Jason Deegan

San Jose

Managing Editor @GolfPass #NBCSportsNext - Played 1K+ courses in 25 countries. Need #golftravel advice? IG: @jasondeegangolfpass Carter & Kendall's dad

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Articles

A new life for Oak Marsh at Omni Amelia Island Resort

5 days ago | golfpass.com | Tim Gavrich |Jason Deegan

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - Long grasses swaying in constant breezes, salty air and sandy soils…sounds almost likes the links of Scotland, doesn’t it? Even if such a comparison is a stretch, the Lowcountry is one of America’s best settings for golf. The marshy coastal corridor that runs from just south of Myrtle Beach, S.C., to just north of Jacksonville, Fla.
GolfPass Gear Report: May 2025

1 week ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan |Tim Gavrich

By now, we've all teed it up probably a half dozen times in 2025. We're starting to get a feel for how the season might go. Maybe you've started out of the gate fast, feeling confident and ready for the #bestsummereva ... Or maybe you start slowly every year, shaking off the rust one round at a time. Whatever the case, you should have evaluated the state of your game, especially from the shopping perspective. How many new shirts do I need? What new shoes will get me through the summer?
Why social media's #shrinkthegame message has no place in golf

1 week ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan

There’s a hashtag floating around social media that’s should disturb you if you truly love golf:#shrinkthegameIt reflects the sentiment of golfers who despise the current situation surrounding public golf. They want to rewind the clock to the pre-pandemic days when there were fewer people on the course and more open and affordable tee times. They loathe the influx of younger players who are bringing music, bolder outfits and more casual attitudes toward the game.
New era begins at Poppy Ridge Golf Course in northern California

2 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan

LIVERMORE, Calif. - It took courage and foresight for the Northern California Golf Association to blow up its 27-hole Poppy Ridge Golf Course and start from scratch. It took creativity and ingenuity from architect Jay Blasi to retool the original Rees Jones routing from 1996 to unlock the land's full potential. The result? A bold and beautiful new Poppy Ridge that will quickly shoot up the rankings of the Bay Area's best public courses.
Golf's most polarizing fashions

2 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan

The golf fashion police are coming. Look out. The next golf outfit you wear could be the subject of a golf snob who objects to how you look. That person, of course, won't be bold enough to say something directly to you, but they're more than happy to jab at you online. Golf's fashion wars are being waged everywhere these days - at your muni, at the fanciest private club in town and obviously on social media. It's the world we live in. It's a battle as old as time: Conservatives and traditionalists vs.
Youth on Course releases its 2025 golf hike schedule

2 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan

This year is a special one for the Youth on Course 100 Hole Hike. It's a milestone season - the 10th anniversary - of raising money for a good cause. That's a decade of helping to grow the game. Youth on Course, a non-profit based in Pebble Beach, Calif., uses the money raised at its 100 hole hikes to supplement $5 rounds of golf, college scholarships, internships and career-building programs that empower its members ranging in age from 6 to 18.
The closed courses of golf's 10 most successful modern architects

2 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan

Not even the best golf course architects in the world are immune from golf course closures. Having covered golf course closures for more than a decade, I've learned a few things along the way. It doesn't matter how good the course is. It doesn't matter how famous the designer is. A course will close if a) Ownership doesn't properly manage its asset, and/or b) it doesn't have a solid business plan.
Davis Love III's design firm raises the bar for Florida Panhandle golf with The Third at Watersound Club

2 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Tim Gavrich |Jason Deegan

If there is a prevailing sentiment shared by most new golf courses being built in the 2020s, it's "Bigger is better." Contemporary courses explore huge corridors with their mega-wide fairways and sizable, heavily contoured greens protected by often rugged, gnarled bunkers in considerable quantities. This approach allows for considerable creativity and strategic merit to be incorporated into these courses, which means they don't so much blend together as fit together into the current movement.
Best golf books of 2025

3 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Jason Deegan

(GolfPass may receive a commission on products purchased through links in this article.)With golf's popularity swelling, it seems that a steady stream of golf books keeps rolling year after year. Books involving caddies, a barrier-breaking player and one of golf's legendary businessmen have crossed my desk this year. I haven't had the chance to finish some of them, but I can promise you that any golfers will enjoy reading all of them.
A hole-by-hole guide to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina

3 weeks ago | golfpass.com | Tim Gavrich |Jason Deegan

The Quail Hollow Club has become a since familiar sight to golf fans as it continues to host big events, from the PGA TOUR's Wells Fargo Championship to the 2017 PGA Championship, 2022 Presidents Cup and the upcoming 2025 PGA Championship. For the most part, Quail Hollow is very much in the mold of typical modern championship layouts: large in scale, broad-shouldered and long, with narrow fairways, plenty of water, greens that accommodate a good variety of hole locations and pearly white bunkers.