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Author: Ken Van Vechten

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Ken Van Vechten

  • Fall 2020State of the Game
    By Ken Van Vechten
    August 4, 2020
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    Less Is More: Local Operators Find Success With New Tee Time Intervals

    If you space them, they will come. Many course operators have long functioned under the assumption that getting players off the first tee as quickly as ...
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  • State of the GameSummer 2020
    By Ken Van Vechten
    July 27, 2020
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    State of the Game: Golf in the Time of COVID-19

    PAUSE. RESET. REIMAGINE. Save injury, incarceration, a move to northern Manitoba or self-exile owing to an extended bout of the Spanish fades, it’s safe to say ...
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  • Spring 2020Trends
    By Ken Van Vechten
    April 23, 2020
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    Wagging The Dog: Insight on the Distance Report

    IN FEBRUARY, the USGA and R&A declared war. Not literally, but from some of the reactions you’d have thought so. In a long-anticipated study, the Distance ...
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  • State of the GameWinter 2020
    By Ken Van Vechten
    January 27, 2020
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    State of the Game: New Ways to Think About an Old Game

    EMBRACING CHANGE LEADS TO GROWTH IT WAS A WATERSHED YEAR for the addiction of golf. New rules took effect, green-lighting any number of once-clandestine practices many ...
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  • State of the GameSummer 2019
    By Ken Van Vechten
    July 25, 2019
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    State of the Game: New Rules Controversy?

    WE’RE HALF A YEAR IN, AND THE WORLD IS STILL TURNING. SO LET’S MOVE ON. No good deed goes unpunished. At least that’s how things might be ...
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  • At The TurnSpring 2019
    By Ken Van Vechten
    April 26, 2019
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    Stick Envy: Honma’s New Offerings Aim High

    COMING SOON TO AMERICAN SHORES, Honma Golf. If that’s not firing across the synapses, don’t feel alone. For more than a half century, this Japanese brand ...
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  • Winter 2019
    By Ken Van Vechten
    January 21, 2019
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    A Snapshot of the Future

    On August 3, 1962, developer Del Webb made the cover of Time magazine, with a banner headline reading: “The Retirement City: A New Way of Life ...
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  • Fall 2018SCGA Junior
    By Ken Van Vechten
    October 22, 2018
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    Kids, Having Fun Out There?

    KIDS AND GOLF. It’s a winning formula. Those of us who love the game enough to actually read golf publications likely were smitten at a young ...
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  • State of the GameSummer 2018
    By Ken Van Vechten
    August 1, 2018
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    Tech Takeover: You Damn Kids, Get ON My Lawn

    The #1 hot-button in the game isn’t how far DJ hits the rock and that it now offends a couple of guys who in their day ...
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  • Spring 2018State of the Game
    By Ken Van Vechten
    April 1, 2018
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    Crisis Watch: A Solution Looking for a Problem

    The 10 plagues of Egypt? The Black Death? Pac-12 hoops and football? Please. We have a CRISIS on our hands, people. The golf ball goes too ...
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FeaturedTravelWinter 2021

Western Waltz: 18 Fave Holes From the Rockies to the Pacific

Packing a passport and jumping on an overseas flight doesn’t appear to be in the cards anytime soon. That’s OK. There are plenty of public-access trophy courses and hidden gems in ...
  • Eternal Sportsman: The Dual Passions of Bode Miller

    By Judd Spicer
    January 18, 2021
  • Enchanted Valley: San Gabriel CC

    By Joe Passov
    January 17, 2021
  • The Rising Star of Gabi Ruffels

    By Matt McKay
    January 16, 2021
  • A Look Back in Time: The LACC’s Hope-Ware Collection

    By Judd Spicer
    January 16, 2021
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