Feature – Page 8 – The Golfer’s Journal

Spinning yarns

Spinning Yarns

What's your best golf story? An assortment of classics from the TGJ community

Royal Dornoch

Hard Forged

Dornoch’s harsh winters and unrelenting gorse shaped one of the world’s great courses and a friendship found only in golf

2017 Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

The DNA of TPC

A trip down Roscoe Road shows the contrasting forces that contribute to the evolving identity of The Players Championship

On the Corner of Greatness

Noyac proves that there’s still room for new favorites on Long Island

Ballyneal

Composite Sketches: 2021

The Broken Tee Society's best 18 of 2021

Relationship Advice

Truly committed players already know the secret

Pine Valley

Anthology of Hazards

The 5th at Pine Valley. Par 3 - 238 yards

The Man Riding Clouds

Peter Beames has brushed shoulders with Palmer and Spieth, taught all over the world, dealt with poverty and homelessness and somehow keeps happily floating along.

american safari

American Safari

The Sand Hills became a second golf home after one blind trip turned into years of adventure on the prairie

ballyneal

Ballyneal

A Colorado cousin to the Sand Hills rota, this Doak masterpiece is every bit its equal

Dismal River Club

Stable ownership, extra amenities and 36 striking holes make this a true happy place

The Prairie Club

The kind of place that has two of golf’s essential elements: beauty and fun

CapRock

CapRock Ranch

Look out below—the canyon-side design is a welcome addition to the Sand Hills family

sand hills

Sand Hills Golf Club

Coore & Crenshaw’s groundbreaking course that established a new paradigm for golf architecture

A Bandon Surprise, Just for Ewes

Mike Keiser’s signature resort may never have existed without the pen of prolific children’s book and greeting card author Sandra Boynton

The Inexhaustible Variety of Life

A walk among the massive boats, fast cars, pitched fairways, facts and fictions of White Bear Yacht Club, potential birthplace of the great American novel

The Wake-Up Call

One man’s winding path from white-collar criminal to architect of Aspen Golf Club's bustling junior golf program

Because You Can

As this California mission shows, the best golf adventures often don’t make perfect sense

2021 Annual Letter to Our Members

The Year Is: 2021

Reflecting on the year that was, with help from The Broken Tee Society

Regilded

Once in danger of being lost, Hooper serves as a beacon of hope for family-owned golf courses

match play

Match Points

A celebration of the game's purest format

Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Golf

From Pebble to Everest, the big stick remains an essential element

Women of a Certain Era

The best way to get closer to the  legend behind Pasatiempo, Cypress and Pebble is to play from her tees