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Starting with a blog and a dream, Jay Flemma launched his first sports-writing website in 2004. Some 13 years and 25 major golf championships later, Jay has won multiple national sports writing awards. Besides GNN, his work has appeared in numerous books as well as on-line at Cybergolf, PGA.com, GolfObserver, GolfChannel.com and many other sites and print magazines. When not trying to find a lost golf ball, Jay is an entertainment, copyright, Internet, sports and trademark lawyer in Manhattan. His clients have been nominated for Grammy and Emmy awards, won a Sundance Film Festival Best Director award, performed on stage and screen, and designed pop art for museums and collectors. Jay lives in Forest Hills, N.Y., and is fiercely loyal to his alma maters, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Trinity College in Connecticut.
CHARLOTTE – She had a voice like Foghorn Leghorn and the manners of Yosemite Sam. She’d fake-baked her skin to a brassy orange and streaked her...
CHARLOTTE – As we close the books on the 99th PGA Championship and the 2017 golf major championship season, there are several broader truths to celebrate...
CHARLOTTE – After Friday evening fireworks sent the biggest names in golf skyrocketing up the leaderboard at the 99th PGA Championship, Quail Hollow Club has...
CHARLOTTE – His name means “Thunderbear,” and his golf game rises with the sudden ferocity of a storm. Perhaps the most mercurial young rising star of...
CHARLOTTE - You have to love Jim Furyk. He shoots from the lip. When asked about the changes to Quail Hollow Club for the 99th PGA Championship, he had the...
CHARLOTTE – Like an archaeologist wide-eyed with wonder as he finally deciphers ancient hieroglyphics on a graven monument, so too was I mesmerized by the...
CHARLOTTE – If there’s one superlative you can say about Quail Hollow Club, the swag is terrific. If there’s two, well...
The pros, the PGA of America...
ERIN, Wis. – No less a personage than nine-time major champion Gary Player himself said that “the long bunker shot is the most difficult shot in golf.”...
ERIN, Wis. -- Dear Dad,
Happy Father’s Day! Another year, another U.S. Open (13 now, in a row, and 25 majors overall), another year I get to write a letter...
ERIN, Wis. – Hey! Ron Whitten, Dana Fry and Mike Hurdzan built this great golf course in Wisconsin. Let’s go and hack at it!
That’s not my loudmouth...
ERIN, Wis. – With a precision that Bernhard Langer would have envied, Rickie Fowler seized the first round lead of the 117th U.S. Open with a dazzling...
ERIN, Wis. – The collection of one-shot holes at Erin Hills is as strong as we’ve ever seen at any U.S. Open. Both nine and 16 are downright iconic ...
ERIN, Wis. – A blood-red sunset bathed Erin Hills Golf Course in an eerie witch-light as the sun descended behind a ominous curtain of black clouds. One last...
ERIN, Wis. – Dana Fry, who along with Mike Hurdzan and lawyer-turned-writer-turned-golf architect Ron Whitten, designed 11-year old Erin Hills, site of the...
PITTSBURGH – There’s an old, true saying about the fervor and loyalty of Pittsburgh fans: When you play Pittsburgh, you play the whole city. Now you can...
BALDWINSVILLE, NY – Mother Nature obviously saved her best and brightest sunshine of this entire April for the Earth Day Half Marathon in Baldwinsville. A...
We thought we’d seen this movie before, and we were ready for yet another heart-wrenching ending.
If past history were any indication, Sergio Garcia was...
At Augusta National Golf Club, trouble awaits at every turn. However, during the 2017 Masters, a handful of holes have stood out as the hardest on the golf...
You may find yourself
In a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife.
You may ask yourself
“Well, how did I get here?!”
--Talking Heads, “Once in a...
A new day may be dawning in golf: a kinder, gentler rule book, beginning Jan. 1, 2019.
However, as I digest the new rules, some of them work; others don’t...
HINGHAM, Mass. - “Boston Golf Club?” my friend asked, confused. “That’s not helpful. Which club in Boston do you mean?”
“No, that’s the name of...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went .500 again last week, hitting with the Patriots, but astonishingly losing the Packers +10.5. That leaves the playoff totals...
BAYONNE, N.J. - A funny thing happened when I went to interview a golf course architect about his design strategies. I got a grad school-level lecture in...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went .500 last week, 2-2 over all, 0-2 in teasers, putting the playoff record at 5-2-1 overall, 1-2-1 in teasers. That puts the...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went 3-0-1 last week, hitting on the Texans and the OVER against Oakland, and the Seahawks in their shellacking of Detroit. He...
With Ernesto the Prediction Iguana at the helm for the final week of the season, we went a surprising 3-1, 1-1 record. Week 17 is always tough, what with who...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana had a strong 6-2 week last week, 3-2 in teasers. That brings thee overall standings to an excellent 56-20-2 overall, 20-12-2 in...
It was a 3-3 week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana, 1-2 in teasers. Although that was rather milquetoast (that’s what happens when you play NFC West...
That is not Godzilla, that is Ernesto the Prediction Iguana eating all bookies for dinner after his 7-0-1 week last week, 3-0-1 in teasers. That brings the...
A 4-2 week overall, 2-1 in teasers leaves the season totals at a 40-15-1 overall, and a constantly improving 14-9-1 in teasers. With Ernesto the Prediction...
We're bringing back Faith the Prediction Cat for two more weeks after her excellent 7-1 showing this week, 3-1 in teasers. The Lions almost made Faith regret...
So Faith the Prediction Cat went a rather pedestrian 3-2-1 (1-1-1 in teasers) last week, bringing the season totals to 23-12-1. Covers/wins by the Cowboys...
SCARSDALE, N.Y. - Ardent golfers on both sides of the pond have heard of Sunningdale Golf Club in Merry Old England, a heathland masterpiece by Harry Colt, and...
Ernesto the Prediction Iguana obviously heard the calls for his benching, because he rattled off his second straight 5-1 week, 2-1 in teasers. That brings the...
That’s more like it. Ernesto the Prediction Iguana went 5-1 last week and 2-1 in teasers. That brings the season totals to 15-9 overall, 5-7 in exact...
t was a wild week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana, our intrepid animal kingdom prognosticator. He went 4-2, but by the skin of his teeth as he looked to go...
It was another 3-3 week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana. He hit with the Patriots, Falcons and Bills, but the Steelers stunk up the joint in Miami, while...
It was a 3-3 week for Ernesto the Prediction Iguana, as he got snake-bitten twice in one game when the Ravens laid an egg against Washington.
Also, what the...
Amidst a tumult and shouting that would have impressed even the great Grantland Rice himself, the United States defeated Europe 17-11, winning their first...
It’s downright poetic: the “Greatest Event in Golf” (as countless golfers and pundits have described it) is being played in the most golf loving state in...
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – Against all predictions, the 2016 PGA Championship finished on time Sunday night. Inside the clubhouse, amber lights burn cheerfully in...
“I didn’t win despite my handicap, but because of it – just as Hogan came back from that automobile accident, and Babe Zaharias came back from a cancer...
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – Right on cue, Baltusrol did what it always does at major golf championships -- surrender a record low score.
Sometimes it’s an immortal...
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – When the tempest breaks at a major championship, it tends to do so with Olympian fury. A bar sinister moves across the sky with a...
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. – When you look at a map of Baltusrol Golf Club, the layout of the golf course resembles a barbell with the left side over-inflated on the...
“Ye friends that weep about my grave
Compose your minds to rest
Prepare with me for sudden death
And be forever blest”
That is the chilling epitaph on the...
OAKMONT, Pa. – All week long, this was a U.S. Open that begged to be forgotten. From a Thursday washout that declawed the golf course and left everyone...
PITTSBURGH, Pa. –
---The noise afterwards,
It rises up like a storm,
As if you were the Thunder God himself.
Proximo to Maximus the Gladiator---
Like a scene...
OAKMONT, Pa. – “It’s the hardest golf course I’ve ever played,” said pretty much every golfer in the field this week at the 2016 U.S. Open.
Sergio...
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