When a young journalist from a prominent city sets off on his first travel-writing assignments, the destinations are thrilling but they are just that, destinations. As in: Take the tour, get all impressed, be wowed on occasion or even blown away, then head home and write about it. Home—the beloved place Full Story

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  The question: “Why 18 holes?” has kept golf historians engaged for decades. It even has a well-known witty answer,
• Ouimet Fund Already Prepping for 100th Anniversary of Namesake’s Open Upset
  In 1913, a soft-spoken and raw-boned 20-year-old named Francis Ouimet won a playoff over two British titans to claim th
• John Fought’s Touch on Display in Renovation of Pine Needles
  Recalling a stay in the balmy air of Santa Cruz, California, course architect Alister MacKenzie admitted he had

The question: “Why 18 holes?” has kept golf historians engaged for decades. It even has a well-known witty answer, based on how many swigs are in a whiskey bottle. But with leisure time and disposable income scarce, the why-18 question is no longer so benign. Golfers and course managers are starting to a Full Story

• Golf Scramble Groups: Leave All the Egos at No. 17 Tee
  When the 100-plus senior staffers of Billy Casper Golf convene for their annual planning sessions, the conference table
• Back When, The Masters ‘Went Hollywood’ with Its Highlight Show
  Call it a major coincidence—the 1986 Masters, which many consider the most dramatic of all time, was also the first o
• Ouimet Fund Already Prepping for 100th Anniversary of Namesake’s Open Upset
  In 1913, a soft-spoken and raw-boned 20-year-old named Francis Ouimet won a playoff over two British titans to claim th

Golf talent is spread throughout the population in heinously unfair proportions, leading to darkly lamentable results. Someone such as I--a man who would have made an inspiring and exemplary tour pro--is robbed of the chance to reach that destiny by a circumstance as absurd as lack of athletic ability. Full Story

• The Backslapping Years
  Our industry’s annual West Coast trade convention takes place in Las Vegas in a few weeks and I am taking a pass on i
• Weird Clubs We Loved, Part 2
  Neither in the classified section nor in cyberspace chat rooms do we run across ads offering top dollar for old Stan Th
• High-Tech at its Highest: Citadels of Clubfitting Excellence
    This is the second in a four-part series on state-of-the-art clubfitting and diagnostics for extreme game-i