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Interview with George Bahto

George Bahto – the dry cleaners owner-turned-golf course designer who restored the Knoll Club (West) to it’s golden age glory and who is helping Tom Doak build Old Macdonald, (out at Bandon Dunes Resort), sat down for a few questions: JF: Tell us about how you first got introduced to golf? George Bahto: (I was forced to – ha!) It was caddying for my...

Brian Keogh reports on Harrington and Woods Playing together at Bethpage

Brian Keogh of the Irish Golf Desk has this interview with Padraig Harrington, where the reigning British Open and PGA Champion talks about playing with Woods in 2002 at Bethpage, and how he’s excited. Angel Cabrera may round out the threesome for the first two days. Keogh also got Paddy to give us all an optimistic view of how his practice regimen is helping...

Hole by Hole breakdown of Bethpage Black for the U.S. Open

Here’s a quick thumbnail sketch of the set-up at Bethpage Black for the U.S. Open: First Hole – Par-4, 430 yards High on a pulpit overlooking the first fairway, one can see a ribbon of fairway flanked by two sides of rough that are wider on either side than the intended target. The hole is a 90-degree dog-leg, the knee of which is guarded by a stand of...

Sal Johnson and Dave Seanor talk U.S. Open prep at Golf Observer

While I’m getting my own preview piece done, Sal Johnson has a nice write-up of the changes discussed at media day.  Scroll down to question 6.  Kudos to Mike davis for – as he put it – easing up on the accelerator. From the article: “Several tees have been added, which will enable Davis & Co. to vary the lengths of certain holes...

Shooting at Opulent Homestead Golf Resort

The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA has been open since 1766.  This is obviously just a sad, but thankfully isolated incident,  a statistical outlier, as they say in the sports world.  From the article: Hotel Spokeswoman Carol Stratford declined to say whether Hackney had any discipline problems or release further personal information on him or the victims. She...

The Last Sunset at Beechtree

So Cybergolf ran “The Last Sunset at Beechtree” today.  In the meantime, I wrote a coda to the piece about my trip, so here it is.  Click over to see Jeff Shelley work his magic in getting things up in a heartbeat. THE THINGS WE DO FOR GOLF My road to Beechtree was hectic and hair-raising. I spent the night before the round at the townhouse of my on...