Posts By Jay Flemma
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6131Articles18 Holes at Winged Foot West in the Club Championship
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to play a U.S. Open golf course under tournament conditions, I present my bruised ego...
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Interview with John Fulling, Jr., President of the Golf Course Superintendent’s Association
What a way to open his presidency: with an international crisis shuttering businesses, citizens across America under several versions of “shelter in...
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Hollywood Golf Club Brings Back Walter Travis, Turns Clock Back 100 Years
If you were to magically materialize somewhere inside the grounds of New Jersey’s Hollywood Golf Club, you’d have no idea what year...
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Tobacco Road – The Greatest Thrill Ride in Golf
His name was Mike Strantz, but everyone just called him Maverick, and he was on his way to becoming one of the...
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Interview with Current GCSAA President Rafael Barajas
Since 1926, GCSAA has been the top golf course management professional association in the United States and worldwide. Headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas.,...
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America’s St George’s
When you ask golfers to name their favorite architect, you’ll likely get several common answers. Many will say, Mackenzie, Ross, or Tillinghast,...
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Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, Birthplace of the Maxwell and Mackenzie Collaborations
In our March 2015 issue, we introduced our readership to Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw’s ingenious restoration of Perry Maxwell’s Old Town...
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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 Stephen Kay...
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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 to be...
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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 at Chambers...
