There’s a young lion out there who’s taking the skiing and YouTube world by storm. Meet Sam Weintraub and his YouTube Channel Peak Rankings. Sam has been globetrotting like mad lately, taking groups of his channel followers and colleagues to destinations both home grown and far-flung. Better still, Sam is always on the cutting edge of what’s...
BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – It was somewhere along the front nine of the West Lancashire Golf Club after the blustering 25-mile per hour gusts turned from directly in my face to a ferocious crosswind when I broke into the widest smile of the week. Once again, I had returned to my beloved northwest coast of England for another four rounds of golf amidst the...
Great job by Carrie and all the wonderfully sweet folks at Golf Course Trades as they have run my latest story from Royal Liverpool. The link is here. With 150 years of history to recount, both professional and amateur, we had to split the project into two parts. We’ll pick up with the modern championships in a later article, after we’ve finished...
[Editor’s Note: Besides being a member of NASJA, Jay is also the sitting vice president.] The North American Snowsports Journalists Association will be hosting both their annual meeting and a professional development webinar live in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, November 13 at 2:30 pm. The following day the Snowbound Expo will open. All members of NASJA...
The one and only Rees Jones, “Open Doctor,” “PGA Physician,” and the man who, along with David Fey, resurrected Bethpage Black from a golf scrapheap to major championship and Ryder Cup glory, joins us for an in-depth look at Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup. Rees breaks down Bethpage Black like a fraction for us – all 18 holes...
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, especially seeing as how organizers had to pull off not one, but three concerts...
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 golfers are destined for the PGA Tour next year. Relief! Satisfaction! Success! It’s...
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 watching? Being watched? If you’re going the Korn Ferry playoffs this week in...
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 cracking good time – difficult without being impossible, challenging, but not...
[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 since 1897.] HOYLAKE, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The tang of the salty sea air, the soft...
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 had no idea where the green was; it was made blind by dunes towering above me on...
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 Royal Liverpool. Pictured above, you can see the new par-5 seventh fairway, moved...
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 discuss his new book, Tiger Slam, celebrating the 25th anniversary of...
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 thoughts on the PGA Championship venue, Quail Hollow, coming soon!