Personalities

Cubs, Ryder Cup can learn from each other, not task forces

A Ryder Cup task force to explore ways a team that’s losing can find a better way to win? Brilliant.... Read more »

Lefty’s Leadership

The American’s Ryder Cup loss to a top notch European team was obviously due to two reasons. First they could... Read more »

Ryder Cup ’69 Recap A Dark-Horse Pick

Tom Harack

The story of “The Concession” is justly known to most golfers as the classy, uber-sportsmanlike gesture it was: Jack Nicklaus... Read more »

Watson: “Luck has something to do with it, but there’s more to it than that.”

A Q&A with Ryder Cup Captain Tom Watson is part of our features-packed 2014 Ryder Cup issue of The Grain,... Read more »

Q & A with Tom Watson, Ryder Cup Captain

Will Tom Watson be smiling on Sunday night of the Ryder Cup?

Terry Moore

With five British Open Championship victories, Tom Watson knows a thing or two about winning overseas. Maybe that’s why the... Read more »

Rory McIlroy’s a Peyton Manning fan but Tom Brady’s okay, too

Emily Kay

NORTON, Mass. — Rory McIlroy may walk tall on the PGA Tour, but when he’s at the Deutsche Bank Championship... Read more »

Revealing a Little More of Seth Raynor

Anthony Pioppi

While many of his contemporaries were writing books, newspaper stories, magazine articles or being quoted about their work, Seth J.... Read more »

Peter Coyote’s Wisdom Regarding Robin Williams’ Suicide

Bob Fagan

I am still trying to get my arms around ROBIN WILLIAMS taking his own life. Though I never knew or met him,... Read more »

Remember…The Haig’s First Open Win

Ed Travis

A cocky young professional begged a few days off from his club job so he could play in the U.S.... Read more »

Recalling, Replicating Scenes from the Parking Lot at Ponkapoag

My dad on the 8th green at Nehoiden, right across the street from the house where grew up. It's late November; the greens have been staked for fencing at the first snow. We sprinkled his ashes here, and there's a memorial bench for him just right of this frame, on the 9th tee. There is no headstone in any cemetery for him. This is his spot, for all eternity.

Hal Phillips

I try to write each August about my dad, Harold Gardner Phillips, Jr., as he passed away (all too soon)... Read more »

Michelle Wie, Tiger Woods prove golf can be hazardous to your health

Wrist injury forces Michelle Wie to withdraw from LPGA tourney (Photo: Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

Emily Kay

Michelle Wie became the latest tour golfer to withdraw from a tournament due to injury when the reigning U.S. Women’s... Read more »

What We’d Change About Golf!

How can golf be better? In one of our classic “A List” roundups our resident experts at The A Position–plus... Read more »

Wounded Warriors at Scottsdale

Jamie McWilliams

Real warriors tackle golf in Scottsdale. Part of our latest issue of The Grain: 2014 PGA Championship Issue.

Game plan for the Meijer LPGA Classic

Blythefield's finishing holes will provide great vantage spots

Terry Moore

Besides the PGA Championship at Valhalla GC in Louisville, another major tournament will hold my interest next week and it’s... Read more »

MWGA LEGACY CELEBRATION NETS $28,000 FOR WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ GOLF IN MICHIGAN

Susan Bairley

It was amazing, delightful and a labor of love for the Michigan Women’s Golf Association when the group held its... Read more »