Editorial – The Golfer’s Journal

Four-Letter Word

A declaration of intent from the first issue of The Golfer's Journal

The Push and The Pull

The pull cart is still derided by four-wheeling cowboys and even bag-laden purists. But as one doubter discovered while on a golf tour of Ireland,…

Erik Lang Portrait

Erik Anders Lang

Proof that golf lifers can start at any age and come from anywhere

Jimmy Walker eyes a put

Upward Perspective

Jimmy Walker’s astrophotography blurs the line between science and art

Chasing Perfection

The 14th at North Berwick Golf Club (West Links). Par 4 - 374, 358, 342

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

Outsider Inside the Ropes

Photographer Kohjiro Kinno captures the game from a different perspective

Golfers cross the U.S.-Mexico border into Tijuana

The Lungs of Tijuana

Truth and golf can be tough to find in the chaos of a border city

Route 13

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

cutting greens

Public Defenders

Three courses. Three different fates. As municipal golf courses around the country face the bulldozers, local communities are on the front lines

Hunter Thompson

That Evening in Aspen

Hunter S. Thompson introduced Terry McDonell to golf with LSD, liquor and live rounds.

Askernish. Photo by Jamie Gibson

What Lies Beneath the Machair

A spontaneous pilgrimage to the long-lost course of Askernish—the forgotten Tom Morris design that came back from the dead

Tiger Woods Yelling Fore

Fore!

A crystal-clear word with a murky origin

Saddle Up

Saddle Up

Outlawing Sam Snead’s croquet approach to putting birthed the sidesaddle putter

Driver Off Deck

The Aristocrat!

Awe-inspiring 3-woods. Day-drinking Ohioans. Hall of Fame indignation. Behold the trials and tribulations of Colin Montgomerie

Buckets and Mops

Buckets and Mops

Ruminations and revelations on the grand old double plateau