Table of Contents
Just Say Yes
When you open your heart to Branson, incredible things start happening.
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Married to the Game
Pickled Herring? Golf IDs? A newcomer falls in love with Swedish golf.
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The Gift
The first step is to admit you’re ready to commit to getting better.
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The Man Out Front
With the rare chance to rebuild his lost home course, Tom Doak opens up.
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In Touch
Celebrating the game’s most important tools with Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Max Homa and more.
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The Second Kingdom
A local shows that there’s so much more beyond Anstruther’s famously difficult
fifth hole.
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The La Brea Golf Club
The forefront of golf fashion in LA starts with the 1990s.
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Cadillac Days
Leonard Kamsler’s photography shows Augusta in far different times.
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This is Their Time
Bobby Jones and the greatest female golfer you’ve never heard of.
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Yardage Book: Palmetto Golf Club
A surprisingly pleasant intersection of classic architecture and incoming golf balls.
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Lipping Out
The truth behind those Tom Kite photos.
How golf parents settle their children.
Mike Strantz, the artist.
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Contributors
Writers
Charlie Warzel
Casey Bannon
Caleb Hannan
Michael Croley
Tom Coyne
Ian Birrell
Jeff Weiss
Jim Moriarty
Sidney Matthew
Brad Gehl
Photographers
Jacob Sjöman
Kohjiro Kinno
Fredrik Brodén
Christian Hafer
Matt Aylward
Leonard Kamsler
William Rainey
Cover Story
In Touch
Celebrating the game’s most important tools with Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Max Homa and more.
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Married to the Game
Marriage is a leap of faith—and that’s before the transatlantic flight. TGJ’s Casey Bannon delves into the surprisingly strong golf culture hiding along the Baltic coast of his Swedish fiance’s homeland, where golf carts are an extinct species and the Golf ID reigns supreme.
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Just Say Yes
When you open your heart to Branson, incredible things start happening.
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The Man Out Front
They say you can’t go home again. They’d also strongly advise against upbraiding the life’s work of the most influential artists in the field you’re hoping to break into. But then again, Tom Doak’s never been much for standard conventions. And after a career spent reshaping the golf architecture landscape, Doak returns to High Pointe, ready to rebuild his first course and open up in the process.
“We were, essentially, two strangers. But we were two strangers on a golf trip, and there is a special alchemy about these missions, which I’ve found is always some combination of an endurance event, a bachelor party, a road trip and group therapy.”
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