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Scotland

 
Feature
Tom Shaw portfolio rugby

Portfolio: Tom Shaw

A celebration of the British sporting photographer's finest work from on and off the course

 
Collection
St andrews

Open Secrets

Finding new angles on the Old Course

No. 20
Feature
The Price We Pay

The Price We Pay

Playing through the wreckage of an unimaginable loss in the Scottish backcountry

No. 19
Feature
Royal Dornoch

Hard Forged

Dornoch’s harsh winters and unrelenting gorse shaped one of the world’s great courses and a friendship found only in golf

No. 15
Essay
1954: General view of Dutch Harrison's golf bag along with many other golf bags are shown circa 1954. (Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images

Half Full

Taking some clubs out of the bag might be the answer to your biggest golf questions

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. 12
Feature
Tom Shaw

A Day at the Dunvegan

A snapshot of the random and beautiful collisions that occur at one of the game’s iconic watering holes

No. 9
Feature

Landfall

Welcome to Montrose Golf Links, the front line in the battle against the game's most frightening enemy: climate change

No. 7
The Parlance
Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros on the 17th green during a Ryder Cup match at The Belfry, Warwickshire, 15th September 1985.

Dormie?

Theories abound on the term’s origin, including one from Scotland’s most famous queen

No. 6
Essay
Colf Lessons

Colf Lessons

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

No. 5
Feature
Landscape shot. Photo by Kevin Markham.

The Tao of Garth

Learning some of golf’s greatest lessons from one of its worst players

No. 2
Interview
Alan McPherson

Alan McPherson

One man's impossible quest to play every course in Scotland—even the secret ones.

No. 1
Feature
Askernish. Photo by Jamie Gibson

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

No. 13
Feature
St. Andrews and the British Open

“St. Andrews and the British Open”

From a 1984 Open Championship review

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