SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY – This is the beauty of amateur golf in all its altruism and earnestness – it’s your friendly neighborhood everyman atop the leaderboard at the 42nd USGA Mid-Amateur Championship. “I work at a fruit stand,” quipped Harry Bolton only half joking. Playing out of Royal Canberra Club in Australia and one of 28 international players from 19 different...
SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY – “He carries the hopes of us all,” beamed one Sleepy Hollow Country Club member proudly, almost lovingly as golfer Brad Tilley finished off an Even-par round of 71 to open the stroke play portion of the 42nd USGA Mid-Amateur Championship. With the ovation Tilley received coming off the 18th green, you’d have though...
Welcome to Jay’s Insider Guide. Knowledge is power, and forewarned is forearmed. The JIG is your study guide and ideas for a game plan. All you need to do is execute. This episode – Sleepy Hollow Country Club —by Jay Flemma, Special to the Golf News Net for the 2023 USGA Mid-Amateur— SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY –Sleepy Hollow Country Club is as quintessential to American golf...
ST. MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, ARGENTINA – Bienvenidos from Patagonia, Argentina. Articles soon, including for the international Skiing History Association and Ski Area Magazine.
The JIG is up Green Lakes Welcome to the JIG – Jay’s Insider Guide – where he breaks down golf courses like a fraction for you. Knowledge is power, and forewarned is forearmed. The JIG is your study guide and ideas for a game plan. All you need to do is execute. This episode – GREEN LAKES GOLF COURSE —by Jay Flemma, Special to the clubs of the New Jersey Ski...
DATELINE: THE WILDERNESS OF WESTERN MAINE – My golf cart is careening around turns, catapulting down tree-lined chutes of concrete, and reeling in the chicanes. First, I’m narrowly missing trees, then I’m splashed in the face by a wall of water, then I’m blinded by flashes and deafened by a sudden cacophony of noise. Grab the “Oh Shit handle” and hang on, because...
If it’s true, Phil Mickelson should be banned from professional golf. Or is it one gambling degenerate trying to take down his feckless gambling degenerate buddy? Either way, golf deserves answers now. Billy Walters, the casino maven serving time for insider trading who was intimate buddies with pro golfer and five time major champion Phil Mickelson, has outed...
Every golf fan within driving distance needs to cash in their rare and wonderful chance to see Sleepy Hollow Country Club, an indisputable masterpiece of Charles Blair Macdonald, when the USGA brings the Mid-Amateur there this September. Precipitously rising and falling as though you are riding Gunpowder fleeing the Headless Horseman with hapless Ichabod astride his...
When you consider the 151st Open Championship through the prism of history, the contrasts are staggering. While some lament that Brian Harman, an otherwise uninspiring journeyman player, just won the 2023 Open Championship with plodding methodical golf, others celebrate his victory as a win for the little guy. We all love a feel-good story of unsung heroes finally...
The Open Championship Spotter’s Guide or Who is That Guy Again? —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— Back in the day, Dan Jenkins, King of All Golf Writers, was asked about a Masters leaderboard full of golfers he found obscure, milquetoast, or otherwise inconvenient. “Whose chances do you like?” one of the other writers queried of him. Jenkins took a long...
Rahm Surges, Harman Still Leads Open Championship at Royal Liverpool —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— Two-time major champion Jon Rahm of Spain fired a tournament low and Royal Liverpool Golf Club record 63 in the third round of the 151st Open Championship to surge into contention, but leader Brian Harman continued his unflappable play carding a 69 for a...
Stars Aligning for Amateur Phenom Christo Lamprecht at Royal Liverpool Open Championship —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— Somewhere in Heaven the Golf Gods are smiling, because a young amateur is leading the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, the club with, perhaps, the richest amateur history in the game. South African Christo Lamprecht – who won...
Welcome to the most Jekyll and Hyde of the Open Championship Rota courses, Royal Liverpool Golf Club – Hoylake to its friends. When one thinks of the town of Liverpool, rock music comes to mind first, of course, not golf. The Beatles put the town on the world map forever and are still the alpha predator of the modern music world. Everyone wants the Beatles as their...
Open Championship week begins imminently, so don’t put those strawberries and cream away. It’ll be early morning golf on the shores of Royal Liverpool, where some of the greatest names in golf were crowned de facto World Champion. Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Peter Thomson, Roberto DiVicenzo, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy all hoisted the Claret Jug at...
Dear Maine, Hey everybody from Bethel to Bangor and from Brunswick to Bar Harbor. It’s “Wrong Way Jay,” your sports writer buddy who visited Saddleback earlier this season with his barbarian friends Twang and Clang. You remember them, I’m sure… Contrary to reports, Clang and Twang are not some dingbat villain’s henchmen on Batman. They are, instead, my...