Bag? Check. Laptop? Check. Clubs? Check. We’re ready to launch our first of many tours this year for the Magazine, for Cybergolf, and for my first book. This is a big one: tomorrow it’s Chambers Bay, site of the 2015 U.S. Open where we will play the course and interview Mike Davis – the head of the U.S.G.A. himself and get his thoughts on many...
Since forming his own design firm in 1997, Colorado’s Jim Engh has won four “best new course” awards from Golf Digest, been named “Golf Architect of the Year” in 2003 (ahead of such luminaries as Fazio, Dye, Jones, and Doak), built a reputation for getting world class work done on time and under budget, landed one gorgeous site after...
Crank up the Van Morrison in Parker, Colorado (Turn it up! Turn it up! Radio!) because Jim Engh should be celebrating yet another Best New Course Award, and this time it’s for an instant classic, Awarii Dunes, the first world-class public golf course in the fabled Nebraska sand hills region. For years golfers have regarded Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s...
Finalists selected to design the 2016 Olympic Golf Course – Tom Doak, Gil Hanse, Hawtree, RTJ II, Nicklaus/Sorenstam, Norman/Ochoa, Player, Thomson. Story to come later tonight.
The Other St. George’s (Long Island) …In the name of God, St. Michael, and St. George, I give you the right to bear arms and the power to dispense justice. Rise, King Arthur… —The words spoken by Sir Uriens of Gore as he used Excalibur to knight Arthur Pendragon and install him as King— STONY BROOK, NY – Never have I been so grateful that...
This is his wrap-up of our weekend at the Grand Re-opening.
Good stuff, Tony! Here’s the link to my review.
I’ve never seen a course where pretty much every opinion pretty much agreed with every other opinion! What everybody said turned out to be right. There’s a goodly amount of Emmet left there – especially in the green surrounds. There’s a smattering of really fun holes: 6-9 for example, and 11. They had good green contours, (They were doing some...
Though Rio 2016 and the International Golf Federation were expected today to possibly announce the finalists for the name of the architect selected to design the golf course for the 2016 Olympics, sources say that all 29 bids were preliminarily rejected and no announcement is forthcoming. Some of the biggest names in either golf or golf design, including Robert Trent...
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – Annika Sorenstam has still got the magic, as hundreds of delighted fans got to see first-hand when she and PGA Tour star Brad Faxon visited Forsgate Country Club to host the club’s annual Charity Classic last month. Everyone came away deeply impressed by Annika the person as well as Annika the professional golfer on every level. She...
DORADO, Puerto Rico – Friday, 6:30 a.m. It’s barely dawn, but my gargantuan three bedroom resort condo is already bumpin’ with the country-fried rock of Seattle-based band Radio Nationals and their hit song “Golden.” Twangy Telecaster and wailing Les Paul guitar riffs provide a bold, brazen counterpoint to the mellow baritone vocals. You...
DORADO, Puerto Rico – Part I – The high-flying, death-defying, five-ring circus life of a sports writer Thursday, 7:36 a.m. Wheels up out of JFK and I’m frightened to the marrow of my bones. The plane has been shaking and wobbling since it taxied out of Gate B22 and it’s only gotten worse after a slow, tortured climb to 33,000 feet. As you...
“Who needs Johnny Depp? I’ve got Jay Flemma!” shouted the leggy firecracker of an actress as she put her arms around me at Temple Bar. The rest of the cast and crew roared with approval. Boy if only Britt Bonsoliel were around to hear that! Well for four days, I’ll get to play Johnny Depp, with Tony Korologos of Hooked on Golf as my Benicio...
Yesterday, the R&A announced what we already knew – The Old Course at St. Andrews will host the 2015 Open Championship. My guess is Royal Troon for 2016…it’s been absent since 2004 when Todd Hamilton bunted his way to victory over Ernie Els. Here are your future Open Championship (British Open) venues: 2012 – Royal Lytham & St...
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – Tomorrow, one of golf’s great gems will shine its inimitable version of the Sportlight once more for all the sports world to see. Forsgate Country Club’s fabled Banks Course will host Annika Sorenstam and Brad Faxon in the annual Charity Classic, which benefits both the Forsgate and Annika Foundations. You know the Sportlight...
I’ll need submissions from YOU! On the heels of the “Golf Course Architects as Rock Musicians” article, Lord of the Rings is next. What course is the Shire? Maybe Royal County Down? Killarney? How about Mordor? Black Mesa or Troon North?
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See you from Forsgate soon!