09.20.2015 Sports Golf Gazette: He’ll take a pass on high-tech gadgets I am not a gadget person. Never have been. The techiest pieces of equipment I own are my flip cellphone, which only sees action when I’m on the road...
04.19.2015 Sports Golf Gazette: The commonality of golf, seen in a Masters moment Years ago I would have early-morning phone chats with my good friend, Wayne DePetris. We talked about everything. Wayne was a golfer, so, of course, many of our conversations...
02.02.2015 Sports Golf Gazette: Ideas for shaping up your game over the winter Congratulations! You made it through the holidays. Well done. Now, I don’t mean to pry and what you say here, stays here. So, just how many big ones did...
12.06.2014 Sports Golf Gazette: 2014 has been a big golfing year One of my favorite holiday tunes is the Andy Williams classic, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” Thanks to the commercialism that has stepped all over the...
10.04.2014 Sports Golf Gazette: Cedars kids kept busy over the summer Conversation overheard this past summer around the North Fork: Matilda, age 10: “I’m so bored this summer. There’s nothing to do around here.” Gus, age 12: “I know. All...
08.16.2014 Sports Meet the Greenport golfer who is 91, still going strong I have a bad case of senioritis. No, not that senioritis. Your golf guy is more than a few decades past cutting classes, pulling pranks, and tossing his tassel....
07.26.2014 Sports Golf Gazette: Is a 15-inch hole a cure for golf’s ills? Ladies and gentlemen, the game of golf is in need of some help. Yes, Houston, we do, indeed, have a problem. According to the National Golf Foundation, golf has...
04.06.2014 Sports Golf Gazette: A dream comes true for new Cedars owner When I was in seventh grade back in the 1950s, it was my dream to own a transistor radio and a new set of golf clubs. The modest earnings...
06.10.2011 Sports Golf Gazette/Jay Dempsey: Flogton puts a new twist on an old game The lords of the links must be rolling over in their graves. Let me tell you why. Lately, there has been some relaxing and neutering of the hallowed and...
02.07.2011 Sports GOLF GAZETTE/Jay Dempsey: Need to get through the winter? Try fantasy golf “Are we there yet?” You asked your parents that every five minutes while sitting in the backseat during those deathly, never-ending family jaunts. “No dear, we still have a...