BETHPAGE, NY – The incredible rags to riches story of Bethpage Black continues at light speed. The once shabby, shoddy, ill-kept state-run public links has risen like a vengeful phoenix to become a part of America’s informal major golf championship rotation, if one can be said to exist...
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame announced the 2025-26 class of inductees. The ceremony will be the weekend of April 8-11 in Snowbird/Alta, Salt Lake City. Click here for more information on the ceremonies and how to attend Class of 2025: Chris Cushing (Franconia, New Hampshire):...
The 25/26 Indy Pass went back on sale to the public on August 28 and is nearly sold out. Prices are as follows: Indy Pass Pricing – Final Sale for 2025/26 Indy Base Pass $449 Adult / $299 Kids (12-and-under) Indy+ Pass $599 Adult / $329 Kids (no blackouts) Indy AddOn Base $349 Adult...
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...
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...
Buona Notte, Marino Parascenzo, Great Friend of Golf I shed more than one tear as I wrote this story. My best friend died yesterday. It might seem odd for a man in his mid-50s to call a 95 year-old who was not his father his best friend, but God sends people to each other. That’s best how...
The US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame is hosting its annual 4-person golf outing at the MOUNT OGDEN GOLF COURSE on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2025 with a 9 am SHOTGUN START. The golf outing will be followed by the CLASS of 2026 ANNOUNCEMENT & MEDIA PARTY at U.S. SKI & SNOWBOARD...
BOISE, ID – Mexico’s Emilio Gonzalez dazzled the Korn Ferry Tour with a sparkling final round 61 to win the golf tournament, but the whole city of Boise won the Albertsons Boise Open. Indeed, the final chapter of the Korn Ferry Tour regular season was a rip-roaring success on every level...
BOISE, ID – Now comes the knife’s edge, the crucible of the late season of the Korn Ferry Tour, where dreams of the Big Time! and Bigger Money! slumber cheek and jowl with the nightmare of another seemingly interminable year of slogging, soldiering, and soul searching. Some of these...
BOISE, ID – [Author’s Note: There’s watching golf and there’s there are WAYS TO WATCH THE GOLF, if you understand the nuance. Anyone can go to the tournament, but maximizing your enjoyment is the ultimate goal. What are you looking for? Golf action? The beer tent? The party scene? People...
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...
Two quick announcements from the Olympic Regional Development Authority – the New York State body that oversees operations and planning for Whiteface Mountain host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, as well as Belleyre and Gore Mountain. First, all three ORDA resorts have joined...
[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...
LYTHAM ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND – It was somewhere just off the sixth fairway of Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club when, lost amidst the heaving sea of shaggy, marram-grassed hills, I felt the metaphoric lightning strike. It was electrifying how much fun I was having. I...
While we finish the prose for the first of three course reviews from our England Tour during Open Championship Week, enjoy a brief photo essay.
Story coming soon.
Big ups to quintessential UK golf architect Martin Ebert for joining us on Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio for our Open Championship preview. Ebert and his partner Tom Mackenzie are working on both Open Championship venues we’ll visit – Royal Lytham and St. Annes and...
Open Championship coverage this year at JF.com, Golf News Net, Golf Course Trades, and Jay Flemma Sports Report on iHeartRadio will be a lot different this year. We’ll be live from the UK. “Grazie dio!” as we say in Italian. Better still, plans are a deep dive into not...
EAGLE, ID – Twin phenom golfers Brad and Ben Mulder channeled Venus and Serena Williams as they finished first and second respectively in the 2025 Eagle Amateur Golf Championship at Idaho’s BanBury Golf Club. Brad defeated his brother by two strokes over the blustery 6,908-yard John...
It was the rain that may have made all the difference. J.J. Spaun, reeling after bogeying five of the first six holes in the final round righted the ship after a 96-minute rain delay, and won the 2025 U.S. Open with a back nine charge for the ages. Spaun, who began the day one stroke...
The next time it’s Halloween or your kids are out camping and everyone wants to tell ghost stories and other tales of horror, I’ve got the mother of all bloodthirsty slashers for you. Never mind the guy with the razor blade fingernails, or the dude with the Ghostface mask. Forget about...
Picture yourself for a moment lying in bed the night before you tee off in the U.S. Open…only it’s the U.S. Open at Oakmont. The National Open is routinely played at only the finest and most difficult golf courses in the country. “Golf’s Toughest Test” is the semi-official moniker, and...
Some important dates to remember for next ski season: The Olympics return to Milan, Italy! Multo bene! Click here for the detailed schedule of events at Cortina. Saturday 7 February 11:30-13:50 Men’s Downhill Final Sunday 8 February 11:30-13:50 Women’s Downhill Final Monday 9...
As you all know, we here at JF.com use VegasInsider.com for all our handicapping needs in any sport. Here are the up-t5o-the hour odds on the players in the field for Oakmont. Author’s Note: That’s a great price for Bryson. Also Hovland, Lowry, and Cam Smith. Scottie...
KETCHUM, ID – It’s 5:30 pm on an April Saturday and downtown Ketchum, Idaho is deserted. Really. It’s empty. Ketchum! We’re talking Scooby Doo episode empty. Nuthin’ shakin’ on Shakedown Street…or the intersection of Main and Sun Valley Road for that matter. Color me shocked. There is...
[Editor’s Note – Jay’s 20th anniversary celebrations as a journalist continue with this review of some of the Golden Age’s PGA Championship tournaments. We’ll have some ski season wroap-ups before turning to the U.S. Open and Open Championship. Until then...
What at first looked like a walkaway turned into a dogfight, but with a back nine surge, Scottie Scheffler held off a charge by Spain’s Jon Rahm and won his first PGA Championship and his third major golf championship overall. Scheffler, who had lost a five-shot lead in a span of four...
Back in the 1970s Dan Jenkins lamented that, “My editors never forgave me for the unpardonable sins of George Archer and Bob Coody,” when they won the Masters instead of Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer. Cut to 50 years later, and when I asked my editor who was leading the 2025 PGA...
The Masters wrap-up/PGA Championship iHeartRadio show for Golf Nrws Net is up. First we interviewed the Irish Golf Desk’s Brian Keogh who was at Augusta National as Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy won the Masters. Then best-selling author Kevin Cook stopped by to preview the PGA and...
BRIGHTON, UT – Those of you wishing to chase a little more Endless Winter, hit up Brighton in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon over the next few weeks. It’s called May Meltdown, and it’s a special being run b y the resort over May 2-18 where you can ski all you want...
And a second thanks go to the NSCF for linking to my Pats Peak story in the Border War series. As always they do a terrific job syndicating my articles, as does NASJA. Their link to the piece is here. They’ll have the Gunstock story in a few days, so look for that, as well as my...