The Bookshelf

I’m writing this piece with a broken finger, no way to start a golf season. But at least I have… Read more »

Take two golf-obsessed high school seniors wondering what to do after graduation, set them out on the road with their… Read more »

It may have been more than twenty years ago at some Midwest outpost we’d journeyed to that Stephen Beaumont and… Read more »

The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club in Illinois begin the evening of September 27…. Read more »

Yes, Virginia, there was golf before Tiger Woods, even before Arnold Palmer. And in both Jim Dodson’s American Triumvirate (Knopf,… Read more »

Hank Haney has written a book. This may not be news, and you may already have an opinion about whether… Read more »

I belong to a Shakespeare group. Not a troupe, a group, which meets now and again to read through the… Read more »

Part of my admiration for the late Herbert Warren Wind’s writings for The New Yorker was the way he could… Read more »

Why would anyone want to revisit the sordid details of the Tiger Woods sexual scandals? Well, they’re juicy, for one… Read more »

In the summer of 1869, Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, went to St. Andrews in… Read more »

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