Matthew Jerlecki

Lippert Director of Learning

[Matthew Jerlecki @JerleckiTechLab]

We could define #tareweight or we can LEARN what it really means! Which do u think more effective??? #concordpride https://t.co/yo6hdsa8v6

[Mrs. King @eking_oxbow]

It's almost launch day! Weighing our experiments and payload. Awesome problem solving from the 4th graders! #concordpride #weatherballoon

[LinksGems @LinksGems]

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.

[LinksGems @LinksGems]

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 @JerleckiTechLab]

and @SandoNFL here is the list of Players that would want that:

[Mike Sando @SandoNFL]

Here’s a list of coaches who would want that:

[The Golfer's Journal @GolfersJournal]

Friday calls for some frames from The Creek

[LinksGems @LinksGems]

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 @JerleckiTechLab]

Hey @LinksGems you sure that’s not the Lady from Beverly - still angry they did not get her a caddie 😂

[LinksGems @LinksGems]

A few people sent me this - apparently someone drove through the wall of the pro shop at Brae Burn CC near Boston today.

I hope those two employees are OK. Looks like a tragedy was avoided by mere inches.

If anyone has info they can provide, especially about those two employees, I’d appreciate it.

[LinksGems @LinksGems]

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 @JerleckiTechLab]

@BryanTweed16 you are going to LOVE it! So So Good!

[Bryan Tweed @BryanTweed16]

Excited for my first @DonaldRossSocie event!

[Matthew Jerlecki @JerleckiTechLab]

Can you @Concord_Schools please unlock the form so I can order for a student?

[Concord Schools @Concord_Schools]

💚 Concord pride that gives back!

Order “The Shirt” for the 2026-2027 school year and help support senior scholarships through Concord Dollars for Scholars.

Orders must be submitted by September 18.

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[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

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.

[Kirk Coburn @kirkcoburn]

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?”

[TheSociety @SocietyGolfHist]

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

[John-Daniel Trask @traskjd]

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.

[Matthew Jerlecki @JerleckiTechLab]

Those that know already did 😂😂😂 @SocietyGolfHist

[TheSociety @SocietyGolfHist]

Me looking for some pity followers.
Will share golf history for free!!!

[Matthew Jerlecki @JerleckiTechLab]

Yet again it’s “technologies” fault that 44% - yes that’s right - almost half of all NYC students are BELOW ELA proficiency by grade level [k-8th grade]
And of course Educators can use AI just not the students.
#horrible
https://t.co/ep8mc5ew0W

[Matthew Jerlecki @JerleckiTechLab]

Ok @LouStagner please do your best to tell us all that there is nothing to see here:

[Society of Golf Historians @SHistorians]

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

[USGA @USGA]

Ever wonder why some penalty areas have red 🔴 stakes and others have yellow 🟡 stakes?

Here's the logic.

[Brendan Porath @BrendanPorath]

"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.

[Brendan Porath @BrendanPorath]

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.”