LPGA’s Lucy Li makes hole-in-one to win new car

As if making a hole-in-one wasn’t enough of a prize in itself, one LPGA player earned an actual prize for one on Thursday. And a particularly nice one at that. Lucy Li aced the par-3 13th hole at Pine Beach Golf Links during the first round of the BMW Ladies Championship, holing a 7-iron from Read more…

The Timeless 21: The courses that have been ranked on every list of America’s 100 Greatest Courses

Back in 1855, the Bordeaux wine region of France created a ranking system of its chateaus. Regional merchants and wine cognoscenti developed a novel classification of 58 chateaus based primarily on reputation and trading prices. The estates were separated into five tiers, or “growths,” with four wines—Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Read more…

How golf in Cambodia gives a taste of Khmer culture

By 11 o’clock in the morning, when the shuttle driver dropped me off after a 10-minute trip from Siem Reap center in northwest Cambodia, it was already sweltering hot. The air was so weighed by humidity that I felt I was swimming, rather than walking, past manicured garden boxes and restrained swaths of jungle to Read more…

It’s time to give American players a break about their Ryder Cup fans

On Wednesday of Ryder Cup week, Collin Morikawa noticed that the crowds at Bethpage Black felt pretty tame—a lot of us noticed it, actually—and he hoped to find a more intense atmosphere two days later when the match officially began. “I hope Friday is just absolute chaos,” Morikawa said. “I’m all for it. I think Read more…