BROOKFIELD, Wis. –The American Society of Golf Course Architects has chose pre-eminent golf architect and their Past President Robert Trent Jones, Jr., as the 2024 recipient of the ASGCA Donald Ross Award. The award, given annually since 1976, is presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to the game of golf and the profession of golf course...
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:Â $52/PER PLAYER, 2PM SHOTGUN START FORMAT:Â 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...
DATELINE:Â THE WILDERNESS OF WESTERN MAINE — My golf cart is careening around turns, catapulting down tree-lined chutes of concrete, and reeling in the chicanes. First, I’m narrowly missing trees, then I’m splashed in the face by a wall of water, then I’m blinded by flashes and deafened by a sudden cacophony of noise. Grab the “Oh Shit...
It’s been a hot start to 2023 on Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio. First, we preview the turn of the PGA Tour season and its West Coast swing with Editor, Producer, and owner of Golf News Net, Ryan Ballengee, before turning to a discussion of the venues for the four majors, including the changes to Augusta, new venue L.A. Country Club for the U.S. Open...
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...
[Author’s Note: Continuing our rewind series, we celebrate Father’s Day with the letter from me to my Dad on Father’s day at the end of the tournament.] SPEECHLESS IN SEATTLE – DJ 3-JACKS HANDS 2015 U.S. OPEN TO JORDAN SPIETH [Editor’s Note: Bringing back an old favorite column, Jay writes this U.S. Open wrap-up in the form of a...
Once again, a big thank you to Golf Course Trades for running my Robert Trent Jones, Jr. interview. The link is here. We talked about his new courses in Argentina, Mexico, and North Dakota. From the article: “RTJ: Actually I’m opening a course perhaps as close to Antarctica as I’ve ever been. My latest design is in Argentina. It’s called...
We had a terrific time as always talking golf design, California dreamin’ the Tour, ad more with Robert Trent Jones, Jr., preeminent golf course architect on the Jay’s Plays show, on the Golf News Net Radio Network. Bobby’s always globe-trotting, so this time we visit his new courses in Hungary, Italy, North Dakota, and more. We’ll have our...
My first Golf Course Trades article is up! It’s my review of the architectural and agronomic changes to Poppy Hills, the great RTJ, Jr. course on the Monterey Peninsula that shares hosting duties with Pebble Beach, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Spyglass Hill. You can click on the entire article here. Here’s a teaser: “Pine Valley’s...
We’ll talk a lot more about Poppy Hills in my new “Elysian Fields” column in Golf Course Trades Magazine early in 2016, but the Robert Trent Jones, Jr./Bruce Charlton redesign takes home top honors this year. Their redesign of the Monterey Peninsula course that hangs out in such rarified air as Pebble Beach, Spanish Bay, and Spyglass Hill not only...
We had a stellar guest list on the Jay’s Plays show on the Golf News Net Radio Network. Golf architect Bruce Charlton joined us to talk about Cordevalle (host of the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open) and Poppy Hills(former co-host of the AT&T). Then architect Tom Doak and GolfClubAtlas.com proprietor Ran Morrissett came on and talked about the second volume of...
The PGA Tour, Chambers Bay’s future U.S. Open chances, Tiger Woods’s injury, and a preview of the Western Conference of the NHL – all on the Jay’s Plays radio show on the Golf News Net – with special guest stars Jeff Brauer and Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Spoilers: Chambers Bay WILL get another U.S. Open in the next 10-12 years...
[Editor’s Note: Bringing back an old favorite column, Jay writes this U.S. Open wrap-up in the form of a Father’s day letter to his 91-year old Dad.] SNOQUALMIE, WA – Dear Dad: For the 11th year in a row, because of the U.S. Open I’ll miss seeing you for Father’s Day. I’m really sorry for that, and I wish it were different. The...
UNIVERSITY PLACE – “It’s too brown! It’s too bumpy! It’s too British!” they moan plaintively. Yes, the whiny blockheads are out in force this year, as they usually are at the U.S. Open, complaining about how unusual golf’s annual Final Examination is. It’s actually flabbergasting: They’re not complaining about how...