MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – The wind was cold as Spanish steel. A golf ball-gray sky stretched end to end across the horizon, clouds moving forlornly before the breeze. To the west a dark thunderhead roiled, black as a witch’s cauldron. Yet to the buoyant hearts of northeast golfers it might have well been a sunny 4th of July. “What a perfect day for golf...
“Take your bottom lip, and pull it up over your head.” That was how comedienne Carol Burnett described labor pains, but it also depicts how it feels to flush a 4-up lead in golf to the drummer of a punk rock/top-40 band, but I’m getting ahead of myself. The stars were still bright when Gary Wiseman’s Escalade pulled into the Quik-E-Mart so we...
Special to JayFlemma.com, AWITP, and the Golf News Net by Yaj Ammelf MARCY, NY – As the sun sets behind the bucolic hills of an upstate New York valley, a threesome makes its way up the first fairway of Crestwood Golf Club in Marcy, New York. They teed off on the second hole and are playing to the ninth green. “This is wicked fun!” marveled golfer...
Keeping with the trend of hosting the PGA Championship in a year ending in “3”, Rochester’s Oak Hill (East Course) will host the 2023 PGA Championship. It will be the fourth time the club will host the PGA, to go along with three U.S. Opens and two U.S. Amateurs. Oak Hill, regarded as one of the most difficult major championship venues, was torched...
Special to AWITP by Rodney Zilla MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – For the seventh time in eight years the storied Banks Course at Forsgate Country Club will play host to the Writer Cup, the annual head-to-head battle between Philly and New York City golf writers. Brainchild of wunderkind Chris Schiavonne, who has resurrected numerous golf courses in his career, the Banks...
MAMARONECK, NY – With Amazonian fierceness and single-minded resolve Elizabeth Manor Golf and Country Club’s Adam Horton and Roger Newsom avenged last year’s heartbreaking loss and claimed the 79th Anderson Memorial at Winged Foot, the oldest and most venerable four-ball event in American golf. “We had a long and disappointing drive home last...
MAMARONECK, NY – —Of cruel and mighty Winged Foot now to you I sadly sing And all the lost and broken men who felt her deadly sting Who wander now as shadows in her darkness evermore To roam her haunted passageways forsaken and forlorn And to the Champion’s Graveyard the Unconquerable King Our greatest heroes in defeat inexorably brings—...
MAMARONECK, NY – The eyes of amateur golf turn again to Winged Foot Golf Club this week for one of the game’s great traditions – the 79th Anderson Memorial. Long renowned as the de facto national amateur four-ball championship before the U.S.G.A. added their own event this year at Olympic Club, the Anderson is regarded as one of the Mid-Amateur...
It’s time for Jay’s Birthday celebrations once again, and this year’s festivities will be as much fun for you as for me. We’ll have golf and music – what else? Oh yeah, girls and suhi:) This year we’ll be reporting live from Forsgate, Union Vale, and Seize sur Vingt! See you all weekend with reports live from the Bacchinalia that...
GREAT FALLS, VA – The name may be nondescript – there are at least half a dozen courses called River Bend in America – but thanks to a remodel by golf architect Keith Foster, you’ll be hearing about the River Bend Club in Great Falls, Virginia soon and often. It’s yet another masterful reworking by Foster, who is riding the crest of a...
PINEHURST, NC – If I had a dime for every club in America that wanted to host a U.S. Open, I’d be able to buy Turnberry back from Donald Trump. Sadly, too many clubs spend inordinate amounts of time, energy and money in a futile pursuit of U.S. Open glory, and end up needlessly turning their clubs into unplayable torture chambers just to show how hard...
MAMARONECK, NY – They may not have made it to the World Cup soccer tournament, but now Peru is the toast of the entire amateur golf world as Lima Golf Club’s Fernando Barca and Patricio Alzamora won the 78th Anderson Memorial at Winged Foot Golf Club, defeating Bethesda Country Club’s Tim Kane and Matt Sughrue 4&3 in the final match. With the...
MAMARONECK, NY – You better hope that the getaway car Westchester Country Club’s Max Christiana and Max Buckley are driving has a super turbo boost because the cops will be looking for them after seeing what they did to mighty Winged Foot in the 78th Anderson Memorial tournament. It’s downright criminal, I tell ya! First the tandem carded a pair of...
FLOURTOWN, PA – From out of the mists of history, an ancient adage still rings true: Gods and Wonders always appear to attend the birth of Kings. And with the Sun beaming so brightly it was as though Apollo himself was driving his fiery chariot through the skies once more, Philadelphia Cricket Club’s fabled Wissahickon Course re-opened in a golden blaze...
We had a great day at the Grand Reopening of Philly Cricket Club. Cybergolf has my piece here. From the article: “All in all, the restoration was nothing short of a monumental success.If, as an old mentor of mine used to say, “The proof of the pudding is in the tasting,” then the myriad accolades golfers and pundits are already heaping upon Philly...