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...
We’ll have two new pieces at Golf Course Trades in the next two months. One is on mighty Winged Foot, super Steve Rabideau, and the Anderson Memorial. (I played the West Course on club championship weekend, and OH MY GOD 3-1/2 ROUGH< TEES BACK, AND GREENS AT 13. Why not just slather me in BBQ sauce and turn the velociraptors loose?) Both courses, fresh off Gil...
I wrote about Meadow Club for this month’s Golf Course Trades, one of those courses that you have to play before you die. Here’s my favorite part of the article: As I took a deep breath and savored the crisp, wine-sweet, forest-fragrant air, the October sun’s rays began their last golden stretch across Alister Mackenzie and Robert Hunter’s...
It’s one of the greatest courses in the world, and a personal favorite of both myself and Tom Doak, (who did terrific work there, by the way). A HUGE thank you to Golf Course Trades for making my article on Garden City Golf Club look so good! From the article: “Garden City is one of those courses that materializes out of the mists of time like a reverie...
Golf Course Trades did a fantastic job with my Boston public golf article. Wow was Granite Links playing tough. The difference between John Snford’s greens here and at Ferry Point is the difference between the tornado and the breeze! Still, an incredibly fun day on top of a mountain overlooking downtown Boston on a gorgeous day. Next time – Boston Golf...
As usual, Golf Course Trades did a phenomenal job of laying out my article about Pete Dye’s other masterpiece at Casa de Campo – Dye Fore! Parts are a throwback to Seth Raynor and Charles Blair Macdonald, parts are clifftop excitement, and parts are puckish Pete Dye at his creative best. And wait till next month when Stephen Kay and Lester George talk...
The folks over at Golf Course Trades did a terrific job publishing my U.S. Open Road trip article in their September issue. It was a great run: The Roc and Pheasant with Phil Furfari, Canterbury in Cleveland, where – among others – Jack Nicklaus made indelible major championship history, Keith Foster’s dazzling renovation of Moraine Country Club in...
Once again, the good folks over at Golf Course Trades have done a spectacular job making my monthly column look terrific. Of course, having such a remarkable subject as Bayonne helps. It’s one of the great stories in the history of golf course construction, a Herculean endeavor in every way. From the article: “Bayonne, just across the river from TriBeCa...
ny time you get to play Bayonne Golf Club, it’s a banner day, but in high summer, it’s perfection. One of the Great Golf Courses on Earth – yes, capital G, C, E – it’s both an engineering marvel and a cunning design, slowly building to a rousing crescendo. It was a privilege and an honor to be able to write about it for Golf Course...
I love Golf Course Trades – they make my photos and words look gorgeous! My second of three consecutive cover stories, this time about the wondrous Bulls Bay by Mike Strantz. Click here to read the piece, then peruse the rest of the ‘zine as well!
Soon they’ll run my Erin Hills piece, and then after that, my U.S. Open Road trip piece.
Big thanks to Fred Atvater and the folks at NWO Golf for reprinting my Golf Course Trades Article about the resurrection of Crestwood Golf Club. Like GCT, they too did a terrific job of telling this marvelous story, one which the whole golf world should be proud of. Fred’s a buddy from Back 9 Network, and Golf News Network, so look for him on the Jay’s...
Golf Course Trades did a wonderful job on my Cal Club article. (You can read it here on-line or pick it up in print.) Cal Club is one of those golfing wonders of the world you have to savor at least once in your life. With the shining city on a hill in every picture window green, it’s as magical and transportive as any Shangri-La. Bravissima, Kyle Phillips...
Great job by the wonderful folks at GolfCourseTrades.com for running my article on Old Town Club, the last great course of Perry Maxwell. It’s a wonderful course in Winstom-Salem, NC, the home course of mighty Wake Forest! From the article: “It is impossible to understate how important Old Town is to both Maxwell’s legacy and the study of golf...
My first Golf Course Trades article is up! It’s my review of the architectural and agronomic changes to Poppy Hills, the great RTJ, Jr. course on the Monterey Peninsula that shares hosting duties with Pebble Beach, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Spyglass Hill. You can click on the entire article here. Here’s a teaser: “Pine Valley’s...