BRAD FAXON: True to His Roots
Brad Faxon of Barrington, R.I., has been a model of consistency on the PGA Tour for 22 seasons, after an amateur career that included college Player of the Year honors and a Walker Cup selection. Read more
REES JONES -
Attention Cape golfers: The U.S. Open Doctor has arrived.
Rees Jones designed the latest addition to Cape Cod golf on Route 151 in East Falmouth, adjacent to Ballymeade Country Club. The
new course, appropriately named The Golf Club at Cape Cod, is a private, members-only, 7,000-yard-plus, par-72 course and the first Jones design on the Cape. Read more
WILL STEARNS & SOUTHERS MARSH
IT’S ALL ABOUT HAVING A GREAT EXPERIENCE
When Will Stearns III and Will Stearns IV, father-and-son business partners, are sitting in the clubhouse on the grounds of their enterprise, the Southers Marsh Golf Club in Plymouth, perhaps enjoying a cold beer after a long day’s work, they don’t see simply a place to play golf and grow cranberries. Read more
Bob Miller - Local Knowlege
It starts with a seemingly innocuous question. “How are you?” Bob Miller asks. This invariably leads the person he is addressing to lament their lack of feel around the green, or the deficiencies in their iron play, or the fact that they’re “getting stuck” at the top of the backswing. Read more
FORDIE PITTS JR - An Amateur for the Ages
Fordie Pitts Jr. has competed in three U.S. Senior Opens, finishing as the low amateur in 1984 at fabled Oak Hill. His name is all over New England, state, and local record books: dozens of club championships, three wins in the Tournament of Club Champions, two State Senior titles, and possibly more Massachusetts best-ball victories than anyone in history, including 10 with his children (four Father-Son titles with Fordie III and six Father-Daughter crowns combined with Mary Lou and Karen). Read more
