Outstanding news.
Hat tip: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Steve Shaffer
Outstanding news.
Hat tip: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Steve Shaffer
George Bahto – the dry cleaners owner-turned-golf course designer who restored the Knoll Club (West) to it’s golden age glory and who is helping Tom Doak build Old Macdonald, (out at Bandon Dunes Resort), sat down for a few questions: JF: Tell us about how you first got introduced to golf? George Bahto: (I was forced to – ha!) It was caddying for my...
Special thanks to Ben Cowan-Dewar and Ran Morrissett of GolfClubAtlas.com for asking Chris Clouser and I to do this article for GolfClubAtlas.comcomparing and contrasting Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club and fabled Southern Hills. There are interesting tidbits, old maps, and tons of great photos. Enjoy. Chris, it was great working with you! Let’s do...
Here’s a quick thumbnail sketch of the set-up at Bethpage Black for the U.S. Open: First Hole – Par-4, 430 yards High on a pulpit overlooking the first fairway, one can see a ribbon of fairway flanked by two sides of rough that are wider on either side than the intended target. The hole is a 90-degree dog-leg, the knee of which is guarded by a stand of...
Tony Korologos went to Black Mesa for three days and wrote some great articles on Hooked on Golf blog. While I finish my U.S. Open preview piece, here’s links to Tony’s coverage of the recent Black Mesa media tournament.
GARDEN CITY, NY – Fifteenth-seeded Roger Hoit turned in a dominating performance in the first two rounds of match play of the Travis Invitational, defeating defending champion Michael Kelley, and two-time winner George Zahringer by a combined eight holes. “I’m exhausted,” he gasped as he sunk deeply into a chair. “They are two of the...
GARDEN CITY, NY – Garden City Golf Club truly was an emerald ‘neath the blissful skies Friday morning, as the sun shone as if it had just been born while the golfers contested the stroke play qualifier for the 99th Travis Invitational. Birdies were the coin of the realm as fifteen of the sixteen championship flight qualifiers shot level-par 73 or better...
In a potential nod to both great golf course architecture and Mike Strantz’s precious legacy to golf, the AT&T Pro Am may move one day of play from Poppy Hills to the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course. GolfObserver.com found this on-line article. Hat tip: Sal Johnson A brief review of my day there is here. This is unbelievable news. here are...
I’ll be covering the 99th annual Travis Invitational next week from Garden City Golf Club. The Travis is one of the country’s pre-eminent amateur golf events held at one of the country’s most venerable courses. 120 of the nation’s best amateurs, including many USGA Champions, will play a stroke play qualifier on Friday to fill out 6...
Great work from Sal Johnson and Dave Seanor. Click here to go to the Golfobserver.com site for a terrific one-on-one with Mike Davis of the USGA. It has everything you need to know about the set-up and changes.
Well there is good news in this time of economic crisis: One of the three Tom Doak designed golf courses to recently close has re-opened. Apache Stronghold has reopened after being shut down temporarily in February.
The story is here: hat tip to Doug Wright and Joe Bausch.
I’ll defer to the architects’ telling you all about it, but Will Smith, (no not that Will Smith, you lugnuts!), has great video of the Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch, a.k.a. Area 51, a.k.a. Project X.
Shhhhh!!!!!
Hat tip: Dan and Laura Hermann
Jim Engh’s new golf design in the Nebraska sand hills is also getting a name change. The working title of “Nebraska National” has been scrapped in favor of a new name – Awarrii Dunes.”Awarii” is a word in the language of the local Pawnee Indian tribe from the region,” said Engh. “It means windblown.” I love it...
I picked Padraig Harrington Enjoy.
Well this is interesting. The Guinness book of World Records says the first round of golf was played at Musselburgh, (near Edinburgh). According to the article: “Documentary evidence proves “golf was played on Musselburgh Links as early as 2 March, 1672, although Mary, Queen of Scots, reputedly played here in 1567”. The record is the documentary...