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Luck in Golf
A Look at the Ways Luck and Skill Interact to Create Iconic Golf Holes
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Golf for Non-Golfers: Getting from Zero to Golf Should be Fun
Courting beginners means offering a playable game without expecting them to learn first and play later.
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One of the Biggest Stories in Golf Happened this Month and Nobody Noticed
Pine Valley GC’s settlement, access journalism, and golf’s self-perpetuating prestige industry
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Quick Post: a review of When Revelation Comes
Jim Hartsell's intimate self-portrait of grief is a beautiful guide to golf in Scotland
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What Even Is a Private Golf Club and Why Are Most So Difficult to Play?
How the IRS is driving a wedge between the golfing world. Part one of a series on private clubs and their impact on golf
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Quick Post: 0 Eggs
The Fried Egg's new course rating system continues golf's myopic elitism problem
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A High Shot Hazard
We can revive the excitement of the Biarritz template by fighting back against the modern launch angles that have dominated it.
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North Korea Has One Operating Golf Course
(Updated) The hermit kingdom's only course is a deeply imperfect place that should remind us that there is more to life than golf.
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Wigs on the Green
Wigs on the Green
An attempt at unflinching, critical analysis of golf: the game, the architecture, and the culture.

Wigs on the Green

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