GARDEN CITY, NY – Surprise! The top three seeds in the championship match play bracket of the Travis Invitational all advanced to the semi-finals of the 101st playing of the Grand Old Amateur. Nick Gilliam, Steve White, and Hans Albertsson, stroke play co-medalists and the 1-2-3 seeds respectively, won morning and afternoon matches to advance to Sunday...
GARDEN CITY, NY – To paraphrase the fight song of his beloved alma mater: “Deerfield! Thy son is marching into the weekend’s match play phase of the Walter J. Travis Invitational with co-medalist honors, and though the odds maybe great, he’ll fight for victory for you, loyal though win or lose.” With a sparkling 4-under 69 Deerfield...
Our Green and Gothic Home The joyous daybreak’s shimmering light Reveals a blessed, stirring sight, Fair Garden City, beaming bright! Our green and gothic home. The world may clamor all around, But tranquil solace have we found. Where Emmet first broke fertile ground, And Travis’s name is renowned, Now countless champions are crowned. Our green and gothic...
BROOKLYN, NY – I owe lunch in Manhattan to Howie Munck, (Good Ol’ Howie Munck!), the kind-hearted, affable tournament director for the Met Golf Writers Association, who turned me on to a hidden gem of a golf club: one that I’d never heard of, and that has flown below the radar of even the most well-traveled of golf course aficionados for decades...
There is great news coming out of the Sand Hills region today: Ballyneal, winner of the Best New Course in 2006 and an instant classic is getting a baby brother. According to Cybergolf: Bruce Hepner, lead associate of Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design for the original Ballyneal course, will design the new course. Construction will begin this year...
THE FOX CLUB Are there any more buoyant hearts in the World than the Irish? Their greatest export is an unquenchable good cheer which brightens and enriches the lives of everyone they meet. That alone would be a solid reason to consider joining the Fox Club. (After all, in any club, you have to get along with or at least tolerate the idiosyncrasies of the other...
Some of you will remember by article last year called “Colonial in Winter, The Yellow Rose of Texas.” Well I’ve turned it into a new golf poem. Hope you love it! THE YELLOW ROSE OF WINTER Though winter’s chill should bring dismay To all the garden’s green array And verdant cloisters fade to grey When leafy towers fall away Colonial...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – Within yards of each other, separated perhaps by only a smooth 3-wood and a pitch, two of Florida’s premier private clubs lead the golf world by example, selflessly championing golf’s great virtues by giving back to the game as much and as often as possible, rather than celebrating and promoting their own opulence. Clubs that...
A new Cybergolf article here! Highlights: 1. Pete Dye’s recent ace at the 3rd at Delray! 2. Analysis of the courses and clubs! 3. Laughs at Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller:):)! And more! From the article: Dye explained the formative years of his design philosophy in an earlier interview with your author: “Back then, Trent [Robert Trent Jones, Sr.] was...
How many times have we seen country clubs – even prominent, historic, and celebrated ones – go temporarily insane and, when seeking to restore or redesign their golf course, choose a golf architect unwisely? It usually turns out to be an expensive panic and a grim disappointment. Solid golf architecture must be the first and foremost consideration: not...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – It was Yankees-RedSox, Steelers-Patriots, and Celtics-Lakers all rolled into one, and it went into the bottom of the ninth, the two-minute warning, and the last possession of the ball before it was finally settled. A steely-nerved Delray Dunes Golf Road Cup team withstood Quail Ridge’s furious Sunday charge to eke out a narrow 12-10...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – With a roar worthy of the 18th green at Augusta National on Masters Sunday, Quail Ridge members rattled every palm tree from Seminole to Sawgrass celebrating head pro Dan Brosnihan’s miraculous birdie on the final hole that rescued their team’s chances to wrest the Golf Road Cup from their rival Delray Dunes. Snookered behind a...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – One of the undisputed truths of golf is that it is a celebration of both the unquenchable human spirit and the altruistic virtues even though the competition is as fiercely contested as though American hegemony were at stake with every shot. Football players “swagger.” Hockey players fight. Soccer players roll around on the...
You might remember all the talk in late 2009 about how it looked like Tiger could run the table and win the Grand Slam of golf, (until a bunch of Ulricas and Jezebels got in the way), but 2011 looks like a great year venue wise for Woods as well. The Masters – Woods plays well at Augusta National. Even with his world in flames and his wife screaming like Nancy...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA. – Indiana native Ron Carter won the 28th Society of Seniors Championship today at Quail Ridge Country Club – the de facto Tour Championship of Senior Amateur golf – but not before channeling his inner Lon Hinkle on the back nine. With his feisty demeanor, you thought he might pull a Mister Roberts instead. After a scintillating 5...