JF: How disappointed are you that you didn’t get the 2016 Olympics Course gig down in Rio? RTJ 2: I’m not disappointed – I’m supportive of golf being successful in its re-emergence in the Olympics. However, the sand is running out of the hourglass, and everyone will have to get started soon if they want the proposed new golf course to be a...
According to multiple sources with intimate knowledge of the challenges facing the 2016 Rio Olympics golf course design project, the course is “dangerously close” to not being completed on time and has obtained only a single permit for limited work at the site. Additionally, members of other international sports governing bodies are calling for Rio 2016...
Dear Pat: Thank you for the gift of your new book “Rosapenna – Beyond his Lordship’s Wildest Dream,” which details your design work at the club. It was a surprise to get it in the mail unexpectedly, but a welcome one. Congratulations to you on your work there, and good luck going forward. I look forward to seeing Rosapenna when I visit the...
One of the “Five Towns Six,” Middle Bay country club op-en since 1931 closed after sustaining 3.5 million USD in damages from Hurricane Sandy. About a third of the club’s members left after Sandy. The club’s closure will put 50 employees out of work. It was scheduled to hold the U.S. Senior Open Qualifier, which will be at Garden City instead.
[Author’s Note: Today we continue our series comparing and contrasting the various Five Towns area courses, all greater NYC clubs with excellent architectural pedigrees. The “Five Towns Six” are Seawane, Rockaway Hunting Club, Middle Bay, Woodmere, Lawrence, and Inwood. We’ve discussed Inwood here (), Seawane here (), Lawrence Yacht Club here...
New Americans with Disabilities Act provisions governing access to golf courses by persons with a disability take effect January 30th, and architects and course owners are scrambling to assess the ramifications for their golf courses. The new provisions, which will be enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice, require at least one 48-inch wide pathway providing an...
Fallen Oak and Beau Rivage Diaries (Part 3) Chapter 6 – More Food, Glorious Food BILOXI, MS – The threatened thunderstorm on Thursday materialized right as we got off the golf course, so plans to swim in the pool and lounge at the outdoor Jacuzzi with my new rodeo friends were scuttled, but the indoor spa and gym actually has three Jacuzzis, so the only...
Fallen Oak and Beau Rivage Diaries Part 2 Chapter 5 – Biloxi Greens BILOXI, MS – Two more 5:15 a.m. wake-up calls to make a pair of 8:00 a.m. tee times meant I needed caffeine. As a bogey golfer fighting a horrible reverse pivot problem, it’s tough enough facing a course tough enough to host a PGA Champions Tour event, as Fallen Oak does, (The...
THE EYRIE, WESTEROS – May the Old Gods and the New protect us, winter is coming. Around here, that means little or no golf for two to three months – longer for my poor readers who live on I-90! What a life for them! – as much as six months of hitting off mats at golf domes, lots of nonsensical, silly season, made-for-TV garbage, and rusty swings by...
They are like doctors with a patient, priests with a penitent; the PGA Head professionals devote their lives to golf and golfers far from the cameras, lights, and microphones, but they are the beating heart of the game nonetheless. Christmas is a little brighter in upstate New York this year as they celebrate the golf world’s rejoinder to the Miracle on 34th...
Here are the next four Ryder Cup venues: 2014 Europe Gleneagles Hotel (Auchterarder, Perth & Kinross, Scotland) 2016 United States Hazeltine National Golf Club (Chaska, Minnesota) 2018 Europe Le Golf National (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) | Official website 2020 United States Whistling Straits (Haven, Wisconsin) Speculation is rampant about a 2024 Ryder...
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This is the second green at TPC Boston last week:
MARCY, NY – We had given her up for dead, but she came back to us. After almost two decades of mind-boggling neglect, Crestwood Golf Club – the beloved home course of many upstate New Yorkers – had been utterly destroyed: annihilated, vaporized by what regional golfers called, “chronic malpractice and mismanagement.” Horrifyingly, it...
Time to answer the mailbag: 1. Dear Jay, Will I see you at the Barclays? Where else will you and AWITP and Cybergolf be this year? Bob from Parsippany Bob, we’ll be at the Barclays and the Ryder Cup this fall as well as the Forsgate Battle of the Sexes between Paula Creamer and Gary McCord (hosted by David Feherty). Should be great fun. 2. Dear Jay, we had a...
KIAWAH ISLAND, SC – He’s a mad scientist, he’s the Boris Karloff of golf courses, he ruined your scorecard, hid my car keys, busted Roger Clemens’s no-hit bid in the bottom of the ninth, kicked over the lantern in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, was the lone gunman behind the grassy knoll, conquered Asia on horseback with an army of...