TGJ No. 29
No. 29
Fall 2024

Quiet Please

A well-struck shot is eternal, whether it’s on the fairways of an exclusive new club in Southern California or from the heather at a Scottish classic. The grind matters in No. 29, which celebrates legends young and old in a print experience that also remains timeless.

136 Pages · 9 × 11 inches · Matte laminated and embossed cover · Smyth sewn · Spot varnish interior images on FSC Certified Paper

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Table of Contents

Yardage Book: No. 5 at Soule Park Golf Course

A love song for a $39 round with world-class design.
Page 22

More Than This

Breaking down the greatest golf swing in movie history.
Page 36

The Pilgrim and the Scot

Dunaverty is special no matter where you’re from.
Page 42

Sanders From Cedartown

An appreciation of Doug Sanders, golf’s hard-partying playboy whose life was much more than the biggest missed putt in major championship history.
Page 56

Requiem for a Score

Don’t lie to us: What did you shoot?
Page 76

When Sisyphus Succeeded

One man’s decades-long journey to the top of Lookout Mountain.
Page 80

What’s Truly Important

Hint: It’s not the cash.
Page 92

Call It Heaven

Ladera: A new playground for big names from the Tour to Hollywood
Page 96

No Bull

The stakes are different in Iceland.
Page 114

An Architect, a Missionary and an Airplane Mechanic

An unlikely trio rewrites the rules of the game.
Page 120

Lipping Out

A member-member to remember. An ode to golf’s weirdest trees. The game’s healing power. Nuns!
Page 128

Contributors

Writers

Micah Pueschel
Matt Chominski
Jim Hartsell
Angus MacVicar
Joe Samuel Starnes
Tom Coyne
Michael Croley
Karen Crouse
Travis Hill
Jaren Hunsaker
Robert Moore
Ray LaDouceur
Brett Posten
Alex Pratt

Photographers

Kohjiro Kinno
Jack Ducey
Darren Carroll
Kevin D. Liles
Doug Stein
Jaren Hunsaker
Brett Posten
Christian Hafer
Jason Jahnke

Artists

Leon Washere
Stuart McHarrie
Dan Misdea

Feature

Call It Heaven

The secret ingredient inside Ladera, Southern California’s new ultra-private celebrity playground

Words by Travis Hill, Photographs by Kohjiro Kinno

Ladera Golf Club
Ladera Golf Club

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“I’ve learned if you want to do something great, it’s never easy. You can’t take shortcuts. We could have taken a lot of shortcuts. But we weren’t going to compromise. And that’s hard.”

Eddy Cue, from
”Call It Heaven“

Feature

Sanders From Cedartown

An appreciation of Doug Sanders, golf’s hard-partying playboy whose life was much more than the biggest missed putt in major championship history

Words by Joe Samuel Starnes

Doug Sanders
Cedartown, GA
Doug Sanders
Cover Story

The Pilgrim and the Scot

An American traveler and a lifelong local on the magic of Dunaverty

Words by Jim Hartsell & Angus MacVicar, Photographs by Jack Ducey

Dunaverty
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TGJ No. 29 Interior
Feature

Yardage Book: No. 5 at Soule Park Golf Course

A love song for a $39 round with world-class design

Words by Micah Pueschel, Photographs by Kohjiro Kinno

Soule Park Golf Course No. 5

“I salute the happy golfer. He proved once again that even in these days of cold business endeavor and callous bureaucracy, camouflaged by mind-bending propaganda, not all the King’s horses and not all the king’s men can defeat the innocent human spirit. Which, I believe, is the spirit of golf.”

Angus MacVicar, from
”The Pilgrim and the Scot“

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