Everything they say about Donald Ross’s Seminole is true. Cunning, crowned greens, cavernous bunkering anywhere you miss, rugged rumbling ridges at two edges of the property, and an idyllic coastal setting in lovely Juno Beach, Florida add up to a top 10 in the USA experience.
We’ll talk a lot more about Poppy Hills in my new “Elysian Fields” column in Golf Course Trades Magazine early in 2016, but the Robert Trent Jones, Jr./Bruce Charlton redesign takes home top honors this year. Their redesign of the Monterey Peninsula course that hangs out in such rarified air as Pebble Beach, Spanish Bay, and Spyglass Hill not only...
We had a stellar guest list on the Jay’s Plays show on the Golf News Net Radio Network. Golf architect Bruce Charlton joined us to talk about Cordevalle (host of the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open) and Poppy Hills(former co-host of the AT&T). Then architect Tom Doak and GolfClubAtlas.com proprietor Ran Morrissett came on and talked about the second volume of...
Special to JayFlemma.com, AWITP, and the Golf News Net by Yaj Ammelf MARCY, NY – As the sun sets behind the bucolic hills of an upstate New York valley, a threesome makes its way up the first fairway of Crestwood Golf Club in Marcy, New York. They teed off on the second hole and are playing to the ninth green. “This is wicked fun!” marveled golfer...
Another terrific Jay’s plays show in the books! 50 year media center vet Marino Parascemzo joined us to talk Tiger, the Tour, Oakmont, and more! Always great to have a grizzled old pro whose been everywhere and done everything. Then we take a trip out to Boston to check out Granite Links, the John Sanford-designed golf course that was the springboard for his...
HAVEN, WI – Derek Sprague, Kerry Haigh, Pete Bevacqua, Allen Wronowski, Suzy Whaley, Julius Mason, and all the rest of the PGA of America brass must like the music of jazz great Billie Holiday. How does the old song go? “I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places…that this heart of mine embraces…” It will indeed be familiar courses...
My piece breaking down the future PGA venues and highlighting the absence of the Trump Bedminster banners from the tournament is up at GNN.
My first assignment as a correspondent with the Golf News Net will be a combination of just about everything I’ll be covering for the magazine. Besides wall-to-wall coverage of the 97th PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, we’ll be running 10K through the University of Wisconsin campus, visiting Wisconsin’s great outdoor music venue Alpine Valley...
Special to AWITP by Rodney Zilla MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – For the seventh time in eight years the storied Banks Course at Forsgate Country Club will play host to the Writer Cup, the annual head-to-head battle between Philly and New York City golf writers. Brainchild of wunderkind Chris Schiavonne, who has resurrected numerous golf courses in his career, the Banks...
[Editor’s Note: While Jay is playing in Boston this weekend, we’ll re-publish Jay’s article from his Golf Observer days about Old Tom Morris, St. Andrews, and the early days of the Open Championship.] He could be the patron saint of golf – few people had more influence in elevating golf from its adolescence than Old Tom Morris, (1821-1908.)...
UNIVERSITY PLACE – “It’s too brown! It’s too bumpy! It’s too British!” they moan plaintively. Yes, the whiny blockheads are out in force this year, as they usually are at the U.S. Open, complaining about how unusual golf’s annual Final Examination is. It’s actually flabbergasting: They’re not complaining about how...
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA – Chambers Bay Co-architect Bruce Charlton smiles and claps his hands as a stat appears on the TV broadcast of the U.S. Open listing the brutish, uphill, 508-yard, par-4 seventh hole as the hardest hole on the golf course thus far in the tournament, a 4.43 stroke average as we go to press. “We wanted there to be swing holes. We wanted...
We talk new courses, the Tour, Tiger, and more with present and past presidents of the American Society of Golf Course Architects Steve Smyers and Jeff Brauer on Jay’s Plays. All this week on the Golf News Net Radio Network!
Here’s part 2 of the outstanding interview with Tom Doak and Ran Morrissett about both the NEW Confidential Guide to Golf Courses and about golf travel and design in general. Enjoy.
What a great time interviewing Tom Doak and Ran Morrissett on the Jay’s Plays Show! We talk quirky courses, travel, and golf balls to the head. Part 1 of the Interview is here. Coming soon: Part 2, Tom Coyne, John Sanford of Trump’s Ferry Point Course, and Fox Sports’ Steve Czaban.