Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has been quite the jet-setter recently, working on projects from Morocco to Egypt, from to Eastern Europe to Asia, but this week all eyes are his work at Celtic Manor in Wales, the venue for the 2010 Ryder Cup. Opened in July 2007, the course combines the routing of nine holes from the original Robert Trent Jones-designed Wentwood Hills golf...
The Dubsdreadful Course at Dog Hill is getting slammed…and not by me, although I was ahead of the curve here and here… Steve Elling of CBS Sports has the Tour players taking Rees Jones and Cog Hill to the woodshed, where they belong after wasting over $6 million in a vain attempt to draw a U.S. Open. From the article: “Two years ago, the owner of...
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – When most people think of world-class golf in New Jersey, the first two courses that come to mind are Pine Valley and Baltusrol, the former because of its perennial number one ranking in American golf, the latter because it has hosted seven U.S. Opens and one PGA Championship. To most golfers, merely playing either course is a once-in-a...
Blame it all on a simple twist of fate — Bob Dylan — ROANOKE, VA – I couldn’t possibly have been going in the right direction, could I? I had gotten off the exit ramp for downtown Roanoke, but after passing a modest skyline, I got diverted into duplexes, the crumbling back lots of an industrial factory and power plant, and finally into dusty...
Great job by Jeff Shelley getting this up so quick. It’s my long form review of Ballyhack Golf Club in Roanoke, VA. We’ll have more pictures here over the next few days, after I get up to Boston to cover the Deutsche Bank. From the article: “In 2003 George thought his search for a truly great piece of land for his dream course was over. The 370 acre...
Here is the link to Brett’s article about the great lost links of Queens, including Mackenzie, Dev Emmet, Raynor, and Tillie!
…too bad we can’t read it ’cause it’s not on-line! (or I’d have linked to it:) Brett Cyrgalis wrote a solid, well-researched intelligent article on dead courses in NYC by Alister Mackenzie and A.W. Tillinghast to name a few, but the article is only in print today. Rush out and get it, while I go get another copy to give you a few details...
Here by the sea and sand Nothing ever goes as planned… — The Who — HAVEN, WI – Not to take anything away from Germany’s Martin Kaymer, a worthy champion and a great rising star, but we’ll forever remember the defining moment of the 2010 PGA Championship as Dustin Johnson’s careless mistake grounding his club in a bunker on...
As of the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, here are the future sites for the PGA Championship: 2011 – Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands Course), Johns Creek, GA 2012 – Kiawah Island (Ocean Course), Kiawah Island, SC 2013 – Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, NY 2014 – Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, KY 2015 – Whistling Straits...
HAVEN, WI – You can score anywhere from 68 to 78 at the topsy-turvy Straits Course at Whistling Straits. In benign conditions and softened by the season-long rains, 87 players finished under par yesterday. When the wind howls off Lake Michigan however, the course is fearsome. In 2004 Vijay Singh won the PGA Championship with the highest closing round in...
Today at Cybergolf, I breakdown the key holes at Whistling Straits – the swing holes or “half-par” holes.
I also dodge lightning, drive through fog, and chase around golfers for quotes:)
HAVEN, WI – We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – Surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese. In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how tough Whistling Straits’s fearsome Straits Course played. Golf architect Pete Dye was castigated every bit as vehemently as he was when both Sawgrass...
The plane taxied to the terminal zone, cut its engines, and cooled its wings while I hi-tailed it out the door and into ground transport for the ride to Whistling Straits.
While I walk the course and cull a few quotes from players, here’s my Pete Dye interview from PGA.com.
He may be half 168 years old, but he’s still a lion in summer when it comes to golf architecture. The Dean of modern golf course architects, Pete Dye blends cunning design strategies that beguile pros with artistic flair that bewitches amateurs. His popularity across the globe is unquenchable, despite his reputation for building courses that play hard and look...
Cybergolf has just posted my Pete Dye interview. One week from this moment I’ll be winging west reading James Michener’s Chesapeake, (in prep for the Potomac Cup), while waiting for “wheels down” and the hour drive to the bucolic splendor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin and the PGA Championship. Thank goodness the week won’t be as chock-a-bloc...