MAMARONECK, NY – The eyes of amateur golf turn again to Winged Foot Golf Club this week for one of the game’s great traditions – the 79th Anderson Memorial. Long renowned as the de facto national amateur four-ball championship before the U.S.G.A. added their own event this year at Olympic Club, the Anderson is regarded as one of the Mid-Amateur...
Special to AWITP by AWITP Correspondent Rodney Zilla As we go to press today, the Utica Comets and Grand Rapids Griffins are finishing the early skate at Van Del Arena for Game 5 of the AHL Western Conference Finals. The puck drops at an unusual time – 5 p.m. Eastern, and that has us here at AWITP scrambling so we can get down to Tony’s on time. It will...
MAMARONECK, NY – They may not have made it to the World Cup soccer tournament, but now Peru is the toast of the entire amateur golf world as Lima Golf Club’s Fernando Barca and Patricio Alzamora won the 78th Anderson Memorial at Winged Foot Golf Club, defeating Bethesda Country Club’s Tim Kane and Matt Sughrue 4&3 in the final match. With the...
MAMARONECK, NY – You better hope that the getaway car Westchester Country Club’s Max Christiana and Max Buckley are driving has a super turbo boost because the cops will be looking for them after seeing what they did to mighty Winged Foot in the 78th Anderson Memorial tournament. It’s downright criminal, I tell ya! First the tandem carded a pair of...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – It was exactly 100 years ago that iconic golf writer Bernard Darwin first saw sunset over National Golf Links of America. “It is with a perceptible thrill that one catches one’s first glimpse of the course….It was my good fortune to arrive at the course at just the hour when the spirit of romance most palpably brooded over it...
Special to Cybergolf and AWITP By Spook Rogers MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – With a stirring late rally New York’s golf writing team of Loveable Lugnuts defeated the Fighting Donkeys of Philadelphia, successfully defending their title and narrowing the all-time series deficit to 4-2 Philly. Golf architect Doug Smith and blogger Barry Solomon led New York, while...
MAMARONECK, NY – For 17 holes the final round of the 77th Anderson Memorial amateur four-ball tournament at Winged Foot was everything promised – an old fashioned donnybrook between two of the best teams in amateur golf trading uppercuts, haymakers, and roundhouses like the champion prizefighters they are. And then on the 18th green everyone turned into...
MAMARONECK, NY – Father’s Day might come one week early for golf course architect Steve Smyers, as he and his first-team college All-American and Div. 2 National Champion son Scott fired a scalding 63 at Winged Foot West to surge atop the leaderboard in the 77th Anderson Memorial tournament, the World’s premier amateur four-ball event. Their 10...
MAMARONECK, NY – Winged Foot Golf Club will again return to the informal U.S. Open Rota in 2020, but next week America’s greatest amateur players will take center stage at one of our beloved game’s ancestral seats as the club hosts golf’s premier two-man team event. The 77th Anderson Memorial begins next Thursday with two days of stroke play...
GARDEN CITY, NY – We interrupt the week’s work from Casa de Campo to bring you a ***PRIORITY SCORE REPORT*** ***PRIORITY SCORE REPORT*** ***PRIORITY SCORE REPORT*** (Is that how to do it ESPN?) “The Big Mu,” “Moose,” or just plain Pat Mucci, won medalist honors at the Garden City Golf Club members qualifying tournament with a 2...
MAMARONECK, NY – The U.S. Postal Service should look to Winged Foot for inspiration because neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night would keep the club from completing the final round of the 76th Anderson Memorial, America’s premier fourball golf tournament. Outracing two thunderstorms and the inexorable march of nightfall, Parker Smith and Dan...
Top seeded Parker Smith and Dan Crockett of The Country Club (TN) defeated “Big Ben” Hayes and Jon Marsico 2&1 in the round of 16, then defeated Joe Saladino and Dave Boccia by the same score to advance to the semi-finals. They will face 12th seeded Winged Foot team and 2009 Anderson champions Greg Rohlf and Jeff Putman. In the other semi-final...
MAMARONECK, NY – Defending champions Parker Smith and Dan Crockett of the Country Club (TN) carded a second consecutive 3-under 67, then defeated Michael Miller and Matthew Minerva of Knollwood Country Club in a playoff to secure medalist honors and the top seed in the 76th annual John G. Anderson Memorial Tournament at Winged Foot Golf Club as America’s...
GARDEN CITY, NY – Hands stopped at five minutes to midnight, the inexorable march of Big Ben was halted at the 102nd Walter J. Travis Invitational as Long Island’s Joe Saladino defeated 2010 Travis champion “Big Ben” Hayes 2&0 in the tournament final at fabled Garden City Golf Club. Saladino took a 1-up lead with a 35-foot birdie putt at...
GARDEN CITY, NY – Another blue sky sparkling crystalline beamed down on Garden City Golf Club as the top two seeds at the 102nd Walter J. Travis Invitational powered their way into the semi-finals of the championship bracket with dominating performances, but their meeting in the final is far from certain as a former champion and a noted giant-killer stand in...