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There’s a Swing in Everybody
My Terribly Generous Friend
Dry Run
How the world’s first completely artificial turf course never got built
Tip of the Cap
Golf had an unmistakable effect on famed photographer Rodney Smith
A Kite in a Hurricane
The Bard’s Butter Cut
Chapter and verse on a writer playing with one of his literary heroes
Blade Runners
Digging into the nomadic existence of the shapers behind golf-course architecture’s biggest names
A Caddie’s Son
The search for a lost father begins and ends with a walk up the fairway
Shaping Immortality
Papwa
Student of the Game
Leonard Kamsler’s dedication to his craft has taken him from Marilyn Monroe to the Masters
Peter Thomson 1929–2018
Celebrating the wonderful golf life of Australia’s greatest player
The Tao of Garth
Learning some of golf’s greatest lessons from one of its worst players
Life on the Trail
Gil Hanse keeps on truckin’ from the boardroom to the bulldozer
If You Want Something Done Right
Barry Grimes taught himself to be one of golf’s distinctive lensmen
Heavy Baggage
Charles McGill never feared unpacking golf’s difficult relationship with race
Arnie’s Iron Man
The Hawk’s Hands
Sketching a portrait of Anthony Ravielli, the man who drew Ben Hogan
A Club With Broad Shoulders
Homage to the Hustle
A tip of the fedora to a time, and golf profession, long past
At Home With: Gary Player
Whistling Past the Graveyard
Against the odds, Louisville Golf continues happily building hickories
Upward Perspective
Jimmy Walker’s astrophotography blurs the line between science and art
