Andrew DiGiovanni. Last year, Andrew reported from St. Anton and the Dolomites with some of the most breathtaking photos of the season. He returns triumphantly, this time after a successful sojourn to Schladming, Valluga, and more. Andrew, an American ex-pat teaching English in Austria, publishes...
Jon Rahm Won the Green Jacket but Dan Hasty won the Masters this weekend. “Wait, who the hell is Dan Hasty?” you may be asking. Don’t look for him in the Players Guide, he’s not there. In fact, he’s not even a golfer. And he wasn’t even in Georgia last week. But he metaphorically won the Masters last weekend with his hilarious call...
An Open Letter to Jimmy Chin or How Did the Chicken Get Egg Off Its Face? JAY, VT – Dear Jimmy: Hey, it’s Jay. You remember me: that sports writer at the Masters that time that wrote that the greatest comeback from injury in sports history wasn’t Tiger Woods at Augusta, but Renan Ozturk at Meru. It got the reaction from the golf writers I expected: sometimes I got...
Massive news for all skiers and boarders. And by the way, we recently got news that Mt. Hood and Ashland have indeed renewed. Doug Fish is King! All but Two Indy Pass Resorts Confirmed for the 23/24 Season 102 Alpine partner resorts will be contracted, two are pending, and one will not return Grand County, CO. (March 29, 2023) – The Indy Pass released today an...