Personalities

Muirfield Open Champion Alf Perry–Alf Perry?

Muirfield produces only the finest of champions–Harry Vardon, James Braid, Ted Ray, Walter Hagen, Alf Perry, Henry Cotton, Gary Player,... Read more »

Player Bares the Celestial Sphere

Tom Bedell

We’ve known for awhile now that Gary Player was going to bare all for ESPN The Body Issue, and now... Read more »

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on “Patience”

Bob Fagan

There are few sports heroes that deserve the work hero, but basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appears to be one of... Read more »

Inkster in record 34th US Women’s Open

Emily Kay

When Juli Inkster tees it up Thursday afternoon at Sebonack Golf Club, the World Golf Hall of Famer will set a... Read more »

Matt Harmon Makes Open Debut at Merion

Terry Moore

On June 3rd, Matt Harmon of Grand Rapids, Mich., became one of only 20 players—the lowest number in decades—to have... Read more »

Peter Kessler on Bobby Jones, Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus at Merion

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Peter Kessler and Ian Woosnam

David J Whyte

Remembering Ken Venturi

Bob Cullen

The news this morning that Ken Venturi had died saddened me. He was a kind man with some great stories... Read more »

Chandler Egan in the Pacific Northwest–From the Archive

John Strawn

This piece was first published by the USGA’s monthly magazine, Golf Journal, in May, 1993. When Mrs. Potter Palmer of... Read more »

Cristie Kerr gives dad an early Father’s Day present — her 3rd Kingsmill crown

Emily Kay

Cristie Kerr has not won 16 LPGA Tour titles by allowing opponents to daunt her, and Sunday on Kingsmill Resort’s... Read more »

Guan Yu – The Chinese God of Golf

Peter Andraes

-Lord Guan – The Chinese God of War, Taoist God of Wealth, Confucian God of Literature, & Eastern God of... Read more »

DropGate — Did Golf Drop a Shot at Augusta Today?

David DeSmith

The golf blogosphere has been abuzz today in the wake of the Tiger Woods ruling at The Masters.  Woods admitted... Read more »

Should Tiger Have Withdrawn? Split Opinion From The A Position

Tom Bedell

Should Tiger Woods withdraw from the Masters was the question of the hour, and I had about an hour to... Read more »

Jim Nantz is a lily-livered tool of the Augusta autocracy — Bob Costas

Emily Kay

Jonathan Littman, in his entertaining 2011 tome, “Crashing the Masters,” took a different tone than most Augusta worshippers when he... Read more »

Tiger, Kim Could Have Own Masters

Tom Harack

Watching ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz point out the North Korean landscape’s treeless topography, I couldn’t help thinking: Oh, wow. An... Read more »