LECOM Health Challenge is nearly here

LECOM Health Challenge is nearly here

The Peek’n Peak Resort welcomes the Web.Com Tour to the southern Tier of New York State for the Lecom Health Challenge. The back nine opens with three realistic opportunities for birdie or eagle. Perhaps the reasoning is, the outward was once the inward. When...
LECOM Health Challenge is 3 days away

LECOM Health Challenge is 3 days away

The Peek’n Peak Resort welcomes the Web.Com Tour to the southern Tier of New York State for the Lecom Health Challenge. Just before the closing stretch, holes 13-15 offer the great mid-iron players an opportunity to position themselves for a stretch run. Hole 14...
Products We’ve Sampled This Spring

Products We’ve Sampled This Spring

Hard to believe we’re still not on the golf course for good this season, but Mother Nature is usually kind to us. We can give her a pass this year. Before long, we’ll be out on those grassy strips, playing our favorite game and celebrating our dearest...
Press Release: 14th Hole at Terry Hills has new bridge

Press Release: 14th Hole at Terry Hills has new bridge

If you have ever golfed at Terry Hills, you are familiar with the bridge leading to the 14th green. It has become the iconic hole of the golf course, used in many of our marketing materials and so popular with brides and grooms for wedding pictures. Now there is a new...
5 things to watch at Shinny’s 2018 US Open

5 things to watch at Shinny’s 2018 US Open

On Monday afternoon, the USGA presented an architectural forum that featured 4 esteemed guests, knowledgeable in the ways of architecture and course set-up. They spoke about the alteration, restoration and enhancement of Shinnecock Hills since it last held a US Open,...
Shinnecock musings, on a sunny Tuesday

Shinnecock musings, on a sunny Tuesday

Yesterday, I wrote a brief tribute to a departed friend. Today, our 2nd and final day at the 2018 US Open, I consider my life in golf, and what might be yet to come. As with many, I began playing for enjoyment, then matured into a competitive golfer. Too late, small...
A tribute to a friend gone

A tribute to a friend gone

It’s silly to commemorate the 1st US Open I attended as credentialed media with the dawn of the Keurig era. And yet, there it was, at Shinnecock Hills in 2004. The Travelin’ Duff and I had journeyed east for five days at the US Open. We attended 2 practice...
Curtis Cup Musings, Sunday, One O’Clock

Curtis Cup Musings, Sunday, One O’Clock

At this juncture, the USA has completed its 2018 victory, in convincing style. It was the stronger side, and it deserved the victory. Earlier this day, I sat in the media tent, musing… -What do you do when your side is down, 3 points to 9, to a very strong side?...
Curtis Cup 2018: A look at Quaker Ridge

Curtis Cup 2018: A look at Quaker Ridge

Quaker Ridge, designed by A.W. Tillinghast in the late 1910s and restored/updated in the 2000s by Gil Hanse, offers a unique layout to golfers. Its front nine works around the property border in a counter clockwise fashion. The inward half moves mildly clockwise, then...
Curtis Cup 2018 Saturday Morning Stroll

Curtis Cup 2018 Saturday Morning Stroll

This walkabout brought to you by the hospitable membership of Quaker Ridge Golf Club, the tournament staff at the USGA, and the shuttle driver who brought us in with great poise and professionalism. Before the first shots were struck, we had the opportunity to wander...
A low-key Vermont golf tour

A low-key Vermont golf tour

A thing happened along the path of this tour down memory lane; it turned into a golf tour. The plan was to visit places I had known decades ago, but the golf kept springing up, calling out gently. Names like Ryder Book, Blush Hill, Ralph Myhre winked from the road...

Byrncliff Resort debuts new chef and hotel renovation

VARYSBURG, N.Y., May 15th, 2018 – Byrncliff Golf Resort & Banquets, widely known for its golf course and its winter activities along Route 20A on the way to Warsaw, today announced Hotel Renovation and the addition of a new Chef at its restaurant. ...

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