Who doesn’t love a good monster fight? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! And the glory days are actually back! With modern technology the new Godzilla movies are totally worthy, and for once the inability to pick which monsters to showcase in any particular movie gave way to the most excellent solution of...
Albany’s Out of Control Ski Club won the Inaugural G.E. Ski Club Cup Golf Challenge, easily coasting to victory in the medal play tournament. Hosts G.E. Ski Club finished a distant second. OOC’s Matt Zeist was medalist, with his teammate Steven Ford finishing second. Indeed, the top four spots went to OOC golfers, who took the lead early, and then...
Ski Area Management, one of the most respected, intelligent, and important magazines in the winter sports world ran my story about how ski area golf courses can improve their designs with minimal cost. They really made it look good. And – BONUS! – Mt. Snow is renovating their golf course right now and over next season as well. We’ll have that story...
—Special to AWITP, NASJA, NSCF, and Golf News Net — FAYETTEVILLE, NY – In a brilliant coup, the small but historically important G.E. Ski Club of Utica, New York has challenged all ski clubs in New York and New Jersey to a golf tournament June 8 at Green Lakes Golf Club, outside Syracuse, New York. Competing clubs can bring as few or as many golfers...
CALLING ALL CLUBS OF THE NJSSC! ON JUNE 8, 2024 THE G.E. SKI CLUB OF UTICA CHALLENGES YOUR CLUB TO A GOLF MATCH! THE G.E. SKI CLUB CUP! GREEN LAKES G.C., FAYETTEVILLE, NY A ROBERT TRENT JONES, SR. CLASSIC! TEAM BBQ CONTEST ON THE LAKESIDE AFTER THE GOLF TOURNAMENT! COST: $52/PER PLAYER, 2PM SHOTGUN START FORMAT: MEDAL PLAY, BEST 10 SCORES FROM EACH TEAM COUNT...
The JIG is up Green Lakes Welcome to the JIG – Jay’s Insider Guide – where he breaks down golf courses like a fraction for you. 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 – GREEN LAKES GOLF COURSE —by Jay Flemma, Special to the clubs of the New Jersey Ski...
HALFMOON, N.Y. – Sometimes golf isn’t about historic clubs, Golden Age architecture, and major championship pedigrees. No, the beating heart of golf is found in the down-home, homespun, local public golf courses that are thriving, not just surviving as the post-Covid golf boom hurtles on. So meet Fairways at Halfmoon, a public course mid-way between...
Last week saw an excellent premiere of Golf Course Trades’ webinar series. The first subject was upstate New York’s Copake Country Club, a 1921 Devereux Emmet design. I interviewed restoration architect Mark Fine and Head Superintendent Mark Anderson for the segment. Â The link to the webinar is here.
(Pic above: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE THREE-PUTT, photo by Mike Mosely) Golf Course Trades has a new webinar series of podcasts, interviews, and lectures that promises to be an interesting look at the golf, skiing, and resort industries. On February 23, at 1PM EST, I’ll actually be hosting an interview where golf architect Mark Fine and head...
As always, Golf Course Trades did a fantastic job with my article on Links at Hiawatha Landing, one of my favorite courses and an old home of mine way way waaaaaaay back in the day. The entire piece is here. From the article: “The year was 1994, and although the golf world didn’t know it or expect it, a tumultuous sea change had started. Golf had just...
It was an absolute joy to return to Albany area’s Copake Country Club this summer. As usual the Golf Course Trades team did a fabulous job in both print and on line. From the article: “When you stand atop the 12th tee of Copake Country Club on an early fall day, the entire valley around you blazes with glory: burning vermillion, fiery orange, shimmering...
Golf Course Trades did a remarkable job with my Green Lakes article. This one was fun, especially because I got a bunker named after me. You read that correctly. When you hole out a bunker shot, you get the bunker named after you. That’s Rule 36. (Rule 35 is have fun…). “…many of the bunkers had become so filled with sand or their faces so...
Golf courses in New York have been opened in New York State as of Friday March 27. According to the NYSGA: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York State on PAUSE Executive Order, which went into effect 8pm on Sunday, March 22. “All non-essential businesses statewide will be closed, non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason are...
Thank yous all around on this one: GolfTripX, Green Lakes super Kevin Carroll, Rocky the PGA Head Professional, and the rest of the team, and Matt Mulcahy of WSTM. GolfTripX made the piece look great, Kevin was an invaluable resource regarding the restoration, and Matt, the reliable face of Central New York News for over a generation, has played the course for over...
FAYETTEVILLE, NY – We all know the rags-to-riches story of Bethpage Black: a municipal golf course built in the tumult of the Great Depression survives long decades of languishing and mismanagement before being restored to its former glory and ascends into the rarified air of a major championship venue. It’s an inspiration to every public golf course. But...