No.6 Contents - The Golfers Journal

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Colf Lessons

Colf Lessons

The facts of our game’s history are clear—as a Scottish fog

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Pasadena public course golfers beware: Your morning playing partner might just be trying material out for his latest show. Photos by Gabriel Nivera

Larry Wilmore

From dawn patrol at the muni to playing with Will Smith and Matt Damon, the prolific comedian is utterly hooked

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Two Tall Tales. Photo by Kohjiro Kinno

Two Tall Tales

One of the world’s most powerful clubs. One of MacKenzie’s gems. Where fact ends and myth begins in the redwood forest

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Victoria Golf Club- Image by Ed Sloane

Perfect Problem

The 15th at Victoria Golf Club. Par 4 - 316, 296

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New Orleans. Photo by Ryan Young

Torn on the Bayou

Golf in New Orleans is hot, sprawling and thick with controversy

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Paul Boehme's Equipment Trailer. Photo by Kohjiro Kinno

More Than Clubs

Paul Boehmer’s equipment trailer is an LPGA institution

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7, Red. The pine near the green serving No. 7 Red and No. 11 Black is a quirk Doak loves, while Duchess, the dog of Trinity Forest superintendent Rob Falconer, enjoys keeping watch over the course no matter which way it plays. Photo by Brian Oar

Crossing The Divide

Inside the creation and challenges of building The Loop

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Shingo Katayama hits out of the water on the 18th hole at Taiheiyo Club in the 2016 Taiheiyo Masters. He’s floating in the light as the sun sets. Photo by Taku Miyamoto

A Curious Light

Still a mystery stateside, Taku Miyamoto is one of the world’s best golf photographers

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Looking up at hanging moss hanging from a live oak tree, St. Augustine, Florida.

The Hurricane Tree

Life, death and legacy among the live oaks of Kiawah’s Ocean Course

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Arnold Palmer upset on green after missing birdie. Photo by Marvin E. Newman/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

The Year Is: 1967

Stunning turns. Establishment attacks. Tumult and progress. In 1967, golf mirrored the changing world around it

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Franklin Park Golf, Photo by John Huet

A Boston Garden

By embracing its complicated racial and political history, Franklin Park remains an oasis

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No. 10 at Inverness Golf Club, photo by Andy Johnson

Classic Comeback

Green-side hummocks are back in style

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An Appreciation

Golf, British Open Golf Championships, July 1958, Royal Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, Australia+s Peter Thomson hits a drive with a wood during practise, Thomson won the Championship after a 32-hole play-off with Britain+s Dave Thomas by four shots. Photo by Bob Thomas/Getty Images

Peter Thomson 1929–2018

Celebrating the wonderful golf life of Australia’s greatest player

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Although passed by technology, niblick remains relevant as a term and in the bags of golf traditionalists. Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Shots Fired

The niblick’s legacy on the course and in the trenches

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Driver Off Deck

It’s time for gallery members to shout something mem-orable, not “Baba Booey” or “Get in the hole.” Image by Stephen Denton

Big Gravy!

A call for more creativity from the gallery