When Taking A Golf Cart, Do You Prefer To Be The Driver Or Passenger?
George Peper: Let’s Put the Pros on the Clock
It’s time for the PGA Tour to identify, embarrass, and punish its worst offenders If you’re a major league baseball fan, you’re likely loving the game more than ever this year thanks to a number of innovations, most notably a pitch clock that forces pitchers to deliver their fastballs faster. The result has been a […]
Book Review: “Golf Architecture for Normal People” by Geoff Shackelford
Geoff Shackelford’s 10th golf book (he also wrote a tribute to champion racehorse Zenyatta in 2011) probably won’t sell enough copies. That’s not to say it won’t sell plenty; it will—the author’s words are indisputably authoritative and invariably entertaining. It just won’t sell enough. Not all 70 million golfers worldwide will buy a copy, though […]
What is Your Reaction to the Merger Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf?
Have You Ever Broken a Golf Club?
Top Push Carts in 2023
Walking has been central to the game of golf from its beginning, when distinguished gents sporting jackets and ties were accompanied on their rounds by eager young caddies clutching armsful of hickories. Many players today still prefer walking—and why not? It’s good exercise, and a lot more social than bombing around in a motorized buggy. […]
Have You Attended A U.S. Open?
Will You Play Golf If It’s Raining?
Words of Wisdom: Legendary Irish Course Architect Pat Ruddy
Born in 1945, Ireland’s Pat Ruddy was bitten by the golf bug at an early age. As a youngster, he’d catch rides on tractors to play at a little 9-hole course in South Sligo that rented its land from a local farmer. Later, he graduated to playing County Sligo Golf Club (aka Rosses Point), and to […]
George Peper: The Ultimate Driving Machine
The walk-on player filling out your foursome may soon be a robot Roughly 30 years ago, I had a nutty idea. Actually, I had a bunch of nutty ideas back then, but this was one of the more colossally nutty ones. As editor of GOLF Magazine, one of my duties was to act as sort […]