Coore and Crenshaw’s Colorado Golf Club may host a future PGA Championship. Deets coming out on November 20.
Coore and Crenshaw’s Colorado Golf Club may host a future PGA Championship. Deets coming out on November 20.
From Kevin Sniffen and The Hamilton Group’s press release: “Eddie Peck, Principal of Black Mesa Golf Club today announced that Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design, Inc. has been hired to design a new course at the daily fee club that sits on the Santa Clara Pueblo in La Mesilla, NM. The new course will sit to the south of the current layout and be the...
What a great idea! Here’s the first in a series of articles written back in the ’80s by Herbert Warren Wind. This one discusses Cypress Point and Seminole. Next month: Merion!
ABERDEEN, MD – The heartwarming glow that is The Sportlight dimmed briefly as night fell over Aberdeen, Maryland. Beechtree Golf Club, a Tom Doak design conceived and built before Pacific Dunes catapulted his meteoric rise to stardom, hosted a somber yet eager gathering on this warm Saturday in early fall. Fourteen ardent golfers – dutiful students of...
So Cybergolf ran “The Last Sunset at Beechtree” today. In the meantime, I wrote a coda to the piece about my trip, so here it is. Click over to see Jeff Shelley work his magic in getting things up in a heartbeat. THE THINGS WE DO FOR GOLF My road to Beechtree was hectic and hair-raising. I spent the night before the round at the townhouse of my on...
ABERDEEN, MD – We’ll be live this weekend from Beechtree Golf Club for a gathering of the faithful to pay their last respects to this wonderful Tom Doak course. As reported here, the course will close December 7 and become housing.
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – Here’s four words I’ll bet you never thought you’d hear uttered joyfully on a golf course: Thank goodness, it rained. To be precise, it poured. It rained bricks and bats. The lightning crashed and the thunder rolled. Two holes opened up in the roof of the media tent, sending journalists scrambling like rabbits for...
Click here for some interesting history, analysis of the course, and Old World flavor: it’s Open Championship week (British Open to some of you on this side of the Atlantic.) Royal Birkdale is ready for her close up…again.
Far more than just a coffee table book with pretty pictiures, Australia’s Paul Daley has published his fourth volume on Golf Architecture, chuck ful of interesting and instructive articles from the brightest minds in the golf design and literature businesses. There is some terrific insight from such writing luminaries as Lorne Rubenstein and architects like Tom...
EAST MEADOW, NY – Golf’s greatest gift is that if you look with the right kind of eyes, you can still see the game’s ghosts flitting about, still savor the ethos of altruistic sportsmanship, and not only walk in the footsteps of the greats, but emulate their virtue as well. That’s why spirits of fans and players alike are soaring at the Red...
Tom Doak and Jack Nicklaus’s Sebonack G.C. in Southampton, NY will host the 2013 U.S. Women’s Open. Click here for the Cybergolf.com story. From the article: “It will be the first U.S. Women’s Open held on Long Island and the first time the championship will be conducted in New York State since 1973. Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck hosted...
The first part of this article, which discusses Jones’s classical and travel poems, is here. Let’s review. Last time, we discussed how Jones likes Shelley and Eliot, uses classical mythology and travel for some of his inspiration, and fares better with his metered work than with free verse. Sticking with the metered poetry is good practice –...
We all know Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (Bob to his friends), is one of the greatest names in golf course design, but did you know he is also an accomplished poet? With a Yale-Stanford education, you can bet he couldn’t avoid classical literature. Moreover, Jones has a broad and deep palette for inspiration: T.S. Eliot and Percy Bysshe Shelley, (two of his...
So I’ve been working on a Robert trent Jones, Jr. interview and it’s going to reveal some fascinating insights into one of the greatest designers and nicest men you’d ever want to meet. You will be so elated to hear his thoughts on golf course architecture, Chambers Bay, other great architects, and poetry. Yes, that’s right; I said poetry! ...
AWITP is proud to join Melvyn Morrow and the rest of the Morris family and, indeed, the entire golf world in honoring the anniversary of the birth of Old Tom Morris. To celebrate, click here for my Golf Observer bio of Old Tom.