Doug Sanders, a 20-time winner on the PGA tour, passed away Sunday, April 12, at age 86. He came close to major victories, most famously missing a short putt for a win at the 1970 Open Championship at St Andrews only to lose in the following day’s playoff to Jack Nicklaus. Golf writer John Feinstein pays tribute to the legendary […]

Washington Post writers Thomas Boswell and Barry Svrluga offer some intriguing highlights into this most singular of all golf tournaments. Boswell chronicles the highly-charged emotional storms the tournament can create, while Svrluga revisits Tiger Woods 2019 victory. He was simply smarter than anyone else that day, Svrluga says. Click here to see Boswell’s story on the Washington Post website. Click […]

Golf writers and magazines are looking for ways to fill the loss of tee times in our lives with interesting features on golf history. Yes, that’s right – history. Without current events to feed the golf bug, almost everyone is doing what GHS’ers love to do – explore the game’s rich past as a way of enhancing their enjoyment of […]

Golf in many parts of the country is shut down on orders to stay at home, the idea being to “flatten the curve” of the spread of the coronavirus. Golfers are certainly feeling the itch to get out. In some areas, it appears they are. Jim McCabe, writing for the PGATour.com, explored how the game fared during earlier crises, such […]

Kansas City Area Hickory Golf members Mike Needleman and son, Mikey, had high hopes of playing together at the hickory group’s inaugural Match Play Tournament this April. But just as several other events have had to cancel due to the coronavirus, so, too, Kansas, and the father and son duo must wait until next year to test their hickory play in Kansas […]