Back 9 Network has run my Fossil Trace article. Catch it here. And have a happy new year. Enjoy the fiscal cliff you voted for…
Back 9 Network has run my Fossil Trace article. Catch it here. And have a happy new year. Enjoy the fiscal cliff you voted for…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – While out covering the U.S. Open two separate sources imparted to me the same information. “Let me let you in a on a little secret Jay. Golf in California isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” they both asserted. I see why they said that. They had just been disappointed yet again by two big ticket resorts that actually...
Since all great epics come in trilogies (except Harry Potter), and since I’m still finishing my Tallgrass/Gil Hanse piece, here’s the sizzling climax of Golf and Spas! COEUR D’ALENE Britt and friends mentioned they were interested in possibly going to the Pacific Northwest, so how about Coeur D’Alene? “The water really is that blue and...
Try to time your arrival at Chambers Bay so as to be there for sunrise, the light is magnificent. As the sky slowly brightens from black to deep purple to blue, they’ll appear before you: eighteen precious jewels, each prim as a cameo, yet as cunningly and carefully designed as the many intricate facets of the gemstone. Yes, everything you’ve heard about...
Former Pierce County Executive John Ladenberg responded sharply to a Seattle newspaper article questioning the financial viability and impact on the local economy of Chambers Bay Golf Links, site of the 2015 U.S. Open and 2010 U.S. Amateur. Responding to an article that said Chambers Bay operates at a loss that cannot be offset by anticipated U.S. Open gate receipts...
Golf and ***shudder*** Spas… I hated typing that word, but hey, the readers have spoken… Dear Jay: My girlfriends and I love golf and are looking for a cool resort to play in the northwest, west or northeast that also has a good spa and food. We have played a lot of the big resorts and are looking for something cool and different. What can you recommend...
[Author’s Note: This interview was over 17 pages long. Here are some fun and interesting excerpts. You’ll have to buy the book for the rest:)] Dan Hixson – Zen and the Art of the Do It Yourself Golf Design Career MC Lars is actually wrong (for once!) Post-punk laptop rap isn’t the new DIY: golf course design is, at least if you’re Dan...
While I get a few more interviews and course reviews finshed, here’s some great insighta o Chambers Bay from Robert Trent Jones, Jr., who by this time next week = may pull a come from nehind victory in the Rio primary:) (I.E. The Olympics election…err…selection…) JF: Now those hummocks look like berms that Seth Raynor did at flat courses like...
Day 3 – Gold Mountain, (Olympic Course) 5:15 a.m., Seattle No matter how many times I do it, waking up in darkness isn’t for me. My body clock is used to the California hours that all entertainment lawyers keep, even in New York. (If a Cali lawyer calls you at 4:59 his time and you’re not there, as Ian Faith said, “they start screaming like a...
Day 1 – The Road to Chambers Bay Warm clothes? Check. Laptop? Check. Clubs? That’s a big check! And we were off to Seattle for the Walla to Walla Tour – golf in Washington state during the first week of January. The weather report called for highs between 45 and 25 degrees, with lows in the teens, but no snow, thankfully. So I added four layers of...
So I’m 2/3 done with my NW trip to open the year. Great fun so far. I’ll more post pics when I get time, but for now I’ll get the ball rolling. Chambers Bay was really wonderful. I really like Whistling Straits, I love Arcadia Bluffs, I really love Pac Dunes, but Chambers may be my fave of that crop. Fave holes included 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 17, and...
Bag? Check. Laptop? Check. Clubs? Check. We’re ready to launch our first of many tours this year for the Magazine, for Cybergolf, and for my first book. This is a big one: tomorrow it’s Chambers Bay, site of the 2015 U.S. Open where we will play the course and interview Mike Davis – the head of the U.S.G.A. himself and get his thoughts on many...
Since forming his own design firm in 1997, Colorado’s Jim Engh has won four “best new course” awards from Golf Digest, been named “Golf Architect of the Year” in 2003 (ahead of such luminaries as Fazio, Dye, Jones, and Doak), built a reputation for getting world class work done on time and under budget, landed one gorgeous site after...
JOHNS CREEK, GA – Ron Whitten’s recent Golf Digest article on the new turfgrasses being tested this week at Atlanta Athletic Club’s PGA Championship is another excellent observation by one of the most intelligent voices in the game. His knowledge of architecture and travel is unparalleled. In his article he mentions a number of southern and western...
At 8:30 a.m. Monday, beachcombers spotted what looked like two pipe bombs laying at the base of the sea wall beneath the 9th green. Shane Bacon and Jay Busbee of Yahoo! Sports have a great diagram and the Bay City/Mercury News have updates. From the article: “A Monterey County bomb squad was dispatched Sunday morning to Pebble Beach Golf Links, where an...