Articles by Shane Ryan

We just solved one of golf’s major championship mysteries

At the risk of sounding self-important, we should lead with the truth of the matter: This mystery could have been solved by anyone who took a few hours to track down results with a newspapers.com account. However, nobody seems to have done so before us, and we now have an answer to the following question: Read more…

Rory McIlroy’s complicated relationship with Northern Ireland

The history of Northern Ireland’s troubles goes back basically as far as you want it to, but its origins hundreds of years ago shouldn’t overshadow the fact that it’s an intensely modern conflict that still rages even 27 years after the signing of the Good Friday peace accords in 1998. Anyone who’s visited Belfast, for Read more…

We just watched the last great golf story

“May you get what you wish for.”—The third Chinese curse When Rory settled down in front of the media in the aftermath of his great, chaotic, cathartic victory at the Masters, he began his opening statement with a joke: “What are we all going to talk about next year?” It landed. Everyone laughed, and he Read more…

The Masters and … vasectomies (?!?): An incision unlike any other

When my editors had the idea of writing about the trend of men getting vasectomies around the Masters, there was an initial suggestion—I’m almost positive it was a joke—that it should be a first-person immersive piece. As in, “Hey Shane, go get a vasectomy for the story.” “Ha, ha!” I replied. “What if, instead, I Read more…