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!
[Editor’s Note: Jay’s 20th Anniversary celebrations as a sports writer continue with Part 2 of Jay’s 20 year super-intro-retro-spective, looking at golf, skiing, steroids in sports, chumps, lunkheads, and dingbats, and much more in the topsy-turvy world of professional sports…especially when it intersects with the life and tines of an...
One of the great things about GNN and my editor, publisher, and all around leader Ryan Ballengee is that I get to stretch my legs as a broadcaster and cover the other sports as well. As golf season and ski season dovetail perfectly, here is my first skiing radio show of 2025 . First, we had legendary Hall of Fame extreme skier Dan Egan talking about the snow this...
Augusta National may be the most venerable course in America, Pebble Beach may be the most beautiful, and Winged Foot may be the Yankee Stadium of golf, but for my money, Oakmont may be our country’s greatest major championship venue, and it returns this summer for its record 10th U.S. Open Championship. Pittsburgh, PA is indeed the city of champions and befitting...
Big thank you to Golf Course Trades for running my latest story – a retelling of many of the worst golf train wrecks at Oakmont. Oh Oakmont, our great grassy guillotine! We will see her again this June for the 125th U.S. Open. The story is here. Here is a snippet from the piece: So the legend is actually true: You could play the U.S. Open at Oakmont with...
GRANBY, CO – For the second consecutive year, the North American Snowsports Journalists will be hosting their webinar and lecture on the intersection of ethics and sports journalism. The broad ranging event will hit nearly every topic crucial to a journalist’s interactions with professional athletes, amateur athletes, scandals in sports, sports doping and...
Happy New Year from JayFlemma.com! We’ll be back with more stories imminently. For now, enjoy the New Years festivities from Madison Square Garden – the Conjurers of Thunder. (Or is it the Sisterhood of Karn? I never can remember…
—And then an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds as they lay watching their flocks. And the shepherds were frightened at first, but the angel said, “Fear not. For I bring you glad tidings of great joy. For today in the city of David a Savior is born.” And suddenly the skies were filled with a heavenly host of all angels singing, “Glory...
It’s that time of year again – wrapping up not just presents but the year in sports. So you’ll find all the links to the 4-part year end Jay Flemma Sports Report Christmas Spectacular Part 1 – Brian Keogh, The Irish Sun and jayflemma.com European Correspondent. Part 2 – Scott Nicholes, PGA Head Pro, Ridge Crest GC, Nampa, ID Part 3...
[Author’s Note: Earlier this week, Jay celebrated his 20th anniversary as a sports writer. There will be special articles throughout the holiday season and beyond here, at jayflemma.com, iHeartRadio, Golf Course Trades, NASJA, and all of Jay’s other sports writing outlets. For today, our plucky, puckish, irreverent, and inimitable storyteller pal – “that loveable...
Big ups to Golf Course Trades for running my welcome back piece. Now that I’m settled in the great northwest, my regular column resumes. This was a fun; no pressure, just stretch my legs a bit as a writer and tell it like it was:Â ZANY! Here’s a snippet. Click here for the whole story. And get ready for a bomb 20th anniversary piece. From the article:...
GRANBY, CO — The Snow Angel Foundation will unite with quintessential American snowsports venues Killington and Jay Peak to promote skiing and snowboard safety at the annual North American Snowsports Journalists Association (NASJA) meeting and symposium in Boston on November 15. Held immediately before festivities begin for the annual Snowbound Expo, the east...
What an honor – my first story in Skiing History, the official publication of the International Skiing History Association, Viva Catedral. It was the ski trip of a lifetime. Huge shout out to Aaron Scorsch and Savor the Journey, the athletic and culinary outfit I hooked up for my ten day Patagonian sojourn. Shortly, I’ll publish my Mountain Gazetteer...