Super Eight and Counting – Maine’s Sunday River is an American Classic —by Jay Flemma special to JF.com and NASJA— NEWRY, ME – ” You can’t help but love plucky, authentic Sunday River, the winter resort that just keeps getting bigger and better with every passing decade. A little bit rustic, a little bit opulent...
My iHeartRadio show for Golf News Net proceeds apace. This is our Open Championship show with John Hopkins of Global Golf Post and formerly the chief golf correspondent for the London Times. We also talked with Doug Fish, founder of Indy Pass about all the latest resort signings and plans for the ski and snowboarding season. You can stream the show here. And look for...
I’ll be hosting Golf Course Trades’ short webinar series on one of my all time favorites and an instant and forever classic:Â Bayonne Golf Club. Arguably the greatest build of the 21st century, architect owner Eric Bergstol designed an Irish-style links on an old waste disposal site overlooking New York harbor. Few people could manage the ludicrous...
It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for him. Almost. At least as sorry as you can for a multi-millionaire athlete with James Bond’s good looks, an astronaut’s brain, media savvy, a mission in life, and grillion-dollar talent:Â the fall of Bryson DeChambeau from being the PGA Tour’s “it boy” capable of vaporizing every golf...
We here at JF.com are thrilled to bring you the magnificent photo essays of Andrew DiGiovanni, a US ex-pat now living in Vienna and teaching school there. Proving you should meet as many people on a ski lift as you can, Andrew and I bonded the first time I ever skied my beloved Magic Mountain in Vermont. We lost touch after I published my Magic article in 2019, but a...
It’s always an honor and a pleasure to write about golf architect Mike Strantz, “The Maverick” to his friends. Caledonia and True Blue are both instant classic and bucket list courses for any well-traveled golfer and student of design – amateur or otherwise! Special thanks to all the folks a both courses, and of course to the Golf Course...
Minnesota’s Giants Ridge is renovating both its winter and summer sports facilities. Already one of the Midwest’s premiere golf destinations with two courses designed by award-winning architect Jeff Brauer, the resort is committed to projects all across their 35-trail, 500-foot vertical mountain and beyond. “We regraded the novice area this past...
2022 Update – Magic for the Win [Editor’s Notes:Â As we go to press, Magic, like most of the northeast, is just exiting a bad stretch of warm weather. However, hope is on the horizon; a nor’easter is on the way, plus lake effect in some areas. Magic may well be in sterling shape by the weekend. Keep a sharp eye and ear on the weather and stay...
Torrey the Prediction Cat lost his first opportunity to surpass Ernesto the Prediction Iguana in lifetime overall prediction percentage on this website. Torrey’s 1-3 record overall and 0-2 tally in teasers dropped him to 5-5 overall this playoff season, and 2-3 in teasers. The UNDERS in the Saturday games killed everybody, but the late flips on Sunday helped...
Torrey the Prediction Cat went a solid 4-2 last week overall, 2-1 in teasers. Swelling his lifetime percentage in this column to just shy of 60%, Torrey continued his winning ways playing the Chiefs and Bucs. Sadly the third parlay of road dogs spit the bit, but in sports prognostication, 59% is Gold Standard, and Torrey has not only carried on the torch passed to...
It’s Super Duper Duper Stoopid Wild Card weekend! Seven seeds and triple headers and Monday night games:Â OH MY!! Well let’s take the absurdity over the top:Â once again it’s time for Torrey the Prediction Cat to start handing out winners like Christmas candy! As always we do 2-team teasers here, so we get to move the line six points in our favor...
You can’t help but fall in love with Leatherstocking Golf Club, whether you’ve come from across thew country to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame or a local seeking an upscale round on a Golden Age masterpiece. As always Golf Course Trades did a wonderful job with my piece. You can read it here. From the article: “Designed by quintessential Golden Age...
It was an innocuous question under ordinary circumstances, but this time the answer could not have been more poignant. “Are you almost ready for the season?” You have no idea. A LONG EXPECTED PARTY It was a gorgeous fall night, and my birthday party was in full swing. I throw a birthday party like a hobbit throws a birthday party, right down to the sign...
The Jay’s Plays Radio Show is coming to iHeartMedia, along with all the other stars of the Golf News Net Galaxy. Ryan Ballengee inked a deal just this week, and we all got swept in together. Ryan wrote: “Golf News Net is proud to announce it has signed a multi-year partnership with iHeartMedia to launch and produce Golf News Net (GNN) Radio, a 24/7/365...
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...