This article appeared in the 2013 Winter issue of LINKS.

JERRY WEST comes from the West Coast in Los Angeles, Roy Williams from just an hour up the road in Chapel Hill. In any given year, those two—along with Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Larry Brown, John Calipari, Chuck Daly, Doc Rivers, and other avid golfers from the world of basketball—descend on the

Village of Pinehurst for the annual “Moesmith Tournament,” named in honor of founders Doug Moe and Dean Smith.

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Appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of LINKS.

IT MIGHT SEEM STRANGE to those returning from one of the great courses of the world to be greeted first with the question, “How was the lunch?” But when it comes to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, such an inquiry is not all that uncommon.

Opinions may differ on the merits of Muirfield’s legendary links (see “The Polarizers,” page 42), but few who have been fortunate enough to take a place at the club’s long refectory tables are likely to speak against the quality of its repast.

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Appeared in the Summer 2012 LINKS.

FOR MOST of its 60-plus miles from the Bourne Bridge to Provincetown, Route 6, the road that traverses Cape Cod, can’t be called one of America’s great drives—it’s a traffic-clogged two-laner framed by monotonous pitch pines. But north of Orleans it turns into something special.

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