As usual, Golf Course Trades did a phenomenal job of laying out my article about Pete Dye’s other masterpiece at Casa de Campo – Dye Fore! Parts are a throwback to Seth Raynor and Charles Blair Macdonald, parts are clifftop excitement, and parts are puckish Pete Dye at his creative best. And wait till next month when Stephen Kay and Lester George talk...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana continued his impressive opening to the NFL prognostication season with a 4-2 week, 1-2 in teasers. His only miscues were those pesky Bears…this time they upended the ravens in Baltimore…and the Giants. The Bears may play in the NFC North, but they may want to petition for a change since they could end up metaphoric champions...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana opened his NFL prognostication season with a perfect 6-0 slate last week, 3-0 in teasers. That result brings into razor-sharp clarity why we wait until Week 5 to start playing our picks. This week’s slate is particularly difficult – there is still a remarkable fluidity to the League so far this season, and over the long haul...
We’re back! It’s Week 5 and teams have started to identify themselves. That means Ernesto the Prediction Iguana is out of hibernation and ready to ascend his throne as the undisputed, all belts unified champion of the Animal Prognostication Kingdom. As always, we do teasers here, so you get to move the line six points in either direction, using lines from...
Long time Cybergolf contributor and now writer for Golf News Net and Links Magazine Tony Dear was awarded the Northwest Golf Media Association’s Distinguished Service award last night. The award is a peer-selected honor given to a member of the golf media who has evidenced a thoughtful contribution to golf and golf writing over the course of his or her career...
We here at AWITP have Justin Thomas as our favorite to win Player of the Year based upon his four titles and one major championship this season. Still, the bookies have Jordan Spieth as the favorite right now to take the FedEx Cup with Thomas just behind. Here’s the full list. We’re taking Thomas to bring it home and close out a breakout year. Jordan...
The folks over at Golf Course Trades did a terrific job publishing my U.S. Open Road trip article in their September issue. It was a great run: The Roc and Pheasant with Phil Furfari, Canterbury in Cleveland, where – among others – Jack Nicklaus made indelible major championship history, Keith Foster’s dazzling renovation of Moraine Country Club in...
Are you ready or some football picks? We are. Jay’s Plays NFL Picks is back for it’s 12th 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, batting a...
Two bits of Tiger Woods news as we head to hump day. First, despite being torn apart by a pack of harpies during his infamous sex scandal, Tiger allegedly traded nude photos by cell phone with Lindsay Vonn. In a completely bone-headed move, Vonn stored them in an Internet cloud that was hacked, along with the nude photos of dozens of other celebrities. The photos...
Special to GNN and AWITP by Yale Bluer CHARLOTTE, NC – She had a voice like Foghorn Leghorn and the manners of Yosemite Sam. She’d fake-baked her skin to a brassy orange and streaked her spaghetti-straight hair a metallic gold. She wore ass-high, crack-tight, denim short shorts, wedges, and a scoop top two sizes too tight. She said she was 34, but my...
CHARLOTTE, NC – As we close the books on the 99th PGA Championship and the 2017 golf major championship season in general, there are several broader truths to celebrate than just Justin Thomas taking home the Wanamaker Trophy. Sure, Thomas’s win is an apotheosis of sorts, his elevation to the ranks of golf’s current elite. He’s fulfilled all...
CHARLOTTE – After Friday evening fireworks sent the biggest names in golf skyrocketing up the leaderboard at the 99th PGA Championship, Quail Hollow Club has become strangely silent, the roars giving way instead to pained groans and polite golf claps. It was moving day, but nobody went all that far. After the excitement and energy that was so palpable as the...
CHARLOTTE, NC – His name means “Thunderbear” and his golf game rises with the sudden ferocity of a storm. Perhaps the most mercurial young rising star of the European Tour, the lanky Danish player born Jakob Olesen, but who pays professionally under his middle name, “Thorbjorn,” shares the lead in the 99th PGA Championship with the...
CHARLOTTE, NC – You have to love Jim Furyk. He shoots from the lip. When asked about the changes to Quail Hollow Club for the 99th PGA Championship, he had the perfect laconic reply. “One could be the toughest opening hole in golf. It actually looks like a really nice par-5 to me, but for some reason they put par-4 on the card,” he deadpanned. See...
CHARLOTTE, NC – Like an archaeologist wide-eyed with wonder as he finally deciphers ancient hieroglyphics on a graven monument, so too was I mesmerized by the photos on the walls of venerable Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland, Ohio. They depicted a more civilized age, the heady halcyon time during which the PGA Championship was born, an Interwar America...