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...
[Editor’s Note: Besides being a member of NASJA, Jay is also the sitting vice president.] The North American Snowsports Journalists Association will be hosting both their annual meeting and a professional development webinar live in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, November 13 at 2:30 pm. The following day the Snowbound Expo will open. All members of NASJA...
BOISE, ID – Mexico’s Emilio Gonzalez dazzled the Korn Ferry Tour with a sparkling final round 61 to win the golf tournament, but the whole city of Boise won the Albertsons Boise Open. Indeed, the final chapter of the Korn Ferry Tour regular season was a rip-roaring success on every level, especially seeing as how organizers had to pull off not one, but three concerts...
BOISE, ID – Now comes the knife’s edge, the crucible of the late season of the Korn Ferry Tour, where dreams of the Big Time! and Bigger Money! slumber cheek and jowl with the nightmare of another seemingly interminable year of slogging, soldiering, and soul searching. Some of these golfers are destined for the PGA Tour next year. Relief! Satisfaction! Success! It’s...
BOISE, ID – [Author’s Note: There’s watching golf and there’s there are WAYS TO WATCH THE GOLF, if you understand the nuance. Anyone can go to the tournament, but maximizing your enjoyment is the ultimate goal. What are you looking for? Golf action? The beer tent? The party scene? People watching? Being watched? If you’re going the Korn Ferry playoffs this week in...
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...
[Editor’s Note: Our Indomitable Sportsman, Jay Flemma, has returned from northwest England’s fabled Golf Coast with stories from their Open Championship venues and more. In this column, he analyzes the golf architecture of Royal Liverpool Golf Club, perennial Open Championship venue since 1897.] HOYLAKE, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The tang of the salty sea air, the soft...
LYTHAM ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND – It was somewhere just off the sixth fairway of Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club when, lost amidst the heaving sea of shaggy, marram-grassed hills, I felt the metaphoric lightning strike. It was electrifying how much fun I was having. I had no idea where the green was; it was made blind by dunes towering above me on...
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...
[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…