Meet Golf Artist Olivera Cejovic
In the foreword to Olivera Cejovic’s 146-page compendium of artwork, Greatest Golf Legends and the Open Championship Winners, former R&A CEO Peter Dawson writes: “It is an absolute pleasure for me to introduce Olivera’s GolfArt. The quality of her drawings is of the highest order, and golfers the world over will instantly recognize her subjects.” […]
Highlights of Arnold Palmer’s Course Design Career
Arnold Palmer’s involvement in golf design was a lifelong pursuit. He was the son of a greenkeeper, after all, and was involved in hands-on course work during his youth at Latrobe Country Club in western Pennsylvania, at Wake Forest University, and even during his stint in the Coast Guard. Palmer’s legacy as an architect is […]
Alister MacKenzie’s Finest Works
Alister MacKenzie receives a fair amount of attention every year around April thanks to his central role in the creation of Augusta National. However, the home of the Masters represents only one thread in a design career—arguably the greatest of all-time—that spanned the globe. MacKenzie was born in 1870 to Scottish parents living in the […]
Where Were These Famous Golf Movies Filmed?
Let’s face it: There has never been a great golf movie. Sure, Caddyshack is a laugh riot, but it’s hardly what you’d call the pinnacle of cinematic art. The numerous golf dramas and biopics have been generally mediocre either through lack of golf authenticity (actors who can’t swing) or other inherent weakness (golfers who can’t […]
A Front Row Seat at the 1987 Masters
This is how Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman, and I lost the 1987 Masters. About the only good thing that came out of it was that I did manage to overhear what is, to my way of thinking, the best one-liner ever uttered during the course of tournament play at Augusta National. That’s if you discount […]
Hickory Golf with Peter Georgiady
Devotees of the hickory-shafted game are a small but dedicated group—probably fewer than 20,000 enthusiasts globally—and no one might love it more than Peter Georgiady. He played with antique clubs for the first time in 1980, at a gathering of The Golf Collectors’ Society, and was hooked. “That was my first hickory golf, and I […]
Money Has Changed Golf – and Golfers
Golfers of a certain age love to wax lyrical about honor boxes—those rusty coffee cans nailed to the wall next to the pro-shop door where you’d drop five bucks on your way to the first tee. Golf, they’ll tell you, was not only simpler back in the day but cheaper, too. And they’re right. In […]
Peter Alliss Remembers the 1967 Ryder Cup
I well remember the 1967 Ryder Cup matches at the Champions Golf Club in Houston for several reasons, a couple of them having nothing to do with golf! I’d had a very successful series of matches in the 1965 Ryder Cup played at Royal Birkdale, so I was looking forward to another encounter, particularly as it […]
Eddie Hackett: Ireland’s Most Famous Course Architect
Given the timeless quality of the country’s links, it’s surprising that golf arrived in Ireland at roughly the same time as it did in the U.S., in the late 19th century. The Emerald Isle’s most famous architect was a “Johnny Appleseed” type who by sheer prolific force helped the game reach new levels of popularity: […]
Golf Course Architects Discuss Firestone CC South
By Tony Dear The South Course at Firestone CC in Akron, Ohio, has hosted big-time golf since the mid-1950s. First came the Rubber City Open whose winners included Tommy Bolt, Ed Furgol, and Arnold Palmer. It staged three PGA Championships—1960, ’66, and ’75. From 1962 to ’98, it was the venue for the World […]
