The Fox and the Wolves (Set to the tune of Rush’s song “The Trees”) There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble in the trees, For the wolves spotted a red fox, But the fox escaped on skis. The trouble with the wolfpack (And they quite insist they’re right) Is that they think the fox too simple He will fall beneath their might! But the red fox...
A South Carolina woman and two of her accomplices are the tip of the iceberg of a scandal rocking the ski pass industry as hundreds of fake passes were sold by thieves masquerading as discount retailers. A complicated scam involving a on-line ads in ski-centric social media sites and marketplaces, stolen credit card numbers, affected both IKON and EPIC passes...
It’s been an busy last week here at JF.com, Golf News Net, the North American Snowsports Journalists Association, and Jay Flemma Sports Report. We’ll also have the close of the golf season to discuss and write about. So strap in – golf may be in silly season, but with winter storming around the USA early, we will be rapid fire with stories and...
BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – It was somewhere along the front nine of the West Lancashire Golf Club after the blustering 25-mile per hour gusts turned from directly in my face to a ferocious crosswind when I broke into the widest smile of the week. Once again, I had returned to my beloved northwest coast of England for another four rounds of golf amidst the...
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...