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Life in the Front Row

The shock wasn’t in solving this Masters mystery; it was in discovering the remarkable golf life it unearthed.

Payne Stewart

Before the Flight

Traveling with Payne Stewart in his contented, but still contentious, final days

Photo by: Stephen Denton

The Program

Riding with the Cowboys, college golf’s most unlikely dynasty

My God, What a Show

The four shots that immortalized Seve Ballesteros

Photo by: Underwood Archives/ Getty

Chasing Jenny

How an Open run for the ages forever changed its protagonist and one impressionable fan

Photo by Taku Miyamoto

A Felicitous Farewell

After four U.S. Opens, at least three miracles and a notebook full of memories, a scribe bids Pebble Beach goodbye

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

Paul Boehme's Equipment Trailer. Photo by Kohjiro Kinno

More Than Clubs

Paul Boehmer’s equipment trailer is an LPGA institution

MSOF Arena

Present at the Creation

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

Alexa Pano

They Grow Up So Fast

Practice rounds and life lessons at the Sally

Arnie’s Iron Man

A final farewell for Palmer’s legendary Masters caddie

The years of indignities that Charlie Sifford suffered on and off the course forced him to develop thick skin and an instinct to fight for what he thought was his. “The things he went through did not go down well with him,” Sifford’s friend and fellow pro Larry Mowry told Golf Digest. “Let’s be honest: Charlie could be difficult.” So when he did smile, as in this photo the week after his first PGA Tour victory at the Greater Hartford Open, it was a genuine event. Photo: Old Golf Images/SBM

A Rare Smile

In 1967, after years of racist abuse, Charlie Sifford broke through for a victory. Twice

The President’s Putter

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

Kay Byrne LPGA

Route 13

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

Tournament Golf

Faxon

Just Send It Sniffing

Faxon and Bacon endeavor to make sense of the lip out