Tom Doak and George Bahto are collecting a lot of hardware this year for their terrific course at the Bandon Dunes Resort, Old Macdonald, a course that hearkens back to all the design concepts that C.B. Macdonald, Seth raynor, and Charles Banks all championed. Ran Morrissett has a terrific breakdown of the course at Golf Club Atlas. Doak has already collected the...
He came like a gentle zephyr, charming all the girls and turning everyone’s pockets inside out…selling books that is! Kevin Cook left everyone spellbound last night at his book reading for “Titanic Thompson” – his captivating biopic of America’s greatest proposition swindler, then accepted the 2010 Jazzy Award for the year’s...
Since silly season is upon us, I can turn my attention to Jay’s Golf Awards, known around here as the Jazzys. Last year, we only gave out two awards since the Tiger scandal scud-attacked every other story all December, (not to mention the rest of the year). We gave out the 2009 Turkey of the Year to Woods for being a poor sport and role model, but that was...
Tony Korologos played golf with a prominent amateur who apparently has million-dollar talent but a ten-cent head. According to this story, a thief who stole frozen yogurt from a store actually bragged about it on Facebook. I told you it was a good time to bring back “Think B4 you Facebook something stupid!” Tony and I will be teaming up the day after...
Kevin Cook Raises the Titanic The odds on all life may be 6-5 against, but not when Kevin Cook is writing. Then they are the 1-9 in your favor that Titanic Thompson, America’s greatest proposition gambler and swindler looked for in a bet. Cook, the former editor of Golf Magazine and Sports Illustrated scored holes-in-one with Tommy’s Honor, the biography...
Back in the day, we had Grantland Rice, Herbert Warren Wind, and Bernard Darwin, and a generation of golf fans rejoiced with every word. Now we have Dan Jenkins, Marino Parascenzo, and Art Spander: three men who have over 150 years of combined experience covering, analyzing, and commenting on sports. Dan Jenkins’s contributions to golf were warmly celebrated...
It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so it’s time for the Dry, Stringy Turkey of the Year award to kick off Jay’s Golf Awards – The Jazzys for short. By the way, also tune to Tony Korologos at Hooked on Golf for his Annual Turkey Awards. Normally, I pick one culprit, but this year was a bumper crop for chumps, lunkheads, and dingbats in sports and...
Golf has hit silly season, the calendar has turned to the Holidays, (read: Christmas…Best Buy, you get a lump of coal in your stocking for that multi-cultural crap), and now we turn our attention to the best and worst of the year. That’s right, the 4th Annual Jazzy Awards begin Friday, with the Annual Dry Stringy Turkey Award for the year’s biggest...
Unless you are a fan of golf course architecture, you might not know George Bahto’s name. After all, he’s never built a multi-million dollar major championship venue, he doesn’t have an enormous firm with projects world-wide, and he hasn’t been seen on network television talking to broadcasters about his latest course. Nevertheless, this...
I read a lot of terrific sportswriting this year. Dave Andrews and Joel Zuckerman emerged with solid efforts, the first a fictional account of life on the Duramed Futures Tour, (Pops and Sunshine), the other the definitive work on Pete Dye golf courses. Even Dan Jenkins got into the action with his laugh a minute skewering of the LPGA, (The Franchise Babe). Honorable...
One of golf’s most graceful courses wins the Jazzy Award for Best Private course this year, a course where tradition, quiet dignity, and altruism are the order of the day. Far from any television towers, gallery stands, and the latest, greatest waterfall ever built on a golf course, but far closer to the egalitarian spirit of the game as envisioned by her...
Gadget lovers, rejoice! We have a tie for the Equipment Jazzy Award this year. Two products combined to shave several strokes off my handicap: one is a cerebral device which helps keep my tempo and the other is the best putter I’ve used since 1985. I vouch for both of them, so get on out there and go lower. Troy Puckett at Cayman Putters is renowned as the man...
Well, it’s the day after Thanksgiving and everyone except me and a few other Turkey haters are eating leftover dry stringy bird remnants. I had porterhouse steak yesterday, (***insert Caddyshack reference***: “Oh! Porterhouse!”) as usual, and watched everyone else fall asleep due to tryptophan or whatever it’s called. So it’s time...
Thank Goodness for ESPN’s ombudsman, LeAnne Schrieber. She has the courage to be the voice of the Great American Sports fan (much like Steve Czaban). Here is one of her latest articles, discussing how deeply offended we get when ABC sitcom and drama highnlights show up in Top Ten Lists. Transparency Alert! The anchor has no clothes! From the piece: When...
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