ST. MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, ARGENTINA – Bienvenidos from Patagonia, Argentina. Articles soon, including for the international Skiing History Association and Ski Area Magazine.
ST. MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, ARGENTINA – Bienvenidos from Patagonia, Argentina. Articles soon, including for the international Skiing History Association and Ski Area Magazine.
Every golf fan within driving distance needs to cash in their rare and wonderful chance to see Sleepy Hollow Country Club, an indisputable masterpiece of Charles Blair Macdonald, when the USGA brings the Mid-Amateur there this September. Precipitously rising and falling as though you are riding Gunpowder fleeing the Headless Horseman with hapless Ichabod astride his...
LOS ANGELES, CA – It took almost 130 years to happen once. It only took 15 minutes to happen twice: Ricky Fowler and Xander Schauffele, playing in consecutive threesomes, fired white-hot 8-under 62s at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course during the first round of the 123rd U.S. Open Championship. They broke the U.S. Open record by one stroke – originally...
Randolph and DeJohn Derail Ferocious Carolina Comeback, Win 86th Anderson Memorial Fourball at Winged Foot —by Jay Flemma, Golf News Net— MAMARONECK, NY – I’ll paraphrase an old pop-punk song lyric that describes the happy conundrum facing Trevor Randolph and Chris DeJohn after winning the 86th John G. Anderson Memorial Fourball Tournament at Winged Foot...
MAMARONECK, NY – Though grey clouds shrouded Winged Foot Golf Club for much of Friday’s second round of the 86th Anderson Memorial fourball tournament, there was joy in the heart of every member and competitor. Winged Foot celebrates its centennial anniversary this year: 100 years of rousing cheers, of frothy beers and smiling peers, of hearts sincere and friendships...
PITTSFORD, NY – Without question some of the new holes designed by renovation architect Andrew Green stand tall among the most interesting that Oak Hill’s East Course has to offer. Full of strategic nuance and perplexing hazards they may well see the most swings of fortune at this 105th PGA Championship. Let’s take a closer look at the changes to the golf course and...
CONTACT: Doug Fish doug@indyskipass.com 503.709.0111 MEDIA RELEASE Key Resorts Commit to Indy Pass for the 23/24 Season Grand County, CO. (March 20, 2023) – The Indy Pass announced today a partial list of key resorts that have committed for the 23/24 season. Unlike the conglomerates, all Indy resorts are independently operated, and each one commits to a one-year...
Both the Masters and the Open Championship will permit LIV golfers who qualify for the tournaments to compete. The R&A and Augusta National both independently reached the same conclusion, a seemingly fair result as the fledgling LIV Tour seems more exhibition than competition at worst, at best a wtered down version of the PGA or DP World Tours. To that end...
FABIUS, NY – The Attorney General of the state of New York slapped Intermountain Management with an antitrust lawsuit after the developer purchased Toggenburg Mountain outside Syracuse, New York. The company already owned nearby Song and Labrador Mountains at the time of their purchase. According to reporting from the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Attorney...
BROOKLINE, MA – Ever since network television broadcast Ben Hogan bringing “the Monster” that was a Robert Trent Jones, Sr.-sharpened Oakland Hills South Course to its knees in the 1951 U.S. Open there has been one inescapable mantra: At a proper U.S. Open, the golf course is the star. Oakmont, Winged Foot, Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Olympic Club...
BROOKLINE, MA – Who will win the 2022 U.S. Open? The golf viewing public, that’s who! The USGA continues to be at the vanguard of the Second Golden Age of Golf Course Architecture by once again bringing the National Championship to a venerable, celebrated golf architectural masterstroke. Indeed, ever since Mike Davis begain his graded rough experiment in...
Justin Thomas roared from seven shots back and passed nine players on Sunday to steal the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills Golf Club in Tulsa Oklahoma. Like Jack Nicklaus used to do so often in his heyday, Thomas rode an electrifying late Sunday charge to surge to 5-under for the tournament, then watched as overnight leader Mito Pereira completed one of the...
Watch out for the wunderkind…again. Collin Morikawa may have the best attitude of any of the reigning PGA Tour superstars. Here’s a kid – and I choose that word with precision, because 25 is still remarkably young for anyone, and because of the youthful exuberance Morikawa in particular exudes – here’s a kid who won the PGA Championship in...
In a move only an actuary could hate, the PGA Tour changed the format of the FedEx Cup this year, translating a convoluted “points”system of scoring to the “score-to-par” system used every week. This also solves the pesky problem of having dual winners as we did in the past: someone wins the Tour Championship, but someone else wins the...
Here are the U.S. Open future sites from 2018-2027. See everyone from Winged Foot for the Anderson Memorial Fourball, followed by Shinnecock for the U.S. Open. 2018: Shinnecock Hills Golf Club – Southampton, N.Y. – June 14-17 2019: Pebble Beach Golf Links – Pebble Beach, Calif. – June 13-16 2020: Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course) –...