This was reported over the sports and intellectual property law wire just a few minutes ago: German automotive giant BMW yesterday announced a six-year partnership agreement with the PGA Tour and the U.S. Western Golf Association (WGA) to create the BMW Championship. The new BMW Championship will be third of four PGA Tour “play-off tournaments” forming...
The team here at AWITP is heading out to North Dakota. You read that correctly…there is indeed great golf with North Dakota. Jim Engh designed the 1997 best new course winner Hawktree in Bismarck. Mike Hurdzan just won bext new course for Bully Pulpit in Medora. Finally, at trails end Links of North Dakota (also called Red Mike for those of you scoring at home)...
Happy Birthday wishes to two of my favorite women in the whole wide world! First, my mom celebrates her $%#@th birthday. You know how mom’s are all a little strange? Here’s one of my mom’s idiosyncharies…nobody knew when the heck her birthday was. You see, a smudge appears on her birth certificate and the “3” which looks like a...
Thank to Jeff and Bob over at Cybergolf for carrying my U.S. Open preview piece. Here’s the link. Enjoy. Some short snipets are below… On past U.S. Opens and the setup: “At Oakmont in ’73, Johnny Miller torched the course that Sunday for a major championship record 63 (which he now shares with Nicklaus, Weiskopf and Janzen). It was the...
Hat’s off to Sal Johnson at Golf Observer for doing a great job with my Tobacco Road – Pulp Fiction piece. It’s here. I’m particularly keen on the photo captions…like “They had a hi-fi phono. Boy did they let it blast!” Enjoy…I had a lot of fun writing that one. Thanks to all my architecture friends who were my test...
This came in from Lydia in Richmond: Dear Jay, I really like reading your golf reviews. Definitely keep them coming, but you had me ROTFLOL [author’s note: that’s “Rolling on the floor laughing out loud…” different from HOGMP which is “Hang on, getting more Pringles.” Anyway…] …You had me ROTFLOL. Please give me...
The first pic is from the second fairway through the “shortcut to the green. Now there’s a line of charm!. The second pic: this critter played through on 10. Third: A great view of the ninth fairway up to the clubhouse. Fourth, the gorgous par-3 7th. Finally, the view down the 18th fairway from the club house. All told, you can see fourteen holes from the...
I have yet to unpack and have work at law office AND writing table to do, but what a threesome. Bulls Bay is my favorite of the three. Part True Blue and part its own idiom different from any other strantz work, the course is now a monument to his living memory.I love the hilltop clubhouse and panoramic view of 14 holes. The lines of charm are everywhere, but are...
Have you ever heard of Daniel Island, SC? Tennis fans probably have as it hosts the Family Circle Cup Tournament every April, but even though my geography is solid, I had not. But when a friend recommended I stay here as a base of operations for the Charleston leg of my trip, he hit the nail on the head. Daniel Island is centrally located to Kiawah Island, Wild...
I spent the weekend away and forgot to bring all the votes with me, but A.W. Tillinghast defeated Pete Dye and C.B. Macdonald narrowly beat Alistair Mackenzie. So the Final: A.W. Tillinghast v. C.B. Macdonald. Voting ends noon on Sunday. Now, since I am preparing a) for the East Coast leg of the Spring Tour and b) for something a little different: Here is the best...
Cybergolf.com picked up my piece on The Rawls Course at Texas Tech. Hats off the Jeff Shelley and team. Of course, I have to throw a flag on myself here – I forgot that Doak’s first course, High Point is also in the same price range as The Rawls Course. See? That’s the golfer in me…calling a penalty on myself;) I’m finishing a piece on...
The Jay Train rolls into the Carolinas next week with stops at four epic resorts and three private courses which all have fascinating pedigrees. For the public golfer, I’ll be directly comparing and contrasting the finest resorts Carolina has to offer: Pinehurst No. 2, Wild Dunes, Harbour Town (right after the MCI) and Kiawah Island. I’m really looking...
Pete Dye narrowly defeated William Flynn and C.B. Macdonald held off a furious assault by Stanley Thompson (thanks for voting, Canada!) and join other regional final winners Tille the Terror and The good Doctor. Here are the Final Four matchups: 1. Pete Dye (St. Andrew’s) v. 1. A.W. Tillinghast (Bandon) 2. C.B. Macdonald (Augusta) v. 1. Alistair Mackenzie...
Can you say CANADIAN CLUB?! Stanley Thompson ROLLED Donald Ross in the Sweet Sixteen like he was a baby seal! It was a romp…and that’s WITHOUT Rob Thompson’s vote. In the other match of greatest interest, Tom Doak defeated Harry S. Colt by ONE VOTE. Voting for this round continues till Sunday night at 5PM. Vote here, at the bracketmaker site, (see...
We have us an underdog! Mike DeVries, a 12 seed, ousts RTJ! Also I predicted at Houston’s Clear Thinkers, Stanley Thompson beat Fazio. Here are the sweet sixteen matchups. St. Andrews Regional 1 Pete Dye vs. 4 George Thomas (who survived a really close match w/Perry Maxwell) 2. William Flynn vs. 3 Coore and Crenshaw For those of you who keep emailing me, Flynn...