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Ken Wang

Meet Vera Wang's brother who hired Pete Dye to build Pound Ridge GC

Sheep Ranch

Good News Is Just a Phone Call Away

COVID, cheating, distance debates, course closures and a lack of diversity—golf’s recent news cycle has been gloomy. But it’s not all bad out there

Interview: Colton Craig

Real Talk with Colton Craig

Colton Craig is a 27-year-old golf-course architect and founder of the Perry Maxwell Society. Over the past year he’s quit his apprentice gig, opened his…

Annika Sorenstam

Yes in a Heartbeat: Annika at the Colonial

Sorenstam, Arron Oberholser, along with journalists and marshalls who witnessed it first-hand, re-live the controversial resistance from male and female pros, and her shocking four-word…

Dr. George F. Grant

Dive into the remarkable life of Dr. George F. Grant—the second African American graduate of Harvard Dental School, and inventor of the wooden golf tee…

Hickories, Conocodell Golf Club, Pennsylvania

Shrink the Game with Ken Kearney

Ken Kearney went from a decorated Irish amateur player to a career in finance to golf-course architect. For his next big challenge, he wants to…

Silvies

Dispatches From the New Frontier

Contributing Editor D.J. Piehowski makes his return to the TGJ Podcast—reading his thorough TGJ No. 11 profile on the reverse routing at remote Silvies Valley…

Carne

The Pandemic Diary

No place is safe from the ravages of the COVID-19 virus, even host Tom Coyne’s beloved Carne Golf Links on the remote Western coast of…

Hubberman

The Last Time Golf Stopped

Tom Coyne serves as commanding general on this docu-pod exploration of golf through the 1940s—the last time golf was forced to mark and step away

Ep.51: Life on the Inside

Life on the Inside

Renowned sports psychologist Dr. Bob Winters returns, this time to answer subscriber questions about golf's new normal

24 Hours at Sawgrass

24 Hours at Sawgrass

This is the 17th Players Championship for TGJ editor and grizzled vet Travis Hill. He gave newbie Casey Bannon one day to find a Sawgrass…

The Emergent Pattern

Finding your Center with Geoff Cunningham

Artist. Photographer. Tequila drinker. Soul surfer. Hickory player. Club maker. Linksoul Creative Director Geoff Cunningham refuses to let anyone put him, or the game he…

Sheep Ranch Preview

Sheep Ranch Preview Announcement

ATTENTION: TGJ Subscribers will be playing Bandon Dunes’ Sheep Ranch masterpiece before it opens to the public

Challenge Day

Challenge Days ft. Shane Bacon

Is a bad day on the course really better than a good day anywhere else?

The Next 20 Years

The Next 20 Years

Where will we play? How much will we pay? How many holes, with what tools and what will we wear?

Ohoopee Sunrise

The War on Par ft. Gil Hanse

TGJ No. 10 introduces us to the Ohoopee Match Club—a discreet Georgia playground designed specifically to ignore par

Re-Tee: 2008 U.S. Open

Re-Teed: 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines

From practice round folklore to the birth of Rickie’s orange pants and 91 unforgettable holes, this one deserves a Re-Tee

Some obstacles—like Black Betty—are too tall an order for the collective to tackle without professional help. But with each burn pile, the Brough Creek on the ground gets closer to the one they’ve drawn up.

Brough Creek National

From message board idea to functioning golf course to the pages of TGJ No. 10, Brough Creek National is every armchair architect’s dream

The Lost Strantz Tapes - Mike Gibbons

The Lost Strantz Tapes

While reporting TGJ No.10’s, “The One Less Travelled,” contributor Jay Revell stumbled upon a treasure trove of unearthed footage featuring the late architect Mike Strantz…

10 Hours in Heaven

Bob Ford

He’s watched Ben Hogan write checks to settle debts, walked off Arnie’s home course rather than breaking the King’s record and ran the merchandise tent…

An Incomplete Biography

Bizarre Golf History

Who holds the rightful claim to America’s first golf club? How did three different players lose in match play after an ace? Which major champion…

Tony Jacklin in a locker room during the Florida Citrus Open at Rio Pinar Country Club, Orlando, Florida

Swing Thoughts

Whether they’re beautiful and effective or a form of psychological warfare, everyone has a swing thought. On our latest podcast, host Tom Coyne asks a…

Landfall

Golf and the Climate Crisis

Inspired by the frightening story of Scotland’s Montrose Golf Links in TGJ No. 9, host Tom Coyne sets out to see how others in golf…

Sweetens Cove

Rob Collins

We celebrate the return of Sweetens Cove to the pages of TGJ with a conversation between Contributing Editor D.J. Piehowski and Sweetens Cove architect Rob…