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...
LAKE PLACID, NY – It’s a perfect night in the Adirondacks. The scent of burning fragrant hardwoods in the wood stove wafts to us as we sit on wooden chairs on the back porch, biting our nostrils. The snow is still lightly falling as it has each of the three days I’ve visited my beloved North Country this year. There’s tall timber all around...
The USGA announced a dozen courses to host sectional qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. While the most groundbreaking part of the announcement was the revealing of the first ever Canadian venue, Rattlesnake Point Golf Club (Copperhead and Sidewinder Courses), Milton, Ontario, the courses that arouse the interest of well-traveled American golfers...
Once again, VegasInsider.com has the best odds book around this side of Ladbrokes. Here are the odds to win the 2019 Masters. As we go to press, we think the smart money is on Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Thomas, and Adam Scott. Also, you get great value for Francesco Molinari (25-1), Jason Day (30-1), and Ian Poulter (90-1). Odds to win 2019...
Winter has ended in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas, and once again it will be a mournful spring. Drone footage confirmed that two silhouettes on Nanga Parbat’s slopes near Camp 3 are the bodies of climbers Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi. The search and rescue has been called off, and earlier today memorials were scheduled in remembrance of Nardi. According...
It’s a two-fer today: two new articles at two different magazines. First, we are still in mourning for the loss of Dan Jenkins, greatest sports writer ever. GNN ran my article from when Dan was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame here. Hug your friends and mentors extra tight tonight, because it’s too late when their gone. Next, Golf Course Trades...
Every sports writer in America is in mourning today. The great Dan Jenkins has passed a great light has gone out. We will go dark here in his honor until our retrospective is reprinted over at Golf News Net.
Uil then, via con dios, Dan. You were everything we all aspire to be.
The mountaineering world is presently holding its collective breath as British climber Tom Ballard is missing on Pakistan’s formidable and forbiddng Nanga Parbat, along with fellow climber Daniele Nardi. Attempting a winter summit of the ninth highest mountain in the world, their last ditch effort to summit may have met with bitter tragedy as they have not been...
It was a a tale of two cities this weekend, the best of times and the worst of times. At Magic Mountain, the new Green Chair purred like a kitten brought up on cream, opening up the east side of the mountain even more easily and easing lines for the Red Chair. While at Attitash, just four days after we published our story for the Border War: NH vs. VT series, the...