[Author’s Note: Continuing our rewind series, we celebrate Father’s Day with the letter from me to my Dad on Father’s day at the end of the tournament.] SPEECHLESS IN SEATTLE – DJ 3-JACKS HANDS 2015 U.S. OPEN TO JORDAN SPIETH [Editor’s Note: Bringing back an old favorite column, Jay writes this U.S. Open wrap-up in the form of a...
For today’s U.S. Opern re-write, we celebrate unheralded, but definitely worthy winner Ed Furgol, the club pro who shocked the world winning the U.S. Open at Baltusrol in 1954. And he did it with a withered left arm. It happens once every dozen years or so, someone wins the Opn out of nowhere. Before there was Michael Campbell or Orville Moody or even Jack...
Torrey the Prediction Cat went a solid 5-1 last week, 2-1 in teasers, hitting with the Bills, the Steelers, the Dolphins and two over calls. The only miss was the STEELERS-rams game was an UNDER. That makes this column’s season totals a respectable 26-10 overall, 10-8 in teasers. Here’s this week’s picks. As always we use the lines from www...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 5 – Mount Snow —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— DOVER, VT – If Smugglers’ Notch is “America’s Family Resort,” then Mount Snow is Party Central. 3-1/2 hours drive from Manhattan, 2-1/2 hours from Boston, and just over 1...
Once again, big thank you to the National Ski Council Federation. They have syndicated my Attitash article. You can click here to see it on their website. Mount Snow and cannon are next.
BETHPAGE, NY – Babe Ruth and Derek Jeter. Joe Namath and Bill Parcells. Mark Messier and Mike Bossy. Willis Reed and Patrick Ewing. The Harlem Globetrotters. Bobby Fischer. John McEnroe. If there were ever a Pantheon of New York Sports Immortals, those are names that would forever be enshrined. But who should represent golf as New York’s hero? Sure, they...
[Editor’s Note: We’ll be filing two game stories this week, one during the first three days of play and our usual tournament recap for Sunday night. You can follow all the action at Golf News Net and here.] The Masters is the greatest sporting event of the year: period, full stop, end of sentence, end of paragraph. Not the Super Bowl, not the World...
The USGA announced a dozen courses to host sectional qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. While the most groundbreaking part of the announcement was the revealing of the first ever Canadian venue, Rattlesnake Point Golf Club (Copperhead and Sidewinder Courses), Milton, Ontario, the courses that arouse the interest of well-traveled American golfers...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 4 – Attitash —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— BARTLETT, NH – Oh sweet, sweet justice! For once this east coaster was in the right place at the right time; for once, I caught the sick powder where and when it happened. Hallelujah! It could not...
We interrupt this golf season for a skiing update. Remember how we found 23″ of fresh powder at Magic Mountain three weeks ago? Well Geoff Hatheway, one of the SKI MAGIC, LLC folks responsible for the resport’s remarkable resurgence joins up on the Jay’s Plays show to talk skiing, golf, and he even won the trivia contest. Click here for the show...
It was a wild week in the NFL, and it was a wild week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana as well. He went 4-4, 2-2 in teaser plays, putting the season totals at 45-21 overall, 20-13 in teasers. He won three overs, and hit with the Saints, (5-1 for us this season), but lost with the Chiefs, (4-1 for us), Broncos, (0-1 for us), Patriots, (7-2), and Texans (1-1)...
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 2 – Magic Mountain —by Jay Flemma Special to Slave to the Traffic Light Adventure Magazine— LONDONDERRY, VT – Abracadabra! Presto, Change-O! Now you see it, now you don’t, and then – happily – now you see it again! Like a rabbit in a conjuring trick, Vermont’s fabled...
Ernesto is roaring like a lion after a 5-1 week, 2-1 in teasers. That swells the season totals to a robust 38-14, 16-10 in teasers. We won last week with the Patriots (6-1 for us this season), the Saints (4-0 for us), the Texans, the Colts, and the Packers (1-0 this season with each). Our lone loss was betting against the Browns (3-2 on that score this year). So...
Yankee Stadsium of Golf or Graveyard of Champions? Winged Foot is both. Golf Course Trades has my story about Winged Foot’s restoration and head superintendent Steve Rabideau. From the article: “It’s a monumental responsibility that Rabideau shoulders, but he’s proven time and again to be an Atlas among superintendents: stewarding a club with...
SOUTHAMPTON, NY – Brooks Koepka may have won the trophy again, and Tommy Fleetwood might have won the hearts of golfers everywhere with his tournament record-tying 63 and rock-star hair, but Shinnecock Hills won the 118th U.S. Open. As it should be; at a truly great U.S. Open, the course is always the star. Koepka became the first repeat U.S. Open Champion...