The Royal and Ancient announced that Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s near Blackpool, England will host the 2028 Open Championship, the 12th in Lytham’s illustrious history. The Open was last held there in 201 when Adam Scott bogeyed the last four holes coming home, while Ernie Else birdied 18 to pip him at the post. David Duval won his only major there in...
[Author’s Note: This story also appears at Golf Course Trades Magazine] SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The Open Championship – the de facto world championship of golf – returns this summer to the northwest coast of England, a cradle of the game and home to eight of the most venerable and challenging links on the planet. Three of those clubs – Royal Birkdale...
The Open Championship Chronicles and Beyond Part 2 – Royal Birkdale, West Lancashire, Southport and Ainsdale, Wallasey, and Hillside [Editor’s Note: Our Indomitable Sportsman Jay Flemma continues his adventures along England’s fabled Golf Coast. Enchanting and spellbinding, the northwest England is home to one stunning links after another, heathland or coastal, or...
We’ve got a double serving of Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio for you. First mega-mogul Jeff Sanders – no one mixes rock and golf better – joined our show to talk about the Boise Open golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. The tournament was, as always, the most rousing of successes. Next. we travel across the pond to talk about two of the...
Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s Celebrating 100 Years of Open Championship Heritage [Editor’s Note: While we record some more radio shows and prep for a glorious return to England for more from the northwest golf coast, Jay has this review of a century of professional major championship heritage at Royal Lytham. And St. Anne’s. Coming soon: Lytham’s archivist and...
Stay tuned for more articles from the first UK trip. In the meantime, Golf Course Trades did a marvelous job – as usual – running my Insider’s Guide to Royal Liverpool story. Hoylake is an imperative for any budding golf historian or golf architect. The golf is a cracking good time – difficult without being impossible, challenging, but not...
[Editor’s Note: Our Indomitable Sportsman, Jay Flemma, has returned from northwest England’s fabled Golf Coast with stories from their Open Championship venues and more. In this column, he analyzes the golf architecture of Royal Liverpool Golf Club, perennial Open Championship venue since 1897.] HOYLAKE, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The tang of the salty sea air, the soft...
The Irish might complain that in reviewing an Irish golf book I should be quoting Yeats, not T.S. Eliot, but the man who had the humility to call Ezra Pound Il Miglor Fabbro – the better craftsman – had the perfect quote to describe Tom Coyne’s golfing walk around the entire circumference of Ireland. Only those who risk going too far can possibly...