MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ – The wind was cold as Spanish steel. A golf ball-gray sky stretched end to end across the horizon, clouds moving forlornly before the breeze. To the west a dark thunderhead roiled, black as a witch’s cauldron. Yet to the buoyant hearts of northeast golfers it might have well been a sunny 4th of July. “What a perfect day for golf...
Tony Dear, European correspondent to the Jay’s Plays Show and my colleague over at Golf News Network stopped by to preview the European side of the Masters field. We also had a great talk with Alan Fadel about the amateur golf season coming up, reviewing both the venues and the great names that we’ll get to meet at the US Amateur, the Fourball, and other...
You know how it was all the rage a few years ago to start building brass statues of people and putting them around golf courses? If you legitimately want to bronze people that actually are good for the game of golf, then New Jersey should erect a statue of country club magnate Chris Schiavone. First, Chris spearheaded the resurrection of mighty Forsgate Country Club...
Everything they say about Donald Ross’s Seminole is true. Cunning, crowned greens, cavernous bunkering anywhere you miss, rugged rumbling ridges at two edges of the property, and an idyllic coastal setting in lovely Juno Beach, Florida add up to a top 10 in the USA experience.
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – It was late September in the Southern Tier region of New York, but for once the leaves had only just begun to change. Usually the vale of the Susquehanna River valley is aflame with color by this time, a rainbow of autumnal delight for the so-called “Leaf Peepers” who travel from as far as 16 hours away to see the dazzling...
My latest travels took me back to the Southern Tier –Conklin and En-joie. The article is here at Golf News Net. As the Nutri-matic Drink Synthesizer used to say, “Share and Enjoy.”