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Henry William "Harry" Vardon was a man born in simpler times. Old Tom Morris and Willie Park, Sr were in their prime and Ulysses S Grant was one year into an eight year run as the 18th...
Though there are plenty of famous links featuring nine holes into the distance and nine home, Muirfield could not be further removed from the straight out, straight back scenario. Instead, it has...
Ballantine’s produce a very fine whisky – or so I’m told. Not being an expert I rely on my colleague Dominique Boulet, who many of you will know and who is a semi-professional...
Every time the US Open comes around, some well-meaning soul will remind Colin Montgomerie of those occasions – there were four of them – when he missed out on winning that major by the...
Francis Ouimet
Tom Stewart Mashie
1913
This year's US Open marks the 100th anniversary of Francis Ouimet’s dramatic victory over Harry Vardon and Ted Ray at The Country Club in Brookline...
In many ways Merion and Ben Hogan were made for each other.
In a remarkable story that could have been penned by a Hollywood scriptwriter, the game’s biggest hero returns from a life-...
Even the most ardent of Merion Golf Club members thought they would never see the day when their pride and joy, the historic Dick Wilson-designed East Course, would once again grace the world stage...
Born in Inveresk, near Musselburgh in Scotland on the 30th June 1833, Willie Park, Sr has gone down in history as a controversial figure who threw down challenges to the greatest players of his day...
This was one instance that I was delighted to be wrong.
Three weeks before The Masters got underway, I interviewed Guan Tian-lang at Mission Hills, across the border in Shenzhen, where he received...
Westerners are at once envious and uneasy at the extent to which the Korean women work at their golf. Koreans, in turn, do not appear to have too many hard and fast views on their Western...