| In 1950, Bill Davis, Howard Gill and Jack Barnett founded Golf Digest. All this year we’ll be celebrating their intertwined history with the modern game.
In a weaving and wonderful essay, How We Got Here, Contributing Writer Shane Ryan traces a line from Charlie Sifford to Tiger Woods to Harold Varner that transcends race to describe the trajectory of all professional golf. In the first installment of our “The Best I Ever Did” series, Writer-at-Large Jaime Diaz interviews Lee Trevino about the fleeting moment in 1971 when he seemed to have the game totally figured out, winning three national opens in as many weeks. Golf Digest has always covered the recreational game with as much enthusiasm as the pros, and our new ranking of the 75 Coolest Records in Golf has a few you’d expect but many more that will astonish. Making a case to settle the most important record of the past seven and a half decades, Editor-in-Chief Jerry Tarde explains how the golf world collectively failed math in tabulating Jack Nicklaus’ major lead over Tiger Woods.
As for me, I’m just a kid who once learned the game by devouring every section of Breaking 100/90/80/70. Now it strikes me the most magical number in golf is actually 75. I realize some high handicappers might feel excluded, though all I can say is, tee it forward if you won’t hear out my deeper explanation.
Happy Birthday Golf Digest. |
