“Ye friends that weep about my grave Compose your minds to rest Prepare with me for sudden death And be forever blest” That is the chilling epitaph on the forlorn, grey tombstone standing sentinel over wealthy oxen farmer Baltus Roll’s lonely grave in a northern New Jersey Presbyterian burial ground. His was a pioneering family in the region, so...
Keeping with the trend of hosting the PGA Championship in a year ending in “3”, Rochester’s Oak Hill (East Course) will host the 2023 PGA Championship. It will be the fourth time the club will host the PGA, to go along with three U.S. Opens and two U.S. Amateurs. Oak Hill, regarded as one of the most difficult major championship venues, was torched...
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 – Put together Pete Dye – who’s been called a “mad scientist,” “Bela Lugosi,” and “the scariest golf designer in the world” – and a major golf championship, and you’d think that the Tour pros would be in for a brutalizing like they get at places like Oakmont, Winged Foot, or Oakland Hills...
Though Matt Jones, Jason Day, and Justin Rose are blowing through Whistling Straits like a storm out of the pages of the Book of Revelations, turning the Pete Dye-designed major championship course into a Nike Tour venue, thirteen former major winners with a combined 29 titles between then will sit out the weekend after missing the 2-over cut line. Tiger Woods may...
HAVEN, WI – With a tip of the hat and a golf clap to Una Jones of the PGA of America, here’s everything you need to know about the magic number – 63, now accomplished 27 times. HIROSHI IWATA JOINS CLUB 63 With a 9-under-par 63 in the second round, Japan’s Hiroshi Iwata tied the all-time 18-hole scoring mark in a major championship...
HAVEN, WI – “I once got my ass kicked in Wisconsin!” moaned Harold Ramis’s character in the movie Stripes. So did Dustin Johnson five years ago. (Metaphorically! Metaphorically!) But DJ did the A-K-ing today, getting some measure of revenge for his debacle five years ago at the finish. As we go to press, he leads the PGA Championship by one...
There’s rock-n-roll, football, baseball, museums, and great public golf at Erin Hills. Come take a look at all Wisconsin has to offer besides great major championship golf at the PGA Championship.
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...
My piece breaking down the future PGA venues and highlighting the absence of the Trump Bedminster banners from the tournament is up at GNN.
Photo credit: BarStool Sports HAVEN, WI – Tiger Woods’s PGA Championship press conference wasn’t over for five minutes before every alert on my cell phone and computer started going off: Twitter, Facebook, text messages, I think the only thing that didn’t ring was my LinkedIn account. The Internet was ablaze, discussing my question to Tiger in...
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Here’s the link to my article breaking down Tiger’s joke answer, then real answer to the question. We’ll also have a review of the future PGA venues and an article about things to do in Wisconsin this weekend for the PGA.
[Editor’s Note: This article also appeared at Golf News Net.] It was all set up so perfectly. Jordan Spieth, the kid with the iron will, the steely nerves, the Hogan stare, the Texas-tough pedigree, the Hollywood good looks, the smooth, savvy presence with the media, once-in-a-generation talent, and the aplomb to not let all the hullabaloo distract him from the...
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...
Great…just great. The PGA Championship is coming to Kiawah Island in 2021…which means we aren’t! Seriously, with only a two-lane road to get cars on and off the island, it takes two-and-a-half hours to get to and from the course every day. That wastes our most valuable asset…our time! I think I’m going to try to jet pack in and...