[Author’s Note: This story also appears at Golf Course Trades Magazine] SOUTHPORT, MERSEYSIDE, ENGLAND – The Open Championship – the de facto world championship of golf – returns this summer to the northwest coast of England, a cradle of the game and home to eight of the most venerable and challenging links on the planet. Three of those clubs – Royal Birkdale...
LYTHAM ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND – It was somewhere just off the sixth fairway of Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club when, lost amidst the heaving sea of shaggy, marram-grassed hills, I felt the metaphoric lightning strike. It was electrifying how much fun I was having. I had no idea where the green was; it was made blind by dunes towering above me on...