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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

Two Tall Tales. Photo by Kohjiro Kinno

Two Tall Tales

One of the world’s most powerful clubs. One of MacKenzie’s gems. Where fact ends and myth begins in the redwood forest

Paul Boehme's Equipment Trailer. Photo by Kohjiro Kinno

More Than Clubs

Paul Boehmer’s equipment trailer is an LPGA institution

Looking up at hanging moss hanging from a live oak tree, St. Augustine, Florida.

The Hurricane Tree

Life, death and legacy among the live oaks of Kiawah’s Ocean Course

Arnold Palmer upset on green after missing birdie. Photo by Marvin E. Newman/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

The Year Is: 1967

Stunning turns. Establishment attacks. Tumult and progress. In 1967, golf mirrored the changing world around it

Laurel Hill Photo by Lexey Swall.

Ground Under Repair

The transformation of Laurel Hill is a walk through American history

MSOF Arena

Present at the Creation

Only in Vegas: An old idea and the possible birth of a new sport

Arnie’s Iron Man

A final farewell for Palmer’s legendary Masters caddie

The President’s Putter

Oxford vs. Cambridge, at a course called Rye. This uniquely British event distills the game into its purest form

AUGUSTA, GA - APRIL 1983: Seve Ballesteros tees off while a gallery watches during the 1983 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club April 11, 1983 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Augusta National/Getty Images)

The Year Is: 1983

Revisiting the characters and events that made for one of golf’s most intriguing years

Hole Number 7 at Ballyneall, CO

The Book Of Mulligan

Ballyneal’s first caddie and club historian was a dedicated looper and one of the game’s true characters

Kay Byrne LPGA

Route 13

How the LPGA founders plotted, hustled and fought to build a tour up from golf’s back roads

St. Andrews and the British Open

“St. Andrews and the British Open”

From a 1984 Open Championship review

Mr. Trevino and Mr. Nicklaus

“Mr. Trevino and Mr. Nicklaus”

From a 1980 profile of Lee Trevino

A Master and The Masters

“A Master and the Masters”

From a 1976 profile of Bernard Darwin

Forever in Tweed, Amen

“The Sporting Scene Mainly Around Jones”

From a 1972 profile of Bobby Jones

More Wind

“An Entirely Different World”

From a 1972 profile of the President’s Putter match between Oxford and Cambridge