Posts By Jay Flemma
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1.8K1ArticlesThe Great Golf Course Trades Winter Golf Escape – Part 1 Florida
Something a little different for this month: with snow blanketing the northern half of the country Your Intrepid Author has been sharpening...
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1.8KArticlesLeatherstocking Golf Course – Golf Americana in All Its Glory
In a perfect world, nearly every golf course would be like Cooperstown, New York’s Leatherstocking Golf Club. Cooperstown isn’t an ordinary town;...
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2.2KArticlesPete Dye, Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course, and the 2021 PGA Championship
I had to hold back a tear as I started this piece because although Pete Dye was a generous friend to everyone...
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2.4KArticlesForse of Nature: Ron Forse, Jim Nagle Restore Donald Ross at New Hampshire’s Bald Peak Colony Club
As readers of this column recall, we recently profiled two superb New Hampshire golf clubs: Baker Hill Golf Club (last month) and...
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2.1KArticlesC.B. Macdonald’s Lido Golf Club to be Reborn
With a collective cheer that might have been heard in space, the golf world celebrated the promised return – indeed rebirth –...
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2.3KArticlesHead Golf Superintendent, Baker Hill Bob Says Goodbye after 23 Years at New Hampshire Marvel
East Coast Americans who golf and ski could do no better than New Hampshire. In the winter the White Mountains are C.S....
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3.8KArticlesMeet the Par-3 Templates of Macdonald, Raynor, and Banks
The hottest trend in golf design right now is to recreate the strategies and designs of the greatest and most important Bloodline...
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1.3KArticlesNo Skiing, No Problem for I-90 Public Golfers This Spring
I call it the “I-90 Effect:” when a blizzard materializes out of nowhere, creating white-out conditions anywhere between Cleveland and Boston. Today...
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1.5KArticlesGolf Course Trades Interview with New GCSAA President Mark Jordan
Golf undoubtedly helped lead America’s spiritual recovery from Coronavirus. With Covid protections baked into the sport naturally, people flocked to the links...
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3.0KArticlesDoctor Turfgrass aka Dr. Richard Hurley, Does it Again
“Hello? Dr. Turfgrass? This is Agent J. I need your latest intel on 007, TiffEagle, and SR7100…on the double!” What you just...