Josh Sens
Writer at Freelance
Writer at Golf Magazine
Golf, food and travel writer; co-author with Sammy Hagar of Are We Having Fun Yet; playing a game with which I’m not familiar
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4 days ago |
golf.com | Alan Bastable |Josh Sens
By now, you probably know a lot about Oakmont. But what can you tell us about Oakmont East? If you’re like most golf fans, odds you’ve never heard of this lost green patch of history. But facts are facts, and here’s a fun one. This week’s U.S. Open site used to have a sibling course beside it, an 18-hole neighbor that anyone could play. It’s just a field now, a portion of which stretches to the right of Oakmont’s beastly par-4 3rd hole, where hospitality tents bloom today.
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4 days ago |
golf.com | Alan Bastable |Josh Sens
Last month, it was signage at Quail Hollow. This week, it was the historic locker room at Oakmont. In both instances, damage was done to a major-championship venue. And in both instances, Wyndham Clark was implicated. On Sunday afternoon, GOLF.com confirmed a report from Tron Carter of No Laying Up that Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open winner, had bashed in two lockers at Oakmont in a fit of frustration.
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2 weeks ago |
golf.com | Josh Sens
“Over the top” is not a recommended move in the golf swing. But it can pay off nicely in golf design. At Big Cedar Lodge, his wilderness resort in the Missouri Ozarks, Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris has never shied away from bold course features. On Payne’s Valley, for instance, a Tiger Woods-designed championship layout, Morris helped dream up a head-turning 19th hole that plays over a lake to a waterfall-backed green ringed by towering limestone walls.
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2 weeks ago |
bvmsports.com | Josh Sens
Travel By: Josh Sens June 4, 2025 Pete Dye's work on Oak Marsh, at Omni Amelia Island Resort & Spa in Florida, was recently restored. Courtesy Blake Rowling took up golf at such an early age that he can't recall when he first swung a club. But he knows who got him started. "My dad," he says. The game did more than strengthen their father-son connection. It became a vital stitch in their social fabric, building community, fostering friendships. Today, it's also central to their working lives.
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2 weeks ago |
golf.com | Josh Sens
Blake Rowling took up golf at such an early age that he can’t recall when he first swung a club. But he knows who got him started. “My dad,” he says. The game did more than strengthen their father-son connection. It became a vital stitch in their social fabric, building community, fostering friendships. Today, it’s also central to their working lives.
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crazy scene from Riviera today. https://t.co/xE7Uj8Yio0
The start of Masters week seemed like a good time to revisit the story of the unlikely rise--and tragic fall--of the amateur golfer Jeff Thomas, who competed at Augusta in '94 and died 10 years later in a tumbledown motel near the club where he caddied. https://t.co/5BBG8mtjee
Played with the great Boo Weekley this past week at the Punta Mita Invitational, and though I didn't get a swing tip, I learned something more important: how to imitate a baby alligator. #puntamita #puntamitainvitational https://t.co/Otp8ZjT6An