It’s the eve of Masters Championship Sunday, and the leaderboard for this, the 89th playing of America’s most august sporting event could have been written by Hollywood or Shakespeare, take your pick. Start with Rory McIlroy. He burst on the scene as a wunderkind, blossomed into a Hall of Famer, and now stands – along with Tiger Woods – as the bulwark against LIV...
Woo hoo hoo! It’s the greatest golf week of the year. Rebirth, renewal, resurrection, and the epitome of that is indeed the Masters. We have a terrific radio show preview for you at Jay Flemma Sports Report. First, Jay Busbee of Yahoo!Sports checks in from his jet-setting adventures across the sporting globe. Then in the second half of our show, Ryan Ballengee...
Whaddya know! The IOC didn’t trip over itself and picked fabled Riviera Country Cub as the site for the 2028 Men’s and Women’s Olympic golf competition. From the press release: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (Friday, 12 July 2024) — The International Golf Federation alongside LA28 announced today The Riviera Country Club, annual host of The Genesis...
Once again, venerable Royal Troon Golf Links — 142 years young – hosted a legendary Open Championship, one that should shine brightly through the ages:Â proper weather, a scintillating links, and a worthy victor in Xander Schauffele, now a two-time major winner and one of only a handful of golfers to win both the Open Championship and the PGA...
The last time we saw Royal Troon Golf Links for an Open Championship the blessed old links gave us what golf history now refers to as the Second Duel in the Sun. Hearkening back to 1977 when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus separated themselves by 1o shots from the field at Turnberry, Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and the USA’s Phil Mickelson played Troon like a...
The 105th PGA Championship and the second major golf championship of the year is in chaos today as a pedestrian was killed by a shuttlebus in early morning darkness, and world number one golfer and reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested on a total of four felony and misdemeanor charges for failing to stop and obey police officers investigating...
A mid round birdie barrage and a textbook Sunday back nine powered world number one golfer Scottie Scheffler to his second Masters Championship in three years. His sparkling final round 68 featured seven birdies, including three consecutive at holes eight through 10, a tricky if not treacherous stretch of the golf course. Scheffler finished at 11-under, four shots...
It was 1977, and before their famous “Duel in the Sun” at Turnberry for the Open Championship, Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus had another duel for the ages at the Masters. Watson had been in contention the entire way, tied for the lead after both the second and third rounds, and was in the final pairing on Sunday. Jack opened poorly, snarling acidly that...
Not one but two new Jay Flemma Sports Report shows have dropped recently, so here are the links. Skiing in Argentina/Open Championship and USGA Mid-Am Redux Our first guest was Aaron Schorsch of Saveur the Journey, the skiing, fishing, and culinary travel outfit that showed me around Argentina. It was an absolutely gold standard experience on every level –...
If it’s true, Phil Mickelson should be banned from professional golf. Or is it one gambling degenerate trying to take down his feckless gambling degenerate buddy? Either way, golf deserves answers now. Billy Walters, the casino maven serving time for insider trading who was intimate buddies with pro golfer and five time major champion Phil Mickelson, has outed...
Los Angeles Has Returned to the U.S. Open Rotation, but for How Long at L.A.C.C.? —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA — The day after the U.S. Open concluded, the USGA made an announcement met with joy across the golf-o-sphere. Lovely and historic Riviera Country Club will host the 2031 U.S. Open. For decades a yearly Tour stop, Riviera...
LOS ANGELES, CA — Hoping to end a lifetime major championship drought, Southern California born and bred Ricky Fowler shot an EVEN par 70 over Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course to stay tied atop the leaderboard at 10-under as the 123rd U.S. Open Championship turns towards Sunday’s final round. Plucky young gun Wyndham Clark, a journeyman party...
The Los Angeles U.S. Open Experience LOS ANGELES, CA — Mark Twain famously quipped, “Tip the world over on its side, and all the loose change ends up in California.” I’ll describe it more succinctly:Â Weirdsville! I won’t call California a foreign country, but even though we’re all Americans, they are an entity all their own...
Forget Brooks Koepka, Michael Block won the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— PITTSFORD, NY — Brooks Koepka may take the Wanamaker Trophy back to Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi Arabia, but club professional Michael Block won the 2023 PGA Championship. He won all our hearts as well. Block turned the year’s second...
With a nod to vegasinsider.com, my one-stop shop for all things line and prognostication related, here are the betting odds and money line for the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, to be contested Thursday through Sunday, May 18-21. Justin Thomas is the defending champion after his riveting come-from-behind Sunday charge and playoff win and...