My latest travels took me back to the Southern Tier –Conklin and En-joie. The article is here at Golf News Net. As the Nutri-matic Drink Synthesizer used to say, “Share and Enjoy.”
My latest travels took me back to the Southern Tier –Conklin and En-joie. The article is here at Golf News Net. As the Nutri-matic Drink Synthesizer used to say, “Share and Enjoy.”
For my post-PGA Championship episode, Ryan Ballengee and I got to interview 50 year Bay Area sports writing legend Art Spander. We talk Jason Day, Tiger, Rory and 50 years of Art’s world travels. From Wimbledon to the Super Bowl to the NBA Finals, Art’s been everywhere and done everything. Join us in celebrating 50 years Bay sports excellence! And catch...
We interrupted our Open Championship coverage on Jay’s Plays to have a tremendous talk with Crestwood’s Barb Presky and the PGA of America’s Allen Wronowski about Crestwood, golf design, the Open, and various Folds of Honor tournaments. Crestwood raised $30,000 in their FoH tournament this weekend!
—If these be our last moments men, Let us live them with honor. J.R.R. Tolkien— Somewhere on the road between Spokane and Seattle, I could hear the pain in Jeff Shelley’s voice through the Bluetooth speaker, though four hours of driving distance still separated us. My spider-sense was tingling. Stammering…hurt…disappointment…I had...
Here’s part 2 of the outstanding interview with Tom Doak and Ran Morrissett about both the NEW Confidential Guide to Golf Courses and about golf travel and design in general. Enjoy.
And then an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds as they tended their flock. They were frightened a first, but then the angel said, “Fear not! For I bring you glad tidings of great joy. For today in the city of David a Savior is born.” And suddenly the sky was filled with a heavenly host of angels all singing, “Glory to God in the highest...
It’s been a banner year for Keith Foster. He’s riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave of adulation for his brilliant restoration/renovation of Philly Cricket’s fabled Wissahickon course, an indisputable Tillinghast masterpiece now better than even Tillie himself was able to make it while he was alive and calling it his home course...
Just as Tony was integral to our 10 year anniversary, it’s time for all of us to celebrate Tony Korologos and Hooked on Golf’s 10 year celebration too. You can read all about it here.
[Editor’s Note: As part of the celebrations for Jay’s 10th anniversary as a sports writer, Jeff Shelley conducted this interview with Jay. For the second part of the interview, we’ll also answer questions form the fans and readers.] 1. What made you want to become a golf writer? It was more dumb luck than anything. I never planned this or even...
Of course there are no celebrations around here without music! Joining such luminaries as Phish, Bowling for Soup, and Foo Fighters in various Flemmapalooza celebrations, this year’s musical guest was Mike Doughty, former lead singer of Soul Coughing, who rocked the famous Water Street Music Hall in Rockchester…err…Rochester Saturday night.. It was...
So it’s coming up on my 10th anniversary as a sports writer! We’ll have two weeks of celebrations going on both here and at Cybergolf. We’ll be writing about Ferry Point in New York City, Royal Isabela in Puerto Rico, covering Comets hockey, and football picks. but wait there’s more – as Mick Jagger would say, “PLUS!” –...
We’ll have our recap of last night’s COMETS-barons Game 7 up later tonight. In the meantime, never let it be said that we don’t engage in self-effacing humor here:) Send in your captions too. Winner gets their’s published. AND KEEP IT CLEAN PEOPLE:) The best so far… 10. I had one drink with Jay and look what happened. 9. Who’s that...
“It just keeps getting better and better,” says every member, every day. MARCY, NY – Autumn comes early along I-90. Even by Labor Day the tops of the trees already lighten from verdant green to a gilded, burnished gold. By the equinox, it was sweater and jackets weather as the cool evening air and chilly rains began to set in, yet still grateful...
Not the best way to start Ryder Cup week or to celebrate my birthday, but my mentor, one of my advisors, and the man for whom I was a star pupil, Professor Jack Chatfield of Trinity College, passed away from cancer yesterday. For four decades he was, metaphorically, the entire American History faculty at the school and was unquestionably the whole Colonial America...
It’s time for Jay’s Birthday celebrations once again, and this year’s festivities will be as much fun for you as for me. We’ll have golf and music – what else? Oh yeah, girls and suhi:) This year we’ll be reporting live from Forsgate, Union Vale, and Seize sur Vingt! See you all weekend with reports live from the Bacchinalia that...