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Golf is a pastime of the open air—“a blowing away of mental cobwebs,” runs the famous phrase—and in golf there is, or ought to be, no place for the cheat, the ignoramus, or the opportunist where the rules are concerned. It is impossible to eradicate cheating entirely and there will always be some golfers eager to profit by the letter of the law to the detriment of the spirit. But I believe the great majority of golfers are men and women enjoying the game for the game’s sake and willing to obey both letter and spirit. GEOFFREY COUSINS

Anyone who has been privileged to play such courses as Prestwick, St.Andrews, Dornoch or North Berwick in Scotland cannot forget the joys of tantalizing little hummocks and the golfing appearance they give those courses. Over and over again, my American friends who have played those British courses remark to me on the charming variation one gets in lies on fairways and the shots up to the hole where hummocks exist.
TOM SIMPSON

Anyone who has been privileged to play such courses as Prestwick, St.Andrews, Dornoch or North Berwick in Scotland cannot forget the joys of tantalizing little hummocks and the golfing appearance they give those courses. Over and over again, my American friends who have played those British courses remark to me on the charming variation one gets in lies on fairways and the shots up to the hole where hummocks exist.
TOM SIMPSON

Anyone who has been privileged to play such courses as Prestwick, St.Andrews, Dornoch or North Berwick in Scotland cannot forget the joys of tantalizing little hummocks and the golfing appearance they give those courses. Over and over again, my American friends who have played those British courses remark to me on the charming variation one gets in lies on fairways and the shots up to the hole where hummocks exist.
TOM SIMPSON

The rare combination of head and heart is why no one in golf can reach more people more quickly and with more cooperation than Tim Rosaforte. Along with having the cellphone numbers of hundreds of pros on the men’s and women’s world rankings, Tim has the numbers of their agents, swing coaches, caddies, trainers, parents, spouses, siblings, best friends, college coaches and teammates, etc. Watching Tim work his cell on a Sunday night against a hard deadline would have had Hildy Johnson in awe. JAIME DIAZ

The rare combination of head and heart is why no one in golf can reach more people more quickly and with more cooperation than Tim Rosaforte. Along with having the cellphone numbers of hundreds of pros on the men’s and women’s world rankings, Tim has the numbers of their agents, swing coaches, caddies, trainers, parents, spouses, siblings, best friends, college coaches and teammates, etc. Watching Tim work his cell on a Sunday night against a hard deadline would have had Hildy Johnson in awe. JAIME DIAZ

The rare combination of head and heart is why no one in golf can reach more people more quickly and with more cooperation than Tim Rosaforte. Along with having the cellphone numbers of hundreds of pros on the men’s and women’s world rankings, Tim has the numbers of their agents, swing coaches, caddies, trainers, parents, spouses, siblings, best friends, college coaches and teammates, etc. Watching Tim work his cell on a Sunday night against a hard deadline would have had Hildy Johnson in awe. JAIME DIAZ

The rare combination of head and heart is why no one in golf can reach more people more quickly and with more cooperation than Tim Rosaforte. Along with having the cellphone numbers of hundreds of pros on the men’s and women’s world rankings, Tim has the numbers of their agents, swing coaches, caddies, trainers, parents, spouses, siblings, best friends, college coaches and teammates, etc. Watching Tim work his cell on a Sunday night against a hard deadline would have had Hildy Johnson in awe. JAIME DIAZ

In the locker room last Sunday at Heron Bay, a reporter approached Fuzzy Zoeller with some advice. No tape recorder was running. The notepad was in the back pocket. “It would have been better,” I said, “if you just told them you made a mistake, you apologized for it and said it was time to move on.” Fuzzy didn’t like the advice. He didn’t like being told he should apologize for something he already had apologized for. He didn’t like being told he should suck it up, swallow his pride, play the game, kill them with kindness. He had his own ideas on media awareness, and his view was different than mine. TIM ROSAFORTE

In the locker room last Sunday at Heron Bay, a reporter approached Fuzzy Zoeller with some advice. No tape recorder was running. The notepad was in the back pocket. “It would have been better,” I said, “if you just told them you made a mistake, you apologized for it and said it was time to move on.” Fuzzy didn’t like the advice. He didn’t like being told he should apologize for something he already had apologized for. He didn’t like being told he should suck it up, swallow his pride, play the game, kill them with kindness. He had his own ideas on media awareness, and his view was different than mine. TIM ROSAFORTE

The men who operate massive machines that contour the landscape into features suitable for golf are known as shapers. In reality, they are sculptors, artists of the earth, the very best of whom are capable of taking the most sketchy of plans from an architect and transforming them into an artistic and functioning reality. BILL COORE

The men who operate massive machines that contour the landscape into features suitable for golf are known as shapers. In reality, they are sculptors, artists of the earth, the very best of whom are capable of taking the most sketchy of plans from an architect and transforming them into an artistic and functioning reality. BILL COORE