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...
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...
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...
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:...
[Author’s Note:Â Soon I’ll be filing the follow-up to this article. It’s a triumphant return to Golf Course Trades, the wonderful magazine that hosted my Elysian Fields column for close on a decade. As you’ll read below, GCT became just one thing too many in the hurly-burly whirlwind my life became before the Idaho move. But I did manage to...
As always, Golf Course Trades did a marvelous job with my Arizona golf story. We even got the cover of the print version, I’m told. (WOO HOO HOO!) Arizona is indeed a golf reverie from which you don’t want to wake. Everyone needs to experience this unique golf ecosystem. I’m not usually one on natural setting, but there is power in the rocks and...
I’m doing something different this winter over at Golf Course Trades – a short series on southern golf trips. First up was Florida, perfect to escape a nasty Nor’easter…unless, of course, your a skier. Thanks again to Golf Course Trades for making the piece look terrific and also to golf architect Steve Smyers for the 11th hour interview...
Once again, big thank you to Golf Course Trades for the sterling work they did on bringing the latest webinar in their series to life. This month we showcased the terrific work Brian Schneider of Renaissance Golf has done at North Jersey Country Club, where the club will be restoring and renovating the course in the style of Golden Age architect Walter Travis. Better...
This is some of the biggest news in golf. Not the pro tours, not the latest equipment, the rebuilding of C.B. Macdonald’s lost masterpiece, Lido Golf Club, in the middle of the sand wastes of Wisconsin by Tom Doak and the Kaiser family is the quantum leap the Second Golden Age of Golf Course architecture has resulted in. Run, don’t walk to...
While we get ready for the 2021 U.S. Open, Golf Course Trades has run my interview with new Golf Course Superintendent’s Association of America president Mark Jordan. From the article: “The policies and systems we set up – such as the website clearinghouse for information and CDC guidelines – are still in use and are helpful. We now have the...
So a big thank you to Golf Course Trades for running my interview with Dr. Richard Hurley, PhD., a.k.a. Dr. Turfgrass. From the article: “For 40 years Dr. Hurley has been at the forefront of turfgrass development. He’s named strains of grass after Arnold Palmer and Ben Crenshaw, (that was handsomely done, a fine tribute). He’s installed a putting...
It’s still a sure bar bet winner:Â what’s the oldest country club in America? It’s Philadelphia Cricket Club, founded in 1854. It’s always a joy to get a day at Philly Cricket, but now that restoration architect Keith Foster and head super Dan Meersman have their recent restoration firing on all cylinders, the sky is the limit for A.W...
Last week saw an excellent premiere of Golf Course Trades’ webinar series. The first subject was upstate New York’s Copake Country Club, a 1921 Devereux Emmet design. I interviewed restoration architect Mark Fine and Head Superintendent Mark Anderson for the segment.  The link to the webinar is here.
Golf Course Trades has run my second article in a series of updates regarding the golf industry’s resurgence against the Coronavirus. These articles are published also here, at Golf News Net, and as links at the GSCAA website. We have all joined forces to bring you the latest news in the fastest amount of time and give you a glimpse of golf’s recovery...
Once again, a huge thank you to Golf Course Trades, Tedesco Country Club, and Ron Forse. It’s easy to write a great story when you have a terrific subject. Click here for the entire piece. From the article: “By the time you crest the hill on 16 over which you’ve hit you’ve already been enchanted by the course’s wondrous variety –...