Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Nobody likes listening to a golfer go through his or her entire round shot by shot, but allow us some indulgence as we near the end of our 75th anniversary year. We were very selective. To choose the 75 moments that tell our story—from a naval officer named Bill Davis getting a taste for magazine publishing after writing an account of a kamikaze attack, to Read more…
Five Japanese golfers have won on the LPGA Tour this season, a contingent of immensely talented young players who entered the tour with a big splash this season.
More than halfway through the second round of last month’s Sahalee Players Championship, Chris Zambri allowed a tantalizing thought to race through his mind. The head coach of the U.S. National Development Program had tried to minimize expectations as five members of the U.S. National Junior team were making history by playing for the first Read more…
Golf wasn’t supposed to be for me. Let’s be honest about that. Golf was supposed to be for men in khakis who went to prep schools and belonged to country clubs their grandfathers helped found. Golf was supposed to be for people who looked nothing like me, who came from nothing like my background, who Read more…
The official evacuation alert was issued from Parks Canada at 8 p.m. on July 22, 2024. By that time, Tahlon Sweenie, the Director of Golf at the revered Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in the western Canadian Rockies, was already working with the resort’s management team to move 1,200 guests and staff off the course, Read more…
When she tees off today in the opening round of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, Stephanie Kono will be playing in her 23rd USGA championship. It’s an impressive total made even more notable given her last USGA start came more than 14 years ago at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur. How long ago was that? Consider Read more…
“In team play, golfers call this ‘ham and egging it.’ Translated, it means when one player is in trouble, the other is saving the day.”—Charles Clines, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1986 I heard the story secondhand two weeks ago at our annual friends Ryder Cup event, and it made me mad. Two of my friends, Aaron Read more…
The Ryder Cup exhibition is a celebration of the sport of golf, a shining example of team camaraderie in an individual game, and a testament to the integrity and honor of this most rarefied and elevated … Oh, who am I kidding? The Ryder Cup is a lowdown, bare-knuckle fight, and like any good fight, Read more…
At the LPGA Tour’s stop last year in Thailand, Maja Stark asked Lauren Coughlin if she wanted to play a practice round together. Coughlin agreed. Stark then told her she’d see her in 10 minutes, and Coughlin had to laugh. That wasn’t going to work. It was a perfect example of one of the differences Read more…
Chances are Samuel Ryder, the man who helped inspire the competition that bears his name, would struggle to recognize the modern match played between the United States and Europe. Even if you accept the premise that the English seed merchant was a man of vision, to think that he knew one day this test between Read more…
In the spring of 2024, Andrew Rodriguez was a talented teen golfer hoping he had caught a break. A high school sophomore in Whittier, Calif., Rodriguez had honed a reliable swing with a local instructor and begun to excel on various Southern California junior tours. But to achieve his ultimate goal of playing Division I Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
