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The winners of the Annual Golf Writers Association of America writing contest are littered with many of the great names in sports journalism. Jenkins, Kindred, Sirak, Achenbach, Callahan, Diaz, Kessler, Reilly, Rosaforte, Boswell, Tayor, are some of the masters of composition whose monikers grace the walls in the pantheon of outstanding golf literature. But none…
You could be forgiven if a trace of cynicism enters your thoughts when discussing Augusta National Golf Club’s long history of exclusion, racism, misogyny, and believing its membership was motivated by magnanimity and not a selfish, self-interest and concern over their international branding when their exclusionary policies were relaxed and their membership rolls expanded late…
There are some pundits in the sphere of journalism that would decry the record-setting performance of the #1 player in the World and his overwhelming victory in the COVID-19 delayed 2020 Masters Golf Tournament. Those same scribes might place an asterisk next to the name of the 84th Masters Champion, Dustin Johnson, because of the…
In Dick Schaap’s seminal recounting of the 1974 United States Open Championship, Massacre at Winged Foot, which Hale Irwin won at seven over par, lapping the field. Utah’s Bruce Summerhays was the first contestant off the tee Thursday on that cool morning in early June. It is irony indeed that forty-six years later, when the…
Major championship golf has returned to the American sports scene with a vengeance. The 102nd PGA of America’s 2020 National Golf Championship was contested this last week at San Francisco’s Harding Park. A municipal golf course that anyone can play, the course was built in 1925 by the same architects that constructed the nearby ultra-private…
In 2016, when Jon Rahm was a fourth-year senior at Arizona State University and winning the Pac-12 Championship at the Country Club in Salt Lake City, he was also the #1 ranked player in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. A position he held for total of 60 weeks, an all-time record. He also won the…