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World Woods

Back to the Future

World Woods was once one of golf's most promising resorts. That dream died, but with a new owner and a remarkable caretaker, the facility is…

Walter Hagen give that man a trophy

Get the Man a Trophy

Toasting Walter Hagen, the most underrated 11-time major champion in golf history

The Inexhaustible Variety of Life

A walk among the massive boats, fast cars, pitched fairways, facts and fictions of White Bear Yacht Club, potential birthplace of the great American novel

a cold fact

A Cold Fact

Golf needs more match play and the Ryder Cup's wildest shot proves it

Women of a Certain Era

The best way to get closer to the  legend behind Pasatiempo, Cypress and Pebble is to play from her tees

27’s 27

William Howard Taft remains the only man to be both chief justice and president of the United States, but at Kebo Valley, he is better…

The Hard Truth About Lido

A walk with the ghosts of America’s greatest lost course, and its rusted remains

The Archivist: Minor Majors

Minor Majors

Golf’s biggest stages weren’t always so

Home Is the Sailor

Home is the Sailor

Look hard enough and one of America’s greatest lost links can still be found at Gibson Island, where nine holes and a grand idea remain

How to Rescue Your Garden

How to Rescue Your Garden

In the case of Hogan and Nelson’s boyhood course, all it took was a couple million bottles of whiskey

Teachable Moments

Teachable Moments

Phil Rodgers had to learn the game's harshest lessons before he could impart his wisdom to students from Jack Nicklaus to an especially curious amateur

St. Andrews ladies' putting club

The Grandes Dames of the Himalayas

Age be damned: The St. Andrews Ladies’ Putting Club is still thriving

A statue of Black golf-course architect Joseph Bartholomew looks over the New Orleans design bearing his name.

An Imperfect Step Forward

The search for Joseph Bartholomew’s lost course turns into a lesson on the beauty of silver linings

Rifle Shots

From finding the right wave to an evening’s meal, the Hunter legacy was always about more than golf

Herbert Warren Wind

Forever in Tweed, Amen

Amen Corner, a pioneering TV show and the best-selling instruction book of all time are merely the beginning of Herbert Warren Wind’s contributions to the…

John Musters of Colwick Hall: artist unknown; ca. 1800

Every Gentleman’s Duty

An unexpected purchase leads to an unbuckled trip down the rabbit hole of golf’s fashion history

Any Means Necessary

Golf's reinvention of the wheel

Photo By: Tristan Spinksi

Proof in the Spirits

A toast to the thirsty souls who brought golf to the U.S.-Canada border in the face of Prohibition

My God, What a Show

The four shots that immortalized Seve Ballesteros

Hubberman

The Last Time Golf Stopped

Tom Coyne serves as commanding general on this docu-pod exploration of golf through the 1940s—the last time golf was forced to mark and step away

The One Less Travelled

The One Less Traveled

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

Turf patch

Dry Run

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

Landfall

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

Papwa

Papwa

How a poor Indian caddie from a South African shantytown took on Gary Player during the apartheid era and turned into an unlikely civil-rights hero