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Features

No. 14
Essay
14- Bribery, Lies

Bribery, Lies and Other Recommended Parenting Strategies

On doing whatever it takes to pass along the love of the game

No. 14
Feature
The Beastie Boys Are Not Golfers Photo by Jake Chessum

Body Movin’

The Beastie Boys Are Not Golfers

No. 14
Feature
Golf, sober league

The Lucky Ones

Their battle with the hell of addiction began alone, but for members of The League, it continues together on the course

No. 14
Feature

One Trip to Rule Them All

For a weary world traveler, an unexpected adventure on King Island was a life-altering revelation

No. 14
Feature

Life in the Front Row

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

No. 14
Feature
St. Andrews ladies' putting club

The Grandes Dames of the Himalayas

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

No. 14
Yardage Book
TGJ 14 Yardage Book

New Beast

The 7th at Southern Hills Country Club. Par 4 - 443

No. 14
Feature
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

No. 14
Feature
Payne Stewart, Open Championship, Bunker shot

Before the Flight

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

No. 14
Feature
The Ballad of Ray Ray Whitley

The Ballad of Ray Ray Whitley

Lessons in survival, putting and hope, delivered by a video-game golfer in basketball shorts

No. 14
Lipping Out

No. 14: Lipping Out

"I lipped the cup and I was madder than hell." — Ben Hogan

No. 14
Coming in Hot
1950s CLOSE-UP OF GOLF BALL ON GREEN ON VERY EDGE OF CUP (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

Congratulations, You Lipped Out

You now have the best excuse in the game

No. 14
Driver Off Deck
Ed Snead, lip out, Masters

The Lip Out That Did Me In

The scars from this one are still fresh

No. 14
Exchanges
Faxon

Just Send It Sniffing

Faxon and Bacon endeavor to make sense of the lip out

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Feature
hogan

The Hawk’s Hands

Sketching a portrait of Anthony Ravielli, the man who drew Ben Hogan

 
Course Tour

A Walking Tour of The Sheep Ranch

Bill Coore gives us a hole-by-hole blueprint to the Sheep Ranch, Coore & Crenshaw's newest Bandon offering

No. 1
Feature
Hunter Thompson

That Evening in Aspen

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

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