The One Less Traveled
Reckless abandon, long odds and Mike Strantz: An oral history of Tobacco Road Golf Club
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Reckless abandon, long odds and Mike Strantz: An oral history of Tobacco Road Golf Club
How the world’s first completely artificial turf course never got built
Redefining golf masochism through nine sadistic little holes
Golf had an unmistakable effect on famed photographer Rodney Smith
Chapter and verse on a writer playing with one of his literary heroes
Digging into the nomadic existence of the shapers behind golf-course architecture’s biggest names
Finally, a literary guide to navigating the eternal struggle of balancing golf and real life
The Outpost Club toasts its obsessive family of members at the Punchbowl
The search for a lost father begins and ends with a walk up the fairway
From Good Will Hunting to William Burroughs to the greatest golf album you’ve never heard
Love, loss and fatbacks on a California road trip like no other
In the days before digital and drones, photographer Stephen Szurlej made it look easy
Working with the purest ingredients was difficult but worth the effort at Cabot
Leonard Kamsler’s dedication to his craft has taken him from Marilyn Monroe to the Masters
Chasing the highs and lows of one of golf’s most misunderstood holes
Robert A. Wade is one of the world’s greatest watercolor artists. He’s not a bad golfer, either
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