Does Your Significant Other Play Golf?
Geoff Shackelford: Why We Don’t Need Professional Golfers
The more pro golfers squabble over obscene amounts of money, the less the public will care. And that’s just fine. The verdict is in. A sport played in some form by 70 or so million around the globe does not hinge on the popularity of the few hundred or so professionals who believe they are […]
The Ace and the Hurricane: Katharine Hepburn’s Whirlwind Day at Fenwick
Katharine Hepburn’s very good, very bad day at Fenwick At the close of the 20th century, the American Film Institute named Katharine Hepburn “the greatest American screen legend” among females. For sheer drama, however, no scene she ever filmed could compare with her real-life role on September 21, 1938. Earlier that year, Hepburn was mired […]
Top New Wedges for 2024
The high-lofted clubs known today as pitching wedges were once called lofters and jiggers—and later 10-irons. Gene Sarazen is credited with having invented the sand wedge in 1932, and it quickly grew in popularity. We have Dave Pelz and PING founder Karsten Solheim to thank for the concept of the even-higher-lofted lob wedge. And with […]
Does a Hole-in-One Count on a Par-3 Course?
Scottie Scheffler: Uncommonly Consistent, Unflappably Good
Before yet another atmospheric river interrupted the proceedings at early February’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am—not rudely, mind you, but devastatingly—there was a crossing of paths with Scott and Diane Scheffler. Having been to Pebble Beach for glorious U.S. Open weather in June 2019, this was their first sojourn to the famed “Crosby Clambake” and they […]
George Peper: The PGA Tour’s Big Bet is No Sure Thing
Gambling on the pros may now be legal, but the biggest bet in golf is on the future of the PGA Tour We recently published a feature article on the explosive growth of gambling on professional golf, a practice that’s now legal in all but about 10 states. The author of the piece is Jason […]
5 Need-to-Know Facts About the Recreational Golf Boom
Professional golf gets plenty of attention—good and bad. And there’s been no lack of the latter in the past year with the contentious relationship between the PGA Tour and LIV, and the now-official rollback of the golf ball that was precipitated by how far the best players in the world are hitting the ball, unlike […]
Do You Always Play With the Same Brand of Golf Ball?
A Beginner’s Guide to Betting on Golf
Now that betting on pro golf is legal, are you going to hit it big or go bust? Golf and gambling have gone hand-in-hand since the game’s inception, the challenge of wielding a club and attempting to hit a little round object into a hole in the ground made more daunting with a few shekels […]
