SAN FRANCISCO – There was once a time when the U.S. Open was far more than just “Golf’s Toughest Test.” As far back as the 1970s golf journalists christened the event “The Tricked-up Open” for all the cloak and dagger claustrophobia of criminally narrow fairways, parquet floor greens, and mine fields of unexploded double bogeys...
TALLGRASS GOLF COURSE 24 Cooper Street Shoreham, NY 11786 631.209.9359 www.golfattallgrass.com Architect: Gil Hanse Par: 36-35=71 Highest cost – $79 (weekends, a.m.) Lowest cost – $30 (weekdays after 2 p.m.) Tees Yards Rating Slope Black 6550 72.2 125 White 6148 70.1 123 Gold 5613 67.5 115 Red 5044 68.6 110 Tallgrass is a most welcome addition to the...
On a sunny summer Sunday in 1971, deep in the Catskill Mountains, my Dad brought my Mom to the practice range of the second hardest golf course in America at the time, spent 45 minutes teaching her how to hit the ball, and then turned her loose on the golf world. He created a monster. By the time I was 15, she was playing 27 holes a day. But the idea was a great one:...
Can you tell golf course architect Kelly Blake Moran is a Texan? He may not wear a ten gallon hat, but boy is he proud of the Lone Star State. Call him Amarillo Slim in a windshirt. “And I’ll tell you another thing!” he roars disapprovingly. “Those Oklahoma teams that won those national championships a few years ago? I’ll give you one...
While I finish writing up all the notes from my trip to the Pacific Northwest, the New York Post takes Mayor Bloomberg and Donald Trump to task over the boondoggle that is Ferry Point golf course. what was supposed to be a high quality, yet affordable public golf course has turned into a jack Nicklaus signature design (read: mess), that will essentially be a taxpayer...
FOREST HILLS, NY – AWITP sources have confirmed that discussion between the PGA of America and the governing bodies in New York that Bethpage may be considered for the 2020 or 2021 PGA Championship and the 2028 Ryder Cup. Sources also confirm that Rees Jones’s restoration work at Baltusrol has gone so well in preparation for the 2016 PGA Championship...
Good news for NYC public golfers: Forest Park Golf Course manager Bob Smith got excellent golf course architect Stephen Kay to give the course a spit-shine and conditions have improved at the Queens Course. “There’s a reason why they call it Forest Park,” Kay quipped, referring to the thousands of trees that blight the landscape and interfere with...
” What do you think of this news out of Pound Ridge: (From the press release). BTW, My recent review of Pound Ridge is here Golfers wishing to experience the challenge of New York’s only Dye-designed layout will now be able to play nine holes any day of the week. Responding to the modern golfer’s call for flexible playability, the nine-hole play...
Great job by Jeff Shelley getting this up so quick. It’s my long form review of Ballyhack Golf Club in Roanoke, VA. We’ll have more pictures here over the next few days, after I get up to Boston to cover the Deutsche Bank. From the article: “In 2003 George thought his search for a truly great piece of land for his dream course was over. The 370 acre...
[Author’s Note: Pix soon…] UPPER MARLBORO, MD – To watch the Virginia Potomac Cup golf team smile, cheer, and rally around each other at Lake Presidential Golf Club yesterday afternoon, you’d never know they were only one year removed from a record 29-7 pasting at the hands of Maryland. Yet after returning six players from last year’s...
Thanks to Jeff Shelley for doing a great job with my article on golf north of New York City.
I’ll have more course reviews soon, along with wall-to-wall coverage of the PGA Championship from Whistling Straits.
I-84, NY – It’s a summer weekend in the greater NYC area and rather than having a meal set to the dulcet tones of jackhammers and ambulances, fighting through crowds shopping or at museums, or doing a vapid dance of the sand crabs at a Hamptons time share, you wisely decide to get some air and exercise and play golf. Now let’s suppose your friends...
Let’s quickly reset the schedule of events, coverage, and articles for the next few weeks: 1. The British Open! 2. My preview and live coverage of the PGA Championship 3. Article on Pasatiempo 4. Atlantic City Country Club 5. Golf along I-84 in the NE corridor 6. Book reviews of Titanic Thompson (Kevin Cook) and Ancestral Links (John Garrity). 7. Stephen Kay...
Photo courtesy of the Furgol family. The beating heart of golf is not fantastically rich touring professionals, five-diamond resort courses designed by celebrity architects, (usually touring pros chosen only for name recogniztion to sell rounds/real estate), or top 100 instructors who chopper in to give $100,000 per hour lessons. No, the lifeblood of golf is still...
This summer, I went back to two old haunts and found them better than ever: THE LINKS AT HIAWATHA LANDING 2350 Marshland Road Apalachin, NY 800.304.6533 (800-30-golf-3) www.hiawathalinks.com Architect: Brian Silva and Mark Mungeam Par – 72 Excitement Level – 9/12 Difficulty – 8/12 Design: six stars Natural Setting Five and 1/2stars Conditioning...