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...
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...
Congratulations to England’s Danny Willett on his Masters win. GNN has my recap here, while we’ll have Tony Dear back on the Jay’s Plays show to celebrate his correctly calling Willett to win.
And yes, Willett looks like Theon Greyjoy.
The mailbag has been full for the better part of four months, so I figure I better keep my promise to all of you and reply in print to some of the best questions. Here’s a letter from reader Alan in New Jersey: “Dear Jay: I want to visit or vacation in all 50 states, but I’m married. That means I have to save the vacation states like California...
We had a terrific discussion on Jay’s Plays about Chambers Bay and the US Open with Gary Van Sickle of Sports Illustrated and Bruce Charlton of RT Jones 2 Designs. Click here for the show! Coming next: Dr. Russ LaFrance on Rory McIlroy’s injury and our GNN Open Championship previews!
UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA – Everyone complaining about capricious bounces, difficult greens, and links golf courses might want to just skip the U.S. Open for a while, because the USGA will be giving the pros a steady diet of all three over the coming seven years. Gargantuan green undulations, cloak and dagger claustrophobia while walking down fairways single file...
Some casual fans and a few media types with nothing better to talk about have decided in their infinite lack of wisdom that there’s something “wrong” with the PGA Championship, something missing, “something” that doesn’t elevate it to the status of the other majors. To them, it’s not as “buzz-worthy,” to use the...
Another killer week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana! 5-1 overall, 2-1 in teasers bringing the season totals to a 59-16-1 overall, 24-13-1 in teasers. Ernesto is burning it up so well this season, he’s giving you an extra pick this week! As Ernesto’s pal Zorak would say, “BONUS!” CHIEF’S SPECIAL! chiefs +2.5 at RAIDERS RAIDERS-chiefs...
In furtherance of the celebrations surrounding the recent 113th U.S. Open at Merion, the U.S.G.A. released its new book “Great Moments of the U.S. Open,” an assortment of essays by a fistful of U.S.G.A. staff on a buffet of landmark, inspiring, or otherwise exciting National Championship moments. It’s a good collection, with 27 different Opens...
We went 2-0, 1-0 last week, hitting with the Niners. Season totals? 30-15 in teasers, 69-15 overall. So this Superbowl matches two of our AWITP staples, teams we play regularly who put us in the winner’s circle. But who will win when the immovable object meets the irresistible force? We’re going with our first instinct! So… Ravens +9.5 vs 49ers...
Congratulations to Tony Korologos of the Golf Space and his lovely wife Alisanne!
On Sunday they welcomed Seve Anthony Korologos into the world! Hand him his first putter right now!
Cybergolf is running my interview with Bill Love, the architect doing all the renovation work at Olympic Club for this year’s U.S. Open. The link is here. From the article: JF: Who are you older favorite designers? BL: I’m pretty partial to Mackenzie – I like his philosophy on working with terrain. Plus he got great sites and made the most of them...