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The Tedesco – The Sinking of a Ship, The Birth of a Club

[Author’s Note: Massachusetts’ Tedesco Country Club, a course designed and redesigned by many hands, including Wayne Stiles, Jon Van Kleek, and Donald Ross, and most recently renovated by Ron Forse, is named after one of the most famous shipwrecks in New England, the cargo bark Tedesco, which sank in a blizzard offshore over 160 years ago. To stretch my legs as a bit...

Bayonne Golf Club Sharpening Fangs, Looks to Further Test Pros

Course developer and designer Eric Bergstol sent the membership the following letter outlining changes to his instant and forever links classic:  Bayonne Golf Club. We’ll be talking with Eric on Jay Flemma Sports Report soon, as well as publishing a more in-depth pice on the changes for Golf Course Trades. As Hunter Thompson’s editors would say, in the...

Video of the Week – Golden Ticket Weekend October 2023, Bayonne Golf Club with Broadcaster Steve Czaban

Broadcaster Steve Czaban of One on One Sports and post-game host for the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins…err…Commanders joined me for Golden Ticket Weekend:  this incarnation being Bayonne and Forsgate. Steve has finished an excellent promo video which is attached here. Of course, link over to Czabecast, Steve’s YouTube channel for more...

Coming Attractions: Hagestad Wins Crump Cup, U.S. Loses Solheim to Europe, Ryder Cup Coverage here and at Golf News Net, iHeartRadio

While we finish up some skiing articles from Argentina and beyond, let’s review the last week and cue up the next. The “Summer of Hagestad” ended in the grandest fashion of all as the 32 year-old amateur followed up his victory at the USGA Mid-Am at Sleepy Hollow with a rain-shortened victory at the Crump Cup at Pine Valley. Organizers, fearful of...

The Second Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Second Legend of Sleepy Hollow —by Washington Flemma, Special to Golf News Net and Found among the papers of Mr. Ryan Deidricht Knickerbocker— SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY – Nestled in the bosom of a spacious cove on the eastern shore of the Hudson at an expanse of the river called by the Dutch the Tappan Zee, but more recently stylized by one Italian as “Mario...

Channeling the Headless Horseman, Two-Time Champion Stewart Hagestad Powers into Mid-Amateur Final at Sleepy Hollow

SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY – With a march seemingly as ruthless and inexorable as that of the Headless Horseman himself, amateur golfer Stewart Hagestad has powered through five well-decorated USGA veterans and Met Golf Association stars at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, and galloped his way into the finals of the 42nd USGA Mid-Amateur Championship. You’ll recall hapless Ichabod...

Skier, Lawyer, Grocer Lead Field into Match Play Phase of USGA Mid-Amateur at Sleepy Hollow Country Club

SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY – This is the beauty of amateur golf in all its altruism and earnestness – it’s your friendly neighborhood everyman atop the leaderboard at the 42nd USGA Mid-Amateur Championship. “I work at a fruit stand,” quipped Harry Bolton only half joking. Playing out of Royal Canberra Club in Australia and one of 28 international players from 19 different...

Sleepy Hollow Member Brad Tilley Carries Hopes of Host Club at 2023 USGA Mid-Amateur

SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY – “He carries the hopes of us all,” beamed one Sleepy Hollow Country Club member proudly, almost lovingly as golfer Brad Tilley finished off an Even-par round of 71 to open the stroke play portion of the 42nd USGA Mid-Amateur Championship. With the ovation Tilley received coming off the 18th green, you’d have though...

The JIG is Up USGA Mid-Amateur Competitors – a Strategic Guide to Sleepy Hollow Country Club

Welcome to Jay’s Insider Guide. Knowledge is power, and forewarned is forearmed. The JIG is your study guide and ideas for a game plan. All you need to do is execute. This episode – Sleepy Hollow Country Club —by Jay Flemma, Special to the Golf News Net for the 2023 USGA Mid-Amateur— SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY –Sleepy Hollow Country Club is as quintessential to American golf...

Los Angeles Has Returned to the U.S. Open Rotation, but for How Long at L.A.C.C.?

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 last...

Scene Stealer! Unheralded Wyndham Clark Wins Hollywood U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club

Scene Stealer! Unheralded Wyndham Clark Wins Hollywood U.S. Open at L.A. Country Club —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA – Quick! We need rewrites to the script! A bit player stole the show in Hollywood! 29-year old Wyndham Clark, unheralded before the tournament began, outlasted four-time major champion Rory McIlroy at Los Angeles Country...

Fowler Clings to Share of Lead with Plucky Clark, McIlroy, Scheffler Lurk at 123rd U.S. Open

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 crasher wo...

The Los Angeles U.S. Open Experience

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:  Weirdsville! I won’t call California a foreign country, but even though we’re all Americans, they are an entity all their own. “Kind of like New Yorkers, Jay?” you...

Journeyman Wyndham Clark Fires 67, Will play in Saturday’s Final Group with Fowler

Journeyman Wyndham Clark Fires 67, Will play in Saturday’s Final Group with Fowler —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— LOS ANGELES, CA – It wouldn’t be the U.S. Open if a puzzling stranger didn’t make a surprise appearance on the leaderboard sending everyone scrambling for their Player’s Guide. Young, unknown Wyndham Clark opened 123rd U.S. Open with a...