Editorial – The Golfer’s Journal

Hell or High Grass

Even at a father and son’s worst, the game (and not one, but two ball retrievers) brings out their best

Relationship Advice

Truly committed players already know the secret

We Need to Talk About Your White Belt

The surprising history and broader impact of golf’s most debated fashion choice

Pine Valley

Anthology of Hazards

The 5th at Pine Valley. Par 3 - 238 yards

The Man Riding Clouds

Peter Beames has brushed shoulders with Palmer and Spieth, taught all over the world, dealt with poverty and homelessness and somehow keeps happily floating along.

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American Safari

The Sand Hills became a second golf home after one blind trip turned into years of adventure on the prairie

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Ballyneal

A Colorado cousin to the Sand Hills rota, this Doak masterpiece is every bit its equal

Dismal River Club

Stable ownership, extra amenities and 36 striking holes make this a true happy place

The Prairie Club

The kind of place that has two of golf’s essential elements: beauty and fun

CapRock

CapRock Ranch

Look out below—the canyon-side design is a welcome addition to the Sand Hills family

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Sand Hills Golf Club

Coore & Crenshaw’s groundbreaking course that established a new paradigm for golf architecture

A Bandon Surprise, Just for Ewes

Mike Keiser’s signature resort may never have existed without the pen of prolific children’s book and greeting card author Sandra Boynton

The Inexhaustible Variety of Life

A walk among the massive boats, fast cars, pitched fairways, facts and fictions of White Bear Yacht Club, potential birthplace of the great American novel

The Wake-Up Call

One man’s winding path from white-collar criminal to architect of Aspen Golf Club's bustling junior golf program

Because You Can

As this California mission shows, the best golf adventures often don’t make perfect sense

Lipping Out: No. 18

“Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.” - Martha Beckman

This Ain’t Pebble Beach, Son

Celebrating when muni life finally, briefly, got its Hollywood closeup

When Golf Love Is Lost… and Found

A lifer is forced to reexamine his priorities