Posts By Jay Flemma
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2.2KArchitects, Contractors & ProfessionalsCatching 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...
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3.8KArticlesCalifornia 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 roil of...
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3.1K1ArticlesConklin 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 golf in...
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3.3K1ArticlesWinged 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 facility in...
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2.0KArticlesTeam 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 a chance...
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6.8KArticlesThe 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 remember it...
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7.0KArticlesHow 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 to resemble...
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6.4KArticlesBayonne 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 the Himalayas,...
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2.8KArticlesMasterful Stephen Kay Restoration Vaults Forsgate’s Banks Course to Prominence
Call it “The Core Sample Heard Round the Golf World” – the day golf course architect Stephen Kay made a discovery of...
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7.7KArticlesBobby Weed Restoration has Experts Calling Culver Academies “The Finest 9 Hole Course in North America”
High on a hill overlooking mighty Lake Maxincuckee, Indiana’s prestigious Culver Academies are among the finest boarding and military academies in the...