It was surprising to me in the weeks leading up to my trip to Pine Valley Golf Club how many golfers I ran across who were not familiar with the club. The most common question I get these days from my golf friends is “Where are you off to next?” When I would respond with “Pine Valley” more often than not I would receive a blank stare and the question “Where is that one?”
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I cheated at Bethpage Black. Those of you who know me well know that if I am nothing else I am a die hard purist follower of the rules of golf. It is true though, I played the Black Course at Bethpage State Park and I cheated. As anyone who followed the stories about the U.S. Open’s groundbreaking visit to this municipal golf course knows, the only way to get on Bethpage’s Black Course is to park in a numbered spot and sleep in your car the night before you want to play.
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Jay and me at Winged Foot’s West Course’s 18th green. You would never guess it from looking at this photo but just 4 hours earlier rain was coming down sideways and in sheets. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it rain harder. You would have thought everyone would have gone home, but not at WFGC. They love golf so much here that when the rain finally did break there were still 30-40 people waiting to play! Several beers in the clubhouse while we were waiting led to our group having quite possibly the most embarrassing display of drives
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Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, NY is a serious golf club. To say that these guys like golf is to say that the Pope likes Catholicism. Winged Foot has the distinct privilege of being the only club to have both of it’s courses (West and East) listed in the Top 100. There have been five U.S. Opens contested over the West Course which have produced the five champions Bobby Jones, Bill Casper, Hale Irwin, Fuzzy Zoeller and Geoff Ogilvy.
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If you would have told me 10 years ago when first I started making trips to New York that my visits would evolve to the point that they included golf courses and grill rooms rather than cover charges and last calls I would have said you were nuts. Here we are 10 years later and my time in New York is spent chasing a white ball around the hills of Southampton and Westchester County instead of chasing skirts around Hell’s Kitchen and the Upper West Side. I guess it is true Mr. Dylan, the times really are a-changin’.
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