BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – Forget the old adage “Don’t get mad, get even,” because getting mad has done wonders for Indiana’s Ron Carter. In fact, getting mad has landed Carter atop the leaderboard at the 28th Society of Seniors Championship at Quail Ridge, and now he is just 18 holes away from capturing one of senior amateur golf’s most...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA – Quail Ridge’s North Course bowed her head in homage to golf’s venerable, honored veterans today as 25 of the 92 golfers who started in the championship flight shot par or better to open the 28th playing of the Society of Seniors Championship – the de facto Tour Championship of senior amateur golf. Five players sit atop the...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – The festive white lights gracefully circling the swaying palm trees are an unmistakable sign that Christmas is coming to Florida, but for world-class caliber senior amateur golfers, Christmas comes early this year. Over 200 of the greatest American and international players over the age of 55 – from Sarasota to San Diego, from Fargo...
Beloved, admired, and an inspiration to everyone around him, the death of rising star golf architect Mike Strantz at age 51 was a crushing loss to all of golf, not just his many friends, fans, and family. Oral cancer claimed his life just as he was reaching virtuoso heights in his profession. Time and again he worked in the shadow of greatness and designed a world...
While I work on an article about Lawsonia, here’s some more on Bulls Bay. ON THE COURSE What was once an old tomato field with one foot of elevation change over the course of 200 acres has been completely transformed into a majestic, tumbling landscape of broadly sweeping fairways, eye-popping waste bunkers – bunkers so other-worldly they have drawn...
I’m thrilled to announce I’ll have not one, but two chapters in a new book by Paul Daley and Full Swing Publishing called Golf Course Architecture Vol. 6. I’ll be writing chapters on Bulls Bay and Lawsonia. PAul said it was okay to run some teasers, so here is the first: TITLEIST – THE NUMBER ONE BULL IN GOLF! In the zaniest, most madcap...
This is hysterical. Run, don’t walk to join this club. The Banks Course is one of the best layouts in the country and the members are more fun than a celebrity roast. Comedy, thy name is “Wayne and Skippy.”
Rollin’ over on that poor ole hack Jeff Gates for a $5 credit??? Dang, I’d have held out for free dinner at least:)
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – When most people think of world-class golf in New Jersey, the first two courses that come to mind are Pine Valley and Baltusrol, the former because of its perennial number one ranking in American golf, the latter because it has hosted seven U.S. Opens and one PGA Championship. To most golfers, merely playing either course is a once-in-a...
Blame it all on a simple twist of fate — Bob Dylan — ROANOKE, VA – I couldn’t possibly have been going in the right direction, could I? I had gotten off the exit ramp for downtown Roanoke, but after passing a modest skyline, I got diverted into duplexes, the crumbling back lots of an industrial factory and power plant, and finally into dusty...
While I’m in DelMarVa playing Ballyhack and covering the Potomac Cup preview – complete with a stint with Steve Czaban on Fox Sports radio Tuesday afternoon – Ryan Ballengee has a terrific preview of Congressional. Mike Davis goes over some of the changes the players can expect when the course hosts a U.S. Open instead of a Kemper/Booz...
I had the great pleasure of playing Colonial last winter just after Keith Foster’s terrific changes to the course were completed. Click here for the article.
GARDEN CITY, NY – There’s a new Big Ben in the sports world, but this one doesn’t throw touchdowns, shake off pass rushers, or hold on to the ball so long that Pittsburgh Steelers fans get heart failure. Instead, Big Ben Hayes from Whisper Rock G.C. in Arizona crushes Space Shuttle drives, pin-points laser beam irons, and dissects opponents with...
GARDEN CITY, NY – It was a glorious day at Garden City, a deep blue sky and golden light as Da Vinci or Michelangelo would have painted. Yet for all the joyous sunshine and azure skies of verdant spring, tomorrow may see another, more magnificent masterpiece as Jed Raynor tries to become the first Garden City Golf Club member in forty years to win the Walter J...
GARDEN CITY, NY – He’s 6’6″, 300 lbs., he’s redder than a Rock Lobster, and he’s a hatchet as sharp as the Devil himself. Now with a dazzling 6-under 67 to open the 100th Travis Invitational, Bel Air Country Club’s David Reneker is also the co-holder of the competitive course record at fabled Garden City Golf Club...
— 100 years of rousing cheers, Of frothy beers and smiling peers, Of hearts sincere and friendships dear, Our green and gothic home – From Our Green and Gothic Home – a poem to commemorate the Travis turning 100 years old. GARDEN CITY, NY – The Grand Old Amateur – the Walter J. Travis Invitational at Garden City Golf Club – one of...