Golf Course Trades did a remarkable job with my Green Lakes article. This one was fun, especially because I got a bunker named after me. You read that correctly. When you hole out a bunker shot, you get the bunker named after you. That’s Rule 36. (Rule 35 is have fun…). “…many of the bunkers had become so filled with sand or their faces so...
Golf Course Trades has run my second article in a series of updates regarding the golf industry’s resurgence against the Coronavirus. These articles are published also here, at Golf News Net, and as links at the GSCAA website. We have all joined forces to bring you the latest news in the fastest amount of time and give you a glimpse of golf’s recovery...
Something a little different. As part of my prep for the U.S. Open, I got the rare and wonderful chance to play Winged Foot under tournament conditions. It was all I could handle an then some. Thank you Golf Course Trades for running the piece. Have fun everyone. From the article: “When it comes to playing the West in a tournament of any kind, Christmas can...
[Golf Course Trades has graciously allowed me to cross-post Covid19 related golf articles here and at the Golf News Net. This article first ran last April. Please consult visit those sites for more golf coverage, Covid-specific announcements, and updates to the information contained herein.] What a way to open his presidency: with an international crisis shuttering...
So Golf Course Trades ran my timely interview with John Fulling, Jr., the president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. The GCSAA has been remarkably proactive; Fulling, Jr. and the rest of the GCSAA have mobilized quickly, effectively turning their website into a clearing house for all Coronavirus-related issues facing the Association’s...
I love writing about Tobacco Road, I love writing about Mike Strantz, and I love writing about wild designs that are rooted in Golden Age golf course architecture. When you have a terrific subject, it’s easy to write a gripping and compelling story.And Golf Course Trades did a marvelous job with my article. From the piece: “I’d like the take the...
Once again, a huge thank you to Golf Course Trades, Tedesco Country Club, and Ron Forse. It’s easy to write a great story when you have a terrific subject. Click here for the entire piece. From the article: “By the time you crest the hill on 16 over which you’ve hit you’ve already been enchanted by the course’s wondrous variety –...
Author’s Note: In a first for Golf Course Trades, we are publishing a two-part piece on Marblehead, Massachusetts’ Tedesco Country Club, a course designed and redesigned by many hands, including Wayne Stiles, Jon Van Kleek, and Donald Ross, and most recently renovated by Ron Forse. The course is named after one of the most famous shipwrecks in New...
What a treat it was to get to sit down for a conversation with Golf Course Superintendents Association of America sitting president Rafael Barajas. As always, Golf Course Trades did a masterful job of editing, layout, and publishing. You can read the interview here and in print. From the interview: GCT: If you could take students to five courses in the U.S. to study...
Golf Course Trades did a magnificent job with my latest piece: St. George’s Golf and Country Club, a true Devereux Emmet faithfully restored by Gil Hanse. St. George’s shows that you don’t need 7,500 yards and forced carries over water to defend par, you need curvaceous greens with terrifying false fronts. You need tilted fairways and uneven lies to...
This month’s column for Golf Course Trades focuses on an important milestone in the careers of both Perry Maxwell and Alister Mackenzie. Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club was the genesis of their long and fruitful collaboration that would ultimately produce Augusta National and Crystal Downs. From the article: “‘What I love about the greens are...
Once again, the good folks at Golf Course Trades have done a spectacular job spiffing up one of my pieces. This time it’s Chris Schiavone and Stephen Kay’s restoration of one of A.W. Tillinghast’s earliest courses: Shackamaxon Country Club in northern New Jersey.
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It’s a two-fer today: two new articles at two different magazines. First, we are still in mourning for the loss of Dan Jenkins, greatest sports writer ever. GNN ran my article from when Dan was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame here. Hug your friends and mentors extra tight tonight, because it’s too late when their gone. Next, Golf Course Trades...
Once again, Golf Course Trades delivers in the biggest way. My Conklin PLayers Club article was a ton of fun to research and write,but all the good folks at the magazine made it look fantastic. From the article: “One night, out of a clear blue sky, Rick Rickard, who had never played a day of golf in his life, came home and announced to his wife Theresa...
Yankee Stadsium of Golf or Graveyard of Champions? Winged Foot is both. Golf Course Trades has my story about Winged Foot’s restoration and head superintendent Steve Rabideau. From the article: “It’s a monumental responsibility that Rabideau shoulders, but he’s proven time and again to be an Atlas among superintendents: stewarding a club with...