We’ll be paying the PGA Championship in August for the last time this year; it moves to mid-May starting in 2019. Here is a list of the future PGA Championship venues going forward – at least the ones that have been determined… 2018 – Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis, Mo. 2019 – Bethpage State Park, (Black Course) Bethpage, N.Y. 2020...
It’s the one day of the year when the golf writers become golf stars…and it’s a good thing for them that the cameras aren’t rolling, because play would look like U.S. Open Saturday at Shinnecock Hills pretty quick. The 12th annual Writer Cup, the yearly showdown between the Philly golf writers and the New York scribes, tees of this Thursday at...
We interrupt our Open Championship Coverage for a running public service announcement: when racing, be careful not to cover up your bib, or it can mess up your timing chip! It was the biggest race of the year: the Boilermaker, the de facto national championship of the 15K distance. 16,000 runners, including Olympians. Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, England, and over 20...
The de facto world championship of golf will be contested at one of golf’s most horrifying torture chambers. You think Shinnecock was tough? Wait till the wind blows at Carnoustie! The winner will need a complete game all facets must be sharp, Moreover, the Euros have a huge advantage here at this somber, narrow, Barry Burn criss-crossed Byzantine maze of a...
As always, GNN does a terrific job of making my articles look magazine-worthy. Both of these courses are pleasant surprises. Timber Banks has superb green complexes, while Copake has interesting false fronts and sides to greens. Both courses put a premium on second shot accuracy, and they are both wonderfully inexpensive as well.
2018 – Carnoustie Golf Links, Carnoustie, Scotland
2019 – Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland
2020 – Royal St George’s Golf Club, Kent, England
2021 – Old Course at St Andrews Links, Fife, Scotland
So I received this email recently: Dear Jay: My job has me driving all across New York State, and occasionally when I’m done working I can squeeze in a round somewhere. But I’m having trouble finding good public courses on the road between Rochester and NYC. Can you help a sista out? Where can I get a quick round in at a good price? Nicole in Brewerton...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Brooks Koepka may have won the trophy again, and Tommy Fleetwood might have won the hearts of golfers everywhere with his tournament record-tying 63 and rock-star hair, but Shinnecock Hills won the 118th U.S. Open. As it should be; at a truly great U.S. Open, the course is always the star. Koepka became the first repeat U.S. Open Champion...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Pre-eminent sports writer Rick Reilly’s hat said it all. “Pray For Birdies,” it blared in red, white and blue. It feels like an old-school U.S. Open even though the golf course is as wide as a weekend bogey golfer could wish for. Despite the widest fairways in modern tournament history, at the halfway point of the 118th U.S...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – I want to thank the great Dan Jenkins for today’s writing prompt. He published some of his favorite (and not so favorite Opens) and reminded me that it’s time for my annual U.S. Open history lesson for y’all. So here we go; class is in session. Take good notes. You never know when you’ll be quizzed. GREAT STORIES YOU...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – My colleague and friend Mike Vaccaro, a sparkling gem of the New York Post sports writing diadem, likes to collect datelines. I remember he was especially proud of “Beijing,” but lamented publicly that it couldn’t be “Peking” instead. Mike and I met writing the dateline “Mamaroneck” in 2006 at Winged...
SOUTHAMPTON – “It’s a process, it’s a process, it’s a process.” If the old Tiger Woods – describing his swing changes – said it once, he said it a thousand times. It became a joke in the media center. I thought it was merely a combination of platitude and mantra; something to he chanted to himself as he worked the range...
Here are the tee times for the 118h U.S. Open. We’ll be live at Shinnecock Hills all week starting Tuesday morning. Thursday (June 14), hole #1 / Friday (June 15), hole #10 6:45 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. – Harold Varner, Gastonia, N.C.; TBD; Matthieu Pavon, France 6:56 a.m. / 12:41 p.m. – Michael Putnam, University Place, Wash.; Scott Gregory, England; Will...
Here are the U.S. Open future sites from 2018-2027. See everyone from Winged Foot for the Anderson Memorial Fourball, followed by Shinnecock for the U.S. Open. 2018: Shinnecock Hills Golf Club – Southampton, N.Y. – June 14-17 2019: Pebble Beach Golf Links – Pebble Beach, Calif. – June 13-16 2020: Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course) –...
So my U.S. Open preview is up at Golf News Net. (They always male it look fantastic!) Ryan Ballengee and I will have wall-to-wall coverage of the tournament all week long, with radio, video, and 1,500 words a day. Plus I’ll have three-day coverage of the Anderson Memorial at Winged Foot. Throw in a round at National Golf Links of America, and that’s a...