The A Position

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Jeff Ritter demonstrates simple tips for more power is this episode of The Golf Digest Clinic! For more information on coaching with Jeff, visit JeffRitterGolf.com Download The Jeff Ritter Golf App FREE! Read more

Recalling a stay in the balmy air of Santa Cruz, California, course architect Alister MacKenzie admitted he had “always wanted to live where one could practice shots in one’s pajamas before breakfast.” It seemed an uncharacteristically impish remark for the sober-minded Scotsman, but it came to mind one early morning as I peered through louvers at the empty practice tee smack outside my ground-floor room in ... Read more

If you were to refer to the Match Play Championship, held at Tucson's Dove Mountain recently, as a shootout, then runner-up Martin Kaymer was dressed for the part.  Wearing a Buff-- a sort of scarf/facemask combo that could prove as popular with bank robbers as it  does with fishermen, mountain bikers, skiers and other outdoorsmen-- Kaymer rode off into the desert sunset with a powerful ... Read more

Several years ago, I was playing Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s Royal Westmoreland Golf Course in Barbados with the architect himself.  On one hole, Jones faced an impossible sidehill putt.  After studying the slick, sloping green from various angles, and frowning his displeasure, he looked up from his ball and said, “I designed it, so I’ll have to play it.” I thought of this recently while playing ... Read more

Hot like a Bond girl, The Grove is a slinky, provocative five-star resort 30 minutes outside London. As you cavort through the black-velvet-lined hallways of the 19th-century manor house you can’t help thinking about a quick tryst behind the pettable curtains. Then you get to your room, which might feature surprises from a fireplace and piano to a red day-bed (beckoning like a casting couch) ... Read more

  A couple of weeks before I was to be regaled during a trip to Speyside, Scotland with a private whisky tasting by David Urquhart, a partner in the storied firm of Gordon & MacPhail, I received an email from David, asking the year of my birth.  Which is when I first began to suspect what kind of event awaited me. In the midst of a golf ... Read more

This story first appeared in Links Magazine in 2002. In a meeting room at the Bandon Dunes Resort on the southern Oregon coast, approximately two dozen men are planning to make you mad-- if not today, then soon.  Not necessarily on purpose, but it seems inevitable. They’re not evil or mean-spirited, these men with names like Jim and Josh and even Robin and Dana.  They love their ... Read more

If banishment to Australia were still the common punishment for British felons, golfers in England would be embarked upon a continuous crime spree.  The island continent is home to a collection of the world’s best links courses, including Royal Adelaide Golf Club, located about eight miles outside the small city of Adelaide and two kilometers from the coast.  The history of this great sandbelt track ... Read more

The morning was cold and a cutting wind blew over the Old Course like a knee in the groin.  As my friend and fellow golf writer Tom Harack and I watched a couple of guys we knew teeing off on the first hole of the most famous golf layout on the planet-- a gorgeous, rugged place of power and pilgrimage, a sacred place of homecoming ... Read more