Editorial – Page 28 – The Golfer’s Journal

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…

Mac O' Grady, 1984 Players Championship

The Dirty Groove Vol. 9

Doing What I Can to salvage bogey

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…

amish golf. Photo: Christian Hafer

Lonely as a Cloud

In praise of the mood-altering, life-changing solo round

Joshua C.F. Smith

Joshua C.F. Smith

Meet golf's greatest superintendent/oil painter

Sweetens Cove, green

King

The 4th at Sweetens Cove Golf Club. Par 3 - 169, 146, 114

Don with golf club in ocean, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997

Tip of the Cap

Golf had an unmistakable effect on famed photographer Rodney Smith

Country Club of Petersburg, bunker

A Kite in a Hurricane

The golfing life of Griffin Clark, a Lion gone too soon

The Bard’s Butter Cut

Chapter and verse on a writer playing with one of his literary heroes

Guiding flags in dirt. Photo: Lexey Swall

Blade Runners

Digging into the nomadic existence of the shapers behind golf-course architecture’s biggest names

Jordan Spieth, 2015 PGA Championship, Whistling Straights

Group Show

A collection of images from our best shooters

Landfall

Welcome to Montrose Golf Links, the front line in the battle against the game's most frightening enemy: climate change

Open book

Peculiar Bliss

Finally, a literary guide to navigating the eternal struggle of balancing golf and real life

Rustic Canyon. Photo: Andy Johnson

A Hollywood Classic

Celebrating the revival of the barranca

A Fowl Choice

A Fowl Choice

Some call the chicken stick careful; others say it's cowardice

Country Club Logos

A Logo Manifesto

One man's crusade to stop the plague of pretentious golf gear

American golfer Jack Nicklaus watching the Ryder Cup with some of the wives of the American team at the PGA National golf course in Palm Beach, USA, in 1983. (Photo by Phil Sheldon/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

The Dirty Groove Vol. 8

Up For The Down Stroke

A Club with Broad Shoulders

Joel Murray From Canal Shores

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…

Wendell Haskins and Sadena Parks

Wendell Haskins and Sadena Parks

From music videos at Def Jam to Director of Diversity at the PGA of America, Wendell Haskins has built a remarkable life inside and outside…

On Melted Wings

A deep dive into the tortured golfing soul of Icarito

Arnold Palmer upset on green after missing birdie. Photo by Marvin E. Newman/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

The Dirty Groove Vol. 7

Make The Road By Walking

Royal Portrush

One part history lesson, one part preview and 100 percent Irish

Dinner with David McLay Kidd

After playing Gamble Sands together, Tom Coyne joins course architect David McLay Kidd and the rest of their fivesome for a dinner conversation