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With Spring in the air and golfers trekking to their favorite links, what better time to take a look at numerous, exclusive golf stories published in HOFN.com. | by Jim Huber
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Kauai, Hawaii – I had gone to the top of the world to wait for the tsunami. They had whispered it might come. And so I climbed to the 15th tee box at Poipu Bay on a magnificent morning on the island of Kauai to watch and wait. I was there for the Grand Slam of Golf but suddenly expecting a slam of a completely different kind. | | by Mark Maloney
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Lexington, Kentucky – I always wanted to be a golf professional. When I was a student at Lafayette High School, in my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, I had stock responses when I didn't know the answer to a test question. I'd put "Ben Hogan" or "Sam Snead" on my paper. Some of the teachers got a kick out of that, I think. I'm 74 now, and my knees keep me from walking courses. But I still enjoy playing. And I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but "Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters." The reality of the title – the biggest thrill I've had in golf – is something that can never be taken away. | | by Rich Lerner
HOFMAG.com Exclusive The curled up cigarette danced with the wind across the vacant lot, my thoughts running after it toward a time when golf wrapped its arms around me in an unusual way. In the mid 1950s, my father and three friends opened a miniature golf course, driving range and a fully-lighted par three, a side business for Les Lerner, Jack Lesavoy, Sheldon Merman and Murray Saltzman. In the aftermath of World War II, the Sheldons and the Murrays, college educated sons of the Abes and the Sols who had made good from their meager immigrant lot, were free to take their swings at what must have seemed to their fathers to be such frivolous pursuits. But it made a bit of sense. | | by Bill Sendell
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Keep the ball below the hole: All course architects have designed their greens to be receptive to a good shot. Therefore, there are not many greens that slope from front to back, unless it allows for a run-up shot (no trouble in front of the green). In most cases, the green will slope from back to front meaning putts from short of the hole will be much easier than putts from behind the hole | | by Jim Huber
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Atlanta, Georgia – If you think back very carefully, you might be able to pick this moment out of your vault of meaningless moments. It was the final round of the 2003 PGA Championship at the Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York. Shaun Micheel and Chad Campbell had hit the final two drives of the day, both stalking an improbable victory. One of them would soon come away with his first major. | | by Gil Vieira, Publisher
HOFMAG.com Exclusive St. Augustine, Florida (October 30, 2006) – On a beautiful October evening in St. Augustine, Florida, I finally figured out this whole Hall of Fame business. Since the conception of our magazine more than a year ago, I have immersed myself in the Hall of Fame industry. I have visited numerous Halls of Fame from Cooperstown to Nashville, from Canton to San Diego. I always marvel at the greatness of those memorialized in each exhibit. But it didn’t hit me until Monday night at the Golf Hall of Fame Inductions what these Halls were really about. It all came together that night. It all made sense. One man put it in perspective for me, and then during the course of a memorable evening, others brought it to life. | | by Frank Pace
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Burbank, California – Their pear shaped bodies aside, watching Phil Mickelson at the 72nd hole of the US Open, it was hard not to think about Billy Casper. Casper won the first of his two US Opens at the same Winged Foot Golf Club in 1959; he won his second seven years later on a back nine more remembered for Arnold Palmer's incoming 39 than the brilliant 32 posted by Casper. As the 2006 US Open will be remembered as the one Mickelson lost – rather than the Open that Geoff Ogilvy won – the 1966 Open, at the Olympic Club, is marked more for Palmer's collapse than Casper's comeback. | | by Ann Liguori
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Southhampton, New York – Michelle Wie, when she is not practicing her near-perfect swing, deciding what subjects to take in her up-coming senior year in high school, or making decisions on her busy schedule and career, must chuckle and shake her head when she reads her press and hears the criticism. Perhaps her reaction is a testament to her young age, sense of humor and patience. The comments from the traditional thinkers, or more accurately in some cases, from the Neanderthals, would drive any other progressive thinker, or untarnished mind – crazy. | | by Jim Huber
HOFMAG.com Exclusive Wiral, England – This ancient place called Wallasey Golf Club just down Bayswater Road from Hoylake is a bit like a movie set. Like something one would find along a desert highway somewhere in the American west, a front for yesterday's heroes. One-dimensional, a framed portrait, as though you might turn the corner and find nothing behind it but today. For surely as you approach the edges, you seem to be entering a world of wool knickers and mashies. Though sparkling new cars sit in the front parking lot, they might as well be carriages. | | by Scott Gummer
HOFMAG.com Exclusive San Francisco, California – The last time Royal Liverpool Golf Club hosted British Open, 39 years ago, the talk of the town was its Fab Four and their recently released album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This month golf's Big Five – Messrs. Woods, Mickelson, Els, Singh, and Goosen – look to make beautiful music with their mod instruments when they play the biggest golf gig of them all. The Big Five is by no means the most exclusive club in golf. That honor belongs to a club that boasts just nine members, some of which go decades without getting to play. | | by Gene Frenette
HOFMAG.com Exclusive It's hard to dispute the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Scotland as the sport's most famous landmark. But a corridor of northeast Florida is making an Arnold Palmer-like charge up the leader-board. Anybody looking for the ultimate golf destination on the American side of the Atlantic would be hard pressed to find a better target than a 25-mile area nestled between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. | | by Barbara Golden
HOFMAG.com Exclusive St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city, offers visitors a unique blend of Florida sunshine, Mediterranean architecture, incredible beaches, unparalleled history and some of the best golf to be found anywhere. It is a place recognized for both its history and its hospitality. Selected by CNN as one of the Top 10 historic destinations in the nation, additional honors were awarded to St. Augustine in 2006 when AAA named it one of the ten most "walkable" cities in North America. | | Discover the World Golf Hall of Fame at World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida. | |
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