5 Golf Bucket List Items From Adam Schupak
I’ve played rounds with countless major champions, attended all four majors, interviewed just about every prominent figure in the game, played Royal Melbourne’s composite course the day after the 2011 Presidents Cup and many of my dream 18. So what’s left on my “Bucket List” of golf experiences? Here’s my five (leave your five in […]
George Peper: 750 Courses and Counting
About a month ago, I played for the first time a fine links course on England’s Somerset Coast called Burnham & Berrow. Now, normally this would be an occasion of no particular significance—certainly not worth trumpeting in the first line of a LINKS column—but in this instance it meant something. You see, B&B happened to […]
Tommy Aaron: I Was There—The Collapse at The 1968 Masters
The true story—and an incredible, never-before-told admission—of golf’s most famous mistake It’s been half a century since the strangest day of my playing career—the final round of the 1968 Masters—but even in my 80s I can remember every detail as if it were yesterday. What a battle. Sixteen players were within four strokes of Gary […]
“My Daddy Beat Seve” – A Story From The 1993 Ryder Cup
As I got off the Concorde in England with the rest of the 1993 Ryder Cup team, our captain, Tom Watson, looked at each one of us and said, “They may have invented the game on this side of the pond, but we have perfected it.” I thought to myself, “Game on, boys.” Earlier that […]
Maybe it is the Arrow: The Progression of Golf Equipment
Horace Hutchinson long ago bemoaned golf as “a game of putting little balls into little holes with instruments singularly ill-adapted for the purpose.” Poor Hutchinson. The two-time British Amateur champion (1896–97) missed out on over-sized titanium drivers, cavity-back game-improvement irons, perimeter-weighted putters, and solid-core, multilayer golf balls that hardly curve. Today’s equipment is designed by […]
State of the Game: What Does the Data Say About Golf Right Now?
Did you know one in every nine people plays golf? That’s more than participate in basketball, baseball, tennis, or skiing, making golf one of the nation’s largest participation sports. There’s no doubt you’ve heard a wide range of opinion about the state and health of the game, so let’s take a closer look at the […]
What Can the PGA Tour Learn from the European Tour?
Since taking over the European Tour in August 2015, Keith Pelley has proved to be an agent of change. Under his watch the European Tour has tackled such topics as golf’s glacial pace-of-play problem with a 40-second shot clock at one tournament to breaking from the monotony of 72-hole stroke-play competition with such events as […]
100 Years of Pebble Beach: Concours d’Elegance
By James A. Frank In 2019, Pebble Beach Golf Links will celebrate its 100th birthday and host its sixth U.S. Open. To commemorate these milestones, each issue of LINKS Magazine and LINKSdigital between now and then will tell the unique story that is Pebble Beach. Those articles will also be shared here on our website. Pebble […]
How Does GolfNow Work for Operators and Golfers? (And Does it Save You Money?)
For several years now, White Oaks Country Club in Southern New Jersey has leaned on tee-time seller GolfNow not just for its tee sheet capabilities, but to help the independently-owned public course with a website, e-mail marketing, a call center, and 24-hour customer support. “It provides every service you can think of,” says White Oaks […]
Clubs Without Courses: How Some Golf Clubs Thrive Without a Home Track
When Sean Ogle abandoned the life of a financial analyst and began writing the blog “Breaking 80,” he never imagined how many fellow golfers would reach out and invite him to play golf at their home courses. Realizing he had formed an impressive network of “golf geeks,” Ogle decided there must be a better way […]