SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – Raise a glass to 100 years of rousing cheers. Shackamaxon Country club in northwest New Jersey celebrates their centennial this year. It’s another runaway success for the tandem of owner/developer/magnate Chris Schiavone and golf architect Stephen Kay. Finger pressed firmly on the zeitgeist of modern golf architecture, they’ve...
Great job by Ryan Ballengee and the folks at Golf News Net running my review of my new Callaway Apex Forged Irons.
UPDATE! I’m still hitting the irons great, thank you for asking!
We had Ryan Ballengee and Gary Van Sickle on the Jay’s Plays show on the Golf News Net Radio Network. We talked about the Masters, Jordan Spieth, the Players, Fowler, McIlroy, the USGA Fourball and the Anderson Memorial, both at Winged Foot, and the best moments of Tropic Thunder! sadly, no one has gotten the JB’s Best Hot Sauce Trivia Question right in a...
MAMARONECK, NY – Set your TiVo for Fox Sports 1 this weekend, because you’ll get a rare and wonderful opportunity: Winged Foot’s East Course, in all its majesty and splendor, will finally get the close-up it so richly deserves as the USGA and the television cameras descend on the venerable club – the Yankee Stadium of golf – for the...
Just like newly-minted Masters Champion Danny Willett, the due date for Ryan and Katie Ballengee’s second child was…Masters Sunday! Yup…planned that well! :):) Still, the ever clever Ballengee, publisher, producer, and editor of the Golf News Net came up with a brilliant birth announcement for little Rose Carmela: Genius! So now little Carrick has a...
It was the 66 that was the illusion — that and the four consecutive birdies to close the front nine on Sunday. But those 22 holes are what made us believe that Jordan Spieth was headed into Butler Cabin for another Green Jacket Ceremony to close out the 80th Masters as back-to-back champion. Surely the steely-nerved, iron-willed, icy-veined two-time major...
It’s an all new Jay’s Plays Show on the Golf News Net Radio Network. First golf architect Bill Love and Director of Golf Will Hutter talk about Olympic Club and how it might play for the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open. Then golf architect Stephen Kay and golf course magnate Chris Schiavone jump on the show to talk about Shackamaxon’s 100th anniversary...
You know how Bob Kraft is all, “I like the product so much, I bought the company”? We’ll I’m the same way. I don’t advertise just anything. I only pick things I really, really, love – that I’m 100% behind! Craftsmanship and quality – that’s what it takes to be a Jay’s plays sponsor. That’s why...
We opened the 2016 season of the Jay’s Plays show with a detonation! First, former SI and Golf Magazine editor-in-chief Kevin Cook talks about the new movie of his book Tommy’s Honour and about life after Tiger for the Tour looking great. Then European correspondent Tony Dear talks about his interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump, as well as...
Never mind Payton Manning’s comeback story, how about Ernesto the Prediction Iguana? After a perfect 4-0 week last week, (he told you: the Patriots and the UNDER, the Panthers and the OVER), out intrepid animal king prognosticator is a blistering 11-1 in the playoffs, 5-1 in teasers. What a turnaround after a flaccid start to the season. Treading water just...
It was a perfect 4-0 weekend (2-0 in teasers) for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana,bringing the playoff totals to 7-1, 3-1 in teasers. We’ll write more about it this week, but the curtain will likely come down on Peyton Manning’s long and stellar career next week after the Patriots go into Mile High and rout the Broncos. Meanwhile two teams that are far from...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana continued his late season rally this weekend with a solid 5-1 showing, bringing the season totals to a solid 51-19-2 record. He hit with the Packers, Jets, Cardinals, and Giants last week, as well as an over/under call. The lone blemish was Brock Osweiler’s first loss as QB for Denver against the Raiders. This week we continue...
We had a stellar guest list on the Jay’s Plays show on the Golf News Net Radio Network. Golf architect Bruce Charlton joined us to talk about Cordevalle (host of the 2016 U.S. Women’s Open) and Poppy Hills(former co-host of the AT&T). Then architect Tom Doak and GolfClubAtlas.com proprietor Ran Morrissett came on and talked about the second volume of...
Barstow the Prediction Cat went a blistering 7-1 last week, making his 3-week total in relief of Ernesto the Prediction Iguana a terrific 16-3-1. The season total here at GNN is a solid 38-12-1. Ernesto returns after his three week benching. My bet is the time off did him some good: He usually starts slowly every year, then heats up come crunch time, putting up...
It was a perfect 6-0 for Barstow the cat, who filled in admirably for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana last week in making the magazine’s NFL Picks. Our first undefeated week here at GNN puts the season tally at a more-than-respectable 28-9 over all. This week, we’re gonna ride the hot hand and let Barstow have another go. He earned it, along with some sweet...