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Woman bending golf club

The Dirty Groove Vol. 12

When Under The Pressure, it goes left

Re-Tee: 2008 U.S. Open

Re-Teed: 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines

From practice round folklore to the birth of Rickie’s orange pants and 91 unforgettable holes, this one deserves a Re-Tee

Some obstacles—like Black Betty—are too tall an order for the collective to tackle without professional help. But with each burn pile, the Brough Creek on the ground gets closer to the one they’ve drawn up.

Brough Creek National

From message board idea to functioning golf course to the pages of TGJ No. 10, Brough Creek National is every armchair architect’s dream

Oregon, Silvies Valley Ranch

Conceptually Speaking

Nothing like an eight-hour drive to consider the lengths we’ll go to play something new

Bill Coore

Bill Coore

One of golf's most innovative designers doesn't build courses. He finds them

Brough Creek National, Mark Robinson

Trial by Fire

Brough Creek National isn’t some handmade one-off. It’s Ben Hotaling’s model for the future

Ohoopee Sunrise

The Match Club

Peeling back the layers of Ohoopee, the revolutionary course where no one gives a damn what you shot

VinnyLinks, First Tee of Nashville

The Playground Drawings

A chance discovery was just one of the events that led to a Donald Ross gem at the Nashville First Tee

turbogolf

High on the Crime

No boundaries, no fear, no shirts: Welcome to turbogolf

The One Less Travelled

The One Less Traveled

Reckless abandon, long odds and Mike Strantz: An oral history of Tobacco Road Golf Club

Turf patch

Dry Run

How the world’s first completely artificial turf course never got built

The Bad Little 9 at Scottsdale National Country Club

Challenge Day

Redefining golf masochism through nine sadistic little holes

St Andrews, the Old Course, reverse seventh

A Hard Left

The (reverse routing) 7th at Old Course, St. Andrews. Par 4 - 330, 295

Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California

Here’s a Concept: Play Real Golf

In praise of 18 proper holes

Long Island, Peconic Bay, National

10 Hours in Heaven

A life-altering journey to the National

A prime example of triangulation on full display at Lawsonia Links in Wisconsin

This Number Adds Up

Why a four-hole loop should be the new short-course standard

The Dirty Groove Vol. 11

Welcome to 2020

The Lost Strantz Tapes - Mike Gibbons

The Lost Strantz Tapes

While reporting TGJ No. 10’s, “The One Less Travelled,” contributor Jay Revell stumbled upon a treasure trove of unearthed footage featuring the late architect Mike…

10 Hours in Heaven

Bob Ford

He’s watched Ben Hogan write checks to settle debts, walked off Arnie’s home course rather than breaking the King’s record and ran the merchandise tent…

The Dirty Groove Vol. 10

Take me back to Tobacco Road

An Incomplete Biography

Bizarre Golf History

Who holds the rightful claim to America’s first golf club? How did three different players lose in match play after an ace? Which major champion…

Game Improvement

Tony Jacklin in a locker room during the Florida Citrus Open at Rio Pinar Country Club, Orlando, Florida

Swing Thoughts

Whether they’re beautiful and effective or a form of psychological warfare, everyone has a swing thought. On our latest podcast, host Tom Coyne asks a…

Mac O' Grady, 1984 Players Championship

The Dirty Groove Vol. 9

Doing What I Can to salvage bogey

Landfall

Golf and the Climate Crisis

Inspired by the frightening story of Scotland’s Montrose Golf Links in TGJ No. 9, host Tom Coyne sets out to see how others in golf…