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 – some...
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 his first...
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) –...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Kansas City Chokes. There’s no other way to describe losing to a hapless bunch of dink and dunkers like Tennessee. Andy Reid’s crew did not come ready to play for 60 minutes, and that’s all there is under discussion. The Chiefs sent Ernesto the Prediction Iguana down with them – he went 2-2 last week, winning neither...
CHARLOTTE – After Friday evening fireworks sent the biggest names in golf skyrocketing up the leaderboard at the 99th PGA Championship, Quail Hollow Club has become strangely silent, the roars giving way instead to pained groans and polite golf claps. It was moving day, but nobody went all that far. After the excitement and energy that was so palpable as the sun...
From the USGA: A total of 114 local qualifiers will be conducted in 44 states and Canada for the 117th U.S. Open Championship, which will be contested June 15-18 at Erin Hills in Erin, Wis. The 18-hole qualifiers are scheduled to take place from May 2-18. Those players who advance out of local qualifying will compete in sectional qualifying, which will be conducted...
Steve Czaban has this eye-opening expose on the graft, incompetence, and neglect plaguing the future of the Rio Olympics course. I remember telling certain golf architects that losing that bid would be a blessing, and that the guy who won would be sorry in the long run. And while it was fun for three weeks, it looks like that might be the extent of the course’s...
It was a wild week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana, our intrepid animal kingdom prognosticator. He went 4-2, but by the skin of his teeth as he looked to go 1-5 early on. Thank you Patriots for your dominance and Ravens for the back door cover. The season total stands at 10-8. Ernesto got a stern talking to this weekend. He goes on vacation every November and the...