Lippert Director of Learning
Goshen, Indiana
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Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
It’s been a long time since I’ve played Eau Claire G&CC and I didn’t get to play it on this trip but it was a good afternoon for some late fall pics. The course looked great and the new 6th along the river will be a nice upgrade when it’s finished.
The course was originally designed by Tom Vardon with more recent work by Kevin Norby completed 5-6 years ago.
Eau Claire, WI is about 3.5 hours west/northwest of Milwaukee and about 90 minutes east of the Twin Cities.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
One of the largest RV related employers in northern Indiana may have a decision to make.
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Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
The Alps at Prestwick Golf Club - on any architecture nerd’s list of the most important holes in golf, the 17th at Prestwick is at or near the top.
Aside from being generally recognized as the oldest hole in championship golf, this hole, and in particular, the large hill fronting and blinding the green complex from the fairway, has inspired countless emulations around the world, following C.B. Macdonald’s adoption of the Alps as an “ideal” hole and his use of the template for the 3rd at National Golf Links.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
Skokie Country Club has long been a Chicago-area favorite of mine, but until this weekend, I hadn’t been back since Brian Schneider’s recent work on the golf course.
I’ve played a good bit around Chicago, in my opinion, a round at Skokie is one of the most fun you can have in this part of the world.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
Today is the first full day of fall and, for those of us who live in the northeastern U.S., the start of the best 6-8 weeks of golf on the calendar.
Here’s a set from the gorgeous Somerset Hills, A.W. Tillinghast’s garden state masterpiece, ablaze in autumn color.
In good years, these next two glorious months of fall make the following four months of winter misery tolerable. Here’s to hoping this is one of those years.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
The last in tonight’s Raynor trifecta: the Country Club of Charleston.
It’s long been an axiom in golf that if you’re going to name your club after the city it’s in, your golf course better be damn good.
Any city would be proud to have this 1925 Raynor design take its name.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
Observations from Sunday at Lahinch 🇮🇪
1. Wow. Stunning. Sport at its finest and what an amazing setting for it. I've covered over 200 golf events but that is right up there with the most thrilling week I've experienced. For the entire week to come down to one putt. Unreal.
2. I got up from my seat after it all finished and went to get some air outside the media center. Who was there, Josh Hill. Beer in hand, still with a stunned look on his face. I shook his hand and told him how impressed I was. Going to write up his story tonight and what he told me, but what a moment for the lowest ranked player in the event.
3. Shout out to the caddies. All longtime Lahinch loopers, randomly drawn with their players at the start of the week. Four of them from the same family, some with 40+ years experience, all with love for the place and the game. Got to meet a couple and they were delightful. They’ll have a few new stories to tell after this week. Great nugget from @IrishGolfDesk that Hill's caddie knew there was less sand in the bunkers on 18 than on the practice area. Stuff only a true caddie would know.
4. I was shocked by how many putts were left short all week, but especially today. Important, match-changing putts. I wonder if there was an element of foursomes mentality in the morning, not wanting to race putts when your partner has the comebacker but it was undeniable how many putts, from both sides, were coming up short.
5. Surveyed a few media members that know amateur golf to ask which of the players they think will go on to have the best careers on Tour. The top three picks were Russell, Weaver and Poulter. Interesting that Stout, world number one, didn’t get as much love.
6. I think Ethan Fang was probably my favourite player this week. Really sharp game, especially off the greens, and a very chilled, funny character of the course. Will definitely keep an eye on him.
7. Lahinch remains one of the world’s great golf towns. The proximity of the beach, town and course. Every pub full to the rafters of fans eager to discuss holes, shots, courses and of course, the best pint of Guinness in town. Laughed when I heard the clubhouse sold 1,200 pints of Guinness to their members on Friday. Had a local tell me “I played a few amateur tournaments in Lahinch and staying sober was more difficult than the golf course itself.” I can attest that, covering the Walker Cup too.
8. Regardless of result, the format of the event needs to change. I don’t think that’s a negative take, it’s a positive one. We need more of this. It should be three days, it should have fourballs. Going to write more on that for tomorrow.
9. Interesting to see the Walker Cup going to Bandon Dunes next in 2028. Not a traditional US style course. Will likely feel and play pretty similar to this week. And I thoroughly enjoyed this week.
What a week.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
Greg, I respect you and I knew you would push back. You are right that skills deteriorate when not rehearsed. No argument. But 334 starts in 72 hole events on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry. 90 made cuts against the best fields in the world. That volume of competitive reps under financial pressure does not just disappear. It becomes the floor you cannot fall below. His handicap might drift. His game under pressure does not.
Most competitive amateurs play a handful of 72 hole stroke play events a year. Sposa played 334 of them for a living. The USGA created the Mid Amateur in 1981 for one reason: college players were dominating the US Amateur because they played more, practiced more, and competed more than post college amateurs who had jobs and families. The USGA looked at that gap and said the arena needs to be protected. The competitive advantage of more reps at a higher level was so obvious they built an entire championship around correcting for it.
That is the same gap here. The only difference is the reps were professional instead of collegiate. If the USGA acknowledged that college players had an unfair advantage over working amateurs and created a championship to level the field, how is 334 professional starts not the same argument one level up?”
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
90 years ago today on September 3. 1936 Francis Ouimet (America’s first great golf champion) captained the US Walker team into #GolfHistory beating Great Britain & Ireland 9-0 at Pine Valley Golf Club.
It was the first shut out in Walker Cup History.
@USGA
@RandA
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
As a father who’s already taught his 7 year old to build games, research and leverage AI, I applaud this initiative.
It’ll make it easier for my son to absolutely mog these other kids.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other city officials announced a sweeping new policy Wednesday imposing a one-year ban on student use of generative artificial intelligence in New York City public schools from 2-K through 8th grade, while limiting screen time for younger students and launching AI literacy lessons for high schoolers. More: abc7ny.com/post/new-york-cit… 7ny.tv/Ywj5FU
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
118 years ago today on August 29, 1908 Fred McLeod won the 1908 US Open at Myopia Hunt Club.
The diminutive professional stood just 5’4” moved to the United States and took a job as the head professional at Rockford Country Club.
The 1908 US Open was McLeod’s lone major.
In 1963, Fred McLeod along with Jock Hutchison became the first honorary starters at @TheMasters. The honor was bestowed upon these two golfers for winning the first two Senior PGA Championships which were held at Augusta National Golf Club.
#GolfHistory
@USGA
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
"You try to explain to [casual sports fans] ‘Well, this person is in because it’s a sponsors exemption because he had dinner with the CEO three weeks ago.’ A sports fan says, ‘That’s not a sport. I don’t know what that is.'"
Rolapp gets real and candid in a great clip from his appearance on Golf Channel today. He's quite comfortable talking like a normal human about strengths, weaknesses, and goals. Not sure I've heard this kind of frank self-evaluation from the Tour (on the record in public) very often.
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
Immelman: “He’s taking a long look at this, this is like the third club he’s placed down behind the ball there.”
Nobilo: “So the lie might be better.”
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
On Monday, while 156 competitors are tussling with William Flynn’s genius 5 miles due south at Merion, another 156 will be here, battling his brilliance at Philadelphia Country Club, this year’s co-host for the stroke play portion of the 126th U.S. Amateur.
I’m very curious to see how the two courses compare across the field.
64 players advance to match play. – at Conshohocken, PA
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
Merion - All 18 - One Shot
Like Scorsese’s legendary continuous tracking shot of Henry and Karen entering the Copa, here’s all 18 holes with no cuts at Merion.
It’s often hard to get a sense of scale or an idea of the routing when looking at a photo of a course. This continuous video gives a wonderful look at Merion’s brilliant routing and the way the course uses every inch of its cozy property.
And as you can see, with the U.S. Amateur a week away, Paul Latshaw and crew have this golf course tuned to absolute perfection. – at Ardmore, PA
Matthew Jerlecki retweeted
That is one of the most absurd birdies I have ever seen.
I do not agree with that rule or ruling and the R&A should be ashamed of what they just allowed to happen at this point in the tournament.
There is no way of actually knowing if a ball ended up in the TIO area if you don't find the golf ball.
