Thanks to Sal Johnson for running this piece that compares golf architect Tom Doak to Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court. From the piece: Even his gibberish enraptures those hanging on every word. Morgan achieved “miracles” while uttering ridiculous “magic words” like...
Two important Reads of the Day dominate the golf world today. First, I’ll see The Philly Inquirer’s Joe Logan at St. Andrews tomorrow (the one in Hastings-on-Hudson), so we can talk more about how mutual friends of ours are restoring Cobbs Creek. Hey Joe! Mike Cirba! We should do a “home and home” of Cobbs Creek and The Knoll Club (West)...
I’ll write longer pieces over the next few days, but Masters week was made even more memorable by two excellent days of golf not far from fabled Augusta. About ninety minutes away, Mike Young designed an excellent, affordable public course, Long Shadow G.C. in Madison, GA, just one mile off Route 20, the Interstate that connects Atlanta and Augusta. With...
Click here for “The Magical Masters.” Click here for David Barrett’s Golf Observer article. Click here to see how I told everyone to watch out for Justin Rose.
Once again the tour bus will be revving, the keyboard will be clicking, and we’ll be bringing you the best travel destinations, along with pro tour and NCAA coverage all spring and summer long. The first stops will be in Georgia to coincide with the Masters and the Golf Writers Association of America events. We’ll be live from not only Augusta, but...
That would be GWAA award-winning Alan Shipnuck on Ballyneal and Sand Hills. Looks like Alan’s angling for another one, this time in Special Projects!
From the A.S.G.C.A. press release: Golf Course Architect and ASGCA Past President Ted Robinson Dies at 84 Theodore (Ted) G. Robinson, a Past President of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, died Sunday March 2, 2008 at his home in Laguna Beach, California after a 10 month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 84. Robinson served as ASGCA President from...
Thank you, Sal Johnson…and George Bahto. Welcome to Jersey’s rejoinder to Bethpage Black.
J.P. Newport is one of the best golf reads around and his source, architect Jeff Brauer is not only a terrific architect, but a Cybergolf contributor as well. As for playing the correct set of tees, you’ll have more fun and the round will be quicker.
The United States Golf Association has announced that it has awarded the 2015 U.S. Open Championship to Chambers Bay, the spectacular municipal links course located on the scenic lower Puget Sound in University Place, Wash.            The USGA also announced that Chambers Bay, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Bruce Charleton, will play host to the...
Quick reset for the week: First, next week I’ll be in the Senate Press Gallery with a true bird’s eye view of Roger Clemens’s latest act of self-immolation. Quite simply, if he can prove his innocence in this whole steroids mess, it will be the GREATEST comeback in sports history. If he can’t, we may be witnessing the greatest fall from grace...
Amazing! The USGA just keeps bring events to better and better facilities. Welcome back Philly Cricket Club. Here is the press release, straight from the U.S.G.A.: THE PHILADELPHIA CRICKET CLUB TO HOST 2010 WOMEN’S MID-AMATEUR Far Hills, N.J. – The Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown Pa. near Philadelphia has been chosen as the site of the 2010 U.S...
Here’s Tim Rosaforte’s piece.
Although many at Erin Hills are crossing their fingers, and rightfully so, I’ll throw out Oakmont for consideration…who’s with me?
So I’ve been up in Lake Placid writing, trying not to break my hip skiing, and listening to Phish. The seclusion of Whiteface Mountain is a great retreat to write. I have been reviewing alot of old notes and found some wonderful snippets from my Tom Doak interview that hadn’t been printed yet. There’ll be more as I finish the chapter about Tom for...
From Jeff Shelley’s Cybergolf story. By the way, get ready for another Doak masterpiece; Rock Creek Cattle Company opens in rural Montana later this year.