Early Golf Communities Pre-empted Rights, Provided New Aesthetic Order
American communities have a look and layout that can range from Vermont village to Midwestern river town to the low,… Read more »
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Austin Golf Trail—New Medley of Hill Country Golf Hits
In a tribute he wrote to his late father, Texas native Turk Pipkin struck upon a truth that bears repeating… Read more »
Toe Your Putt When It’s Short and Slick
Truly great putters strike every ball on the sweet spot, except one—the nasty downhill breaker that needs off-center impact to… Read more »
The Harmon Club is a 90-Minute Miracle of Fitness & Golf
Like any private golf facility with an avid membership, the Harmon Golf and Fitness Club in Rockland, Mass., receives phone… Read more »
Understand the Speed Laws of Putting
A golf lifetime is spent trying to attune your brain and your hands to the pace and speed of the… Read more »
Requiem for Borrego Ranch: A Desert Resort Even the Martian Rover Couldn’t Find
The view flying into most major airports is of thickening subdivisions and boulevards colliding below. But it’s different on the… Read more »
Dustin Johnson at the PGA Getting Tough Ruling
Dustin Johnson, at the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, just got whacked with an amazingly tough penalty to suffer. Johnson’s… Read more »
Who Tends the Flag?
At 80-plus pages, and consisting of 32 separate subdivisions, the Rules of Golf are not easy to throw a mental… Read more »
The Backslapping Years
Our industry’s annual West Coast trade convention takes place in Las Vegas in a few weeks and I am taking… Read more »
When Golf Instruction Was Still Guesswork, Ralph Mann Boldly Went Digital
The work of bio-kinesiologist Ralph Mann takes note of landmark studies from the 1960s and ’70s like The Golfing Machine… Read more »
