john barton: Search Results: Golf Digest

Magazines / Golf Digest Interview

Web-extra Interview: The former Secretary of State embraces golf and 'my inner Phil Mickelson'

June 2011

By John Barton

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Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

In the summer of 2004 I flew to Pyongyang, a city the color of damp concrete, for what was laughingly described as the first ever North Korean Open (organized by Beijing-based Koryo Tours). The eight-man...

Monday, 1/24/2011 at 9:22AM

Posted by Sam Weinman

keywords:: 2011,; Kim Jong-Il,; john barton,; latest news,; north

Magazines / Planet Golf

A strange journey, with clubs, to North Korea. By John Barton

May 2005

By John Barton

keywords:: Golf travel,; Pyongyang Golf Course,; Golf Digest,; North Korea,; John Barton

Golf Tours & News / Local Knowledge

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- It wouldn't be Open week without a wager or two with a British bookmaker--an act that used to involve scribbling on a betting slip in a smoke-filled room adorned with TVs...

Wednesday, 7/14/2010 at 9:12AM

Posted by Sam Weinman

keywords:: betting,; john barton,; latest news,; old course,; open championship

Magazines

Interesting times: Many things are changing fast in China -- including golf

August 2008

By John Barton

keywords:: Golf in the Year of the Rat,; China,; Beijing,; John Barton

Magazines / British Open Preview

The Open returns to the legendary bumps and hollows of the Old Course

July 2010

By John Barton

keywords:: John Barton,; Golf Digest,; St. Andrews,; British Open,; Old Course

Magazines

Delving into Golf Digest's archives turns up a curious relic: A beauty contest

June 2010

By John Barton

keywords:: big four,; Butch Harmon,; cover girls,; Miss Golf Digest,; beauty contest

Magazines / 60th Anniversary

From Astaire to Zaharias, these icons, avid golfers all, found fame (and infamy) off the course. On it, they searched for solace

March 2010

By John Barton, Craig Bestrom

keywords:: 60 Most Famous Golfers,; Barack Obama,; Fred Astaire,; Humphrey Bogart,; Winston Churchill

Magazines

An annual match of Oxford & Cambridge alumni in Rye, on the southeast coast of England, might be the game's most authentic event

By John Barton

keywords:: Golf,; Golf Digest,; The Presidents' Putter Annual Match,; John Barton,; Rye

Golf Courses & Golf Travel

At the China Open John Barton meets Zhang Lian-wei -- China's first pro golfer and the first mainland Chinese golfer to play in any of the game's four major championships.