Best-selling author and former New York Daily News sports columnist Hank Gola joined us on Jay Flemma Sports Report to talk about his amazing book racing up the charts, Ryder Cup Rivals. We’ll have a more in-depth review soon, but clearly this is the front-runner for Golf Book of the Year. Impeccably researched, painstakingly thorough, and written with...
I told everyone so, but nobody wanted to hear it. And now boy genius Keegan Bradley and his band of overpaid, underprepared American Ryder Cuppers have been treated like Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators: hang, drawn, quartered, and their limbs posted upon spikes atop the ball washers of the Black Course as a warning to all others foolhardy enough to try to...
The one and only Rees Jones, “Open Doctor,” “PGA Physician,” and the man who, along with David Fey, resurrected Bethpage Black from a golf scrapheap to major championship and Ryder Cup glory, joins us for an in-depth look at Bethpage Black for the Ryder Cup. Rees breaks down Bethpage Black like a fraction for us – all 18 holes...
BETHPAGE, NY – The incredible rags to riches story of Bethpage Black continues at light speed. The once shabby, shoddy, ill-kept state-run public links has risen like a vengeful phoenix to become a part of America’s informal major golf championship rotation, if one can be said to exist. First the Black hosted two U.S. Opens, (2002 and 2009, the former won by Tiger...
Two statistics stand out brightest in the aftermath of the 16.5 – 11.5 drubbing that the Europeans hung on the USA at the first Ryder Cup ever held in Italy:Â USA captain Zach Johnson’s captain’s picks going 4-12-1 over the course of three days, and the USA losing the foursomes matches by a combined score of 7-1. My heart goes out to Zach Johnson...
While we finish up some skiing articles from Argentina and beyond, let’s review the last week and cue up the next. The “Summer of Hagestad” ended in the grandest fashion of all as the 32 year-old amateur followed up his victory at the USGA Mid-Am at Sleepy Hollow with a rain-shortened victory at the Crump Cup at Pine Valley. Organizers, fearful of...
With the USA still basking in the afterglow of a modern era, record-tying margin of victory at Whistling Straits, lets take a look at the future Ryder Cup venues. 2023 Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Rome, ITALY 2025 Bethpage Black Course, Bethpage, NY 2027 Adare Manor, County Limerick, IRELAND 2029 Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, MINNESOTA 2031 TBA...
Forget everything you’ve heard on television, seen on the Internet, or read in magazines. Think with your own head for a moment: what’s the truest axiom in golf? You drive for show, and putt for dough…and trophies. So ignore who looks stronger on paper, who won “the last how many over the last how long,” and maybe take a close look at...
So starting next Wednesday Ryan Ballengee, Peter “Say it to Me” Santo, and I will be covering the Ryder Cup for Golf News Net. Look for all your favorite columns:Â historical look-backs, golf course analysis and breakdown, and of course in-depth stories off all the drama and pageantry.
Fan favorite and all-around good guy Steve Stricker was named Ryder Cup Captain for 2020. The event will be played in his home state of Wisconsin, at Whistling Straits, host of three PGA Championships since 2000. Stricker will be formally introduced at a press conference at 8 a.m. in Milwaukee. Veteran sports writer Gary D’Amato broke the story earlier today...
The last time heads rolled like this, Marie Antoinette let them eat cake. The Storming of the Bastille might seem like a massage compared to the potential bloodletting this weekend, as the U.S. Ryder Cup team looks to win on foreign soil for the first time in 25 years. With a murderer’s row line-up, chemistry everywhere you look, and a golf course that looks...
Amidst a tumult and shouting that would have impressed even the great Grantland Rice himself, the United States defeated Europe 17-11, winning their first Ryder Cup since 2008. Patrick Reed preened like an NFL linebacker, Phil Mickelson made putts from Duluth, St. Cloud, and Monkato, and Ryan Moore – the last man to make the team – sank the Ryder Cup...
Here are the matchups for tomorrow’s singles at Hazeltine Natonal as the 2016 Ryder Cup turns towards the Sunday Singles. 1. PATRICK REED (USA) V. RORY MCILROY (EUR) Ohhhh, grab your popcorn. We finally get the marquis matchup we wanted to see at a Sunday singles. You KNEW Reed had to lead off, and you KNEW Europe had to front load, and for once, the stars...
It’s downright poetic: the “Greatest Event in Golf” (as countless golfers and pundits have described it) is being played in the most golf loving state in the union. This week the 41st Ryder Cup comes to Hazeltine National, the golf club specifically designed to bring the golf world’s pre-eminent events to Minnesota. Built in 1962 by Robert...
Rickie Fowler, JB Holmes, and Matt Kuchar became three of Davis Love’s four Captain’s Picks for the USA Ryder Cup team which will battle Europe at Hazeltine National Sept. 29 – Oct. Europe has won the last three Cups in a row. The final spot looks to be a battle between Bubba Watson and Bill Haas. Fowler will play well in a pod with Reed, Mickelson...