Open Championship coverage this year at JF.com, Golf News Net, Golf Course Trades, and Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio will be a lot different this year. We’ll be live from the UK. “Grazie dio!” as we say in Italian. Better still, plans are a deep dive into not only the the Open Rota venues, but a smattering of the best of the rest as well...
EAGLE, ID – Twin phenom golfers Brad and Ben Mulder channeled Venus and Serena Williams as they finished first and second respectively in the 2025 Eagle Amateur Golf Championship at Idaho’s BanBury Golf Club. Brad defeated his brother by two strokes over the blustery 6,908-yard John Harbottle design that, while ordinarily welcoming and friendly for weekend golfers...
It was the rain that may have made all the difference. J.J. Spaun, reeling after bogeying five of the first six holes in the final round righted the ship after a 96-minute rain delay, and won the 2025 U.S. Open with a back nine charge for the ages. Spaun, who began the day one stroke behind third-round leader Sam Burns, carded a final round 72, to finish at 1-under...
The next time it’s Halloween or your kids are out camping and everyone wants to tell ghost stories and other tales of horror, I’ve got the mother of all bloodthirsty slashers for you. Never mind the guy with the razor blade fingernails, or the dude with the Ghostface mask. Forget about Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. Not even Vincent Price or Edgar Allan Poe have...
Picture yourself for a moment lying in bed the night before you tee off in the U.S. Open…only it’s the U.S. Open at Oakmont. The National Open is routinely played at only the finest and most difficult golf courses in the country. “Golf’s Toughest Test” is the semi-official moniker, and the USGA means it. Historians may quibble as to the exact genesis of the inception...
Some important dates to remember for next ski season: The Olympics return to Milan, Italy! Multo bene! Click here for the detailed schedule of events at Cortina. Saturday 7 February 11:30-13:50 Men’s Downhill Final Sunday 8 February 11:30-13:50 Women’s Downhill Final Monday 9 February 10:30-12:15 Men’s Team Combined Downhill 14:00-15:20 Men’s...
As you all know, we here at JF.com use VegasInsider.com for all our handicapping needs in any sport. Here are the up-t5o-the hour odds on the players in the field for Oakmont. Author’s Note: That’s a great price for Bryson. Also Hovland, Lowry, and Cam Smith. Scottie Scheffler +470 Rory McIlroy +1000 Xander Schauffele +1200 Jon Rahm +1200 Ludvig Aberg...
KETCHUM, ID – It’s 5:30 pm on an April Saturday and downtown Ketchum, Idaho is deserted. Really. It’s empty. Ketchum! We’re talking Scooby Doo episode empty. Nuthin’ shakin’ on Shakedown Street…or the intersection of Main and Sun Valley Road for that matter. Color me shocked. There is still one day left in the season and almost half the trails are still open at Sun...
[Editor’s Note – Jay’s 20th anniversary celebrations as a journalist continue with this review of some of the Golden Age’s PGA Championship tournaments. We’ll have some ski season wroap-ups before turning to the U.S. Open and Open Championship. Until then, enjoy this reverie from the mists of time…] CHARLOTTE, NC – Like an...
What at first looked like a walkaway turned into a dogfight, but with a back nine surge, Scottie Scheffler held off a charge by Spain’s Jon Rahm and won his first PGA Championship and his third major golf championship overall. Scheffler, who had lost a five-shot lead in a span of four holes early, played a textbook back nine, birdieing both par-5s and the reachable...
Back in the 1970s Dan Jenkins lamented that, “My editors never forgave me for the unpardonable sins of George Archer and Bob Coody,” when they won the Masters instead of Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer. Cut to 50 years later, and when I asked my editor who was leading the 2025 PGA Championship during round one, he responded, “Nobody you’d like…” He was being...
The Masters wrap-up/PGA Championship iHeartRadio show for Golf Nrws Net is up. First we interviewed the Irish Golf Desk’s Brian Keogh who was at Augusta National as Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy won the Masters. Then best-selling author Kevin Cook stopped by to preview the PGA and discuss his new book, Tiger Slam, celebrating the 25th anniversary of...
BRIGHTON, UT – Those of you wishing to chase a little more Endless Winter, hit up Brighton in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon over the next few weeks. It’s called May Meltdown, and it’s a special being run b y the resort over May 2-18 where you can ski all you want for $149. That’s a steal for a mountain as good as Brighton...
And a second thanks go to the NSCF for linking to my Pats Peak story in the Border War series. As always they do a terrific job syndicating my articles, as does NASJA. Their link to the piece is here. They’ll have the Gunstock story in a few days, so look for that, as well as my thoughts on the PGA Championship venue, Quail Hollow, coming soon!
Another big thank you to Joe Harvis and all the folks over at the National Ski Council Federation for running and syndicating my Cranmore Mountain article. NASJA also did a nice job of passing the story around as well. And of course a big thank you to Brian Fairbank, owner of Bromley, Jiminy, and Cranmore for his invaluable help in getting all the details just right...