Jay Flemma

Chris Schiavone, Stephen Kay, Successful Renovation and 100th Anniversary of A.W. Tillinghast’s Shackamaxon Country Club

Is it golf course architecture or golf course archaeology? When discussing the wild success owner-developer-magnate Chris Schiavone and golf architect…

7 years ago

Sleepy Hollow Country Club – Macdonald Reborn

Even before Washington Irving wrote the town of Sleepy Hollow forever into our national literary culture, the area was known…

7 years ago

Catching Up with Robert Trent Jones, Jr.

When last we saw Bobby Jones, Jr. he was basking in the afterglow of a successful and memorable U.S. Open…

8 years ago

California Dreamin’ at Monterey Peninsula Country Club

The first rays of sunrise caress the Monterey Peninsula Country Club and the California coastline gently. The long, low Neptunian…

8 years ago

Conklin Players Club – The Best Do It Yourself Golf Course in Years

Okay…let me say this out loud, so that I have this right in my head. A guy who never played…

8 years ago

Winged Foot Golf Club – Yankee Stadium of Golf or Graveyard of Champions? Both!

Tucked cozily in a verdant Mamaroneck neighborhood, Winged Foot Golf Club has been called by many the greatest 36-hole golf…

8 years ago

Team Effort – USGA, Head Super, Members Committed to Put 2004 U.S. Open Gaffe in the Past

To both the USGA and host club Shinnecock Hills, this year’s U.S. Open is not just a national championship, it’s…

8 years ago

The Floating Golf Green at Coeur D’Alene – Still a Wonder of the Golf World

Take a vacation at Coeur D’Alene Resort, tucked cozily by the Idaho lake of the same name, and you will…

8 years ago

How to Build a Principal’s Nose Bunker

It’s one of the most indelible and endearing architectural features in golf: the Principal’s Nose bunker, a three-dimensional hazard designed…

9 years ago

Bayonne Golf Club – A Shangri-La of Golf

James Milton was wrong. Shangri-la – his fictional land of incomparable beauty and peaceful unity - was not deep in…

9 years ago