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Four decades of byline work. Nearly a thousand features, columns, and essays in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, GOLF Magazine, Men’s Health, Outside, Travel + Leisure Golf, and many others. Remember print?
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Hand-picked from the long file. Read them at the outlets that ran them.
“A driving downpour at Old Head Golf Links soaked through Tim Lang’s rain suit, blew in his face as he lined up daunting shots along cliffs above the gray Atlantic, and made it difficult to hold his ground on a prosthetic leg in the wet grass.”
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“There was a time not so long ago when young sports fans wrote actual letters to their heroes and sometimes received a photo or even a note or letter in return.”
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“It’s a fine day on the southern Oregon coast—warm and clear, with a nip of salt on the breeze blowing in off the Pacific.”
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A sampling of the back catalog — courses and travel, profiles, instruction, equipment, and the occasional dispatch from the lifestyle desk.
A return to the Oregon coast course Jeff first reviewed in 1999, when a national golf magazine sent him out to a place no one had heard of yet.
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A guide to playing — and eating — your way through the Montana high country.
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Five rounds in the desert that won’t put a hole in your weekend or your scorecard.
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An Alameda muni reborn as a love letter to early-20th-century course design.
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A hotel review from the cobblestones of the Old Town, where every doorway has a thousand-year alibi.
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A roundup of clubs, balls, bags, and apparel that earned a spot in the rotation this year.
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Charles Dickens set A Tale of Two Cities in Paris and London. Jeff sets his at French Lick — the resort with two distinct lives, two springs, and two very different golf courses.
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There is a purity belonging to early-20th-century courses that more modern layouts can’t seem to match. Donald Ross’s French Lick is exhibit A.
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Warning: there will be no puns upon the name of Pete Dye in this story. Just the punishment Dye built into every yard of his French Lick course.
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The Golf Road Warriors love nothing more than discovering a resort where everything has been done right. Pronghorn is one of those.
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Eight miles from the wild-west town of Sisters, Oregon lies a residential resort community whose two courses earn every superlative they get.
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A round at one of central Oregon’s most water-hazarded layouts — bring extra balls, bring extra patience.
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Golf being a Scottish tradition, most courses can claim some connection to the game’s roots. Tetherow earns the lineage honestly.
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A dispatch from a course that earns the Dire Straits reference and then some.
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A short, opinionated essay on a corner of hospitality nobody else is reviewing.
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When it comes to education, some students excel at math while others respond to philosophy class. Golf instruction works the same way.
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A lesson in the desert with one of the country’s most decorated teaching pros.
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How instructors are adapting the swing for veterans rebuilding their games — and themselves — on the practice tee.
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A profile of the country’s most academic approach to growing the game one student at a time.
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A reported piece on one of the more ambitious junior-development experiments in the post-Tiger era.
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Two service members, two paths back to the game, two stories worth telling slowly.
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A short, sharply observed profile of one of golf broadcasting’s great voices.
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Several custom fittings later, Jeff finds the one that finally moved the needle.
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A field test from a writer who has put more golf shirts through the airline-bag treatment than most.
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Apparel built for the desert, tested where it matters — on a course in 105°.
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An essay on the small, irrational rituals every serious golfer secretly keeps.
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A brewery crawl through central Oregon, led by a national beer expert and one perfectly mediocre golfer.
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A short reverie on the soundtrack of golf in the Old Country — and what we lose when we mute it.
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A dispatch from the table at a resort that takes its kitchen as seriously as its first tee.
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A wry field report from one of Vegas’s more colorful tee-time experiments.
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A short story for a magazine that has been running them since Norman Rockwell was on the cover. Contemporary fiction, slow burn.
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“Traveling… it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”— Ibn Battuta
