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No. 10
Architecture
Brough Creek National, Mark Robinson

Trial by Fire

Brough Creek National isn’t some handmade one-off. It’s Ben Hotaling’s model for the future

No. 10
Adventures
Ohoopee Sunrise

The Match Club

Peeling back the layers of Ohoopee, the revolutionary course where no one gives a damn what you shot

No. 10
Architecture
VinnyLinks, First Tee of Nashville

The Playground Drawings

A chance discovery was just one of the events that led to a Donald Ross gem at the Nashville First Tee

No. 10
Art & Culture
turbogolf

High on the Crime

No boundaries, no fear, no shirts: Welcome to turbogolf

No. 10
Feature
The One Less Travelled

The One Less Traveled

Reckless abandon, long odds and Mike Strantz: An oral history of Tobacco Road Golf Club

No. 10
Characters
Turf patch

Dry Run

How the world’s first completely artificial turf course never got built

No. 10
Adventures
The Bad Little 9 at Scottsdale National Country Club

Challenge Day

Redefining golf masochism through nine sadistic little holes

No. 10
Adventures
Long Island, Peconic Bay, National

10 Hours in Heaven

A life-altering journey to the National

No. 9
Art & Culture
Don with golf club in ocean, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997

Tip of the Cap

Golf had an unmistakable effect on famed photographer Rodney Smith

No. 9
Characters
Country Club of Petersburg, bunker

A Kite in a Hurricane

The golfing life of Griffin Clark, a Lion gone too soon

No. 9
Characters

The Bard’s Butter Cut

Chapter and verse on a writer playing with one of his literary heroes

No. 9
Architecture
Guiding flags in dirt. Photo: Lexey Swall

Blade Runners

Digging into the nomadic existence of the shapers behind golf-course architecture’s biggest names

No. 9
Art & Culture
Jordan Spieth, 2015 PGA Championship, Whistling Straights

Group Show

A collection of images from our best shooters

No. 9
Architecture

Landfall

Welcome to Montrose Golf Links, the front line in the battle against the game's most frightening enemy: climate change

No. 9
Art & Culture
Open book

Peculiar Bliss

Finally, a literary guide to navigating the eternal struggle of balancing golf and real life

No. 8
Adventures
The Outpost Club at Yale Golf Course

The Tee That Binds

The Outpost Club toasts its obsessive family of members at the Punchbowl

No. 8
Characters
Caddie at Clovernook Country Club

A Caddie’s Son

The search for a lost father begins and ends with a walk up the fairway

No. 8
Art & Culture
18 Songs About Golf by Gus Van Sant

You’re So Big and Free

From Good Will Hunting to William Burroughs to the greatest golf album you’ve never heard

No. 8
Adventures
Chasing ben

Chasing Ben

Love, loss and fatbacks on a California road trip like no other

No. 8
Characters
Zenos Frudakis

Shaping Immortality

Zenos Frudakis has become golf’s unlikely go-to sculptor

No. 8
Art & Culture
Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point

Deceptively Simple

In the days before digital and drones, photographer Stephen Szurlej made it look easy

No. 8
Adventures
Cabot Links

Sand, Water & Time

Working with the purest ingredients was difficult but worth the effort at Cabot

No. 7
Art & Culture
Cape Kidnappers Golf Course, No. 15

Such Great Heights

The soaring drone photography of Jacob Sjöman

No. 7
Adventures
Carne Golf Course

An Unlikely Place

The final answer to a seasoned traveler’s always question

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