Blog: Editors' Blog
- John Atkinson
- We got a couple of very nice notes on the Golf Digest US Open Challenge special on NBC Sunday afternoon and contest winner John Atkinson. As one of 56,374 entrants in the Golf Digest contest,...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- U.S. Open Contest
- We continue to get interesting comment on the U.S. Open Contest, which will conclude on June 6th when Tony Romo, Matt Lauer and Justin Timberlake join contest winner John Atkinson at Torrey Pines. Most of...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- US Open Contest
- Kurt Rightmyer of Los Osos, California, is one of many readers to question our Final Five choices in the US Open Contest. We've heard that their handicaps are too low (see previous posts here) and...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- US Open Contest passes 13,000
- Our U.S. Open Contest, through which one lucky reader will play Torrey Pines under Open conditions in front TV cameras the weekend before next June's Open, has reached 13,067--a heck of lot of Walter Mittys....
Blog: Editors' Blog
- Is Equitable Stroke Control Equitable?
- For Tim Fulton of Davie, Florida, the U.S. Open Contest, and Guy Yocom's June-issue story in Golf Digest on what constitutes a 10-handicapper, unearthed a great deal of resentment about the USGA Handicap system. After...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- What is a 10 Handicapper?
- When the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge is played at Torrey Pines on the eve of the U.S. Open, we'll see a test that is perfect in scale. A 10-handicapper trying to break 100 at...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- US Open Contest Finalists
- I love this letter from Stewart Thomson of Newport Beach, California. In it he reports on a pre-test of the whole US Open contest: Can a 10-handicap golfer break 100 on the Open course under...
Magazine
- 2009 U.S. Open Contest
- Check out videos that were sent in by U.S. Open contest entrants
Magazine
- 2009 U.S. Open Contest
- Check out videos that were sent in by U.S. Open contest entrants
Magazine
- 2009 U.S. Open Contest
- Check out videos that were sent in by U.S. Open contest entrants
Blog: Editors' Blog
- Last Word on US Open Contest
- Jason Kauflin of Milwaukee writes with a last word on the US Open contest and his hope for how we might change the contest next year. He thinks we were "unfair" in the way we...
Blog: Editors' Blog
- US Open Challenge Reactions
- Letters and stories continue on Sunday's US Open Challenge. Reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, especially toward our amateur winner, John Atkinson. On her About.com Lung Cancer blog, Dr. Lynne Eldridge wrote: I have to credit...
