Author: Ken Van Vechten
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...