Amazing! The USGA just keeps bring events to better and better facilities. Welcome back Philly Cricket Club. Here is the press release, straight from the U.S.G.A.: THE PHILADELPHIA CRICKET CLUB TO HOST 2010 WOMEN’S MID-AMATEUR Far Hills, N.J. – The Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown Pa. near Philadelphia has been chosen as the site of the 2010 U.S...
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After further review the play stands as called; Philly Cricket Club is every bit as great an old, classic country club as any major championship venue. For the second time, I drove from busy freeways to suddenly quiet suburban streets in the blink of an eye. One moment all the traffic of the world howled its barkings, yelpings and insanities and the next...
The end of the PGA TOUR season means that the remainder of the year will be spent reviewing more courses. First, the team here at AWITP will join forces with Tony Korologos of Hooked on Golf Blog and The Golf Space for a three day event at fabled Black Mesa Golf Club, which I reviewed in this piece for Golf Observer. Black Mesa is one of the three most important...
GOLDEN AGE U.S. OPEN COURSES GETTING BETTER WITH AGE Inwood Country Club, Philadelphia Cricket Club still shine like the polished gems they were many decades ago. With proper care, some things get better with age. A fine wine rounds out its edges and develops interesting complex flavors. Older cigars are smoother and more balanced, providing a mellow, civilized smoke...
Part one is below this entry. See you from Augusta next year. Friday It was fitting that Woods went off early Thursday because it set the stage for him close the proceedings on Friday with fireworks. Much like a headlining rock band rightfully having the stage for themselves to end the gig and sending everyone home singing and screaming for more – a smattering...
While the eyes of the golf world are fixed firmly on Sergio Garcia’s colorful outfits at Carnoustie, we can still go out and play golf as well as watch. That’s exactly what I did. The AWITP team has saddled up for a weekend in Maryland sandwiching the brilliantly designed Baltimore Country Club East Course (Five Farms) designed by A. W. Tillinghast...
In honor of Open Championship week, lets examine a little bit of ye olde sod here in Ye Big Apple. Mark Cannizzaro of the New York Post wrote this excellent column on one of my favorites and the best course in New York City – Bayonne Golf Club by Eric Bergstrol. I reviewed Bayonne here and discussed it in depth here when it finished second in...
As Mark Twain said, when some people get a batty idea in their head “there’s no getting it out again.” Czabe misses the boat completely by completely ignoring the agronomy. The added trees were KILLING the greens. All those roots were leeching nutrients form the soil. The leaves were shading parts of the greens relying on sunlight...
My U.S. Open preview piece is here. From the article: There’s another factor that will definitely affect play this year: over 4,000 trees were removed from the property. Almost all of the trees in question were not originally part of the golf course. Some were added for “beautification,” while others were planted in dedication of a deceased member...
I told you it was the best new private last year. When all is said and done, it will be one of the best in history. Oh..and did you catch “Grateful Dunes?” I vote for a big par-4 17th called “Morning Dew” and a reachable, but stunning par-5 18th, “Sugar Magnolia.” Other holes I NEED to see…Jack Straw, Eyes of the World, Dark...
I’ll write more when I get time, but I had a pleasant and interesting round on one of Tillinghast’s lesser-known but excellent designs on Long Island. Southward Ho is everything you’d want a private club to be: collegial members, an interesting design with solid greens, not too hard, featuring excellent caddies (ask for Pete) and reasonably...
Two bits of golf news today: First, Liberty National, just across frpm Wall Street in New Jersey got their wish and landed the 2009 Barclay’s tournament. Many of the old guard mourn the loss of Westchester from the schedule, but hey, the PGA gets much closer to the deep pockets of Wall Street. Follow the money. I reviewed LibNat (as she is...
[Author’s Note: This piece was supposed to be published as my 2007 Hootie at Bulls Bay wrap up, but between work at both jobs, tax season and other articles, it fell by the wayside until tonight. I hope you like it.] The members of Bulls Bay Golf Club in Awendaw, South Carolina are blessed with a privilege unique in the world of golf. They belong to the only...
AWENDAW, SC – Charles Dickens wrote in his classic novel A Tale of Two Cities:  Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away...