Features

Watson in his Element

Potentially the greatest sports story ever came within an eight-foot putt of being told after the 2009 British Open. Just six weeks shy of his 60th birthday, one of the game’s true champions was poised to eclipse his finest hour 32 years earlier on the same stretch of Scotland’s west coast. Alas it was not to be, but what a show he put on! Paul Trow interviews the serial winner who will now also be remembered for coming second

Playground in Paradise

Bermuda has more golf courses per square mile than anywhere else in the world. Paul Trow and Jon Edwards marvel at how this delectable quart has been squeezed into such a delicate pint pot

Chasing the Aurora Borealis

The editor spends more than a few nights standing outside alone in the cold staring at the sky and waiting for something he wouldn’t see. It wasn’t a waste of time. Trust me

Playing Country

“Anything you want to add?”
I ask, preparing to put my notepad and recorder away. Relaxing backstage before a gig in Santa Ynez, California, country music star Vince Gill thinks for a second, then lights up and enthusiastically offers, “Long live the King!”
Famous as a musician and humanitarian, Vince Gill is also a killer on the golf course. This October, he spared us a few minutes for a pre-show chat about golf, life, music and his favorite celebrity golf partner.
Long live the King, indeed

Arnie Answers

One day after watching President Barack Obama authorize awarding him The Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor, and one hour after having a decaying molar yanked, Arnold Palmer sat down with Kingdom correspondent Chris Rodell at his Latrobe office

Instruction

Driving Ambition

Innsbrook’s head pro, Martha Faulconer, can’t give you Palmer’s distinctive rocket off the tee, but she can offer a few tips on developing a drive of your own. Patrick Jones looks at the long game…