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Feature

Four-Letter Word

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

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Essay

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,…

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Interview

Erik Anders Lang

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

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Feature

Upward Perspective

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

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Yardage Book

Chasing Perfection

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

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Feature

The Book Of Mulligan

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

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Feature

Outsider Inside the Ropes

Photographer Kohjiro Kinno captures the game from a different perspective

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Feature

The Lungs of Tijuana

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

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Feature

Route 13

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

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Feature

Public Defenders

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

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Feature

That Evening in Aspen

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

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Feature

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

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The Parlance

Fore!

A crystal-clear word with a murky origin

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Lipping Out

Saddle Up

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

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Driver Off Deck

The Aristocrat!

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

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Design Desk

Buckets and Mops

Ruminations and revelations on the grand old double plateau