How Has the Golf Instruction Landscape Changed in the Digital Revolution?
Michael Breed is only half-joking when he says he can’t even count the number of people he’s helped improve their golf swing in an elevator or with a spatula in the kitchen. His untold number has exploded again over the past decade, especially because golf instruction doesn’t always involve hitting a golf ball in today’s […]
Loopers: The Caddie Movie
The documentary Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk took almost three years to make, an 80-minute project driven by interviews with several of golf’s biggest names and visually-gripping visits to some of its grandest sites —Augusta National, Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, St. Andrews, Carnoustie, and Ballybunion among them. But landing Bill Murray’s involvement as the narrator […]
A Mike Strantz Journey
A four-minute YouTube video tells you pretty much everything you need to know about Mike Strantz and his approach to building golf courses. He appears with design partner, and former PGA Tour player, Forrest Fezler during their 2002 renovation of Silver Creek Valley Country Club in San Jose, Calif. Over images of how he took […]
What to do with the Golf Hall of Fame
Before one starts an article about the status of the World Golf Hall of Fame, how it’s perceived inside and outside the game, the merits or defects of its inclusion criteria, and the worthiness of its inductees, it’s important to recognize the contribution to the game every one of its members has made. From leading […]
Top 10 Most Scenic Golf Courses
In a world rich with stunning golf courses, some layouts simply stand above the rest. Sure, there is a seemingly endless amount of courses that occupy seaside linksland or are blessed with a mountain backdrop, and while they’re definitely scenic, not all of them can make the cut for this list. The 10 courses I […]
George Peper: Let’s Get Personal
By George Peper It’s time for the USGA and R&A to take a cue from Netflix and Amazon and make our handicaps adjust instantly to different types of courses So the USGA and R&A have spent a great deal of time, effort, and money recently on the development of what they’re calling the WHS—World Handicap […]
Wilma Erskine: The Woman that Brought the Open Back to Portrush
Wilma Erskine, Secretary at Royal Portrush for the past 35 years, helped the club go from run-down to Open Championship ready At the PGA Merchandise Show in January, Sam Baker smiled from his booth as Wilma Erskine posed for photos nearby with a replica of the Claret Jug. Baker, who founded Haversham & Baker Golfing […]
Nine Questions with Annika Sorenstam
The 10-time major champion on why parenting is good for golf (and vice versa), what she learned from designing courses with Jack and Arnie, and what she’d cook for your dinner party If you had the time to prepare fully and make a return to the LPGA Tour, how do you think you’d do? I […]
Q&A with Sweetens Cove Architect Rob Collins
By Tony Dear Over the last couple of years, Rob Collins has become one of the best-known golf course architects in the country basically on the strength of nine holes. Those holes at Sweetens Cove Golf Club in South Pittsburg, Tenn. opened in late 2014, and since then they’ve attracted a huge following of golfers […]
When I Almost Caused Tiger’s U.S. Open to Come Crashing Down
It still blows my mind that had Tiger Woods not made a triple bogey on the 3rd hole of the third round, he would have won the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by 18 strokes. It just doesn’t seem possible. Instead, we settled for 15! Both Butch Harmon and I could tell Tiger was […]