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Author: Ken Van Vechten

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Ken Van Vechten

  • 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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  • Fall 2017
    By Ken Van Vechten
    October 24, 2017
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    Par for the Course

    Par: In the U.S., it’s golf’s most bandied-about concept. The funny thing is, it really has no place in the game, at least not within the ...
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  • Summer 2017
    By Ken Van Vechten
    July 27, 2017
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    Creating An Equal Game: Rethinking Distance is the Number One Key

    Six hundred yards. If you think golf should be an equitable game, then have J.B. Holmes play par 4s from six football fields back.             Come ...
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  • Fall 2016
    By Ken Van Vechten
    October 24, 2016
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    You Bet-Cha: A Little Something To Make It Interesting?

    “Nae gambling, nae golf.” —Old Scottish proverb Some clubs frown on open gambling and the PGA TOUR has a code stating that members cannot consort with ...
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  • Palouse
    Summer 2016Travel
    By Ken Van Vechten
    July 1, 2016
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    Golf-a-Palouse-a: Traveling to the North Country Par

    The Palouse — a 4,000-square-mile region of the inland Pacific Northwest — is nothing short of stunning. Seemingly infinite in its dimension-defying landscape, with endless rolls ...
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  • state of the game
    NewsSummer 2016
    By Ken Van Vechten
    July 1, 2016
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    Breaking Down Walls: Ratcheting Growth Via Innovative Thinking

    For all of golf’s growth initiatives and outreach programs, most courses still have a long way to go to become a true part of their respective ...
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    Know the RulesSpring 2016
    By Ken Van Vechten
    April 1, 2016
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    Rules Tsar: Easy Fixes I’ll Make When I’m in Charge

    It’s one of those quadrennial golf years, the one-in-four moment when golf’s Moses descends from Mt. Sinai in Jersey — for we rebellious colonials — with ...
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FeaturedSpring 2022Travel

The Pubs of St Andrews

The challenge seemed daunting at first. On an eight-day trip to St Andrews, my job was to rate the pubs in this lively college town where golf began six centuries ...
  • Scotland Must-Plays & Hidden Gems: 10 Terrific Tracks that Prove the Old Course Isn’t the Only Game Around

    By Joe Passov
    April 21, 2022
  • Bob Does Hollywood: The Hardest Working Man on Instagram Finds Gold in Golf

    By Adam Hawk
    April 21, 2022
  • Not Your Father’s Game: With Two Facilities Newly Open and Callaway at the Helm, the Topgolf Explosion Comes to the Southland

    By Scott Kauffman
    April 21, 2022
  • The Provisional Ball: What? How? When?

    By Jimmy Becker
    April 21, 2022
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