Voices
Guest Contributors to Lying Four
With Tales from the Deep South and Beyond
Leif Skodnick, on the unexpectedly fine line between range sessions and Yiddish swear words.
Mike Eovino, on a horror story from his early looping days — and a moment of revenge in his more seasoned looping days.
Chris Parsons previews the Sanderson Farms Championship, at which the PGA Tour’s young stars seem poised to roost.
Preston Dunaway, on how the American fervor on display at the Ryder Cup in Wisconsin arguably took root 100 years ago, when municipal golf exploded across the Midwest.
Patrick Tooker, on how the chase for low numbers drove him from the game — and how he found his way back.
The pseudonymous Todger Stone, on a Rory Sabbatini sweatshirt, his wife, and how they all came together.
Chris Hutelmyer, on teenage golf and an unlikely idol’s equally unlikely charge at the 1997 Ryder Cup team.
Lincoln Duff explains that, with a variety spanning cutting-edge 21st century designs and Golden Age layouts, not many American cities can match the depth of golf options in Chattanooga, Tenn., both public and private.
Adam Fonseca, on finding a balance between operators’ tendencies to pack tee sheets and players’ desire to play quicker golf.
Doran Drummond, on changing the world through conversations with complete strangers, one golf pairing at a time.
Max Rego, on the randomness of Royal St. George’s, and the possibilities that poses for the 2021 Open Championship.
Andrew Perry, on spending the best four years of your life in the world’s best golf town.
After growing up in competitive golf, the end of Brett Dixon’s college career left him searching for his place in the game.
In the midst of an uncertain summer, Hunter Peirson found the heart of the game in 2020.
Jeff Kissel, on five weeks of golf as a stranger in a strange land at the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Joe McInerney, on the impact made by a California program that attacks one of golf’s biggest barriers to entry: cost.
Mike Eovino has always been proud of his hardscrabble golf upbringing. He still is. But he realized recently that white privilege made even his origin possible.
In between jobs, and at a personal and professional crossroads, Andy Kingman made a detour at Sea Island to ponder the paths before him and behind.
Sean Melia’s glowing dispatch from the newly renovated Charleston Municipal Golf Course, rebuilt in the style of master Golden Age architect Seth Raynor.
With a father under hospice care, Ben Shaw reflected on his role as his father’s son during the last round he played during his father’s life.
Damon Noisette, on the continuing failure of golf media to shine a critical light on the game’s racial inequities.
Leif Skodnick on a morning loop with little-known, rookie tour pro Heath Slocum, and the roads their lives took afterward.
Desi Isaacson, with an insider’s view on Rob Collins’ and Tad King’s renovation of the Links at Overton Park in Memphis.
Geoff Manton, on the struggle to persuade his club’s membership to support restoring their 129-year-old golf course.
After years on the shelf, Chris Parsons took on the balance between returning to golf and living in the big city.