It’s a Big World Out There, So Start Drinking
It may have been more than twenty years ago at some Midwest outpost we’d journeyed to that Stephen Beaumont and… Read more »
The Bookshelf
Grappling With Golf
The opening ceremonies for the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club in Illinois begin the evening of September 27…. Read more »
Glory Days
Yes, Virginia, there was golf before Tiger Woods, even before Arnold Palmer. And in both Jim Dodson’s American Triumvirate (Knopf,… Read more »
Behind the Ropes
Hank Haney has written a book. This may not be news, and you may already have an opinion about whether… Read more »
What Golf Ball Through Yonder Window Breaks?
[April 23, 2026]– I published this one 14 years ago on Shakespeare’s birthday, as it is today, and since I… Read more »
When Tiger Was Young…
Part of my admiration for the late Herbert Warren Wind’s writings for The New Yorker was the way he could… Read more »
Golf in the Flesh
Why would anyone want to revisit the sordid details of the Tiger Woods sexual scandals? Well, they’re juicy, for one… Read more »
Jefferson Davis Goes to St. Andrews
In the summer of 1869, Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, went to St. Andrews in… Read more »
Gearing Up
Into white is the mode on the fairways and greens this year, with the TaylorMade R11 Driver hitting the PGA… Read more »
Hogan Lives!
No extended piece about Ben Hogan can go on for long without mentioning the car wreck in February of 1949… Read more »
