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Slow Play Revisited

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. Sam Snead After the discussion of slow play here a few days ago—it is a topic that frequently ignites our... Read more

Planet Golf

"Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve." Dan Jenkins For a mulligan on our course rankings in the May issue check out John Huggan's re-ordering... Read more

Best Route to Tour

"Golf." Doug Sanders, asked what he majored in at college. Hank Haney argued in the March issue that the best route to the tour was, gulp, not college. For a younger player with the ability and burning desire to be... Read more

Questioning the 100 Greatest

"Fifty percent of the fairways we play on today are better than ninety percent of the greens we played on thirty years ago." Jim Ferree, in the Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations Our course rankings in the May issue continue... Read more

Hot List Question

Properly fitted clubs are the only part of improved golf that anyone can buy. Tommy Armour The Hot List landed in January (Golf Digest February Issue), but in North Carolina, the subject of equipment buying remains warm. Matthew Buntyn, a... Read more

Money Earnings Comparisons

To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometime. —Colin Montgomerie Not sure what moved reader Bob Baima to bring this to our attention today. Perhaps the recent reference here... Read more

America's 100 Greatest

"The ardent golfer would play Mt. Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top." Pete Dye You’ve had time to absorb the 100 Greatest, the 100 Greatest Public and our Best-in-State lists. And time to react. Great question from reader... Read more

Shaun to Kyle

I'm more proud of my reputation than the fact that I won a lot of tournaments. Byron Nelson Last week, Kyle Lograsso, the little boy fighting ocular cancer who was the subject of Dave Kindred's moving profile in May, got... Read more

Slow Play, again

"By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport." Julius Boros, quoted in The Future of Golf, by Geoff Shackelford It's the beginning of the season up here in... Read more

Tiger's Message to Kyle

"Hey, Kyle...Stay strong and keep practicing." Tiger Woods Through Golf Digest Contributing Editor Mark Soltau, comes this message from Tiger Woods to Kyle Lograsso, the 4-year-old profiled by Dave Kindred in the May issue. Kyle, who suffers from ocular cancer,... Read more

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