While I’m in DelMarVa playing Ballyhack and covering the Potomac Cup preview – complete with a stint with Steve Czaban on Fox Sports radio Tuesday afternoon – Ryan Ballengee has a terrific preview of Congressional. Mike Davis goes over some of the changes the players can expect when the course hosts a U.S. Open instead of a Kemper/Booz...
I-84, NY – It’s a summer weekend in the greater NYC area and rather than having a meal set to the dulcet tones of jackhammers and ambulances, fighting through crowds shopping or at museums, or doing a vapid dance of the sand crabs at a Hamptons time share, you wisely decide to get some air and exercise and play golf. Now let’s suppose your friends...
So big props to Tony Korologos for doing my heavy lifting on a course preview while I catch up on other articles. With the help of a St. Andrews caddie – the best person to ask! – Tony has a terrific preview of St. Andrews running today through Wednesday. Here are holes 1-6. We’ll check in with Tony all week. We’ll also keep an eye on a...
Let’s quickly reset the schedule of events, coverage, and articles for the next few weeks: 1. The British Open! 2. My preview and live coverage of the PGA Championship 3. Article on Pasatiempo 4. Atlantic City Country Club 5. Golf along I-84 in the NE corridor 6. Book reviews of Titanic Thompson (Kevin Cook) and Ancestral Links (John Garrity). 7. Stephen Kay...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – It was a weird day, even for Northern Cali. How weird was it? Tom Watson sang The Doors, Jack Fleck praised the Lord, and Tim Clark’s posse was howling. Yes, you read that correctly, Watson tried to sing, Fleck is still very much alive, and Tim Clark has a posse…Tim Clark! I guess Frank Lloyd Wright was correct: tip the world over...
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – In 2000, when Tiger Woods Years lapped the field, broke or tied nearly every important U.S. Open record, and turned our beloved Pebble Beach into flotsam and jetsam in the wake of a yacht insultingly called Privacy, some pundits mistakenly thought Pebble Beach had become obsolete. Those same pundits ignored the rest of scoreboard. 3-over tied...
My first piece from the Open is up at Cybergolf. It’s a hole-by-hole breakdown of Pebble Beach. From the article: “Even though it’s the shortest U.S. Open we play, it’s still getting awfully quick out there,” cautioned Woods, who was civil and obliging with golf questions on Tuesday but surly, rude and more obnoxious than a vuvuzela horn...
Thanks to John Bywra for doing such a great job getting my preview piece up and looking great over at PGA.com. In a few minutes, also jump over to Cybergolf for my hole-by-hole breakdown of Pebble Beach.
In the meantime, how about Spain playing like Spam against Switzerland?
PEBBLE BEACH, CA – While the formal announcement is tomorrow, several media outlets are reporting that Gil hanse/Ron Whitten’s terrific Erin Hills Golf Club in Wisconsin will win the 2017 U.S. Open over the execrable Dog Hill…err…Cog Hill, a boring snore-fest of a penal golf course that has hosted the Western Open for many years. Here is my...
Years ago, when the U.S.G.A. announced that each ten years they would celebrate the U.S. Open with a party of special magnificence, a decennial return to Pebble Beach, elated cheers rang throughout the golf world. Beautiful, rugged Pebble has been a national treasure and a crown jewel in the American golf diadem for nine decades. Indeed, when the sun shines over...
I had the great pleasure of playing Colonial last winter just after Keith Foster’s terrific changes to the course were completed. Click here for the article.
Matt Ginella of Golf Digest/Golf Channel reports that Erin Hills in Wisconsin has the inside track on landing the 2017 U.S. Open, but – good Lord help us – that gruesome dog track at Cog Hill…err…Dog Hill just won’t die a grisly death and get out of the running. From the article: “Even before Erin Hills opened in 2006, the...
Outstanding news for fans of golf course architecture: Mike Strantz’s redesign of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course will stay in the rotation for the AT&T through 2014. The other courses in the rotation are Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. I love what Jack Nicklaus said about Pebble vs. Spyglass…”when I play Pebble Beach...
It’s here after a 24-hour delay to run at Cybergolf and PGA.com. Though Golf and Woods are at a Crossroads, the Masters still Endures -Jay Flemma An irreverent wag on an internet bulletin board summed it up best: This weekend should we cure cancer, catch Osama Bin Laden, and find intelligent life on Mars, it’ll make a nice sidebar to what happens at...
…At Kyle Phillips.com. Here’s the link to my story about Verdura in Italy…which I didn’t play, but which is causing humorous pointed discussions in the Flemma-Bonsoliel household. “Sicily,” she said. “Morocco,” I replied. “Sicily.” “Morocco.” Pregnant pause. I know trouble’s coming…my...