Golfers and friends of former Bear Ridge owner Tommy Tompkins recently gathered to toast his legacy and friendship. Tompkins died Feb. 12 at age 78.

Toftrees Resort in State College, Pennsylvania, has hired architect Jim Nagle to renovate its golf course, which opened in 1969 with a design by Ed Ault. The course renovation is part of a larger ...

The participants later discovered they would have to face the perilous Bear Pit, filled with wild animals, booby traps and, of course, Bear himself. However, before we could find out who was going ...