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Tiger Woods Lipping Out No. 25

The Tiger Slam

Author Kevin Cook unpacks his new book covering “the greatest golf ever played”

Oscar Bunn The Flyer

The Flyer

Harry Vardon, the world’s best player, never thought he would meet his match in little-known Native American Oscar Bunn.

Walter Iooss Where Legends Still Play

Where Legends Still Play

In a rare tour through his personal studio, Walter Iooss Jr. shares the stories behind his iconic images

Ep.4

The Making of the Masters

Turn the Cameras on Masters broadcast

Turn the Cameras On

The evolution of the Masters broadcast

The Man Out Front Tom Doak High Pointe

The Man Out Front

Tom Doak examines his life in the game from the course where it all started

Leonard Kamsler Masters Cadillac Days Gene Sarazen 1969

Cadillac Days

Over 40 Masters, the legend of the man himself rivaled that of his photography

This is Their Time Alexa Stirling

This is Their Time

Alexa Stirling’s 1950 meeting with Bobby Jones reunited two childhood friends and reintroduced the golf world to one of its greatest players

Lipping Out 27 Paul Eales

Lipping Out: No. 27

Enclosed within: scenes from Mike Strantz's sketchpad, a BTS member's golf-adjacent infant sleep strategy, that workout shoot with Tom Kite and more.

Creek Club

Rediscovering Raynor

Michael Wolf traces how a civil engineer from Long Island became one of American golf’s patron saints

Tournament Golf

Between Purgatory and the Lion's Den 24

From Zero to Zeros

A brief look at the total Open Championship purses from 1860 to 2023

LACC

LACC for Normal People

Geoff Shackelford previews 2023’s U.S. Open venue and explains why you can enjoy golf course architecture without being a snob

23 A Possibly Mis-Spent Life Bernard Darwin

The Philosopher and the GOAT

TGJ's resident thinker Matt Chominski goes deep on Bernard Darwin's singular life in golf