SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET —BY JAY FLEMMA SOUTHAMPTON, NY – What looked like a runaway turned into a dogfight as Wyndham Clark watched his six-shot 54-hole lead at the U.S. Open shrink to just one, but then held on for dear life on the back nine to hold off a hard-charging fellow American Sam Burns. Tom Kim finished third, two shots back of Clark, while World...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Six stroke lead or not, Championship Sunday at Shinnecock Hills will be a five-hour golf round as difficult as a doctoral dissertation for Wyndham Clark as well as the rest of the field chasing him at the 126th U.S. Open. Should he falter – and that’s just one bad swing and one bad decision – eight players are at even par or better. On Championship...
SPECIAL TO GOLF NEWS NET SOUTHAMPTON, NY – It Wyndham in the wind on Thursday at the U.S. Open as Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open Champion at L.A. Country Club, fired a sizzling 8-under 64 in blustery conditions to lead the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills by three shots. Meanwhile a whopping six former U.S. Open champions shot ever par or better, and eight players...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Early morning tee times and a pairing together proved just what some of the U.S. Open favorites needed as Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, and Tommy Fleetwood all posted solid rounds to Open the 126th playing of the national golf championship. McIlroy, reigning back-to-back Masters Champion, and Swedish wunderkind Aberg fired 1-under 71s, currently tied...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Isn’t it great when something, anything lives up to the hype? We live in a world where journalists have to build everything up to such a degree of hagiographic hero worship, that it takes work to discern what’s culture and what’s a commercial. Happily, this week at the U.S. Open, no one will have to worry that the golf course – ancient and venerable...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Nowhere will Shinnecock Hills reveal its slavering jaws as a U.S. Open venue more than at its formidable par-3s. For mere mortal golfers, the par-3s can often be a welcome refuge from the course. Occasionally – not often, but occasionally – the shortest golf holes are the deadliest: like the 12th at Augusta National, the 17th at Pebble Beach...
I’m still astonished that the tour pros shredded Aronimink to the tune of 20-under back in 2018 during the FedEx Cup Playoffs. I’m hoping to see 13 or 14-under and nine players tied for the lead with seven holes to play. We’ll be live from Shinnecock Hills and Royal Birkdale later this summer. We’ll have all the coverage this week over at Golf...
Golf News Net on iHeartRadio returns with my post Masters review. Ryan Ballengee, head of all things GNN joins us with his thoughts on the wild ride that is Rory McIlroy. First he looks like the Rory of the early 2010s, then he looks like the Rory that ran from that tennis chick like she was a live scorpion, then he finally (FINALLY!) tamed Amen Corner to coast to...
The one and only Rees Jones, “Open Doctor,” “PGA Physician,” and the man who, along with David Fey, resurrected Bethpage Black from a golf scrapheap to major championship and Ryder Cup glory, joins us for an in-depth look at Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup. Rees breaks down Bethpage Black like a fraction for us – all 18 holes...
BETHPAGE, NY – The incredible rags to riches story of Bethpage Black continues at light speed. The once shabby, shoddy, ill-kept state-run public links has risen like a vengeful phoenix to become a part of America’s informal major golf championship rotation, if one can be said to exist. First the Black hosted two U.S. Opens, (2002 and 2009, the former won by Tiger...
Open Championship coverage this year at JF.com, Golf News Net, Golf Course Trades, and Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio will be a lot different this year. We’ll be live from the UK. “Grazie dio!” as we say in Italian. Better still, plans are a deep dive into not only the the Open Rota venues, but a smattering of the best of the rest as well...
Picture yourself for a moment lying in bed the night before you tee off in the U.S. Open…only it’s the U.S. Open at Oakmont. The National Open is routinely played at only the finest and most difficult golf courses in the country. “Golf’s Toughest Test” is the semi-official moniker, and the USGA means it. Historians may quibble as to the exact genesis of the inception...
What at first looked like a walkaway turned into a dogfight, but with a back nine surge, Scottie Scheffler held off a charge by Spain’s Jon Rahm and won his first PGA Championship and his third major golf championship overall. Scheffler, who had lost a five-shot lead in a span of four holes early, played a textbook back nine, birdieing both par-5s and the reachable...
The Masters wrap-up/PGA Championship iHeartRadio show for Golf Nrws Net is up. First we interviewed the Irish Golf Desk’s Brian Keogh who was at Augusta National as Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy won the Masters. Then best-selling author Kevin Cook stopped by to preview the PGA and discuss his new book, Tiger Slam, celebrating the 25th anniversary of...
Fingerpaint Masterpiece at Augusta National Earns Rory McIlroy Golf’s Career Grand Slam —by Jay Flemma, reprinted from Golf News Net— There were moments when we were sure he had it won, but he didn’t. There were moments when we thought he had thrown it away for good, but he hadn’t. There were moments we thought it was his daughter Poppy hitting the golf...