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20–20 Vision Welcome to the 20th edition of Kingdom—those very words alone give me cause for reflection because it is now nearly nine years since we first launched this publication.

It only seems like yesterday that we set out on our journey to bring all the best golf and lifestyle news and information to you, our valued readers. But I believe it has been a worthwhile journey, especially at a time when the game has been changing so much due to the arrival of an army of new young stars on the tournament scene and whirlwind advances in the technologies governing playing equipment and also course design, construction and maintenance.

Who knows what the years ahead hold in store, but I expect the game to grow and flourish throughout the world like never before during the next decade. Certainly, all these developments and trends will be chronicled in detail by Kingdom over the next 20 issues, and more.

If Kingdom reaching the age of 20 is a landmark, so too was the half-century we have been celebrating in 2011 since the opening of Bay Hill Club & Lodge, our winter home down in Orlando, Florida. The highlight of our year at Bay Hill, as ever, was the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard back in March. At the end of an exciting tournament, which fluctuated back and forth, we congratulated a very worthy winner in Scotland’s Martin Laird. Martin is somewhat of a new name to many golf fans, but it was his second victory on the PGA Tour and I believe he has a great future in the game.

Even more certain of a bright future is Rory McIlroy. What a remarkable performance in our Open at Congressional in June. I was very impressed not only with Rory’s ability but also by his calm and steady demeanor at such a young age. Northern Ireland has to be ecstatic about the last two years.

Another event in 2011 that will be long remembered and celebrated in the United Kingdom was the Royal wedding. It got us thinking about the influence the Royal Family had over many generations on the popularization of golf across the British Isles and further afield.

Alas, 2011 will also be remembered for the sad passing of Seve Ballesteros, one of the true giants of the game and a wonderful human being, at the ridiculously premature age of 54.

I always enjoyed Seve’s company and even though he and I were from different generations we had a few on-course battles—most notably in the 1983 World Match Play Championship when he pitched in for an eagle at the last to deny me what would have been a famous victory. We pay tribute to the life and achievements of Seve, who will be sorely missed by everyone who loves the game.

Other articles I would commend from this Kingdom include our profile of financial services wizard Warren Stephens, whose late father Jack, a former chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, was a good friend of mine, and our trip down Memory Lane to mark the 50th anniversary of my first British Open win at Royal Birkdale.

Perhaps my favorite, though, is a report of a recent hunting trip I went on in South Dakota with my son-in-law Roy Saunders, grandson Sam and a few other associates courtesy of another good friend, Dave Bockorny. Needless to say a good time was had by all.

Hopefully, a good time will be had by all Kingdom readers on and around the golf course this summer.

Enjoy the read,

Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Palmer Foreword—The King's Introduction Publisher’s Letter—Anniversaries and Champions Editor’s Letter—Pedal Power

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King’s Subjects—Catching up with The Boss A World Away—Old school luxury on a train in the Canadian Rockies Go West—British Columbia, wild and refined Kurt Russell—American star shines on course Golden Jubilee—50 years since Arnie first hoisted the Claret Jug 18 Second Holes—A dream roundup of 2nd tees Steady Hand—Warren Stephens and a legacy of good decisions Victorian Pleasures—Australia hosts golf, wine and the President’s Cup in 2011 Liquid Asset—RBC’s commitment to responsibility Farewell Seve—A friend pays tribute to Senor Ballesteros Miked Up—The USGA’s executive director gives us the inside scoop Life in Pictures—Scenes from Arnie’s major wins In Play—Ernst & Young can keep you in the game Gladiators’ Paradise—A legacy of competition at iconic Pebble Beach Good Times in the Badlands—South Dakota, Arnold Palmer, and good hunting

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Half-Century Landmarks A couple of 50th AnniversAries have been of particular interest to the team here at Kingdom as we completed our 20th edition.

First, it is exactly half a century since Arnold Palmer won the first of his two [British] Open titles at Royal Birkdale in northwest England. That victory established the championship’s credibility amongst Mr. Palmer’s peers on the PGA Tour and opened the floodgates to American participation in the game’s oldest tournament.

It is also 50 years ago since the founding of Bay Hill Club & Lodge, the golf course and community in Orlando, Florida, which played host in March to yet another exciting Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard.

Since then, we have witnessed two astonishing major championships—the 75th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in April and the 111th U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in June. Both tournaments were dominated by the exploits of one Rory McIlroy, a name that’s now on every golfer’s lips. The young Northern Irishman suffered a heart-rending final-day meltdown in the Masters having led by four shots after 54 holes to hand the green jacket to fast-finishing South African Charl Schwartzel, but bounced back spectacularly from this disappointment two months later by storming to an eight-shot triumph in the U.S. Open.

The quality of McIlroy’s golf has spectators, pundits, players and former champions all drooling in disbelief. Not only that, his on-course demeanor, his obvious respect for the traditions of the game and the way in which he interacts with the galleries mark him out as the player the game can hang its hat on over the next two decades or so, and as a role model for everyone who plays professional sport. I, for one, can’t wait to see how he handles his next few major outings and how his fellow competitors attempt to handle him.

In many respects, McIlroy’s free-flowing swing and fearless approach reminded me of the player who initially sparked my interest in golf—the late, great Seve Ballesteros. The fact that Seve is no longer with us following a brave battle against cancer has left a massive hole in the lives of everyone who loves the game, but the glorious memories he left behind will never fade.

With the future of the game seemingly secure in the hands of McIlroy and the likes of Mr. Palmer’s grandson Sam Saunders, who did exceptionally well to qualify for his first U.S. Open appearance, it is certain that Seve’s legacy will burn brightly for many years to come.

Another generation of youngsters is inching its way toward the professional ranks, led by the 16 players who contested the 15th annual Palmer Cup between college students from the U.S. and Europe in June. Congratulations to Team USA for an impressive though narrow victory.

Finally, our best wishes go to Team Mulligan—consisting of Kingdom editor Reade Tilley, his friend Rick Shuart and our designers Leon Harris and Matt Halnan—who are training hard for an important cycling event in Miami later this year. It’s not quite the Tour de France, but a lot of pride will be at stake.

Matthew squire—Publisher

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Real Goals Poet Maya angelou once wrote, “Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”

That certainly worked for Arnold Palmer, who chased (and found) victory on the golf course, ultimately earning success as well. And it worked for a number of the people and companies we profile in this issue of Kingdom: Warren Stephens, the people at the Royal Bank of Canada, the team at Ernst & Young and others, all of whom found success through commitments to integrity and to building relationships with people, rather than by fixing solely on financial gains.

Of course, it’s never bad to have a little change in your pocket, and some comfort now and then is a well-deserved reward for hard work. Fortunately for those of us at Kingdom, comfort and hard work sometimes go hand in hand. Witness our recent toil driving the new Rolls-Royce Ghost (p124), riding a luxury train in the Canadian Rockies (p30), drinking exceptional libations (p156) and reviewing some of the finest toys and accessories available (p146)—all in the name of helping you spend your hard-earned cash in the most effective ways possible.

One of those ways can be found on p180 of this issue. In a twist of Angelou’s advice, my associates and I are embarking on a venture in which money is indeed the goal—though to be fair, we’re raising it for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children—and we certainly hope we’re successful. With the help of Cannondale bicycles, Lake shoes, Speedplay pedals, Sugoi clothing and a few others, yours truly and several other members of staff are going to cycle 100 miles this fall to showcase the importance of fitness on golf and to raise money for the hospital. Called “Team Mulligan” in honor of Mr. Palmer’s beloved dog, we’ll be chronicling our training and our eventual ride in the pages of Kingdom and online at teammulligan.com. Feel free to support us with a donation—or better yet, get on your bike and ride with us this November in Miami.

While money is indeed Team Mulligan’s goal, it’s not our only goal (or our ultimate goal), and we really do love cycling. I don’t know how well we’ll do it, but considering that none of us is really in Olympic-calibre shape and that we’ll all be wearing Lycra cycling wear, we’re sure you won’t be able to take your eyes off of us.

Here’s looking back at you,

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After another successful winter at Bay Hill, Arnold Palmer was happy to be back in Latrobe where his new Marriott Spring Hill Inn & Suites is under construction.

It was a gorgeous day to be in the place he’s always called home, a place where his name and influence resonates. He spoke with Kingdom correspondent Chris Rodell about golf, politics, recreation, and what he thinks about real royals

K i n g ’s Subjects Kingdom: Did you watch the royal wedding on TV? What did you think of it?

AP: I watched parts of it. I enjoyed it.

K: Do you ever wish you’d have had one of those big weddings like Will and Kate had?

AP: I don’t think I would be a good fit for something that lavish. That’s not my style!

K: Do you think America misses anything by not having a royal family?

AP: No. I think we have a President and a government that is pretty good. I suppose it could use some touching up here and there, but I like our system and I like the freedoms and traditions we have.

K: You have played golf with Prince Andrew at St. Andrews. Have you played with any other royals from around the world?

AP: I’ve played with Philip and the one that abdicated, King Edward VIII. We played Seminole.

K: 2011 is the 50th anniversary of your first win in the British Open at Royal Birkdale. What can you remember of that championship and how would you describe your thinking when you hit your famous shot out of the bush during the last round?

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AP: I was very conscious of the fact I’d lost The Open at St. Andrews and I was concentrating very intently on winning The Open. I just felt it was a must. That grass was thick and deep and it didn’t bother me at all.

I had all my strength and used every bit of it to hit that shot. And it came out very, very well! I have very fond memories of that championship.

K: Which of the majors that got away do you most regret?

AP: The Open in San Francisco (Olympic, 1966). It wasn’t a give away—Billy Casper won it. He played very well and beat me in a playoff. The other would be The Masters in ’61 when I had a one-shot lead at the last hole and made 6 allowing Gary Player to win.

K: Of your seven major championship victories, which one do you value the most and have the fondest memories of?

AP: I’d say the one you’re not considering a major. That would be the U.S. Amateur [Championship in 1954]. If I were counting, I’d count that one and I’d have to consider the British Amateur also. But the U.S. Amateur’s the one I consider my greatest victory. It meant everything to me and my career.

K: What about the ones counted among the seven?

AP: The U.S. Open was very special to me. The other is the Masters in 1964. Having won three, the one thing I wanted to do was walk up 18 with a comfortable lead and a smile on my face. That was a six-stroke margin of victory and it was a wonderful feeling.

K: Do you enjoy the Presidents Cup, which is going to be played in Australia later this year? How do you think it compares to the Ryder Cup? AP: I think it’s a situation that gives the opportunity for other nations to join in. There are a lot of similarities. It’s an international competition that creates a lot of interest. It doesn’t measure up to the stature of the Ryder Cup, but it is an outstanding team event in its own right.

K: Along with several other companies, APDC has thrown its hat into the ring to design the 2016 Olympic course in Brazil.

When will the decision be made and how much time will whoever is successful need to build the course?

AP: The time is critical as of right now. I have thrown my hat in the ring, but I’m not pursuing it as forcibly as I once was.

Certainly, I would love to have the opportunity to design the golf course for the Olympics, but there will be other times and other Olympics.

I’m hopeful if I hang around long enough I’ll have time to have one of my courses be featured as the venue for the Olympics.

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Palmer’s loss to Billy Casper (above) in the 1966 U.S. Open caused him some regret

“I’m not flying at the moment, but I’m going to be taking my physical again and give it some thought” K: What distinguishes the UMPQUA Bank Challenge as an event? Why do you participate in the tournament?

And could you please describe your friendship/rivalry with Peter Jacobsen?

AP: I have played in the Fred Meyer tournament with Peter for many years. They called and asked if I’d play.

I don’t play enough golf to really warrant playing. But I said I’d make an exception for this one. Peter and I have been good friends for a long time and I am happy to support him and the tournament.

K: Earlier this year you opted not renew your pilot’s license. Do you miss not being in the pilot seat or do you prefer to relax in the comfort of your own plane?

AP: I do miss it. I’m not flying at the moment, but I’m going to be taking my physical again and give it some thought. I had done it for a long time. I wasn’t giving it the full attention you need. If you’re going to fly you have to really be up to snuff so, yes, I’m considering getting back in the pilot’s seat again.

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K: Are you satisfied with the level of play in the Palmer Cup, and which players struck you as particularly impressive?

AP: I was very pleased with the caliber of golf I saw on both sides in the match this year. They are all extremely talented young players and I wouldn’t want to single any one out.

K: Which are your favorite sports stadiums and why?

AP: I think Pittsburgh has done very well with its professional football and its professional baseball park, in particular. The Pirates play in the best baseball stadium in the world. I had the opportunity to go to Real Madrid’s [stadium] in Spain and it’s a fantastic place. Really enjoyed it. But I have to stick with Pittsburgh right now. They do a wonderful job. Pittsburgh’s lucky to have those stadiums.

K: You’re serving as honorary chairman for the Mylan Classic for the second year in a row. How important is the tournament to Western Pennsylvania?

AP: Pittsburgh’s such a great town and a great city for golf.

We have so many outstanding courses around the city. I have some very good relationships with the people who organize the event. So all that comes together and makes me want to support the Mylan Classic. Plus, they give my grandson an exemption so I am happy to help out. The Nationwide Tour is the way of qualifying young men to come out and play the PGA tour. Those players are just a half-a-step behind the regular tour on ability. These golfers are all really great players and it is a great series of events that’s created a great interest in the game and has given a lot of people additional opportunities to earn a living playing golf.

K: Latrobe had a difficult winter. What do you, with an architect’s eye, look for when returning to the course after a long absence? What kind of improvements?

AP: I look at all golf courses with some aggressiveness and I look to see what I might do to make it even better. Not necessarily more difficult, but make it so the golfers can enjoy it more. And in today’s age where the ball flies so far I’m constantly looking at ways to give those big guys a greater challenge. And I look for natural beauties and things that will improve the environment and make it more appealing.

K: How are things coming along at the new Latrobe CC-affiliated Marriott Spring Hill Inn & Suites?

AP: We’re very excited about the new Marriott Spring Hill with 109 rooms. It’ll be most convenient to the airport and I think it’ll be a lot of fun. The other thing is we will have a friendly relationship with the Latrobe Country Club and that could be a very good thing for both the club and the hotel. I think it’s going to do very, very well.

K: Are you pleased with the shape and usage of The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve in the years since it opened in 2007?

AP: That is a marvel, an absolute marvel. People are coming to visit from everywhere. Without us even asking, people are sending donations and asking us to improve it and help make it better. Young people particularly enjoy it.

I think the future for the nature reserve is very bright.

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A presentation to Arnold and Winnie Palmer from Jack Stephens

K: You knew Jack Stephens (Stephens Financial, Chairman of Augusta National) quite well I think.

What was Jack like and do you know his son, Warren, whom we interview in this issue?

AP: I know Warren very well and we’re friends. And Jack Stephens was one of the great guys of all time. He was a fun-loving guy, an excellent businessman and an excellent mentor for Augusta. Bottom-line, he was just an all-around great guy and someone I enjoyed very much.

“We’re very excited about the new Marriott Spring Hill with 109 rooms.

It’ll be most convenient to the airport” K: Did you enjoy yourself at the Masters this year?

Was there any news about Gary Player joining you and Jack Nicklaus as an honorary starter in the future?

AP: I can’t predict anything about that. I get the feeling I’ll be asked back and I think Jack will, too. I don’t know what they’ll do regarding Gary joining us. Right now, I think they like the fact that Jack and I do it and play the par-3 tournament. It’s a pleasure for me to be asked and to participate.

K: You’ve hit so many nerve-wracking shots. How does the 1st tee at Augusta rank in terms of nervousness?

AP: As Augusta has been known to do, they do things very, very well. They elaborate on the important things.

I think that makes that tee shot pretty special for both Jack and me. And, yes, I absolutely do get the jitters!

When I don’t get the jitters I won’t be there.

K: What car are you currently driving and is there any particular new model that you have your eye on?

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AP: I...am...HIGHLY...opposed...to belly putters. Touching the body with one of your instruments shouldn’t be allowed. I have been against it from the beginning and I’ll always be against it. I am a traditionalist and think the game should be played the way it’s always been played. And I think the golf ball should be slowed down. I’m an old fashioned guy. I think we should stick to the stuff that’s always been there and not tinker too much with a game that’s always been so great at its most basic levels.

K: In a recent PGA Tour event, Webb Simpson called a shot on himself in the last round because his ball oscillated as he addressed a tap-in. He ended up losing in a playoff to Bubba Watson. Assuming there’s no intent to make a stroke at the ball or any deliberate attempt to improve the lie, do you think that if a player accidentally moves a ball as he addresses it he should be allowed to replace it to its spot with no penalty—as if he accidentally nudges it while preparing to tee off?

AP: I think that rule is being looked at and I don’t think it should be a penalty. He hadn’t addressed the ball and the ball moved and I’m not sure why he was penalized. I understand they are looking at making some changes regarding that rule and I look forward to hearing what they are.

K: In the event of a ball lying in a divot on the fairway, which happens a lot in the modern professional game, do you think there’s a case for this lie to be declared ground under repair, resulting in a free drop?

AP: As for the divots, that’s rub of the green. Your ability as a player should come into play. You should be able to play a shot out of a divot. You can call it bad luck, but I don’t think it should be called ground under repair. The ball should be played as it lies.

Mr. Palmer relaxes with some of the putters he has collected over the years

“You should be able to play a shot out of a divot. You can call it bad luck but it shouldn’t be called ground under repair” AP: I’m driving a SUV Cadillac. But I look at everything.

I’m very vulnerable to the new automotive campaigns coming out. I can be swayed by a good ad. I’m looking at everything. That means not just General Motors. I’m watching Ford, Chrysler, Mercedes—all the new stuff coming out. And I’m not just interested in speed; I’m looking at all the amenities. So much new stuff coming out, cars that park themselves and accident prevention systems. It’s very exciting.

K: This year it seems many pros have successfully used belly putters on Tour. Have you tried one? What are your thoughts on them?

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K: Also what is your view about players being allowed to repair spike marks on the line of their putts?

AP: Now, that’s a debatable area. There are very few spike marks with the soft spikes, but a lot of players are still wearing the hard spikes. I see spike marks and the game would be better if we all wore soft spikes.

K: Are you at all superstitious? Do you or did you ever carry a lucky charm or have a particular ‘lucky’ routine you followed when playing?

AP: I was fond of lucky coins when things were going well. I suppose today (Friday the 13th) is one of my superstitious days, but when I won the Masters I drew number 13 so that wasn’t all that bad. I never had a routine though. It never overwhelmed me.

K: When it comes to backyard BBQs, are you more of a hamburger guy, a hot dog guy, or a steak guy?

AP: I love hot dogs and I really love a good well cooked out hamburger with cheese melted on it and a good toasted bun. Delicious. It gets my mouth watering just thinking about it!

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The Rocky Mountaineer is a train journey that transports one not only through the immense beauty of Western Canada, but also through history, to a time when “luxury” meant more than just a mint on your pillow and “service” meant that there was nothing else to wish for. Kingdom’s James Gannon takes an amazing ride…

The journey begins with the whistle, officers from the train company stepping on a bellows that releases the same multi-timbre, throaty moan that has signaled the start of epic rail trips for nearly two centuries. The train— the Rocky Mountaineer—waits outside for its first run of the season, majestic and shining under a cool late-spring Vancouver sunrise. Inside the station, before the whistle sounds, children softly complain and wipe the sleep from their eyes, newlyweds and tour groups scramble to buy last-minute souvenirs from the gift kiosk, men pore over guidebooks and maps of Western Canada while their wives patiently sip coffee, and train staff adjust their smart uniforms and prepare to board passengers.

The whistle sounds and the adventure begins, with waves and good wishes and with that anticipationbuilding call:“All aboard.” For the next two days the train will take its fortunate charges from the cosmopolitan coastal elegance of Vancouver high into the rugged and startling interior beauty of the Canadian Rockies.

Everyone riding these rails will enjoy astounding views and unparalleled service, but those of us in first class— “GoldLeaf Service,” in Rocky Mountaineer parlance— will get something else as well: One of the world’s great train journeys.

The Rocky Mountaineer has its own station in Vancouver, a former rail maintenance building remodeled into a beautiful, contemporary structure with an old world feel belied by its 35-foot ceilings and bold glass-and-timber construction. It’s an appropriate place to embark on a grand trip, something between cathedral-esque and modern mountain lodge. Staff couldn’t be nicer, helping passengers onto the doubledecker GoldLeaf carriages (seating up top, dining below), and scheduling and organization couldn’t be more precise. Starting at the excellent Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver, we didn’t have to worry about our bags until we arrived at the magnificent castle known as the Fairmont Banff Springs. Train staff collected our luggage, organized buses to the station, and made sure we were on board when the train departed precisely at its scheduled time.

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The Train

Day One

The first thing one notices about the GoldLeaf passenger carriages is that the roof above the upperlevel seats is mostly glass, giving one the feeling of traveling in a moving atrium. Light fills the space, and there’s no feeling of confinement whatsoever.

On our first morning, a light mist coated the glass above us, but that quickly disappeared with the breeze as we got underway. Getting into our seats, my wife and I found we had more than enough room.

At just under 6’ tall, crossing legs and settling down a bit into the seat was no problem whatsoever. No issues with the seats in front of us, either, and all the seats recline. And though the wife took the window, it wasn’t really a noticeable difference from my own seat, what with the view on all sides and above basically unobstructed. The interior coloring and appointments of the cabin are modern yet discrete, which is appreciated in that the décor does not at all distract from the scenery outside. And should you wish to actually get the wind in your hair, there’s an outdoor viewing platform at the end of each carriage, just down a spiral staircase and out the door.

The first day of Rocky Mountaineer’s “First Passage to the West” trip takes you from Vancouver to Kamloops, your first and last stop in British Columbia. Vancouver is a beautiful city. In addition to rooftop gardens everywhere and lovely historic buildings, upgrades and new construction for the 2010 Olympics left the downtown waterfront area feeling cutting-edge, which it is. Furthermore, the city is a foodie’s paradise, with the numerous small neighborhoods offering excellent dining at all levels of culinary ambition. Departing Vancouver on the Rocky Mountaineer, one sees a different side of the city. Train trips out of urban areas often give passengers a sense of a city’s fundamental character with a window on its street art (also known as graffiti) but the walls and bridges of Vancouver aren’t covered in the same sort of aggressive tagging you find in, say, Philadelphia or New York. Instead, along the tracks we saw mostly well-composed paintings of Simpsons cartoon characters, a large heart with the words “I love you” painted inside, and a surprisingly nice rendering of the salutation, “Happy Valentine’s Day,” among other things. Hardly skulls and obscenities, and while Vancouver’s street-art youth might get a rough time from their American counterparts on their choice of subject matter, it certainly leaves the casually observing train passenger feeling rather tranquil during a morning departure into the lush, green wilderness beyond the city’s concrete walls.

For the two-day trip, GoldLeaf passengers are divided into two groups per carriage. One group eats before the other, and the next day it switches.

On the first day we were in the second seating for breakfast, and it couldn’t come soon enough—though we were served homemade scones and coffee shortly after boarding, both of which were excellent. The elegant lower portion of the carriage holds tidy dining banquettes, tables set with linens and polished silver.

We were seated with a couple from Eastern Canada, and while we talked I enjoyed a version of Eggs Benedict with a smoked meat and admirable Hollandaise well flavored with tarragon, while my wife enjoyed eggs with local salmon. There were a number of options from Executive Chef Frederic Couton, a French-born chef who trained at Michelin Star restaurants before sussing out how to create (and plate) top-shelf food in the pantrysized rolling train kitchens. Dishes were presented with as much attention to detail as I’ve seen in some of New York’s better restaurants, juices were fresh, and the coffee—often a point of issue with me—was good. Almost too full too move, we ascended the spiral staircase and settled back into our seats.

The Rocky Mountaineer follows the Fraser River out of Vancouver, running through the Fraser River Valley into deep forests and winding canyons.

Eventually, the scenery shifts and the thick green landscapes

Stunning views through the glass-topped carriage

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natural beauty rushes by, passengers enjoy it while comfortably, sipping on cocktail or glass of wine

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of the coastal and canyon regions turn to desert, more reminiscent of the High Sierra than of your typical British Columbia postcard. Fellow passengers said that they’d been told that the scenery on the second day, from Kamloops to Banff, was the real treat, but in all honesty the entire route is compellingly beautiful, and sites like the rushing waters of Hell’s Gate in the Fraser Canyon and the horizon’s numerous rises and drops through the Coast and Cascade Mountains bear that out. Sightings of deer came almost immediately upon leaving town, and there were enough large birds and flashes of “something” in the woods to keep cameras clicking and everyone oohing and ahhing all day.

Consider for a moment that while all of this natural beauty is rushing by, GoldLeaf passengers aren’t merely wedged onto a bench or plastered to the windows, as more conventional rail services in the U.S. might have it. Instead, they’re reclining in comfortable seats with a complimentary cocktail, glass of wine or other beverage in hand, watching the world unfold through the clear and inspiring glass dome that covers the carriage.

Cheese and fruit were served to us while awaiting our seating for lunch, and the wines—enjoyable selections from British Columbia—flowed unceasingly.

Western Canada’s rugged wilds are close enough to touch

When lunch came, it was almost too soon (though we certainly weren’t complaining). Pork tenderloin with onions and whipped garlic potatoes was accompanied by a papadum. The crisp is usually served with Indian food, but it complemented the decidedly Canadian fare and was both a surprising and enjoyable bit of creativity indicative of the fact that this is no ordinary train ride.

At the end of Day 1, just as the sun was starting to set, we came into a small series of lakes outside the town of Kamloops. On the distant bank of one of the lakes, we spotted a bear getting a late afternoon drink of water. We were too far away to trouble him, but it was a thrilling sight nonetheless. Eventually we rolled around the north side of Kamloops lake and saw the series of buildings that make up the now abandoned “Tranquille Sanatorium,” established in the early 20th century as the King Edward VII Tuberculosis Sanatorium and abandoned in the 1950s, today quiet and still in its lovely valley setting by the lake.

Day TWO After spending the night in Kamloops, during which we enjoyed a local pub called The Noble Pig, we rose and met our bus to re-board the Rocky Mountaineer. Again, we left our luggage in the room and it was managed for us. The second day unfolded much as the first, though this time we were more relaxed at the outset, enjoying our breakfast with a seemingly familiar comfort. The steady sound of the wheels on the rails and the extreme luxury of the journey made it easy to fall into a rhythm.

Having boarded the bus just after 6 a.m., the mix of coffee and fresh air on the train was stimulating, and a brief stint in the cold breeze on the viewing platform was pleasantly bracing, to say the least. Many of those on the train had been anxiously awaiting Day 2, and we soon learned why. We left the banks of the Fraser River for the tracks along its largest tributary, the Thompson River, and with it we left the scenic variation of the first day.

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Fairmont BanFF SpringS Set in the middle of Banff national park (a UnESCo World Heritage Site), this incredibly grand 1888 structure is fashioned after a Scottish Baronial Castle. With sweeping stone hallways and fantastically imposing Elegant dining and top food make for happy passengers

architecture, the Fairmont Banff Springs resort is as breathtaking as its setting, offering the best in

Rather than city to forest to desert to lakes, the second day’s journey is devoted almost wholeheartedly to the grandeur of the snow-capped Canadian Rockies.

Along the way, fueled again by the ever-flowing local wines and an excellent lunch of tender short ribs, we passed Craigellachie, which is where the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in 1885, cementing British Columbia’s promise to join the thenemerging new country of Canada, which it did in 1871.

Craigellachie itself was named for the Scottish ancestral home of Sir George Stephen, the railway’s first president.

Past that, there are notable waypoints at almost every mile. The dramatic Rogers Pass, at the summit in Glacier National Park, offers numerous tunnels and wildlife in abundance. Kicking Horse Pass delivers frequent deer sightings, while the Spiral Tunnels that help the train climb more than 1,000 feet in 10 miles provide great fun, pitching passengers from bold and sweeping views into complete darkness, only to re-deliver them into breathtaking vistas over and over again.

We saw deer, sheep, bears, numerous large birds and all manner of smaller birds during our trip, and all of it in a setting that couldn’t be better if it were painted.

By the time the dramatic mountains around Banff came into view, we were at once invigorated and relaxed. Two days of cold, clean, fresh air, elegant accommodations and dining, and the excellent staff and the service they provide all combined to make the Rocky Mountaineer a train journey that lives up to the romanticized vision of railways past. It is difficult to imagine that passengers on the Orient Express of old had it any better, which makes it unsurprising that guests such as Bill Gates have enjoyed the outfit’s GoldLeaf service. No matter whether you’re a business magnate or a simple traveler who likes the finer things in life, the Rocky Mountaineer is a once-in-a-lifetime experience not to be missed. Trains around the world should be as good, but they’re not.

Thankfully, Western Canada keeps this shining jewel for rail aficionados and lovers of luxury travel everywhere.

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accommodations and service for as far as the eye can see. Dining options range from the elegantly simple to the amazingly impressive, and the period décor transports guests to a time when all travel was adventure—and “luxury” meant something truly grand. Whether you’re restoring yourself in the mineral bath of the awardwinning Willow Stream spa, golfing on the championship golf courses (or trying a club indoors at the resort’s virtual trainer), or relaxing in one of the fine pubs and watering holes (many with amazing views), the Fairmont Banff Springs is the perfect luxury base from which to launch a world of adventures in the surrounding wilds.

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Go W You might say it was the swing of a hammer that did it, driving in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. Had that hammer not fallen, the United States today might have a lot more Pacific real estate, and roughly four million people who celebrate Olympic victories with “O Canada” would be singing a different song instead. Completion of the railway was a condition of British Columbia joining what was then a still-forming Canada, and by extension not remaining independent or becoming part of the United States. Of course the hammer did fall, the railway was completed and so on July 20th, 1871, British Columbia joined what would eventually be the world’s second-largest country (in terms of total area). America’s loss and Canada’s gain to be sure.

Thankfully, and despite a certain well-known American cartoon’s constant badgering of those under the maple leaf, Americans are still welcome to visit British Columbia. And that, in every sense of the word, is a privilege indeed.

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Its motto is “Splendor sine occasu” (Splendor without diminishment) and it is well chosen. Almost every one of British Columbia’s nearly 364,000 square miles is absolutely stunning, which is why more than 12 percent of them are protected in some form. Among the dramatic mountains and deep forests, bears, elk, moose, cougars, eagles, big-horn sheep, beavers and just about every other type of critter and beast a coonskin-cap wearing explorer would have encountered are still common sights in “BC,” as it’s called, and you don’t have to go far to see them.

Even within Vancouver’s city limits you’re likely to find some manner of animal seemingly ready-made for a BBC nature documentary—and Vancouver holds nearly half the human population of the entire province. Of course, you’re just as likely to run into something wild on one of the province’s beautiful golf courses, on a remote island off the west coast or even at the dinner table (BC chefs know their game). No matter how you choose to spend time in British Columbia, beautiful memories are a given.

Of the many adventures available in the province, here are just a few that we consider to be essential entries in any serious traveler’s diary:

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We’ll start where most trips to BC start, in the province’s largest city. Considering Vancouver’s roughly 2.5 million people constitute half of BC’s population, it’s safe to say that this is as urban as BC gets—and urban it is. As green and flush with gardens as Victoria (more on that later), Vancouver isn’t as obvious about its history as the capital city. In fact, Vancouver’s downtown reminds one more of a cleaned-up and modernized Seattle than of an historic port, which Vancouver certainly is. An injection of infrastructure and new design for the 2010 Winter Olympics made the city one of the most modern anywhere, and it shows. Easily accessible transportation, bold architecture and a fantastic nightlife are all to be found. The last is especially available in the rediscovered and re-invented Gastown district, home to cobbled streets, old industrial buildings and a seemingly endless array of ambitious new restaurants, bars and clubs.

Following that, those needing to walk off a bit of revelry will enjoy Stanley Park, just one of the city’s numerous green spaces.The park includes a six-mile paved seawall path that skirts an impressive forest canopy, the fantastic Vancouver Aquarium, a pitch-and-putt course, theaters and more. Just across from downtown, the Capilano Suspension Bridge offers a different kind of walk, stretching 450 feet across— and 230 feet above—the Capilano River. Thrilling visitors since 1889, it’s near Grouse Mountain, another worthy stop.

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Golf: As BC’s most populated city, Vancouver has no shortage of golfers. Accordingly, there are plenty of places to play. Roughly 40 minutes southeast of the city in Surrey, the Northview Golf and Country Club offers two courses designed by Arnold Palmer: The Canal Course and the Ridge Course. The first offers a links-style experience while the second is a bit more groomed. Both are stunning, challenging and absolutely worth the short drive. The PGA Tour agrees, having hosted its Greater Vancouver Open/ Air Canada Championship here seven times. Other options include Vancouver’s University Golf Club, established in 1929 and sporting formidable old-growth trees; and Mayfair Lakes Golf & CC, a local favorite with plenty of water and fantastic views. If you want to get out of town, make a day of it and head to the town of Whistler and the Whistler Golf Club, another Arnold Palmer Course, just two hours from Vancouver. It’s the King’s first Canadian design, and is as well managed as it is a local experience— that is to say, it’s impeccable and great fun all at the same time, offering a little classic rock ’n’ roll with its beautifully manicured greens. Well worth a stop.

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Stay: As far as we’re concerned, there are only four places to stay in Vancouver—and they’re all Fairmont hotels.

Whether you’re in town to start a cruise, for business or just for fun, the excellent luxury chain has you covered. The Fairmont Waterfront is conveniently located downtown and has exceptional city, mountain and harbor views. Gastown and numerous attractions and restaurants are within walking distance, and the staff are friendly, attentive and adept to the highest degree. Not far away, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is a city landmark, a castle in the heart of downtown near to the fine shops of Robson Street and numerous other attractions. Also in the heart of the action, in the historic port and financial district, the Fairmont Pacific Rim is contemporary and sophisticated, showcasing Vancouver as a truly international destination. Lastly, the Fairmont Vancouver Airport loses none of the luxury despite being located directly above the US departures terminal.

Two minutes from baggage collection, it’s a soundproofed oasis of calm. No wonder it was awarded “Best Airport Hotel–North America” at this year’s World Airport Awards.

Visit fairmont.com for more information on any of these.

Eat: Real foodies know that Vancouver ranks among the best food towns for both quality and variety of culinary options.

The oft-awarded West is a must-visit (westrestaurant.com), elegant and contemporary with cuisine to match. Pristine local ingredients, an extensive wine list and succulent offerings such as Tarrow Meadow Duck, with a tea-smoked breast, duck confit cannelloni, fava beans and balsamic jus, are just a few of the reasons to treat your senses. Likewise, Vancouver is proud to call itself home to Tojo’s, where the iconic sushi chef Tojo himself holds court (tojos.com). Sit at the sushi bar and relinquish control to the master; you won’t be disappointed. For a far more casual bite, head to Salt in Gastown (salttastingroom.com). Located down an alley, this cheery tasting room offers wine, meats and cheeses. Simply great.

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Victoria Named for the queen that named British Columbia (Queen Victoria, in 1858) and located on Vancouver Island in BC’s south, the province’s capital city is appropriately beautiful, with Victorian architecture (of course) and fantastic views at every turn. It thanks a mild climate for its popularity as a year-round activity center, and its capital status for its excellent amenities. British ties are strong here, with doubledecker buses, tearooms and formal gardens seemingly everywhere, but the city remains distinctly Canadian though miles away (culturally and geographically) from the likes of Toronto and Montreal. For green thumbs and fans of their work, the century-old Butchart Gardens and its 55 acres of explosive colors should not be missed. The environmentally friendly displays extend beyond the prodigious flora, with eco-friendly electric boat tours of the surrounding waterways.

Likewise, Victoria’s Parliament buildings are worth a stop, if only to marvel at what a 25-year-old could conjure in 1893.

That’s how old Francis Rattenbury was when he designed the grounds and buildings, which were completed in 1898 and remain as impactful and functional as they were upon opening. Lastly, Victoria is an excellent point of departure for whale watching. It’s claimed that there are more than 80 killer whales (Orcas) that live off Victoria’s coast year-round.

That, combined with the relatively kind climate, makes for an excellent day on the water. For tour companies to get you on the water, we like Prince of Whales, and not only for the name. They’ll set you up with a whale/gardens tour that is, by most reviews, just the ticket (princeofwhales.com).

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Golf: With year-round play thanks to its mild climate, it’s no wonder Victoria has a few golf courses. We’re fans of Olympic View GC, which offers a beautifully inspired natural design just 20 minutes from downtown. Regularly featured on “top courses” lists, the 40-foot waterfall on No.17 is worth the price of admission alone. Likewise, Cordova Bay GC, just south of the city, is a certified Audubon Sanctuary with 27 lovely holes and a practice facility. Slightly further to the north, Arbutus Ridge GC will test you with a tough finishing three, including a 214-yard par 3 island green on No.17.

Stay: Fairmont continues its class-defining work with Victoria’s Empress Hotel, where many world leaders, celebs and life-loving tourists have laid their heads. Afternoon tea in the historic tea lobby of this turn-of-the-century property is not to be missed (fairmont.com). For a smaller bit of luxury, Abigail’s Hotel offers 23 rooms in a 1930s Tudor mansion, all of them well appointed and served with as much detail and hospitality as you could want (abigailshotel.com).

Eat: It’s a deli, but not just any deli: Choux Choux Charcuterie offers house-made and house-cured meats, pâtés and terrines, sausages and a great selection of cheeses along with woodfired oven baguettes and great service (chouxchoux.ca). Café Brio is another good choice for the meat and cheese crowd (café-brio.com). Brasserie l’école (lecole.ca) heads the other direction with substantial and satisfying French cuisine (thankfully, “steak frites” is all the French you need to know), including fresh oysters and a great wine list.

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Located north—far north—of BC’s southern climes, the 400 or so people in the town of Atlin welcome you to one of the province’s northernmost destinations. Atlin is wedged in a remote spit of BC between the borders of Alaska and Yukon and sits on BC’s largest natural lake, earning it the nickname “Switzerland of the North.” Summer brings a mix of hikers, trappers, miners and tourists to the area, the last coming for glacier tours, snowshoeing, mountain biking and a number of other outdoor activities. Atlin Quest can get you on a jet boat tour or guided hike, while local guides will sort fishermen on where to go. atlin.com is the main source of information for all amenities and activities in the town as most hotels, guides and eateries do not have their own web sites. A local museum does offer a visitors information booth. With a large number of ice fields, severe mountain ranges, the lake and little else around it, Atlin is not for those in search of crazy nightlife—unless that includes wild animals and a sky full of stars. But if you’re looking to get away from it all, Atlin could be your town.

Located on the popular road from Vancouver to Banff (in the neighboring province of Alberta), Kamloops is notable for distinguishing itself as “Canada’s Tournament Capital”— even going to far as to trademark itself thus. Despite being modestly sized, with a population near 86,000, this centrally located city in Southern BC has hosted the Canada Summer Games, the BC Summer Games, national basketball championships and a number of other various competitions.

Being honest, and despite an incredibly friendly population, the town itself isn’t much to look at; just a small downtown with a few basic hotels and a decent pub or two. But the area surrounding Kamloops is fantastic. The town sits at the junction of the two branches of the Thompson River, right in the Thompson Valley. There’s a local university, a small but busy airport and steady rail traffic. Activity-wise, there’s the usual blend of hiking and outdoor activities, with river trips and mountain biking being favorites. But most notably for golfers, there are plenty of golf courses in Kamloops, making it an excellent stop if you’re in the area.

Golf: Not so much.

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Stay: There are a number of lakeside and mountain cabins available outside of town, while the Brewery Bay Chalet is a good bet in Atlin’s downtown, along with several B&Bs. Check atlin.com for options.

Eat: The Pine Tree Restaurant is convenient because it’s also a Shell service station, while the hot dogs, hamburgers and such at Casey’s Weenie Wagon will sort out basic needs. For pub food and the accompanying local conversation, you’ll want the Atlin Inn. Tobiano Golf Course

Golf: Tobiano Golf Course was named the country’s best new course when it opened in 2008, and it’s no wonder: It’s beautiful. Designed by Thomas McBroom (who also designed The Club at Tower Ranch, in Kelowna, BC), the course plays the shore of Kamloops lake and offers challenges for all levels. Rivershore Estates and Golf Links is a Robert Trent Jones, Sr., design that’s hosted numerous provincial and national championships, while the elevation changes and views at Sun Rivers GC will keep you working to focus.

Information on all of these can be found at golfkamloops. com, though they’re just a few of the local options.

Stay: Accommodations in Kamloops tend toward basic, but we like the classic appeal of the Plaza Heritage Hotel, which at least adds “historic” to its quaintness and also offers nice golf packages (plazaheritagehotel.com). Minutes out of downtown, the South Thompson Inn is well reviewed (stigr.com), while many of the big chains are represented near the town center and should be ok, including Holiday Inn and Hampton Inn. Eat: Felix on Fourth has a nice selection of tapas and French offerings, including mussels and tartar, and a good selection of BC wines (felixonfourth.com). The Noble Pig makes a noble—but impossible—effort attempting to approach the spotted New York eatery it claims as inspiration, but is well worth a visit nonetheless for its honest food, good beer and friendly waitstaff.

Fort nelson Set 300 miles north of the start of the Alaska Highway in one of BC’s wildest areas, Fort Nelson is ground zero for excellent outdoor activities. Wildlife abounds due to the fact that much of the land around Fort Nelson is protected, meaning grizzly bears, mountain caribou and all manner of other large and wild creatures are there for the photographing. In particular, a type of sheep called Stone’s sheep is common in the area. The thin, horned animal is

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Rafting is an exhilarating way to explore British Columbia

so prevalent it’s considered a road hazard—though it’s more often seen jumping along cracks and crags high in the surrounding cliffs. If you want to get off the roads altogether, a group like Main Current Rafting Expeditions can set you up with a river trip (maincurrent.com). They offer everything from a “Granny Goes Rafting” trip to a full-on whitewater adventure, and can also help organize fishing trips and hikes. Local camping is excellent, and there are ATV and horseback trips available along with guided hikes. If you like the great outdoors, it doesn’t get much greater than Fort Nelson.

Golf: While golf options are limited in such a remote location, the public Poplar Hills Golf Course comes through with a fantastic bit of play that’s as much a nature walk as a round of golf. Nine holes with spectacular views, dynamic variations in terrain and plenty of wildlife viewing can be expected. Ask at the local visitor’s center as there is no website for this course.

Stay: Due to its location on the Alaska Highway, Fort Nelson has more than a few lodging opportunities. Among them, the Woodlands Inn is one of the best, offering many welcome amenities for weary travelers (hot tub, steam rooms, fitness center, etc.). You’ll also find a host of standards, including a Ramada, a Super 8 and so on.

Eat: Fort Nelson is not exactly a foodie’s town, but you won’t starve. Dan’s Neighborhood Pub serves up classic pub fare, including fish and chips, burgers, and the like, and of course pours cold beers on hot days, which is always a welcome thing. No website, but you’ll find it if you’re in town. Fort Pizza has you covered for pies, while the restaurant and lounge at the Woodlands Inn should provide enough variety when you want to try something other than Dan’s.

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Langara IsLand You can’t talk about British Columbia and not mention fishing. And if you’re going to mention fishing, you might as well mention a place we at Kingdom believe to be the best place for fishing in BC: Langara Island Lodge. It takes a bit of travel on a small plane and then a helicopter to arrive at the lodge, but they organize everything, and the luxury you find upon arrival makes all the travel worth it.

The property’s 11-room Chinook Lodge sits atop Langara Island and looks like something out of Aspen, with a beautiful wood interior, high ceiling, large fireplace and communal dining table, which hosts as many fish stories as it does gourmet dinners. Accommodations are top notch, as is service. As for fishing, all five species of Pacific salmon are found around Langara, including the coveted Chinook and Coho, and the included personal guides make sure everyone catches plenty. The surrounding wildlife makes the trip excellent regardless, and spending time in the dramatic Queen Charlotte Islands is an experience not to be missed. Visit langara.com for more info.

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k u r t One of golf’s attributes is the enthusiasm with which it is embraced by so many high-flying figures from other walks of life. Kurt Russell, who has been in the public eye for more than half a century, tells Paul Trow how much he looks forward to playing in tournaments like the Bob Hope Classic. He also likes piloting his turboprop, spending time with his family and, believe it or not, making the occasional screen appearance

Walt Disney, Elvis Presley and John Wayne constitute a trinity of improbable diversity, but they have all sewn significant contributions into the patchwork quilt that makes up the life and career of television and film actor Kurt Russell.

Throw in for good measure a few more household names like Meryl Streep, Quentin Tarantino and John Carpenter, and it’s clear that Russell—child prodigy in the 1960s, wannabe baseball star in the 1970s, ‘A list’ leading man in the 1980s, screen heavy in the 1990s, and largely support actor, solo pilot and social golfer over the past decade—is as well connected as it gets.

To pretend he became even better connected after being interviewed by Kingdom in January following his second round in the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta Country Club might be a bit fanciful. But as coincidence would have it, that very evening his profile was about to become even higher, so to speak.

Immediately after our chat, he flew from the Californian desert by helicopter to keep an appointment in Beverly Hills where he was presented with an award at the 8th annual Living Legends of Aviation Benefit.

His fellow nominees included Tom Cruise and veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin, but he declined to linger long in their company as he was due back on the 1st tee the following morning. And as Russell would be the first to acknowledge, there are two things never to miss in life—a plane… and a tee time.

The aviation industry likes to bestow awards on celebrities who attract publicity for flying planes. A few months previously, Arnold Palmer was presented with the Meritorious Service Award by the National Business Aviation Association—not quite the same award, but a similar level of esteem.

Russell, who gained his FAA pilot’s license in 1988 and is an honorary Board member of the humanitarian

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Russell found himself following in his grandfather’s footsteps nearly seven decades earlier when he obtained his FAA pilot’s license in 1988

aviation organization Wings of Hope, speaks almost poetically about his love of flying. “Flying has taught me more about who I really am than anything I’ve ever done,” he says. “I take very calculated risks. I’ve done too many stunts on too many movies and television shows to be a daredevil. I learned a long time ago that if you want to do something you enjoy, you want to do it again.

“My grandfather Billy Russell was a pioneer pilot, one of the first 200 people to get a flying license back in early 1920s, and I guess somewhere along the line he got in my psyche about it. Before I started flying, I always had a line in my head that to die in an airplane was a stupid way to die. You can always take a train, boat or bus, you don’t have to fly. I then learned I couldn’t live without this, even though I was a slow learner.

“The first time I took off without someone else in the airplane with me, all the noises were magnified and I realized I had something that needed my full attention.

It was just me and the plane. It was the start of my love affair with airplanes. There’s something really special about being alone in the skies—no one else is there.”

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Louise (a dancer) and Bing, a character actor best-known for playing Deputy Clem Foster in Bonanza, Russell, who turned 60 in March, cut his teeth on John Wayne films and began his acting career in the 1957 pilot of the western series Sugarfoot. Interestingly, the cast of the same pilot included a young Dennis Hopper playing the part of Billy the Kid.

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“I hardly played from my mid-20s until my late 40s, but I’m glad I started young because I had a basic swing to fall back on” Russell had to wait until the age of 11 before launching his film career in Presley’s It Happened at the World’s Fair and from that point onwards he was busy with screen parts pretty much for the rest of his upbringing. His biggest role as a child was in the 1963-64 western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, based on a book by Robert Lewis Taylor.

He appeared in all 26 episodes of the series and among his co-stars were Dan O’Herlihy, Charles Bronson and four of the Osmond Brothers.

Along the way, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company and enjoyed top billing at the studio. His Disney films included Follow Me, Boys!; The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (with Goldie Hawn); The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; and The Strongest Man in the World.

One of the film industry’s more inexplicable urban myths—that the final words scribbled by Walt Disney on a scrap of paper before he died in 1966 were ‘Kurt Russell’—was confirmed as true many years later by the actor himself. Russell, who was only in his early teens at the time of Disney’s passing, went on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! talk show a few years ago and said: “It’s true. I don’t know what to make of that. I was taken into his office one time after he died and I was shown that.”

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A few years later, Russell decided to emulate his father, who’d been a professional baseball player before going into acting, so for four seasons in the early 1970s he played second base for the El Paso Sun Kings, a California Angels Double-A minor league affiliate. But one day he collided with another player and tore the rotator cuff in his right (throwing) shoulder. At the time, he was leading the Texas League in hitting, with a .563 batting average, but the injury forced his retirement from baseball in 1973 and led to his return to acting.

“It was also one of the reasons I eventually returned to golf,” he confessed.

“Growing up in California, baseball was my No.1 sport, but I caddied all year round at Los Robles Golf Course in Thousand Oaks. My dad was a real good golfer, so I started playing with him when I was 14. By the time I was 19, I was down to a single-digit handicap, and I continued playing through my mid-20s. Then I hardly played golf at all until my late 40s, but I’m glad I started young because I had a basic swing to fall back on. I play off 10 now, but I’d love to get back down to 6 or 7.

“Golf is the only sport I know of in which you can play absolutely horribly all the way through, but then birdie 18 and you’re ready to play another 18. And vice versa, you can play really well for 17 holes and then you double-bogey 18 and you’re ready to throw your bag in the water. It really is a game like life. It goes up and down and all the best-laid plans fall apart. On the other hand, you can surprise yourself and get lucky.

“I play in spurts. In events like the Bob Hope Classic, I get to play four or five days in a row and work on my game a little bit. Then, unfortunately, I won’t play for a couple of months. But I always try to do the best I can every time I go out there.”

Kurt Russell’s performance in the film Elvis was hauntingly accurate

Hawn’s son and daughter with musician Bill Hudson, actors Oliver and Kate Hudson, any harm. Both regard Russell, the man who in effect brought them up, very much as their father.

Indeed, Russell has bonded with both in a special way—giving away Kate at her wedding in 2000 and playing many rounds of golf with Oliver, a left-hander In 1979, Russell was nominated for an Emmy Award with a seriously low handicap. The pair have played for outstanding lead actor in John Carpenter’s made- together in previous Bob Hope Classics, but Hudson was for-television film Elvis. Even though he did not perform nowhere to be seen in January and Russell explained: the singing vocals—these were provided by country “Unfortunately, Oliver’s working and can’t come, so I’m music artist Ronnie McDowell—Russell later starred as playing in a new team this year, with a drummer and a an Elvis impersonator involved in a Las Vegas robbery base guitarist of all people.” Fortunately, the family duo in 3000 Miles to Graceland, and he was also the voice were back in harness a few weeks later in the AT&T of Elvis Presley in the 1994 film Forrest Gump.

Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The part of Priscilla Presley in Elvis was played by Russell and Hawn, who also plays golf, have a actress Season Hubley to whom Russell was married home at Bighorn Golf Club in nearby Palm Desert. “We from 1979-83, during which time they had a son, had a home in Vancouver when Wyatt was playing Boston, now 31. After his divorce, Russell met up again junior hockey. It rains a lot there, so Goldie was looking with Goldie Hawn on the set of the film Swing Shift, to dry out a little bit,” Russell explains. and they have been together ever since. In 1986, they “Goldie went down there [Bighorn] with a friend had a son, Wyatt, a hockey goaltender who has played and fell in love with it. So I came down and looked at professionally in Canada and Holland as well as the places with Goldie and we both fell in love with the U.S. Shortly afterwards, in 1987, the couple starred place. So we bought a home and we’ve had a great time. in Overboard which, like Swing Shift, turned out to be Now as I get more time on my hands as I get older, I’ve a commercial flop. come to understand how wonderful the desert is for “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” is Russell’s stock playing golf. It’s a Disneyland for grown-ups. response to questions about why, after not far short of “We’re members at MountainGate Country Club in 30 years together, he and Hawn have never married. Los Angeles as well as Bighorn—it’s a weird little golf None the less, this hasn’t done his relationship with course but a lot of fun.”

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Russell (right) enjoyed some onscreen chemistry with his great friend Sylvester Stallone in the 1989 action comedy film Tango & Cash

Over the 1980s, Russell teamed up several times with Carpenter, usually in the role of an anti-hero. These included Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, complete with raspy Clint Eastwood-style diction, and its sequel, Escape from L.A.; Antarctic helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady in The Thing (1982), now regarded as a cult classic; and truck driver Jack Burton in the kung-fu comedy/action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986).

In 1983, he was nominated for a Golden Globe ‘best supporting actor’ award for his performance opposite Meryl Streep in the 1984 conspiracy thriller, Silkwood. One of Russell’s most famous formal speeches came at a tribute evening for Streep in 2004 when he told the audience that if anyone didn’t love the actress there must be something wrong with them, and followed up by wowing them with the line: “Meryl, when it comes to you there’s nothing wrong with me.”

Over the next decade, his star appearances were somewhat intermittent. There were lead parts in action comedy Tango & Cash (1989) and action thriller Backdraft (1991) after the roles had been turned down respectively by Patrick Swayze and Dennis Quaid. In preparation for the firefighter scenes in Backdraft, he spent time with a Chicago Fire Department squad. And in 1994, he was particularly well received as Colonel Jack O’Neil in the science-fiction film Stargate.

If Russell was fortunate to land his parts in Tango & Cash and Backdraft, he has also missed out on numerous plum roles during his career, most notably to Harrison Ford as Han Solo in Star Wars and Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in Bull Durham (a part that had been specifically written for him with his baseball background in mind).

In the mid-2000s, his portrayal of U.S. Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks in Miracle (2004) attracted waves of critical acclaim, including the verdict of Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, who wrote: “Russell does real acting here.”

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Poseidon, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof segment from the film Grindhouse, in which he was able to impersonate boyhood hero John Wayne to twisted effect, and the western Tombstone which he also directed.

Since then there’s been little on-screen activity, though his first film since 2007, Touchback, in which he plays a high school football coach whose own playing career was cut short by injury (sound familiar?), is due for release later this year.

Politically, Russell is a Libertarian, which presumably means he supports the individual’s right to choose how to live over state interference. “I was brought up as a Republican,” he says. “But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn’t much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a Libertarian.”

There are suspicions that he became something of an outcast in Hollywood around this time because of these views, and this has often been cited as the reason behind the couple’s move to a home near Aspen, Colorado, a few years ago.

Throughout his long and varied life in the spotlight, though, Russell seems to have retained a sharp sense of humor along with an outstanding talent for mimicry and a neat disposition toward self-deprecation. “I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites,” he once reflected on a perceived lack of ‘box office’ dominance.

Another droll observation along similar lines was, “If it hadn’t been for video cassette, I may not have had a career at all.” In truth, this is a man who’s had several careers and thinks nothing of reinventing himself from time to time. His versatility is such that he is equally at home portraying a hero or a villain, a softie or a fruitcake. But as he hastens to the helicopter, and on to his aviation trophy, it is impossible not to conclude that the child actor’s innocent brio—the impulse that propelled him into the film industry in the first place as much as any family connections—is not only alive but in the rudest of health.

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Arnold Palmer’s quest for the modern Grand Slam moved a step closer exactly 50 years ago when he added the Claret Jug to his burgeoning trophy cabinet. Paul Trow looks back on this groundbreaking triumph and Mr. Palmer’s historic relationship with the world’s oldest golf championship

Golden jubilee As the world’s leading players assembled at Royal As the professional game grew stronger following St. George’s in southeast England in July for the 140th World War II, the two amateur championships took a [British] Open, how many of them, one wonders, back seat. Few players of real talent could resist the offered a prayer of thanks for being able to contest a temptation to join the paid ranks and it wasn’t long purse in excess of $6 million? In terms of global status, before the amateur circuit was seen as a stepping stone media profile and on-course infrastructure, this iconic rather than an end in itself. championship nowadays is light years ahead of its 1961 The old grand slam thus faded into sepia-tinted staging over the links at Royal Birkdale, beside the Irish obscurity with nothing to replace it in the public Sea on England’s northwest coast. consciousness by the time Mr. Palmer decided to The story of this transformation began the previous make his [British] Open debut. In truth, it wasn’t until year when golf’s oldest championship celebrated its he boarded his Transatlantic flight that July, in the centenary over the Old Course at St. Andrews and the company of journalist Bob Drum from the Pittsburgh star attraction, making his [British] Open debut, was Press, that the modern grand slam was born.

Arnold Palmer. The allure that prompted an entry “My desire to play in the Open in Britain went back from the (then) 30-year-old American who was busy to my days as a schoolboy golfer when I read newspaper rewriting the game’s history books was the fact that accounts of top American players like Jones and Walter he’d won the Masters for a second time that April and Hagen winning there,” said Mr. Palmer. “Influenced followed up two months later with a thrilling, come- by my father, I didn’t think you could become a worldfrom-behind triumph in the U.S. Open at Cherry Hills renowned player unless you participated internationally.

Country Club in Denver, Colorado.

With the Open being the foremost and most prestigious At the time, the only “grand slam” concept to have championship in the world, I felt it was one I had to play.” entered the sport’s thinking was the annexing in one At some stage on their journey—Mr. Palmer says it was year of the Open and Amateur championships of both the “during our extended cocktail hour”—he and Drum started British Isles and the United States—a feat achieved just talking about Jones’s grand slam and how it could never once, in 1930, by Bobby Jones and immediately dubbed be repeated. Then Mr. Palmer revealed his hand: “What by writer O.B. Keeler as “an impregnable quadrilateral.” would be wrong with a professional grand slam involving

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“I wanted this championship more than anything in my life, but anything you want real bad is awfully hard to get�

Arnold Palmer and his caddie Tip Anderson during the centenary [British] Open at St. Andrews

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the Masters, both Opens and the PGA Championship?” he asked. Initially Drum was quizzical, but gradually the idea struck a chord with the veteran reporter.

When they stopped off at Portmarnock in Ireland so Mr. Palmer could team up with Sam Snead to win the Canada Cup (now known as the Omega Mission Hills World Cup), Drum went off to introduce the concept to British journalists in the press tent.

A week later, Mr. Palmer arrived on the shores of St. Andrews Bay to be greeted by a tidal wave of public support. “Everybody picked up on it [the grand slam idea] almost immediately at St. Andrews,” he recalls.

In truth, the fans and media were equally entranced by his swashbuckling style and magnetic personality. On this occasion, though, his trademark final-round charge was not quite sufficient to dislodge the 54-hole leader, Kel Nagle of Australia, and he finished a stroke behind.

Mr. Palmer never came close again to achieving the grand slam, though he completed his 1960 tilt with a creditable tie for seventh in the PGA Championship at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. His idea, though, was destined to live on and gather momentum; indeed, half a century later it is the fulcrum on which the world professional game pivots.

Five-time Open champion, Peter Thomson, for one, saluted Mr. Palmer’s decision to play in the centenary championship. “The fact of his coming to St. Andrews was a blessing,” the Australian, now 81 like Mr. Palmer, recalls. “Arnold dragged the U.S. media with him and it led to a new wave of U.S. participation. It ultimately also led to the change of ball size [to 1.68 inches, the American norm, from the 1.62 inches prevailing in Europe at the time] and to the R&A giving their championship courses a par rating. Prior to 1961, the Open course just had a distance figure at each hole but nothing else!”

Needless to say, gate receipts in 1960 almost doubled the previous year’s proceeds—to a profit of $10,000! Mr. Palmer hadn’t won, but he’d certainly made a difference.

The British crowds loved him: his style, the way he hitched his pants, the signature flourish on his followthrough and, most of all, the way he attacked the course.

Mr. Palmer always went for the pin and fans could identify with that. Suddenly, Arnie’s Army had troops in a foreign field.

He also found himself a Scottish sergeant at arms in the shape of gnarled St. Andrews caddie Tip Anderson. “I met Tip through IMG [Mr. Palmer’s management agency to this day] and [its founder] Mark McCormack when I was in need of a caddie in 1960,” he recalls. “He was invaluable on the Old Course. If I’d putted a little better, I’d have won that first Open, but Tip was certainly the key to my playing well there. The only times I chose not to take his advice was when he wanted me to lay up and that wasn’t an inclination in my repertoire.”

Mr. Palmer had no hesitation in returning for a second crack in 1961 at Royal Birkdale where he found himself embroiled in another riveting contest and tight finish before, this time, coming out on top.

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in my life,” he said, “but anything you want real bad is awfully hard to get.” Thus, even the fierce gales and torrential rain that led to the (scheduled) final day’s play being abandoned failed to prevent a famous chapter of golfing history being written. Certainly not Welshman Dai Rees who, at the age of 48, finished runner-up for the third and final time. Mr. Palmer has no doubt the dogged, diminutive Welshman, Great Britain & Ireland’s victorious Ryder Cup captain from 1957 and Open runner-up three times, was good enough to have won. “Dai Rees was a great player,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that he never won The Open—it certainly would have been appropriate. He was a great scrapper and, foremost, he was a great guy.”

After seeing good shots blown helter-skelter during the qualifying rounds (every competitor had to play 36 holes just to get into the championship proper in those days), Mr. Palmer made two vital adjustments to his muscular game. He used a one-iron off a lot of the tees and he set out to hit all his other irons low—waist-high bullets that somehow retained enough backspin to bite on the soft Birkdale greens.

Reasonable weather prevailed on the tournament’s opening day, and 68s by Rees, Harold Henning of South Africa and Nagle led the field. There were three 69s, then came Mr. Palmer, comfortably placed with five others on 70. And the weather had been deceptively kind.

On the second day the lid blew off. A 50mph gale flattened refreshment tents, overturned trailers and reduced Birkdale to a shambles. “I’ve never seen so many egg sandwiches flying so high in all my life,” said a parking lot attendant. Starting in the morning on the second day, Mr. Palmer played into the teeth of the gale and the way he attacked the ball was a joy for the overcoat-clad gallery to behold. Scorning all temptation to steer the ball safely down the narrow fairways, he gave it his all. At the 6th hole he actually carried a bunker that most of the field had failed to reach by 30 yards. When British Ryder Cup player Syd Scott heard this, he shook his head and said, “in that case, I give up.”

Mr. Palmer birdied four of the first six holes and finished with an impressive 73, marred only by some unusual misfortune on the 16th hole—a 510-yard par-5.

After hitting a long drive, his 5-iron approach failed to hold the green, bouncing into a small bunker. “It was nothing serious,” he reflected, “an easy shot.” But during his downswing, the wind blew the ball backward and he thinned his shot over the green. As his ball had moved after he’d addressed it, a one-stroke penalty was applied and Mr. Palmer eventually signed for a 7.

Nevertheless, at the halfway point he was bracketed with Nagle on 143, a stroke behind Rees and Henning.

The next day, a Friday, “what hadn’t blown away before was washed away,” as Mr. Palmer put it. The final 36 holes were postponed to the Saturday when, despite a high wind and bitter chill, there was almost no rain and blankets were used as blotters to dry out the greens.

Henning soon faded from the picture to leave Mr. Palmer and Nagle apparently engaged in a private duel.

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trail Mr. Palmer by a single shot going into the final 18 holes with everyone else too far behind.

With four holes remaining, Rees trailed by four but his hopes rose at the 15th [now the 16th at Royal Birkdale] where Mr. Palmer’s drive had rolled one yard off the right of the fairway and down a small sandy bank before burying itself deep in some blackberry bushes and willow scrub. With Anderson offering him a wedge with which to execute his escape, Mr. Palmer pulled out his 6-iron, swung viciously at the bush and hit a shot that did not waver in the wind en route to the narrow, deeply-bunkered plateau green some 150 yards away. This feat of strength and skill brought gasps from the gallery, and is commemorated by a plaque. “I have never hit a ball so hard in my life,” he recalled.

Three-time [British] Open champion Henry Cotton, who was standing beside Mr. Palmer at the time, called it “one of the greatest shots ever.”

Mr. Palmer then parred in for a 72, and a total of 284, while Rees birdied 16, almost birdied 17 and birdied 18, yet still came up one shot shy. “For me that was a great week,” Mr. Palmer remembers. “That shot I hit at 15 in the last round was interesting. I didn’t make the putt, but it gave me the opportunity to win.

Birkdale’s a great golf course and I enjoyed it. The conditions on the final day were the toughest I’d ever played, yet [that’s when] I played my best golf. It was a lifetime ambition. It was something I was determined to do to consider myself even a good player.” English golf scribe Henry Longhurst was fulsome in his praise of the new champion: “As fond as the galleries are of Dai Rees, it is doubtful there was a man present at Royal Birkdale who really wanted Palmer to lose,” he wrote. “It is impossible to overpraise the tact and

charm with which this American has conducted himself on his two visits to Britain. He has no fancy airs and graces; he wears no fancy clothes; he makes no fancy speeches. He simply says and does exactly the right thing at the right time, and that is enough.”

The following year, on the rock-hard fairways of Troon on the west coast of Scotland, Palmer was Open champion again after a majestic display. His margin of victory was six shots over Nagle, who in turn finished seven strokes clear of American Phil Rodgers and Brian Huggett, another Welshman, who tied for third.

Mr. Palmer had played the role of Pied Piper to the leading American players and the [British] Open duly returned to golf’s “A” list of must-play championships.

When Royal Birkdale hosted the Open next, in 1965, not only was the weather more clement, but TV camera towers had sprung up around the course and the field was one of the strongest ever assembled. The names at the top of the leader-board after the first round included defending champion Tony Lema, Thomson, Argentina’s Roberto de Vicenzo, who would win at Hoylake in 1967, Palmer, Nagle and Ireland’s Christy O’Connor. The lead swapped around continuously before Thomson emerged for his fifth, finest and final Open triumph.

Palmer insisted he didn’t need to adjust to British conditions. “The most important thing I had to do was learn to use the small ball. Otherwise, I didn’t have to change my game at all,” he said. None the less, he was as much a hero to British golf fans as their U.S. counterparts, not least because he had restored the Open’s stature at a time when many more people had access to the game via their television screens. Strangely, though, he was never again a serious contender for the Claret Jug, his best subsequent finishes being an eighth and tie for seventh at Muirfield (in 1966 and 1972) and seventh on his own at Turnberry in 1977. Mr. Palmer bade an emotional farewell to the Open in 1995 from the Swilcan Bridge on the 18th fairway of the Old Course, but his legacy lives on—not least through all that prize money now on offer.

Enjoying the spoils of victory with Winnie at Royal Birkdale in 1961

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The first hole on a golf course is generally used as a way of getting players up and running, often lulling them into a false sense of security.

The second hole, however, is rarely as nice—deliberately so. This is where players start earning their corn as they come down to earth with a bump. In our latest numbers game, we have put together an 18-hole layout from some of the world’s beastliest and most iconic No.2s

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Hole No.1

Hole No.2

It was impossible to resist the temptation to tee off our latest 18-hole collection with a really picturesque No.2.

Chambers Bay on the Washington coast is certain to enchant players and fans when the U.S. Open comes calling in 2015—and this hole looks destined to stick in the memory. Named Foxy after the 14th at Royal Dornoch in northeast Scotland, this gem, heading due north and doglegging slightly from right to left, starts in the dunes and opens toward Puget Sound at the landing area. A small hummock bisecting the fairway directs balls right or left. The approach from the right is open and favors a running draw while from the left an aerial approach over a greenside sandy area is required. The green slopes gently from right to left and features an especially dramatic back-left hole location.

Confronting competitors immediately after Bay Hill’s awkward, right-to-left dogleg 1st, this long, elusive par-3 forms an integral part of perhaps the trickiest opening stretch at any regular tournament destination. In its own right, this is traditionally one of the most difficult par-3s to be found on the PGA Tour. A mid-to-long-iron is required to reach this hole where the green slopes severely from right to left. Par here is a great score, but anyone attempting to play this hole properly should avoid even the center of the green, let alone the left side, no matter where the pin is placed. Shots hit seemingly too far right actually have an excellent chance of feeding back on to the green, while anything remotely left of center is guaranteed to be short-sided to leave a tough up-and-down.

Par-4, 421 yards Chambers Bay Golf Course, Tacoma, WA

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Par-5, 554 yards TPC Boston, Norton, MA TPC Boston, one of New England’s outstanding courses, opened in 2002 to an Arnold Palmer design and hosts the Deutsche Bank Championship during the FedExCup playoffs. The 2nd is a high-quality, left-to-right dogleg where par is a more than acceptable score, even for most professionals. The tee shot, framed by the tree line on both sides of the fairway, is over a small stream and should be aimed left of the bunkers guarding the landing area to the right. The second shot for most players is a lay-up short of the lake that eats dramatically into the fairway from the right. A three-tier green awaits the approach, so attention needs to be paid to the pin placement. As the club website cheerfully observes: “Hit your mark and you’re home free. Miss and you’re looking at a double-bogey on the rocks.”

Hole No.4

Par-4, 447 yards Highlands Links Golf Club, Nova Scotia, Canada

Part of the spectacular Cape Breton Highlands National Park, this Stanley Thompson layout dates back to 1941 and is regarded as one of Canada’s finest public courses.

Thompson, the godfather of Canadian golf-course design with more than 140 courses to his name, excelled himself when it came to the layout of Highlands Links, which is wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and is flanked by a stunningly beautiful patchwork of beaches, mountains, rivers and valleys. This downhill hole has approximately 110ft of elevation change from tee to green. From the tee box, with a magnificent view of the shoreline, golfers play to a narrow fairway dotted with links-like mounds and contours. From there, the bunkerless green presents an ‘open house’ to balls landing short and running on.

Hole No.5

Par-4, 349 yards Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Monterey Peninsula, CA After slogging along the 600-yard opening hole at Spyglass Hill, players could be forgiven for feeling in need of some light relief. Alas, contrary to appearances, they won’t get it at this deceptively short, uphill par-4, which is exposed without mercy to the vagaries of the swirling winds that invariably whistle through the Monterey Peninsula from off the Pacific Ocean. The fairway is abutted by ice plants and the approach to the green by vast, sandy waste areas.

Meanwhile, a deep bunker in front of the putting surface puts an even greater premium on the need for accuracy and precision with the approach. Laid out in 1966 by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in the gap on the Del Monte shoreline between the links of Cypress Point and Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill was always intended to be a tough test of golf.

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Hole No.6

Hole No.7

Pink Dogwood—all holes at Augusta National are named after an exotic flower or shrub—is one of the hardy perennials of the Masters Tournament. A slight draw off the tee away from the right-hand fairway bunker at this downhill, right-to-left par-5, the longest hole on the course, sets up the chance to reach the green in two. Large, deep bunkers on both sides of the front of the green often come into play, so precision is required with the approach, usually played off a downslope. The fairway runs downhill and curls to the left as it nears the green. This is where Masters competitors seek some early momentum, and many will feel they have missed an opportunity if they don’t walk away with a birdie.

The lay-up is often favored regardless of the pin position.

Built by Devereux Emmet in 1901 on Long Island, less than 20 miles east of downtown Manhattan, the golf course at Garden City is invariably praised for a rustic simplicity that confounds its metropolitan setting. This is classically borne out by the short 2nd which has a long green angling from front right to back left where it is framed by an old sand quarry. In an attempt to avoid the quarry, many players bail out long and right only to end up in one of the gaping bunkers that lurk behind the putting surface. For Emmet, this would have been the easiest hole on the course to identify when he was drawing up his designs, especially as the wind that blows in off nearby Hempstead Plain can exert a considerable influence over club selection from the tee.

Par-3, 137 yards Garden City Golf Club, NY

Photo: Evan Schiller / golfshots.com

Par-5, 575 yards Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, GA

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Hole No.8

Hole No.9

Four bunkers and heavy rough straddling both sides of a narrow fairway lie in wait for skewed tee shots. The Dyke this hole is named after is the old wall that forms the boundary between the Old Course Hotel and the 17th fairway. The tee has recently been moved 40 yards right on to the edge of the Himalayas putting green to bring Cheape’s bunker on the left of the fairway back into play. Second shots are often played right of the hole to avoid a fearsome pot bunker next to the green.

Hazards in front of the green encourage an aerial pitch as the undulating putting surface is unpredictable for a run-up shot. During The Open, the pin is usually in the left-hand corner of the green, leaving even an accurate shot deviating left to right if it falls short in the wind.

The No.3 course is known for its prodigious length and narrow, tree-lined fairways, but the challenge on this 2nd hole is water. This is the only one of Medinah’s four par-3s to measure less than 200 yards, although most players would express surprise after taking a glance at Lake Kadijah from the tee. The wind plays a big role in club selection with a large bunker front right swallowing any tee shots that might have been mishit or are fading away from the target. A pot bunker will inflict similar punishment on players who miss long, but for those lucky (or skillful) enough to reach the green in regulation another challenge awaits—the green has two tiers. So, more than most holes, pin placement determines where you want to land your ball in order to two-putt.

Par-4, 453 yards St. Andrews (Old Course), Fife, Scotland

Par-3, 192 yards Medinah Country Club (No.3), Chicago, IL

Hole No.10

Par-5, 528 yards Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean), SC

The 2nd hole on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island is as challenging as it is beautiful—and there are few more scenic holes on the western Atlantic coastline. The first hurdle is to drive further than 175 yards in order to clear the marsh in front of the tee and reach the fairway. Always an immaculate carpet of impeccably groomed grass, the fairway will yield a second shot to the green from time to time, though the smart play is perhaps to lay up short of the next belt of marsh that juts across the fairway around 100 yards short of the target. In 2002, course designer Pete Dye made a few adjustments to seven of the holes and on the 2nd he bulk-headed the second marsh crossing to make the green, 110 yards away, more visible. Today, this change makes shots less likely to trickle off the green.

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Hole No.11

Hole No.12

Par-4, 488 yards Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, OK

Designed in 1907 by Donald Ross, Pinehurst No.2 will host the U.S. Open in 2014. Recently, it underwent a facelift from Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, and no finer tribute can be paid to their efforts than the words of USGA executive director Mike Davis, who said: “My mouth literally falls open when I see the incredible work they’ve done. I’ve got to say, I’m so excited about 2014 because it’s going to be a unique U.S. Open.”

Tom Watson rated this one of the best second holes in the world. It’s a slight dogleg to the right, so, despite the presence of four bunkers around driving distance and out-of-bounds just beyond, the target for the tee shot is left center of the fairway. The turtle-shell green lends itself to several testing hole locations, but if the approach is shy, the ball will roll back off the green.

On a course that’s famed for the difficulty of its long par-4s, this is a real gem—and proof positive that not all the great holes have to be sharp doglegs. Even though the 12th is a truly spectacular golfing experience and the 18th is one of the hardest finishing holes in the game, the 2nd at Southern Hills presents perhaps the most demanding tee shot on the golf course. The initial obstacle facing the golfer is a 240-yard carry over a pair of bunkers and a creek that winds diagonally from right to left before turning away to run parallel to the fairway down the left side. Hitting the fairway here is absolutely essential. Thereafter, a gently drawn mid-to-long-iron second shot is generally required to reach a slightly elevated green that is guarded on all four corners by bunkers.

Photo: Larry Lambrect

Par-4, 449 yards Pinehurst Resort (No.2), NC

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Hole No.13

Hole No.14

How quickly the Blue Course changes its face! After a relatively gentle start, players are soon confronted by a long and extremely demanding par-3 that turned out to be almost the toughest hole in both the 1997 and 2011 U.S. Opens. Six bunkers (four right, two left) surround a relatively small green (for the length of the hole) that can be attacked with anything from a 5-iron to a hybrid or 5-wood depending on wind direction and hole location.

The putting surface is divided by a ridge that runs diagonally through the middle from front left to back right. This means anything short will roll back to the front of the green while anything long and drawing will probably disappear over the back left corner. The tee shot has to be shaped correctly (as straight as possible) otherwise the ball won’t hold the green.

The tee shot on the 2nd hole of the host course for this year’s [British] Open can be played either with a safe long-iron to the right side of the fairway, avoiding the two bunkers on the corner of the right-toleft dogleg though leaving at least a mid-iron approach, or with a driver over the top of the bunkers to take the angle out of the hole and reduce the second shot to a short pitch. Whichever, it will be imperative to hit the fairway as the rough is often knee-high for anything off line, especially down the left side of this hole. The approach shot—to an undulating green that tilts from back to front, and slightly from left to right, not to mention the protection provided at the front by hollows on both sides—is best played from the flatter ground on the right side of the fairway.

Par-3, 233 yards Congressional Country Club (Blue), Bethesda, MD

Par-4, 417 Yards Royal St. George’s Golf Club, Kent, England

Hole No.15

Par-5, 596 yards Tralee Golf Club, Co. Kerry, Ireland Pounded for centuries by the ocean off the coast of southwest Ireland, the opening holes of Tralee constitute a mansized challenge for any golfer. The 2nd is a case in point. Players must navigate a narrow passage off the tee along the cliff edge with the sea constantly to the right before heading for the sheltered green in the “little corner” on the cliff top. Scan the view from the back tee—it’s spectacular. Next stop, America! This par-5, nicknamed the ‘Cuilin’ after a curl on the back of the head, is in essence a dogleg left to right played adjacent to the beach. The corner can’t be cut so it’s a classic three-shot hole—where each shot needs to be more exact than the last. “I’ve never come across a piece of land so ideally suited for the building of a golf course,” Arnold Palmer, the designer, said of Tralee.

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Hole No.16

Hole No.18

A par-5 for the members, the 2nd on the Highlands Course at Atlanta Athletic Club has always been converted to a par-4 for major championships, and it will happen again in August for the 93rd PGA Championship. As is typical of the longer shots on this course, the ideal shape off the tee is a soft draw, curving left off the bunkers on the right from 255-345 yards out. Trees and heavy rough protect the left side of the fairway. Ideally, players will want to hit a lofted approach into this shallow, well-bunkered green as they will have a hard time stopping a long-iron on the putting surface. This green was reconfigured in 2006 when a new back-right hole location was added. The toughest pin position, though, is front right which is guarded by a deep and imposing bunker.

Converted into a brutal par-4 for last year’s U.S. Open, this hole was designed in 1919 to be played as a par-5.

It has been played as such by the members ever since, so we’ve decided to restore it to that status, not least so it can serve as a closing ‘risk and reward’ enticement where players can choose to attempt to make amends for earlier indiscretions or flirt with a total collapse into a morass of their own creation. The tee shot is straightforward in that the first objective is to avoid the bunkers on the right side of the fairway. Anything left in the rough means playing short of the large ditch about 100 yards from the green. The putting surface is extremely narrow with menacing bunkers running along both sides. However, those in the know believe the bunker on the right is on the whole less forgiving.

Par-4, 512 yards Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands), Johns Creek, GA

Par-5, 511 yards Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey Peninsula, CA

Hole No.17

Par-3, 176 yards Isleworth Golf & Country Club, Orlando, FL

Designed by near-neighbor Arnold Palmer in 1986 and tweaked by Steve Smyers just shy of two decades later, this Orlando course is one of the most exclusive in the world. The gated community of Isleworth is home to Tiger Woods and many other celebrities, not just from the PGA Tour but throughout the world of sport and entertainment. This hole, known as Cypress Chute, asks a highly pertinent question very early in the round by requiring an accurate and well-struck tee shot into a deep, narrow green, although we have decided to place it further back in our challenge.

Judicious club selection is essential and for most mortals it could range from a driver to a pitching wedge. As the green has numerous subtle slopes, seemingly in every direction, no two-putt is guaranteed.

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Jackson Stephens (left) relaxes at Augusta National with 1976 champion Raymond Floyd

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Warren A. Stephens continues his family’s legacy of strong core values, solid financial advice and a sincere love of golf. Kingdom had a chat with the CEO of Stephens Inc and came away with a broader perspective from the man who leads one of the world’s top financial firms…

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If, as systems theorist R. Buckminster Fuller had it, “Integrity is the essence of everything successful,” then the achievements of Stephens Inc are no mystery.

W.R. “Witt” Stephens launched the financial services company in 1933 on a course of traditional values, and the firm’s legacy of holding to that course with steady decision-making and sound financial advice has built it into an industry leader. Core to its success is Stephens’ focus on building long-lasting relationships with a “client comes first” mentality. Luckily for golfers, one of those relationships is with the fairway game, to which Stephens has given much. Witt’s late brother and former Stephens CEO Jackson T. “Jack” Stephens loved golf, evidenced in his role as Chairman at Augusta National for most of the 1990s and in his friendship with Arnold Palmer.

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T h e G a m e “It’s near and dear to my heart, and to all golfers’ “Obviously, they loved golf,” said Warren A. Stephens, hearts,” says Warren. “It gets young people interested Jack’s son and current CEO of the Little Rock, Arkansas- in the game, but First Tee is more than just the game of based company. “Dad was a longtime member at golf, it’s the game of life. It teaches you so much about Augusta, but he and Arnold also had a passion for life, the beauty of golf, and how to conduct yourself.” aviation. Dad was never a pilot, but they used to Those are lessons that Warren knows well. He’s compare notes about planes they’d flown in or were held true to his father’s and Witt’s philosophy of flying. They used to have a good time.” “clients come first,” and his adherence to core values of Warren himself first met Palmer at Augusta, a fairness and the highest ethical standards has guided moment he remembers fondly.

Stephens Inc to its current and continued success. As “I can’t remember what tournament it was. We the company’s website has it: used to stay in the Jones Cabin, and I’d come out of “Extraordinary people create extraordinary there. During the tournament, Arnie had made several companies, and we will make it our business to birdies in a row or had made a great shot on the front maintain relationships with as many extraordinary side and, as only Arnold could, he got the crowd going. business people as is possible all over the world.

I found out Arnie was making the turn and I walked From these relationships and from our commitment along the ropes with him for a minute. I can’t remember to the minimization of missed opportunities will come how old he was, but he said, ‘The club feels light as a the future revenue flow of Stephens Inc. This is feather, I’m playing great!’ That was a great moment.” our corporate definition of ‘rain making’ extensive Before Jack died, Warren started a golf tournament relationships and no missed opportunities.” in his honor: The Jackson T. Stephens Charitable Golf a l o T i a n Tournament, which ran from 2005 to 2010. Headlined As stalwart as Stephens is in business, Warren & Co. by the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, Palmer aren’t above having a little fun. To that, witness his himself made an appearance in 2009, a gesture that Alotian Golf Club in nearby Roland, Arkansas. Exclusive Warren said he and everyone else really appreciated. and beautiful, Alotian’s name has a playful history that “We had a great run with that tournament,” Warren hints at Warren’s lighter side. Appropriately enough, it said. “We gave away millions to charities, and one of begins with an informal golf tournament. them was the First Tee.” “Two guys started a golf trip,” Warren explains, In fact, during his tenure as Chairman at Augusta National (1991-1998), it was a $5 million gift from Jack “and we called it the America’s Lights Out Tour, which we shortened to ALOT. Once a year we’d go to a region that helped launch the First Tee, an organization that or to a city and play really seriously great golf courses. remains close to the heart of Stephens Inc.

Palmer with Harriet and Warren Stephens (left) and with Jackson Stephens (above)

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“ALOT was a medal play, handicapped tournament.

We did it for about 12 years. Everybody that went on the trip felt like our golf games became better because of the medal play event. We noted in our local tournaments that the guys that went on the trip would do very well, and we started referring to everybody that went on the trip as an ‘Alotian,’ which basically meant they love golf and love to have a good time.”

The idea of building a golf course had long been in Warren’s mind, and not surprisingly more than a little inspiration was found in familiar stomping grounds.

“Long before I was ever thinking about doing a golf course,” Warren says, “I spent a lot of time at Augusta with dad. I was fortunate enough to do that. He once asked me, ‘Do you know what the secret is to Augusta?

Every one of our members thinks they have a chance to par every hole out there. There’s not a hole they’re playing where they’re thinking, There’s no way I can make par.’”

Warren took that basic tenet to Tom Fazio and told him to keep it in mind when designing Alotian. As far as the financier is concerned, mission accomplished.

“He did a masterful job of that,” Warren said. “It’s a serious golf course; if you want to play it from the back tees, there are lots of things that come into play but that don’t come into playability. That was the goal.”

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As a family business, Stephens Inc is quite a story.

Consistency of purpose and adherence to founding principles are often challenges for family firms, but in Stephens’ case they are the reasons for its success.

The firm handles wealth management strategies for high-net-worth individuals and families; its Stephens Capital Management group supervises discretionary and non-discretionary portfolios of equity and fixed income assets of nearly $4 billion; and its Stephens Institutional Sales & Trading Departments work with investors across the U.S., Canada and Europe. In addition to that, it offers private equity management, deals in public finance, a range of insurance services, and more. Stephens Inc is also fully independent, following Warren’s acquisition of 100 percent of the company’s outstanding stock in 2006. The CEO says this independence—part of Stephens Inc’s spirit since the beginning—allows the firm to focus on long-term relationships and long-term results. That those results have been so successful is due, in part, to lessons Warren says he learned from Witt and Jack.

“It’s hard to overstate the impact that both of them had on me,” he says. “I was fortunate enough to be around my uncle in a work environment for 10 years and with dad a lot longer. They thought things through and were always alert to the downside, what could go wrong. ‘If it does go wrong, what does it do to us?’

That’s a lesson a lot of people have forgotten in the turmoil of the last couple of years: You can’t take risks and leverage yourself to the point where if things start going wrong you might not survive. If there’s one thing I took away from them over the years, that’s probably it.”

Warren Stephens at Alotian

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Victorian Pleasures

Royal Melboune Golf Course

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There’s plenty of golden golf to be found along Australia’s sandbelt, and Melbourne is at the heart of the action Words: Paul Marshall Photos: Andrew Marshall On a scorching Australian day in December 1998, I sat high in a tree at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club between the green of the par-3 7th and the tee of the par-4 8th.

A friend had given me a complimentary ticket to the Presidents Cup and I was making the most of it, using my bird’s-eye view to watch players like Greg Norman, Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson putt out on one hole, then launch their drives at the next. The only thing missing was an ice-cold bottle of Victoria Bitter.

Golf in Australia, like most things in the country, often comes with a bit of adventure. But in multicultural Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and “the city-bythe-bay,” that adventure is tempered by a cosmopolitan attitude, superlative shopping, lavish dining, a top-drawer theater scene, great nightlife and the beautiful Yarra River, which provides a playground and oasis for everyone. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) voted Melbourne the world’s second most livable city in 2011 (after Vancouver), and that might go double for golfers.

Located just 30 minutes from Melbourne’s center is some of the best golf not just in Australia but on the whole of Planet Earth. This is the rich vein of sandy loam subsoil known as “the Melbourne sandbelt,” and it’s home to such noteworthy venues as Yarra Yarra, Metropolitan, Huntingdale, Kingston Heath and Royal Melbourne. When Woods marked his first visit Down Under for eleven years by winning the 2009 Australian Masters at Kingston Heath, he lauded the area, saying, “I’ve always been a huge fan of the sandbelt golf courses; the bunkering is just phenomenal. You never get a chance to see bunkering like this in any other place in the world.”

No surprise, then, that all the courses listed above have hosted great championships, like the Australian Open, Australian Masters and Presidents Cup. But Royal Melbourne has a special place in my heart. That’s where I found myself in 1998 and where I clearly remember watching four-time British Open champion and International team captain Peter Thomson face off against U.S. team captain Jack Nicklaus and his players. The Presidents Cup is a biennial competition held in non-Ryder Cup years, and it was originally developed to give the world’s best non-European players the chance to compete against a U.S. team in a match-play competition. The year I attended, the Internationals made the most of their home-field advantage, winning convincingly 20½–11½,

Natural-looking bunkers and fast, undulating greens are the trademarks of the Mackenzie design at Royal Melbourne

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and it was thrilling to watch—no matter where you were sitting. My treetop perch was just fine, and I may just use it again soon as The Presidents Cup is returning to Royal Melbourne for a second time this November, from the 14th through the 20th. I’m not surprised the tournament is coming back.

Founded in 1891 (and moved to its current location in 1901), Royal Melbourne Golf Club is widely regarded as Australia’s oldest and most prestigious. It consists of two layouts: the East Course and the West Course. The legendary Dr. Alister Mackenzie, considered by many as the greatest architect in golf history, designed the West Course in 1926. Plenty of strategically placed and amazingly natural-looking bunkers and fast, undulating, billiards-table-smooth greens are the trademarks of this famous Mackenzie design.

Alex Russell, influenced by time spent with Mackenzie, designed the East Course, which was ready for play in 1932. Built on less dramatic land than the West Course, its deep bunkering and greens are similarly stunning. In 1959, in order to host the first of many international tournaments, the Canada Cup (now the World Cup), it was decided to combine 12 holes from the West Course and six holes from the East Course to create what is known as the Composite Course, which regularly features in the world’s top 10 courses.

Royal Melbourne’s Composite course is undoubtedly the jewel of the sandbelt crown, and a fitting stage for the ninth Presidents Cup. The 2011 teams will contain a mixture of older campaigners and new blood. The International team captained by Norman will most likely feature players such as 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, Jason Day, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, while the U.S. Team captained by Fred Couples will include players like Mickelson, Jim Furyk and big hitters Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson. We will have to wait and see what drama unfolds in November, as the two teams battle it out on Royal Melbourne’s baking hot fairways and greens.

It’s worth mentioning that, although many of the top courses in Melbourne’s sandbelt are private clubs (such as Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath), they all welcome international golfers, with very few restrictions besides occasionally requiring visitors to show a handicap certificate from their home club. Melbourne also has a fine assortment of more affordable public courses where 18 holes will cost around $20—$40 AUD. For instance, within chipping distance of the city center and beach is Albert Park while a bit further afield in the suburbs are courses such as Yarra Bend, Ivanhoe, Malvern Valley, Brighton, Sandringham and Growling Frog. Don’t forget your shorts, hat and sunblock.

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Palm trees flank the Esplanade in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda (above) while nearby Acland Street (below) is a sentimental favorite with locals

StreetS of Melbourne like Collette Dinnigan, Scanlan & Theodore and Kookai.

Attracting millions of tourists annually, Melbourne has Men cruise by in open-topped sports cars, hide behind plenty to offer the golfer, whether traveling alone or Gucci sunglasses and drink lattes at the sidewalk cafes. with a partner and family. As you take in the sights This is the street on which to see and be seen. and sounds of Melbourne, you’ll soon discover the In Fitzroy’s Brunswick Street, formerly a blueboundless allure, color and atmosphere of its character- collar capital in the city’s northern shadow, the vibe is filled streets and neighborhoods. From the bohemian “anything goes.” Melbourne’s alternative street is awash chic of Brunswick Street in Fitzroy to the exotic sights with people from all walks of life: hippies, animal activists, and smells of Victoria Street in Richmond, each has its tourists and blue-haired ferals sporting amazing feats of own character and identity. body piercing. Take a stroll among this microcosm of Victoria Street epitomizes the cultural diversity synonymous with Melbourne. The city’s growing Vietnamese community has transformed what was once a nondescript traffic route into what could pass for a back street of Hanoi. The smell of steamed Peking duck and incense lies heavily in the air, alongside a bewildering jumble of Asian supermarkets, family-run grocery stores, fishmongers, fruit stalls and Chinese herbalist shops. If you like Vietnamese food, then restaurants like the Tran Tran and Victoria make this one of the best value streets in the city.

In contrast, Chapel Street in the suburb of South Yarra is like flicking through the latest issue of Vogue or GQ—it’s all about image. The beautiful people have to shop somewhere, and with a greater concentration of salons and fashion boutiques per square meter than anywhere else in Melbourne, this is their strip. Women strut their stuff as they peruse designer clothes shops

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society and immerse yourself in the street’s bohemian cafes, alternative bookstores and grunge chic.

Lygon Street in the inner city suburb of Carlton is Melbourne’s “Little Italy,” crammed with al fresco dining, pizzerias and gelaterias (ice cream shops).

Toto’s, the first pizza restaurant in Australia, opened in 1966, and more followed over the years, with places like Cafe Corrento, Papa Gino and Gamberi introducing Italian food and coffee to Melbournians.

Don’t miss the coastal suburb of St. Kilda. This is cafe society by the sea and its contradictory classy/ trash/glam feel attracts people from all walks of life.

Melbourne’s quintessential Sunday experience, St. Kilda’s Acland Street and the Esplanade are sentimental favorites among both locals and visitors alike. A typical day may go something like this: A hangover brunch of bacon and eggs, a strong latte, and the Sunday Age at the Galleon Cafe, an institution among St. Kilda locals.

Then, stroll past the palm-lined Esplanade to Luna Park, one of Melbourne’s most enduring and colorful icons. This much-loved old fairground is modeled on New York’s Coney Island and the entrance is through a garish, laughing clown’s mouth.

Nearby, you’ll find the Sunday St. Kilda Arts and Craft Market where you can shop for custom jewelry, ceramic art or handmade candles. Finish it all off with a pastry indulgence at one of Acland Street’s famous cake shops or perhaps an ice cold beer at the legendary Esplanade Hotel with great views over the bay.

There’s golf among the grapes here, with a concentration of challenging and affordable courses for players of all abilities

Golf amonG the Grapes For an excellent day or overnight trip from Melbourne, hire a car to explore the Mornington Peninsula, a vineyard haven for golfers. Make sure to include Red Hill Estate, a multi award-winning combination of winery, vineyard restaurant and accommodation. From the elevated restaurant patio, abstract patterns of green vines march down the hillside towards stands of eucalyptus trees backed by the sparkling blue waters of Western Port Bay. Red Hill Estate typifies a large number of enthusiastic wine growers clustered on the Mornington Peninsula situated only one hour’s drive from Melbourne. Dozens of vineyards such as Willow Creek, Dromana Estate and Paringa Estate are set against a backdrop of stunning rural landscapes and rugged coastlines. From classic grape varieties such as Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon to Merlot and Shiraz, it’s an area where some of Australia’s finest cool climate wines are produced.

But it’s not just the grape that reigns supreme here.

There is golf among the grapes, with a concentration of challenging and affordable courses for players of all abilities. The combination of rich red volcanic soil surrounded by rolling sand dune country makes the Mornington Peninsula an excellent destination for the connoisseur of both fine wines and golf.

Situated across a deep gully of dense scrub, it sits like an emerald island high above a no-man’s land of ballhungry woodlands. This is the 121-meter par-3 second, the signature hole at The National Golf Club. Hit it left, hit it short or hit it too long and it’s a lost ball—there is little room for error. With topography that bucks and plunges like a raging river, the golfer needs more than the stunning coastal views over Bass Strait to calm the nerves.

Sir Peter Derham, the late founder of the Red Hill Estate on the Mornington Peninsula, samples a glass of his own Merlot as he strolls around the vineyard

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This classic Robert Trent-Jones, Jr.-designed course is situated in rugged sand dune country high above the Cape Schanck Coastal and Point Nepean National Parks, and offers ocean views from 16 of its 18 holes. On coastal land next to The National are the two other courses that make up this superb 54-hole golfing facility: the links-style Moonah Course designed by Greg Norman and the Ocean Course designed by Thomson, Wolveridge and Perrett.

Another Trent Jones, Jr. layout is the RACV Cape Schanck Resort, an excellent base for golfing forays into grape country. Other quality courses on the Mornington Peninsula include The Dunes, a highly rated inland links, Portsea, Eagle Ridge and Moonah Links’ Open and Legends courses. The Legends is a resort-style course, and the Open is an 18-hole championship links built specifically to host the Australian Open in 2003.

Knock on cellar doors and sample some fine drops while playing some of the most challenging and affordable golf courses to be found anywhere. The driving in between is pure pleasure: farmlands interspersed with woodlands, vineyards, old resort towns such as Sorrento and Portsea and views over Western Port Bay on one side and Bass Straights on the other.

There’s just so much to do and experience golf-wise and otherwise in this area of Australia. Throw in other day trips from Melbourne to the Great Ocean Road and the famed penguins of Phillip Island, and you have a 2011 Presidents Cup golf vacation that will be the envy of everyone.

The Great Ocean Road

Presidents Cup pgatour.com/tournaments/presidentscup Royal Melbourne Golf Club royalmelbourne.com.au Visit Melbourne visitmelbourne.com Visit Victoria visitvictoria.com Mornington Peninsula visitmorningtonpeninsula.org Red Hill Estate redhillestate.com.au The National nationalgolf.com.au The Dunes Golf Links thedunes.com.au Moonah Links moonahlinks.com.au Albert Park Golf golfvictoria.com.au

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OTHER OFF-COURSE ATTRACTIONS & ACTIVITIES * ‘Dine on the move’ aboard the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant—a beautifully restored 1927 tram, which is now a luxury restaurant on tracks. Board the tram for lunch or dinner and enjoy fine cuisine and Australian wines. tramrestaurant.com.au * Enjoy awe-inspiring views of Melbourne and the surrounding area—stretching 60km to the horizon, from Skydeck 88, the Southern Hemisphere’s highest viewing platform. eurekaskydeck.com.au * Head to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) or Telstra Dome to watch an “Aussie Rules” (Australian Football League/AFL) game. Experience the spectacular excitement of Australia’s unique and favorite sport, where an average match can attract an almost capacity crowd of vocal—yet peaceful—supporters. Played in the winter months from March to September, games are played on Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. * The outdoor Moonlight Cinema screens the latest releases and classic films in the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens. For an entertaining night out pack a picnic and enjoy an outdoor movie on the lawns. It’s like a day in the park, dinner and a movie all in one. moonlight.com.au * Visit the Southbank precinct for the home of Melbourne art and culture—the Victorian Arts Centre and the National Gallery of Victoria’s international collection. Federation Square fuses art with architecture while city laneways and precincts showcase the innovation and skill of local artists and designers. * No visit to Melbourne is complete without seeing the Yarra River. New buildings, walks and parks have been created along its banks including the Riverside Park. For the best view of the Yarra River, walk to Princes Bridge, St Kilda Road, picnic at one of several spots along its banks or board a cruise from Princes Walk. * Check out the Queen Victoria Market. More than just a shopping Mecca, this 19th century market is a historic landmark, a tourist attraction and an institution for Melbournians. The ‘Queen Vic’ was opened in 1878, but the meat market building (except the Victorian facade) operated from 1866. There is a night market on Wednesday nights (November–March) with entertainment, bars, food outlets, unique arts and crafts, eccentric clothing, masseurs, tarot card readers and more. * For that essential day or overnight trip from Melbourne, explore the world-famous Great Ocean Road. Winding along Victoria’s western coast this classic coastal journey offers stunning ocean views, beachside activities, laid-back coastal towns and maritime villages. The star attraction is the Twelve Apostles—giant rock stacks that rise majestically from the Southern Ocean and are the central feature of the rugged Port Campbell National Park.

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Liquid Asset Many people recognize RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) as a solid institution and a savvy business partner, but you might not have known that RBC’s ethos of responsibility extends well beyond its fiscal identity. In fact, RBC’s sincere commitment to its employees and to its client relationships, along with its legacy of sound financial practices, is complemented by substantial efforts on behalf of its communities and the environment at large. For Kingdom, RBC looks at the importance of water—and offers a few ideas on why the liquid returns of investing in clean water might be more than just the H2O in your glass

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As a global citizen, you know about the importance of water, which covers approximately 70 percent of the earth. You’re aware of the role that water plays in recreation and daily living—but you might not realize how quickly water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. Making smart water choices today is the responsibility of all individuals and industries, but it’s also just good business sense. As new commitments to water stewardship emerge so do new opportunities, meaning that along with being the right thing to do, taking care of water resources is also the smart move. Of course, water is first and foremost a critical resource. That’s why RBC launched its Blue Water ProjectTM, a 10-year, CAD$50 million grant program designed to foster a culture of water stewardship, so that people around the world have clean, fresh water now and in the future. Here’s a look at the issues:

the need for education

the problem

The Society, one of the world’s largest non-profit scientific and educational organizations, used their RBC Blue Water Project Leadership grant to continue their work on a multi-year freshwater project that will motivate people across the globe to care about and conserve fresh water, and the extraordinary diversity of life it sustains.

One key element in addressing the water problem is education. The more knowledge that governments, businesses and individuals have about the various issues involving water conservation and distribution, the greater impact we will have on our conservation efforts.

For its part, RBC’s Blue Water Project has funded programs in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago. So far, nearly 400 organizations have received grants. Here’s a small sample of these recipients:

FrIends oF the MIssIssIppI rIver (st. paul, MInnesota) This organization is the only one of its kind in the U.S. to receive an exclusive RBC Blue Water Project Leadership grant in successive years. The Friends use the funding to help provide community outreach, education and programs for landowners to help restore and protect sensitive natural areas and rare habitats in the watersheds of Rice Creek and Vermillion River.

natIonal geographIc socIety (WashIngton, d.c.)

In most parts of the United States and Canada, people have access to plentiful, inexpensive and clean water for drinking, agriculture and industry. But that’s not the case in many other areas of the world. Although it’s true that most of the earth is covered by water, the vast majority of that water—about 97.5%, in fact—is salt water, which is undrinkable. And of the remaining 2.5%, 2% is frozen, so just 0.5% of the world’s water is accessible fresh water.

Furthermore, in its efforts to manage this limited supply of fresh water, the global community is facing a number of major challenges, including: • Increased usage and greater shortages Water shortages already affect about 700 million people in 43 countries, while water usage is rising twice as fast as global population growth, according to the World Bank. By 2025, over 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the global population could be under “water stressed conditions,” according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.

• toxIcIty In some parts of the world, water pollution is a big problem. In China, for instance, only half the industrial and municipal waste is being treated. As a result, five of China’s seven major river systems are severely polluted, according to the Pacific Institute.

Clearly, it won’t be easy to meet the world’s needs for clean, usable water. How can we meet this challenge?

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chesapeake Bay FoundatIon (norFolk, vIrgInIa) The Chesapeake Bay Foundation used their RBC Blue Water Project Community Action grant to purchase new, critical equipment to teach students and train teachers during field investigations, so that they can conduct their own research through chemical analyses, biological sampling and physical measurements. It is the largest independent conservation organization working to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams.

Free the chIldren (toronto, canada) Free the Children used its Blue Water Project Leadership grant to launch an “H2O 4U Speaking Tour” that will visit 100 schools across Canada to educate youth about global water issues and to encourage students to conserve and protect water.

texas a&M InstItute oF puBlIc health and Water (trInIdad and toBago) This organization is using its Leadership grant to educate students from 14 rural communities in Trinidad and Tobago about rainwater harvesting, water conservation, and flood abatement.

To learn more about the RBC Blue Water Project, including each individual grant recipient, visit rbc.com/bluewater.

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investing in water

ten tips for conserving water

Apart from learning more about water stewardship issues, you also may want to support water distribution and conservation efforts through your investment choices.

You can invest in water in two basic ways: utilities and infrastructure. Let’s take a quick look at both:

All of us can do our part to help conserve water.

Here are ten tips for doing just that:

• Utilities Your investment in water utility companies can help them upgrade their facilities to increase the efficiency of water delivery. Generally speaking, investments in utilities have provided consistent dividend payments. However, don’t look for spectacular growth of your investment dollars. Most utilities, at least in the U.S., are highly regulated entities, so governmental agencies can cap what the utilities charge, thereby limiting their profitability.

1. adjUst yoUr sprinkler’s position for maximUm efficiency.

Make sure you’re watering your lawn—not your house or the sidewalk or the street.

2. Use gUtters to help water plants. Route water from rain gutters toward your plants.

3. water lawn in morning or evening. You can minimize evaporation by watering in the morning or evening, when temperatures are cooler.

4. don’t water lawn on windy days. The wind can blow away water or cause it to evaporate.

• infrastrUctUre The infrastructure sector may be the most attractive investment segment in the water industry. Developing nations have too few water systems, and some of the ones they do have are substandard. Additionally, developed nations need to upgrade their existing infrastructure because water facilities and water distribution systems are old, deteriorating and in need of repair.

Water infrastructure investments can include businesses involved in construction or consulting and companies that have developed desalination techniques that can convert salt water to fresh water.

To learn more about investment ideas in the water industry, contact an RBC Wealth Management Financial Advisor. The need for water will always be with us—and so will the opportunities for informed investors.

5. raise yoUr mower blade. Heighten the setting on your lawn mower. A taller lawn provides shade for the grass roots and holds soil moisture better than a lawn that’s cut short.

6. spread mUlch aroUnd plants. Spreading a layer of organic mulch around your plants will help them retain moisture, so you won’t have to water them as much.

7. change yoUr showerhead. Replace your old showerhead with a water-efficient model.

8. adjUst yoUr washing machine before each Use. When you do your laundry, match the water level to the size of the load.

9. rUn yoUr dishwasher only when it’s fUll. Don’t waste water by running a half-empty dishwasher.

10. monitor yoUr water bill. If your bill shows unusually high use, you might have a leak somewhere.

RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada.

RBC employees clean a riverbank on the company’s annual “Blue Water Day”

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FarEwEll SEvE Undoubtedly one of the greatest sports personalities ever to grace the field of play, Severiano Ballesteros passed away in May after a sad but typically feisty battle against the ravages of cancer. European golf writer Bill Elliott, a long-standing friend of the charismatic Spaniard, provides this heartfelt tribute to the man who put smiles on faces of golf fans the world over

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There are those who believe a golfer may be defined by statistics. They are, of course, wrong.

Severiano Ballesteros may have won 88 times as a professional (actually, technically, he never was an amateur), lifting five major championships in the process, but to reflect on his career and his impact on the game via the detail of his on-course achievements would be to miss the biggest of points.

His death at home on May 7 this year at the age of 54 robs us not just of a golfer who was one of the most exciting players of our lifetime but, more importantly, it takes away far too early a much loved and valued human being.

It was his emergence as a 19-year-old when he tied for second in the 1976 [British] Open at Royal Birkdale that trumpeted his arrival on the global sporting scene and triggered the growth that the European Tour has enjoyed ever since.

Impossibly handsome with a smile that lit up any room, dynamic and aggressive in the way he played, instinctive in the rapport he enjoyed with galleries, indeed with everyone who passed before his all-seeing eyes—these inate qualities forged his reputation and helped to establish a unique relationship with the sporting public all over the world. He touched people in a special way, even those who instinctively view golf as an arcane form of tedium.

That Seve was a truly great player is beyond any doubt but it was his progress through golf’s upper echelons as a man—his bravado, his buckling swash, Full green jacket: Seve says his thanks after winning the Masters in 1980

his instinctive derring-do—that dances deliciously in the memory of those of us fortunate enough to have known him at the peak of his powers.

Put simply… To appreciate Seve, you had to be there. If you were, then you would never forget the experience. Men wanted to be him, women wanted to be with him. Suddenly the staid world of European golf had a genuinely sexy hero. What Arnold Palmer had done for golf in America, Seve did for Europe.

Before the 1980 Masters, I watched from the clubhouse at Augusta National as he finished a practice round, several thousand fans embroidering the scene. It took him ages to navigate his way through the throng to the clubhouse and when he finally made it he looked at me and grinned hugely. He held out his hand and when I held out mine he dropped several scraps of paper into it and laughed. Each scrap contained a girl’s name and a phone number. “These people are crazy, eh?” he said.

His English was rapidly improving by then.

When he won his first Green Jacket a few days later, an instant invitation came for the nine British journalists present that year to join him that Sunday evening at his rented house for a celebration party. We arrived before he had returned from various duties at the club. There were maybe twenty people in total present, most were part of his Spanish entourage. Two stunning-looking young women weren’t.

When he turned up Seve was wearing his new club blazer, a white shirt and an Augusta National member’s tie. I have never seen anyone look happier or healthier. If he’d been a Labrador his nose would have been dripping. At 23 he was king of his world. When I mentioned something along these lines to him his face darkened and he asked me to follow him. We moved into the kitchen where the connecting door to the garage had been removed and replaced by a trapeze.

“See this,” he said. “I must hang upside down from this for 20 minutes each morning to try to stretch my back.

Every day I have pain. Healthy? No, not healthy.” And he made me try it for a few minutes. A few minutes was all I could stand. Even in the earliest days of his success, Seve knew that, for him, a long career was almost certainly out of the question. The fact is that he never played totally pain-free. Another fact is that opponents never realized this. Like Tiger Woods now, his default position was never to show any weakness if he could help it.

Nowhere was this more apparent than at the moment of his [British] Open victory at St. Andrews in the high summer of 1984.

This was the second of his three Open wins but in so many ways the most glorious. Sun blitzed the Old Course that week and Seve blitzed the old girl even more.

Men wanted to be him, women wanted to be with him; what Arnie had done for golf in America, Seve did for Europe

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The happiest of men: Seve after winning the 1984 [British] Open at St. Andrews

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The car-park champion cruises to victory in the 1979 [British] Open at Lytham

When Sunday’s play started he was two shots behind Tom Watson and also trailing Bernhard Langer. That day, the American and the German played last with Seve in full flow immediately in front of them—an irresistible tidal wave of Spanish ambition, passion and belief.

Inevitably, as ever at this special place, it all came down to the final two holes. Seve parred the 17th and then conjured up a birdie at the last, his putt from around 12ft hesitating before bending to his intense will and toppling into the hole for a score he immediately knew would win the day.

His reaction was electrifying. Draped in his favorite blue sweater and trousers, white shirt and deep tan, he transformed into a man who was literally beside himself with joy, punching the hot air as he hopped a full 360 degrees on the moonscape that is the 18th green at this cathedral of the royal and ancient game.

Behind him on the 17th, Tom Watson heard the commotion, glanced briefly at the scene and then dropped the shot that assured Seve of victory. Watson was going for his sixth Open title and his third consecutive victory, but Seve’s flair broke the spell for the American.

Now the spell is broken for all of us who admired him. His collapse at Madrid Airport with what turned out to be a brain tumor in the fall of 2008 changed everything for him—and in its sad way for us too.

His determination to survive a series of punishing operations was as typical as so much of his play. No one ever, ever, ever has refused more impressively to concede defeat, whether on a sports field or in the harsher environment of life itself.

No one ever, ever, ever has refused more impressively to concede defeat, whether on a sports field or in life itself

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His Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2009 BBC Sports Personality broadcast was as emotional as it was deserved. His protege, Ryder Cup pal and lifelong friend Jose-Maria Olazabal did the honors at the Ballesteros home in Pedrena on Spain’s rugged northern coastline.

Olazabal struggled to get through it, his eyes welling with tears. Back at my own home I cried too.

What the television audience did not see was that when the short ceremony was over Olazabal collapsed to the floor and Seve was cradling his friend to comfort him.

Since then, however, Seve struggled, often alone and sad, at his home overlooking the sea at his beloved Pedrena.

We first met in a Southport restaurant 48 hours before the first round of the 1976 Open. He spoke little English then but I remember we shook hands and argued amiably about whether his beloved Barcelona football team was better than Liverpool. I wished him luck and we went our separate ways.

Six days later he tied with Jack Nicklaus for second place and Lee Trevino came whooping into the press tent to tell us we had just witnessed the arrival of a genius. That was kind of Lee but, actually, unnecessary as even a near-blind man could see that fact for himself.

Soon after, Seve and I became friends, traveling to the world’s tournaments together, laughing together, drinking together, often arguing together. Like all the best relationships it was a tempestuously satisfying one. He could be quick-tempered, brusque, occasionally paranoid, obtuse and frustratingly stubborn. He had a fine sense of self and what he was, but he combined this with an instinctive grasp of appropriate humility and, always, his charm and charisma overwhelmed everything else.

Mind you, Seve was one of life’s great complainers, absolutely world class. He always had something to moan about. If he didn’t, he made it up. Like John McEnroe in tennis, he fed off perceived slights. Even the United States was on his whinge list—from being announced on tees as “Steve” Ballesteros to the way the media portrayed him as some lucky, hick Spaniard who had won his first [British] Open title at Royal Lytham & St. Annes in 1979 despite slicing his drive into a car-park. He had a point because the fact that he then finessed his ball on to the 16th green and holed the birdie putt seemed to have escaped the media’s notice.

It was a resentment that helped fuel him when playing for Europe in the Ryder Cup. Sometimes, the dark moods Seve was prone to came between us. Such a moment came in the mid-1980s in Dublin at the Irish Open—he won three of these coveted titles and was happy to be known as an “honorary Irishman.” By then Seve was the most in-demand golfer in the world. He was also in full combat mode when it came to his relationship with the PGA Tour and its commissioner at the time, Deane Beman.

Beman had been a very decent player himself with four Tour victories before becoming the boss. He was as abrasive and determined a character as Seve himself and when he decreed that “foreigners” must

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commit fully to the American circuit if they wished to play, that they entered at least 15 events and that they must request permission to return, in Ballesteros’s case, to Europe, Seve went ballistic.

That row was on-going at this particular Irish Open.

What made things worse for Seve was that Beman, on holiday in Ireland at the time, had been invited by the organizers to play at Portmarnock. Seve came in for a pre-tournament press conference and soon declared his opposition to such a move. “Beman is taking a place that should be reserved for a player who needs the money. He should not be here,” he said. I decided to follow up this thought and when he exited the media center I walked with him and asked about Beman, the PGA Tour and how he felt.

His reaction was as startling as it was dramatic.

He stopped, glared at me, his face contorting in rage as he asked why I was asking him such questions. “Deane Beman?” he snorted. “Deane Beman? Why you ask?

You are trying to upset me. I don’t want to talk about this man. I think of him when I go to sleep and I am still thinking of him when I wake up.” As he said this last bit his right fist curled and he pulled his arm back. I thought “Christ, he is going to hit me.” The security guard with us thought so too and obligingly stepped aside to allow him a better swing. Then Seve’s arm relaxed and he turned swiftly and strode away muttering.

That, I thought, was obviously the end of our friendship.

The next day after his round he was back in front of the

reporters again. I sat at the back, sulking and determined not to ask any questions. After twenty minutes or so the interview was over and I stood up to walk out. It was then that Seve, speaking urgently, said “Beel, Beel, we must speak. Please.”

Reluctantly I turned back. He grabbed me by both arms and moved close so only I could hear what he was saying.

What he said was: “I want to say sorry for yesterday.

I should not have spoken to you like that and acted as I did. But Beman upsets me, you know. I was wrong and I am sorry.” He offered an embrace and I accepted.

Who wouldn’t? Now, though, I felt sorry for him and so I said something about my wife speaking to me all the time like that. His face grew more serious and he moved in close again. “That is okay for your wife but not for me. Never for me.” We ended up laughing together like two schoolboys lost in their own naughtiness and our friendship never looked back after this incident.

Despite his evident fire for the European Ryder Cup team, many of his closest friends and strongest admirers were American. Arnold Palmer, with whom Seve has so often been compared, has particularly fond memories of the Spaniard. “He was just a child—54 is awfully young to pass on,” he reflected, sadly. “I knew Seve well and enjoyed his company. He was a pretty outgoing and flamboyant person. He was a great tribute to the game of golf and more specifically to the Ryder Cup. He really put a spark into the European golf community and the record there proves itself. He will be missed.”

Seve and Arnold Palmer famously locked horns during the first round of the 1983 World Match Play Championship at Wentworth

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Mr. Palmer has a particularly vivid recollection of a fantastic match between the two of them in the 1983 World Match Play Championship at Wentworth when Seve staved off defeat by pitching in at the 18th.

“I had really pretty much wound up my career at regular tournaments at that stage, but when they asked me to play I thought, well, what the heck,” Palmer recalls. “I’d won there a few times and decided it would be fun. As it turned out I was 1-up on Seve on the 18th hole and he was in the woods and I was on the front of the green. He pitched it in out of the woods for a three and I missed my three and he beat me in a playoff on the first [extra] hole. I’ve seen strange things happen on the golf course and that was one of them. But I’ve had the reverse happen a few times in my favor, too!”

For me, as for all his friends, the last couple of years have been hard to witness even if he told us not to feel sorry for him, that he had “enjoyed a brilliant, fantastic life.”

Typically, my old friend was determined to rage, rage and rage again against the dying of the light. He succeeded in this rage but eventually the cancer was too much even for his spirit, just as his brittle spine prematurely ended his golfing career.

But while he was alive and well and playing brilliantly the world for many of us was, for a time, a better, brighter, more fun-filled place. Vaya con Dios, Seve. Gracias, Amigo.

Severiano BalleSteroS Sota Born: April 9, 1957; Pedrena, Spain Died: May 7, 2011; Pedrena, Spain Turned Pro: 1974 Best World Ranking: 1st (61 weeks between April 1986 and September 1989) World Golf Hall of Fame (inducted): 1999 European Tour No.1 (Harry Vardon Trophy): Six times (1976, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1991) Children: Baldomero (born 1990), Miguel (1992), Carmen (1994) Spouse: Carmen Botin (married 1988, divorced 2004) Major Wins: 5—Masters (1980, 1983), [British] Open (1979, 1984, 1988) PGA Tour Wins: 4—Greater Greensboro Open (1978), Westchester Classic (1983, 1988), USF&G Classic (1985) European Tour Wins: 45—French Open (1977, 1982, 1985, 1986), Dutch Open (1976, 1980, 1986), Swiss Open/European Masters (1977, 1978, 1989), Scandinavian Open (1978, 1981, 1988), Madrid Open (1980, 1982, 1989), Spanish Open (1981, 1985, 1995), Irish Open (1983, 1985, 1986), Trophee Lancome (1983, 1986 (tied), 1988), Open de Baleares (1988, 1990, 1992), German Open (1978, 1988), Martini International (1978, 1980), British PGA Championship (1983, 1991), British Masters (1986, 1991), Uniroyal International (1977), English Golf Classic (1979), Sanyo Open (1985), Monte Carlo Open (1986), Suze Open (1987), Epson Grand Prix (1989), Dubai Desert Classic (1992), Benson & Hedges International Open (1994), German Masters (1994) International and other European Wins: 34—Suntory/Toyota World Match Play Championship (1981, 1982, 1984, 1985,

Captain Marvel: Savoring Europe’s triumph in the 1997 Ryder Cup at Valderrama

1991), Spanish Under-25 Championship (1974, 1975, 1978), Spanish Professional Championship (1987, 1988), Japan Open (1977, 1978), Dunlop Phoenix (Japan—1977, 1981), Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa—1983, 1984), Larios Open (Spain—1987, 1988), Open de Vizcaya (Spain—1974), Trophee Lancome (1976), Donald Swaelens Memorial (Belgium—1976), Cataluna Championship (Spain—1976), Tenerife Championship (Spain—1976), Braun International (Germany—1977), Otago Classic (New Zealand—1977), Kenya Open (1978), El Prat Open (Spain—1979), Australian PGA Championship (1981), San Remo Masters (Italy—1982), Codorniu Championship (Spain—1985), Visa Taiheiyo Masters (Japan—1988), Chunichi Crowns Open (Japan—1991), Fifth Centenary Cup (Argentina—1992), Tournoi Perrier de Paris (with Jose Maria Olazabal—1995) TEAM APPEARANCES Ryder Cup (for Europe): Player: 1979, 1983, 1985 (winners), 1987 (winners), 1989 (tied), 1991, 1993, 1995 (winners). Captain: 1997 (winners) World Cup of Golf (for Spain): 1975, 1976 (winners), 1977 (winners), 1991 Alfred Dunhill Cup (for Spain): 1985, 1986, 1988

While he was alive and well and playing brilliantly, the world for many of us was, for a time, a better, brighter, more fun-filled place

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Miked Up A new man took over at the helm of the United States Golf Association in March. In the latest Kingdom chat with a leading administrator, Mike Davis tells Paul Trow about the direction in which he expects to steer the game’s governing body following a memorable U.S. Open By common consent, 2011 witnessed one of the greatest U.S. Opens, certainly in the top five ever.

And the man in control from start to finish withstood everything that Mother Nature and Lady Luck could throw at him to produce an impeccable performance that earned copious plaudits and will linger long in the memory. Step forward and take a bow, Mike Davis.

With apologies to Rory McIlroy, who swept all before him at Congressional Country Club in one of major-championship golf’s all-time tours de force, Davis is the man that made it all possible.

For those unfamiliar with the name, Davis recently became the seventh executive director of the United States Golf Association in succession to the long-serving David Fay who retired at the end of 2010 after 21 years in the role. For those in the know, though, he has been in charge of setting up each of the last 15 U.S. Open courses. So it was a classic case of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,’ as the French would put it, in that the No.1 task in his ‘in’ tray immediately upon taking office was a more than familiar assignment—namely, setting up a U.S. Open course.

In the case of the Blue Course at Congressional, scene of the U.S. Opens of 1964 and 1997, this was a process that started long ago and needed seeing through to its natural conclusion. The numerous logistical issues that Davis had been addressing began with the club’s decision to rebuild all their greens in the spring of 2009.

Davis admits the short time-frame had made him a little nervous, but the project was necessary to improve

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drainage and eliminate the poa annua grass that does not hold up well in hot Maryland summers. Global positioning technology was used to replicate the existing contours of the greens and the surfaces were replaced with a hybrid bent-grass with a deeper root structure.

“That was a short window,” said Davis. “Thankfully, they did a superb job of construction.”

The next step was to set up the course so it could present a tantalizing challenge without being completely overpowered by modern professionals who routinely bomb the ball 320 yards off the tee and think nothing of hitting wedges 170 yards. Therefore, at 7,574 yards, the course played 361 yards longer than in 1997 with par going up a shot to 71. Seven new tee boxes were added and the rough was also changed, a variety of tall fescues, less thick and gnarly, replacing the rye grass to provide more shot-making options.

Historically, the U.S. Open has been notorious for deep rough that usually forces the player who has hit a slightly wayward drive simply to hack his ball back to the fairway. In recent years, Davis has advocated a fresh approach: graduated rough that is less punitive for shots that miss the fairway by narrower margins, giving players opportunities to attack the green.

“We want the U.S. Open to be a stern and complete test of golf with good shots rewarded and bad ones penalized,” he explained. “We want to give the players more options and give them the chance of birdies and eagles, but if they don’t execute properly then they’re going to get bogey or double-bogey.”

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Sown in the fertile fields of Virginia, where the finest peanuts are grown.

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Like McIlroy, Davis was in command of Congressional throughout the U.S. Open

Then came the final and most pressing problem— the weather! Leading into the tournament, stifling temperatures and humidity sent the heat index into triple-digit territory, stunting the growth of the rough, wilting the fairways and greens, and putting Davis behind with his preparations. When the rain finally started falling just after play in the first round got under way, it seemed—literally—a gift from the heavens for anyone who likes to see low scores.

Even though the course was softened by rain and cloud cover, the USGA bravely stuck to their policy of moving certain tees up and didn’t try to protect par, as they invariably did in years gone by. The result was a whopping 32 rounds under par on Sunday—14 more than the previous final-day record at Baltusrol in 1993.

But rather than attract criticism, the course and its setup met with general approval from the players, and in particular two of the senior professionals in the field.

Phil Mickelson, who had a championship to forget on a personal level, said: “It would have been really fun to see had we not had the rain because it’s such a fair setup. But, really, the course lends itself to good scores if you play well and high scores if you don’t. I don’t think you could ask for anything more.”

World No.2 Lee Westwood, who tied for third behind McIlroy, agreed, saying: “They set the golf course up great. You play well, you shoot good scores.

There are no tricks to this one. It’s a fair, honest course.”

All of which was no doubt music to Davis’s ears.

Despite his new role, and the plethora of diverse responsibilities that come with heading up an organization that looks after the interests of approaching 28 million golfers—men and women, juniors and seniors, amateurs and professionals—he will never lose sight of the importance of the USGA’s annual flagship events.

“We were founded in 1894 [a year before the first

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U.S. Open] for no other reason than to stage national championships,” he says. “It was later we became the governing body for writing and interpreting the Rules of Golf, regulating equipment, amateur status and the handicapping code.”

Davis, 46, started with the USGA in April 1990 as assistant manager of championship relations and has worked mainly in the championship and Rules of Golf departments. “I’ve been senior director of rules and competitions since 2005 and U.S. Open championship director since 1997,” he says. “Part of my arrangement for this [new] job is that I will carry on setting up the U.S. Open courses. I love the golf course setup [role]—it’s what I’ve done for the past several years. I would almost pay the USGA money to allow me to do this. I love putting this puzzle together. It really is a puzzle of sorts.

“When I talked to the search and management committees of the USGA, I said, ‘listen, this is something I genuinely think I can continue to do. I will give up the other portions of the conduct of the Open, such as being on the course, being a Rules official, being the person that blows the horn for suspension of play, those kinds of things. But I do think when it comes to the golf course setup part, working with the grounds staff, given the hours I do that, I can still retain that for the U.S. Open.

But I will give that up for the Women’s Open, the [U.S.] Amateur [Championship] and the Walker Cup. Thankfully the board is willing to allow me to continue in that role.

“I think I know myself well enough to know where my talents are, where my strengths are, and where I don’t necessarily have enough background. Part of my message to the search committee was that if they think I’m the right person for this role, I need to be able to surround myself with people that have a great background on things like business and finance, accounting, communications, and so forth.

“But it’s not as if I haven’t touched those areas in the last 21 years. Trust me, when you’re involved with championships, you touch every single part of the USGA, whether it’s the Green Section, accounting or the legal department. I know these people, I know what they do, but that hasn’t been my day-to-day job.”

Fortunately, USGA president Jim Hyler was in complete agreement. “We are obviously very much aware of Mike’s role in the U.S. Open and we would be idiots if we extracted him from U.S. Open activities,” he said. “Mike will continue to be involved with the U.S. Open from a site selection standpoint as well as golf course setup. He’s the best in the world at that.

“In two decades of organizing and managing all our national championships, Mike has demonstrated creativity and impartiality that will serve him and the organization well in his new position. This [selecting Fay’s successor] was a comprehensive process and Mike’s candidacy stood out. He has long been a respected member of the USGA staff and our executive committee stands united in its support of him as our executive director.

“Mike will have full responsibility for all the staff functions at Golf House. He is the consummate golf

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person. He loves the game. He loves the USGA. He’s been here 21 years. He is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced administrators in the golf industry today and will be an ideal steward of the game.”

More music to Davis’s ears! “I cannot begin to tell you how truly excited I am about the opportunity [to work as executive director],” he chorused. “I love the USGA. I love what we stand for, our missions. But candidly I’m apprehensive, too. Part of me is somewhat numb. When all’s said and done, I’m incredibly honored and humbled by this.

“I’m the seventh executive director of the USGA. When you think about that, that’s 116 years the USGA has been around and there’ve only been six before me. What’s really interesting is of those six people before me, I’ve known five of them. In my first year and a half with the USGA, I had the pleasure of getting to know Joe Dey, who was our executive director for some 30 years. One of the guys who hired me was P.J. Boatwright, who was executive director after Dey. From there it went to Harry Easterly and then Frank Hannigan, who I stay in touch with. And for the last 21 years, David Fay has been at the helm.

“David, who was an outstanding executive director, will be a hard guy to follow. His are going to be big shoes to step into. Even though the USGA has changed tremendously in the 21 years I’ve been here, we’ve gotten bigger and the game has gotten bigger. But what we were doing 21 years ago is no different to what we’re doing now. We conduct national championships in this country, but we also write and interpret the Rules of Golf and we regulate equipment, both with the R&A. “We govern the game jointly with the R&A—the U.S. and Mexico is our working jurisdiction while they Davis isn’t the only golfer whose game’s not what it used to be

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look after the rest of the world. Between us, we have the world’s number of golfers roughly divided in half, but as far as amateur status, rules and equipment are concerned we control the whole world with the R&A. Since I took up the reins, there have been no areas of discrepancy yet.

Really, it’s a wonderful ‘checks and balances’ system.”

“Rules and competitions are always going to be near and dear to my heart, but I’ve always had a lot of interest in equipment standards, the regulation of balls and clubs, because one of the most important things we do is preserve and protect the game.

“In addition, we have an international code of handicapping, a wonderful agronomic consultation service in the Green Section, and the finest [golf] museum and library anywhere in the world. It’s a great organization and I’m really excited to be part of it. There wasn’t necessarily a succession plan when David left, so there are some areas I’m going to have to educate myself on. I’m going to have to rely on other key people on staff and take it from there, one day at a time.”

As senior director of Rules and Competitions, Davis conducted all the USGA’s national championships as well as supervising the Walker Cup match when it was contested in the United States. In addition to his championship duties, he has taught Rules of Golf workshops and has officiated annually at non-USGA tournaments, including the Masters, the [British] Open, the Players Championship and the Presidents Cup. “On an annual basis we run somewhere around 700 qualifiers for our 13 national championships [including the Opens for women, juniors and seniors] for which we end up having 35,000 players,” he adds.

“Most of the qualifying is handled across the country by regional golf associations who have their own teams of employees and volunteers. We at the USGA have around 1,400 volunteers and between 320 and 350 staff, though that number adjusts seasonally. Their collective efforts truly help better the game that so many of us love.”

Introduced to the game he so clearly loves at the age of eight by his father, Davis, a native of Chambersburg, PA, played competitively as a junior and in college. He was the 1982 Pennsylvania State junior champion and competed on the Georgia Southern University golf team.

A business (BBA) graduate of GSU (1987), he is married with one son and resides in Pittstown, NJ. “I’ve got a wife [Cece] who I’ve been with for 18 years. I have a son [Grant] who’s in eighth grade and now taking up tennis, not golf. Now all of a sudden I’m playing more tennis than golf, and actually enjoying it. I used to play tennis when I was a kid. Don’t get me wrong, I still love to play golf, but my game isn’t what it used to be. In some ways, I get a bigger kick walking a golf course, seeing what the architect did, than playing.”

One last question: Apart from inevitably spending more time behind a desk, is Davis prepared for the formalities and ceremonies that go hand in hand with the job of executive director? “You won’t see me in a bow tie.

Every time I put my tux on, I’m almost an embarrassment.”

Mike Davis, take a bow—and forget the bow tie!

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i n p l ay The players, the rules and the landscape may change, but in business, just as in golf, the fundamentals remain.

No one knows that better than Ernst & Young, the world’s leading finance and accountancy practice

As part of a new series of articles addressing the financial interests of our readers—many of whom, like Arnie, remain engaged in the business world even if it doesn’t occupy every hour of their days—Kingdom has partnered with Ernst & Young to bring our readers the best information available. Here, the storied group offers a look at six global trends to keep you on course whether you’re a full-time investment pro or a semiretired champion.

Maybe you’ve traded in your busy corporate job for a more leisurely state of semi-retirement and occasional advisory work. Still, you want to stay plugged-in to the rapid changes that are shaping global business, affecting your portfolio and influencing the financial prospects of future generations.

These changes can be dizzying. Fortunately, some things don’t change much. Understanding a few key long-term trends will help you stay abreast of developments in the markets and advise any companies that may rely on your guidance in setting their corporate strategy.

This year, Ernst & Young looked at six global trends that have redefined business success. How leaders plan for and respond to those trends in the coming decade will determine which companies become the market leaders of tomorrow. These trends are connected by three underlying drivers: > Demographic shifts, such as population growth, increased urbanization, and a widening divide between countries with youthful and aging populations, are changing both the business world and society more generally. > A reshaped global power structure has resulted in part from the recent financial crisis, reconstituting relationships between the public and private sectors. > Disruptive innovations in technology continue to have profound effects on business and society. In particular, emerging markets are quickly becoming centers of innovation, especially in their efforts to serve growing middle classes and low-income consumers around the world.

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Spotlight on emerging marketS This article spotlights the rising power of emerging markets—once viewed mainly as a low-cost manufacturing base but now seen as promising markets in their own right. In particular, we see the following trends ahead: > Leading markets will continue to drive global growth.

Already a force to reckon with, emerging markets will soon become equal competitors with mature economies, commanding more economic and political power. They are expected to generate about 70% of global growth over the next few years, 40% of it from China and India. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that emerging markets’ total GDP could overtake that of the developed economies within three years. By 2020, the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are expected to account for nearly half of all GDP growth worldwide. > Leading companies in emerging markets will become a disruptive force in the global economy.

Working to serve customers of limited means, these companies will produce innovative designs that reduce manufacturing costs and disrupt entire industries. This trend is already underway in India, where the US$2,900 Nano, made by Tata Motors, is priced at less than half the cost of any other car on the market worldwide. In addition, multinational companies in emerging markets are well positioned to benefit from growth in domestic consumption, likely to become the most significant development in China and many other developing markets in the years ahead.

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> While emerging markets offer great promise, they are not homogeneous entities. Each emerging market has unique needs that developed-market companies must understand and prepare to meet. For example, China relies heavily on manufacturing, India on technology services, Russia on energy and Brazil on agriculture. > Rising population and prosperity drive new consumer growth and urbanization. Between now and 2050, the world’s population is expected to grow by 2.3 billion people, and by 2030 the combined purchasing power of the global middle classes is estimated to more than double to US$56 trillion. Most of the world’s new middle class will live in the emerging world, and almost all will live in cities, often in smaller cities not yet built. This surge of urbanization will stimulate business opportunities that request multinationals to develop strategies for particular cities or for city clusters, and to extend their selling efforts beyond the first-tier locations that have absorbed their attention thus far. In addition, mass urbanization will put huge strains on infrastructure—physical infrastructure such as water supply, sanitation and power systems, and soft infrastructure, such as recruitment agencies and intermediaries to deal with customer credit checks. Building or upgrading this infrastructure to cope with the growing urban middle class will likely require public-private partnerships, new approaches to equity funding and the development of capital markets. > Emerging markets will become the new battleground.

The BRICs are having a major impact on their regional trading partners and more distant, resource-rich countries, an increasing number of which are being

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pulled into their economic orbit. In 2009, emergingto-emerging (E2E) trade reached US$2.9 trillion.

This massive flow of investment among emerging markets is well on its way to creating a second tier of emerging market leaders. As pressure for resources increases, we expect a battle for first mover advantage among emerging heroes, global players and emerging market governments in regions such as the Middle East and Africa. In Nigeria, for example, the Chinese government is helping to establish two special economic zones. China will invest US$500 million in the zones, which will focus on manufacturing machines and mineral extraction. China is also involved in similar programs in Ethiopia and Egypt. > Global influence grows. Inevitably, the BRICs’ growing economic strength is leading to greater power to influence world economic policy. In October 2010, for example, emerging economies gained a greater voice under a landmark agreement that gave 6% of voting shares in the IMF to dynamic emerging countries such as China. Under the agreement, China will become the IMF’s thirdbiggest member. Of course, it would be a mistake to see economic growth in the emerging markets as a winner-take-all contest, with developed countries on the losing side. Billions of new middle-class consumers in the emerging markets represent new markets for developed-world exports and companies based in developed countries. Emerging market corporations are another big new market: business-to-business sales to China and India, for example, are a key factor in Germany’s strong export economy.

> In sum, then, emerging markets present a massive opportunity, but companies will need strategic clarity if they are to capitalize on it. Many will have to rethink their business models, considering, for example, the relatively low spending power of many consumers in the developing world. They will also have to prepare for fierce competition from local enterprises, which often enjoy advantages such as strong distribution capabilities, superior government relations and lower-cost business models. Getting these and other elements right will be vital to companies’ long-term success.

Other glObal trends In addition to the rising power of emerging markets, Ernst & Young believes five other key trends will shape tomorrow’s business landscape: > Cleantech becomes a competitive advantage.

Governments and private organizations plan to shrink their carbon footprints to address the problems of climate change and dwindling global energy supplies. This move toward cleaner technology represents a second industrial revolution that will have effects as great as the first. > Global banking seeks recovery through transformation.

The global financial system remains uncertain and poses opportunities and risks for financial institutions, alternative asset managers and other enterprises that need funding to grow. > Governments enhance ties with the private sector.

Readjustment will continue between the developed and emerging economies; the public and private sectors; and global institutions and nations as these entities define their roles in the post-crisis world.

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> Rapid technology innovation creates a smart, mobile world. Smarter technology offers the promise of remote access to healthcare and education, while blurring boundaries between industries. The power of the individual will grow and new competitors will emerge, disrupting industries and creating new business models. > Demographic shifts transform the global workforce.

Rapid demographic change, especially an aging global population, will force employers around the world to recruit from a shrinking workforce.

Questions for businesses to consider EmErging markEts: Do you have the right talent, cultural understanding, age profile, experience and skills to create credibility and relationships with critical stakeholders (such as regulators, company officials and key business leaders) in the emerging markets most important to your organization?

ClEantECh: Is your cleantech strategy optimized for both operational efficiency and revenue growth, and does it maximize opportunities in both mature and

Winners and losers As these trends change how businesses grow and compete, winners and losers inevitably will emerge.

The winners, easy to spot, will be organizations that constantly monitor broad trends in the external environment, embrace technology and look for talent everywhere, especially among previously neglected segments of the workforce such as women, minorities and older workers.

As businesses and governments look to the future, they would do well to remember that executing on their current strategy may no longer be good enough.

Instead, they will have to think more deeply about the opportunities and risks presented by evolving global trends. With a different mindset, they can re-imagine what is possible, discovering what they can do that is new and how best to do it. Those that succeed may find themselves not just navigating tomorrow’s global trends, but actually shaping them.

emerging markets? global banking: Have you evaluated the impact of regulation on your capital requirements and determined how to manage them while getting the best possible returns? govErnmEnt: Significant government investments are needed in pensions, social security systems, infrastructure and education. In many cases, these investments will require greater funding from the private sector. Has your organization identified opportunities in this space? tEChnology and innovation: Are you satisfied with your ability to leverage newer technologies, such as social media and cloud-based services, analytics, security and privacy and virtualization solutions? dEmographiC shifts: When you make location and investment decisions, do you consider shifts

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Set on a coastline that’s inspired generations of poets and painters; the product of an age that defined modern American elegance; built to push the best golfers of any period to their absolute limits. The iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links may be the most beautiful expression of the game anywhere. But don’t let the aesthetics fool you: This place was made for competition

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Pebble Beach has compelled both artistry and cliché from all those who have chosen to write about her—and that includes every golf journalist since 1919. Whether we wax lyrical about the Monterey Pines or simply ponder in somber terms the cold waves and blustery winds along 17-Mile Drive, scribblers can only skirt the edge in describing what is, for many, the closest thing to perfection when it comes to golf. Stunning setting and masterful design combine to make Pebble Beach Golf Links and the other courses on the Monterey Peninsula a top stage for golf, and the dramas played out here have made this site a legend.

Legions of professionals and amateurs alike have tested their games here, reaping rewards or desperately failing, both usually in bold fashion. Remarkable U.S. Opens, well-fought Pro-Ams and all manner of other tournaments at Pebble Beach have yielded some of the game’s greatest and most infamous moments.

Here are just a few of them:

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1950 BING CROSBY The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am started life as a celebrity get-together hosted by Bing Crosby.

Originally held at Rancho Santa Fe Country Club near San Diego and billed as “The $10,000 Invitational National ProAmateur Golf Championship,” the tournament moved to Pebble Beach following the end of World War II. Known colloquially as “The Crosby,” the three-day event (there was no cut) offered a prize of $2,000 to the winner from an overall purse that was personally supplied by the singer/actor himself.

In 1947, the first Crosby at Pebble Beach resulted in a tie for first, with George Fazio and Ed Furgol both shooting 213—but that was nothing compared to 1950.

Less than a year after Ben Hogan’s car accident, the tourney’s defending champ was back in the field but out of contention after struggling with the fierce winds.

At 6ft 2in, Dave Douglas (paired with Olympic swimmer

and Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller) was struggling as well, but was getting lucky. Shots like a ridiculous par-5 at No.18—which saw his ball first arc toward the beach, then bounce off a rock and back into play—kept him in the running. Likewise, 1956 Masters champion Jack Burke Jr., had been looking poor until he managed an incredible five birdies on Monterey’s back nine to put himself near the top of the board. Smiley Quick, a former combat Marine who played on the 1947 Walker Cup team, was there as well, much to the surprise of Sam Snead, who was that year’s favorite to win. After three difficult days of play Snead was set to fulfill expectations but he missed putts on the last two greens to create one of the strangest finishes in golf history.

The end result: A four-way tie for first, with Burke, Douglas, Quick and Snead all shooting 214 and earning $1,237.50 each.

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A painful Arnold Palmer loss at Pebble Beach came at the 1972 U.S. Open—a tournament famous for one of the most incredible shots in golfing history. While Arnie was making almost his last serious tilt at the title, Jack Nicklaus was on fire. On the final day, Palmer effectively put himself out of contention by missing an 8ft putt at 14.

Meanwhile, Nicklaus was battling to hold off defending champion Lee Trevino, who started the day just one shot adrift, and Australian Bruce Crampton, who was a further two shots back. At the iconic par-3 17th, with the wind blowing like crazy, Nicklaus audaciously asked his caddie for a 1-iron and smacked his ball into the teeth of the gale. It bounced a foot from the hole, hit the flagstick full-on, and came to rest just inches from the cup. He finished with a 72-hole total of 290 and the third of his four U.S. Open wins.

Ten years after making history with his 1-iron, Nicklaus was in contention again in the second U.S. Open to be played at Pebble Beach. But the game’s leading player at the time had other ideas. Tom Watson shot a 72 on the first day of the tournament and was fortunate to get that as he needed to make three birdies in the final four holes. His second round was no better and he ended with another 72 that could easily have been a lot worse.

The weekend, though, was a completely different story.

Watson shot a 68 on Saturday, giving him a share of the lead going into Sunday. Nicklaus had been relatively quiet, suffering putter issues that left him 1-over after the first two holes of the final round. But birdies on holes 3 through 7 turned things around, and the fight was on.

Watson saved par at No.10 with a 25-foot putt that would have been better remembered had it not been for his unbelievable save at 15 from 40ft above the hole.

With Nicklaus in the clubhouse and confident following a 69, Watson choked off the tee at 17 and put his ball in the rough behind the green and above the hole. Facing an impossibly tough shot, short-sided and from thick rough, and with his caddie incongruously urging him to get it close, Watson reportedly replied, “Get it close?

Hell, I’m going to sink it.” And so he did, with a chip that rattled into the flagstick before dropping for one of the greatest birdies of all time. Watson birdied 18 as well and took the title—his only U.S. Open victory—by two shots. He then went on to win the 1982 [British] Open Championship at Royal Troon as well, becoming one of only a select few golfers to win two professional majors in a single season.

Tom Watson chips in from the rough on the 71st hole in 1982

1992 U.S. OPEN As cruel as the weather at Pebble Beach can be, the course is not without a conscience. And in 1992 it showed its just side, yielding the 42-year-old Tom Kite his one and only major after numerous near misses.

The tournament that saw Phil Mickelson’s first start as a professional began with three days of calm conditions.

But on the final day the wind attacked with a steady barrage of 40mph gusts from all directions. Only five players broke or matched par on Sunday, one of whom, Colin Montgomerie, had set a seemingly impregnable clubhouse target with a 70. Indisputably, Monty had produced one of the greatest U.S. Open rounds ever played, compiled at the height of the storm when no one else broke 75. However, despite being congratulated prematurely on his first major championship win on air by Nicklaus, the Scot was eventually eclipsed by Kite who came home with an equally sterling 72. Kite’s career-defining shot came at the 105-yard 7th where he hit a 6-iron off the tee, desperately trying to keep the ball low. But his shot went long and left and landed in deep rough nearly 20 yards from the green. Steadying himself in the wind, Kite hit a wedge, arced the ball over a bunker and watched it hurtle across the green, hit the flagstick, and drop for birdie. From that point on, the course relented and the wind eased up, and ultimately

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the heretofore “best golfer never to win a major” was rewarded with the first and only ‘big one’ of his career.

At least he won one, though. Montgomerie, who ended up third that year, never did get over the winning line in a major, despite five runners-up finishes.

1997 AT&T Pro-Am For anyone who wasn’t already awake, 1997 emphatically announced the force that was Tiger Woods.

The 21-year-old won the Masters by 12 strokes with a four-round score of 270, setting records as the youngest Masters champ, Masters winner by the largest margin, and scorer of the lowest Masters total with 18 under par.

By the end of the year Woods had won four tournaments and finished in the top-10 nine times, breaking the PGA Tour’s single-season earnings record with more than $2 million. But despite all of Tiger’s success, the year could have started better. On the last day of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, along came his new best friend, four-time former winner Mark O’Meara who was three weeks past his 40th birthday and seven shots behind the young star. But by the end of the day the tide had turned quite dramatically. Needing par on 18 to secure an unprecedented fifth AT&T win, O’Meara nailed it, tipped his hat to the crowd and edged out Woods by a single stroke.

2000 U.S. oPEN Tiger may have faltered at Pebble Beach in 1997, but he famously came roaring back at the 2000 U.S. Open. Anyone who watched it will not soon forget his astounding total of 272, 12-under par, along with the 15-shot triumph that still stands as the biggest winning margin in the history of major-championship golf. The joint runners-up, Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez, finished on 287, three-over par.

Arnold Palmer and Pebble Beach Not a single one of the King’s illustrious victories came on the Monterey Peninsula, which more often than not created headaches for Palmer instead of opportunities. In the 1963 Crosby Pro-Am, Arnie was disqualified after holing-out with a provisional ball.

In the third round, Palmer watched his tee shot at the par-3 No.17 disappear over a bluff. Assuming it had gone into the ocean, he played a provisional ball. Upon walking to the green, he saw his original ball on the beach below, declared it unplayable, and holed-out with his provisional—even though the rule stipulated that he should have returned to the tee to put another ball into play. The error was discovered the day after the tournament and Palmer was disqualified for an incorrect score, ending a streak of 47 tournaments in the money. The next few years were no kinder. In 1967 Palmer hit a strong drive at the par-5 14th. Jack Nicklaus had birdied nearby and, reacting to the roar of the crowd, Palmer went big with a 3-wood toward the green. As his ball was coming down, a gust of wind blew it into a tree next to the green, whereupon it glanced off the tree’s lone branch and deflected wickedly out of bounds. Under pressure, Palmer went for it again with the 3-wood, and the exact same thing happened: Same tree, same branch, another ball out of bounds. Palmer finished the hole with a 9 and lost the tournament, but the tree got the worst of it. That night it was struck by lightning and remarkably had been reduced to ashes when the course superintendents came by it the next morning. As sure as day follows night, it had clearly caused great offense to the King’s friends upstairs.

2010 U.S. oPEN In contrast to Tiger’s unbelievable score at the 2000 U.S. Open, long-hitting Dustin Johnson will remember Pebble Beach for a very different kind of distinction: Carding the worst final round of any 54-hole leader in a major championship in 99 years. Johnson, winner of the two previous AT&T Pro-Ams, headed into the final round with a three-shot lead, but wasted no time in completely unraveling. In the space of roughly 20 minutes, he ran up a triple-bogey 7 on No.2 and a double-bogey 6 on No.3. By comparison, the bogey 5 on No.4 was almost merciful. Alas, it didn’t get any better. Indeed, articles at the time likened Johnson’s final-day stumble to “a brainless shell walking along the cliffs, contemplating a leap,” and used terms like “crash and burn,” “meltdown” and “collapse.” His finalround score was 82. In the meantime, the title was claimed, after a closing 75 that sealed a one-shot victory, by a Northern Irishman (no, not that one). His name?

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It’s been called The Coyote State, The Sunshine State and The Blizzard State, which should give you an idea of its wild and dynamic nature. Arnold Palmer recently went hunting there, and visited a cabin that bears his name. It’s perhaps best known as the home of Mt. Rushmore—unless you’re a biker, in which case you’ll know it for Sturgis, which hosts the largest motorcycle gathering in the world.

With harsh winters, difficult terrain and legendary storms, it’s not for the faint of heart. But for those who weather its challenges, there’s no place more beautiful or rewarding than South Dakota It had been a long time since Arnold Palmer went hunting—too long, as far as David Bockorny was concerned.

As a South Dakota native, the CEO of the formidable Bockorny Group lobbying firm had the answer: A quick jaunt to his home state and the lovely Sutton Bay Club for some camaraderie, good conversation, and phenomenal hunting. South Dakota is a hunter’s paradise, with millions of acres of public hunting land and plenty of upscale lodges as well, but that’s not all there is to the state. There’s great fishing, numerous sites of interest and a lot of great golf to be had. Of course, Arnie was after something else…

“If you go to Bay Hill, you’ll see a picture of Arnie hunting when he was a boy,” said Bockorny, who travelled with Palmer to South Dakota last year. “And you hear him talk about it, how he hunted as a kid.’”

That, and mention of hunting in several books about Palmer, got Bockorny thinking long before he ever met Arnie, and it inspired a present that would eventually come in handy.

“The first time I really spent any time with Mr. Palmer, I wanted to take him a special gift, but I thought, ‘What could you give him that he doesn’t already have?’”

With a mind to Arnie’s hunting past, Bockorny gifted a top quality over/under 20 gauge shotgun.

“We didn’t really know each other that well, and I thought it probably brought up a few memories for him, but I didn’t know if there’d be anything more to it than that.”

Over time the pair grew to know each other better, and Bockorny occasionally raised the idea of a hunting trip. With Mr. Palmer’s busy schedule the timing never seemed to be right, but Bockorny kept at it, purchasing a mounted ringneck pheasant for Arnie’s 80th birthday.

“I think he and Kit really did like that,” Bockorny said. “They put it in their house in Latrobe, and I thought it might be another indication that maybe someday there’d be a chance and I could put a trip together.”

Fast-forward to last summer, and the opportunity finally presented itself. Arnie, Bockorny and Roy and Sam Saunders were having dinner, “and Roy mentioned how much he liked to hunt pheasant and how he wanted Sam to have the experience because he hadn’t hunted pheasant before. Arnold was the glue to pull it together— ‘Dave’s been after me, he wants to take me to South Dakota’—and that was it. We found a long weekend in early November last year and off to Sutton Bay we went.”

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Sutton Bay CluB The Sutton Bay Club is one of the nicest private clubs anywhere, built on an old cattle ranch in Agar, South Dakota. In addition to startling natural beauty, Sutton Bay features a top-ranked golf course, excellent fishing and, of course, great hunting.

Across the entire state, South Dakota has more pheasants than people. According to the 2010 census, roughly 814,000 people call the state home, while the estimated pheasant population is closer to 8 million— minus a few after Mr. Palmer’s visit.

“Watching him land his Citation X at the Pierre Regional Airport, with a perfect landing as always, was incredible. He hadn’t hunted in ages—he told me he’d hunted quail 30 or 35 years before. We got out to Sutton Bay, and everyone was anxious to get to it, but we decided to throw some clay pigeons first, just to warm up. Arnold gets out there and he’s such a great athlete, his hand-eye coordination is incredible. The first two targets, he shoots a little behind them, but No.’s 3, 4, 5 and 6 he blows to smithereens. I saw that and said, ‘You’ve hit enough, let’s go!’”

Palmer and the group with him—which included Bockorny, Roy and Sam Saunders, Pete Luster, Cori Britt, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard, Sutton Bay’s Mark Amundson, and a few more—did well, harvesting pheasants and having a great time in the process.

Palmer and a few others stayed in the “Arnold Palmer Cabin,” at Sutton Bay, and Arnie signed the wall on the way out.

“I grew up idolizing Palmer,” said Bockorny. “To have him come to South Dakota and to Sutton Bay with me and hunt, it was like a fairy tale. It’s hard to describe.”

Hunting & Fishing As incredible as Sutton Bay is, it’s not alone in providing access to South Dakota’s incredible hunting.

Thunderstik Lodge, set by the Missouri River near Chamberlain, is another lodge that garners rave reviews (thunderstik.com). A world-class sporting clays course is available there, as are fishing and excursions into the surrounding countryside. Big Shot Pheasant Fields, near Aberdeen, only hosts one group at a time (bigshotpheasantfields.com), Cheyenne Signature Ridge, near Pierre, is an award-winning lodge (signaturelodge.com), while Paul Nelson Farms, near Gettysburg, offers a comprehensive array of outdoor options and corporate retreats (paulnelsonfarm.com).

Golf There’s plenty of golf to be had in South Dakota as well, starting with the Arnold Palmer course at Dakota Dunes Country Club. This private club is nestled along the Missouri River, and was named best course in the state by both GolfDigest and Golfweek (dakotadunescountryclub.com). Sadly, the course is in the path of current floods, so potential travellers should exercise due diligence and check to make sure it’s open for play. The course at the aforementioned Sutton Bay is a Graham Marsh design that’s won similar accolades, while the public course at Hart Ranch is one of Golf Digest’s “Places to Play” (hartranch.com).

Ranked the No.1 public course in the state for 11 years running, The Golf Club at Red Rock

(golfclubatredrock.com) is a Rapid City course that makes the most of the Black Hills’ beauty. Rolling fairways, Ponderosa pines, dramatic elevation changes and epic views make this a true gem.

Other Activites Beyond golf, hunting and fishing, South Dakota’s incredible natural beauty is reason enough to visit.

More familiar, Mount Rushmore National Memorial is an inspiring vision that should not be missed.

Famously featured in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, the 60-foot-high sculpture of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln took sculptor Gutzon Borglum 14 years to complete. A cave behind the carving, called the “Hall of Records,” was meant to contain the story of the monument but was never finished due to lack of funding. Badlands National Park is another must-see feature of South Dakota. The park’s 244,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie hold bison, bighorn sheep, deer and more. If you want to get out of the sun, Wind Cave National Park holds one of the longest and most complex caves anywhere, while the marina at Lewis & Clark Park (lewisandclarkpark.com) can set you up with a boat trip that will put you right under the big blue sky.

Whether you’re visiting the Old West town at Historic Deadwood (deadwood.org), pondering history at Custer State Park, or going for a horseback ride or camping trip in the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota is well worth your time.

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Wrigley A shrine to persistence, “the Friendly Confines,” the stage upon which so many dramas have played out. To historians, it is one of the oldest temples of the American game; to the people who live in its shadow, a source of both happiness and pain. When the people of Chicago sing, “Take me out to the Ball Game,” you might not know which ballpark they’re talking about. But ask a Cubs fan and he’ll tell you: There’s only one Wrigley Field.

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It’s the wind that does it, coming in off of Lake Michigan in April and May, just when you’re really getting in the mood for baseball. When the Cubs are at bat, that damn wind at Wrigley Field can be heartbreaking, turning homeruns into fly-outs. But that goes both ways, as Braves fans saw in 1969 when Hank Aaron—one of the best ever—clobbered the ball in the seventh inning off a pitch from Ken Holtzman. Everyone was sure it was over the fence, but that beautiful wind came in and stopped the ball mid-flight, dropping it right into Billy Williams’ glove and eventually helping Holtzman get a no-hitter.

Then again, when summer’s well underway the wind blows the other direction—out of the park—and then you really get to see some hits. Sammy Sosa put a ball on the roof of the center field camera booth once, and that’s nearly 450 feet. Sosa also broke a window in an

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apartment on Waveland Ave., across the street from the park. So did Dave Kingman—and he might have done more. Local legend has it that “Kong” Kingman once hit a ball that landed on the third porch roof across Kenmore Avenue, nearly 550 feet from the plate.

The guys sitting on the rooftops would’ve loved that. Back in the day, fans would informally gather on the roofs of the buildings across Waveland and Sheffield Avenues to look down into the park and enjoy a free view of the games. But a few years ago, things got official. Stadium seating was built, bars were opened and the building rooftops started selling tickets. The Cubs didn’t like that, and so they put up a big screen at Wrigley to block the view. Everything got worked out, though. Now the screen has been taken down, the Cubs get a cut of the rooftop tickets, and everybody’s happy.

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Names & Curses Tradition is important at Wrigley Field, which was called Weeghman Park when it opened in 1914. The Cubs weren’t around yet, and it was the Federal League’s Chicago Whales that played there. That changed in 1916, and it was renamed Cubs Park. A few years later the chewing gum guy bought the team and you get Wrigley Field. It’s the second-oldest active MLB ballpark (Fenway is the oldest by two years) and it’s seen a lot of action.

The old sign is still out front announcing whose home it is, as it has since 1934, the same year John Dillinger came back to Chicago and was gunned down.

There have been a few changes (the sign used to be blue, an electronic message screen was put in some time ago) but it’s basically the same. That can’t be said for the team, though. From 1905 to 1912, the Cubs won four pennants and two World Series titles—in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first team to nail two in a row. The pennants kept coming for the next decade or so, but the World Series win never re-emerged. In fact, it’s been 102 years since the Cubs pulled it off, making them the only team of any North American sport to go without a championship for so long. But while World Series games played at Wrigley haven’t been good to the Cubs in a long time, some of them have been great for baseball. In the 1932 series, with the Cubs playing the Yankees, Wrigley is where Babe Ruth pointed his bat to the sky and called his home run before he hit it. It’s also where “The Curse of the Billy Goat” occurred. That was in 1945. The Cubs were up two games to one against the Detroit Tigers when the Series returned to Chicago. Local Cubs fan Billy

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Sianis owned the still-famous Billy Goat Tavern, where celebs and prominent locals used to quench their thirst.

Sianis even grew a goatee, called himself “Billy Goat” and used to haul an actual goat around as a publicity stunt.

But when he showed up at Wrigley with two tickets for Game 4—one for him, one for the goat—it all went bad.

At first the goat was ok, parading around Wrigley Field with a sign that read, “We got Detroit’s goat.” But several innings into the game, after a few fans complained about the goat’s odor, Sianis and his animal were asked to leave. As the story has it, he was so insulted he either told or telegrammed Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley the message that the Cubs would never again win the Series, and so far they haven’t.

aesthetiCs & uses Despite not having a recent World Series trophy to help decorate, Wrigely is still a beautiful place. It’s the only ballpark with ivy-covered outfield walls, the product of a 1937 beautification plan. Don’t tell the Red Sox, but it’s Boston ivy out there; the English stuff doesn’t like Chicago winters. The hand-turned scoreboard adds to the charm as well, and is one of only two in use in the majors (the other one’s at Fenway). That scoreboard is way up there, mounted over the center field bleachers.

Considering center field at Wrigley is 400 feet off the plate, it’s hard enough to hit one over the fence, much less hit the numbers. In fact, no homerun has ever hit the scoreboard—but someone did hit it with a ball once. That was Sam Snead, who hit a 4-iron off home plate to nail the scoreboard on opening day in 1951.

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Snead followed that shot with a 2-iron that cleared the board and sailed into the street. Cincinnati Reds manager Luke Sewell wasn’t too impressed with Sam, reportedly saying, “Yeah, but can he hit a curveball?”

The lights that illuminate the scoreboard aren’t remarkable, except for the fact that the Cubs sure took their time installing them. It wasn’t until 1988 that Wrigley Field was lit, and it was only because MLB officials told the Cubs, “No lights, no hosting postseason games.” And thus there was light.

More than a few games would have benefited from illumination, not least those played at Wrigley by the NFL’s Chicago Bears, from 1921 to 1970, before they moved to Soldier Field. For the first few years of the Bears at Wrigley, football fans had only the existing seating, which stuck a large portion of the crowd out of the action. Later, temporary bleachers were installed, but these squeezed the pitch. Set up for football, the field ran from left field to the foul side of first base, putting the southern end zone directly into the visitor’s side baseball dugout and slicing off a corner of the field.

A special rule was installed at Wrigley and the dugout was filled with padding to make things legal and safe— well, safer. On the north end zone, the end line was just inches from the ivy-covered left field wall. On one unfortunate play, with his head down, Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski charged down the field, blasted through the defensive line and ran smack into the bricks. As legend has it, he returned to the bench and told coach George Halas, “That last guy gave me quite a lick!”, supposedly prompting the installation of padding on the wall during Bears games.

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Finally They sing “Take me out to the Ball Game” during the 7th inning stretch, and Bill Murray and Ozzy Osbourne have both lead the singing, along with a few others.

The white flags still go up when the Cubs have won— that started in 1937, with the “W” and “L” flags, to let people outside the park know what had happened.

Hall of Famer and longtime Cub Ernie Banks called it “The Friendly Confines,” and that fits. It’s a rather compact place, with roughly 41,000 seats tucked into the Wrigleyville neighborhood and with easier homeruns compared to other parks (as long as the wind is “blowing out,” as they say). It’s been a long time since it’s seen a championship trophy, and even longer since it’s seen a Federal League game (it’s the last surviving Federal League park). In 1998 it lost the voice of famed Cubs radio announcer Harry Caray, and that’s a shame.

But the “Goat Riders of the Apocalypse,” as the Cubs are sometimes called, soldier on. And no matter whether the fans are watching from the bleachers or the rooftops, no matter whether it’s a pre-season exhibition or a chance at a pennant race, everyone who’s peered over the ivy-covered walls knows that though it may not be the oldest, the biggest or the most decorated, it is one of the most beloved, and deservedly so.

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The 2011 Ghost is a hauntingly beautiful specter with which the editor had a brief—but satisfying—encounter. There’s nothing like a Rolls-Royce to make you believe…

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Like finding out that the lovely woman you’ve met can also play piano, the speed and performance of a Rolls-Royce is a nice plus—but it’s not the first question you ask when you walk across the room. Big, because it’s supposed to be big, but not the biggest of the brand, the 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost achieves “stately” as well, meaning the design team is doing its job. Inside, all the expected exclamations apply: luxurious, refined, elegant, cutting edge, the model of modern motoring comfort...

The same adjectives and phrases have been used to describe Rolls-Royce cars for more than 100 years, and that’s a good thing. The words are familiar and reassuring.

As long as they’re on the page, all is right in the world of Rolls-Royce. And ultimately that’s the deal with an article Rolls-Royce: it’s not a review so much as it is a white-glove walkaround to reassure us all that the ship is, in fact, in shape. It’s not a “did they get it right?” evaluation because, quite frankly, that’s what the people at Rolls-Royce do.

If you’re only going to read this far, I’ll go ahead and tell you that yes, in 2011 Rolls-Royce is still building superlative automobiles. If you want one and you can afford it, get it. You won’t be disappointed. The engine in the 2011 Ghost is fantastic, the ride is sublime, the handling (if you’re going to be driving yourself) is better than it has a right to be, and the rear seats (if you’re not) are a grand place to spend some quality time. Fittingly, the new Ghost offers the odd pleasant surprise as well— and that, too, is something you expect from a Rolls-Royce.

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Touches of the modern can be found in the headlamp fixtures and in the large amounts of glass in the roof, both handled in ways that look positively forward-thinking to our eyes, not just contemporary. It’s smoother than you might expect as well, with long arcs reaching from tip to tail—or “from stem to stern,” as one observer noted during our drive. No question about it, this is a big car: nearly 18 feet long, more than six feet wide and just a hair over five feet tall—making the Ghost slightly larger than the passenger cabin of the Cessna Citation Encore business jet, which comfortably seats seven. That said, the Ghost is smaller (and more understated) than its sibling Phantom.

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InTerIor “Plush” isn’t the right word, because the Ghost’s interior isn’t mushy soft. But “firm” doesn’t work either, because there’s nothing hard-edged or rigid about the Ghost— except its integrity. Instead, seating and accoutrements are simply “quality.” The interior looks inviting in the same way the sofa in the Oval Office might seem a nice place to sit. No question it’s the best seat in the house but is it really ok if I sit down—I am wearing jeans, you know? In fact, there’s no reason to worry. Entering the Ghost through one of the impressive doors (note the in-door umbrella on the driver’s side) is as effortless as stepping into first class on a trans-oceanic flight—and as lovely. Leather and wood, of course, with every possible kind of adjustment possible. Heated seats, cooled seats, seats that electronically move and shift to accommodate any passenger (and that goes for the rear seats as well)… The hand-stitched leatherwork takes more than two weeks to complete per Ghost and requires nine hides from the same batch, ensuring consistency throughout. Blenheim wool carpets underfoot and a cashmere-blend roof lining overhead—seriously? Is it possible to be uncomfortable in the Ghost? Only if it’s not yours and you have jam on your hands. Even then, the flip-down tray tables for rear passengers offer plenty of room to eat lunch, write a report or rest your drink as you watch a movie on the in-flight—sorry, make that “on-the-road”—entertainment system.

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Tech The electronics in the Ghost are great, and utilize a centrally located interface that gives you control over every vehicle system. You can even raise and lower the Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament (a seemingly seamless cover slides into place when she’s hiding). The navigation system is great as well, and here we have to pause to give Rolls-Royce some additional credit. For some reason, numerous luxury brands skip through this basic feature and offer navigation systems that are rudimentary, difficult to negotiate and often lackluster compared to factory standard systems on vehicles costing much, much less. The navigation system on the Ghost is one of the best we’ve tried, with highly detailed maps that are quick to load and update and a screen that’s easy to read in any light. Well done. We mentioned the odd surprise or two, and it’s in the tech department that we found ours. The Ghost has a Head Up Display, as Rolls-Royce calls it, that projects a wealth of information (though not cluttered) in a transparent illuminated format on the windshield in front of you, just below your line of sight. This allows drivers to keep their eyes on the road while checking their speed or following navigation system directions. A special coating on the inside of the windshield ensures the H.U.D. is sharp and clear at all times.

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In the Ghost at a predetermined distance from the vehicle in front. A bevy of cameras assist with backing up and parking, and a Lane Departure Warning system helps keep things straight on long journeys. But while all of these are impressive, we were absolutely floored by another bit of RR tech: A Night Vision System. During the day the system remains hidden behind a veneered panel, but as darkness falls a discreet infrared camera in the grill activates. It has the ability to detect the body heat of pedestrians up to nearly 1,000 feet away, and displays an active thermal image on the Control Center Display with the touch of a button, giving you a real-time view of the night-time world. No kidding: We parked the Ghost for a while one night and just stared at the screen. at

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Performance Lift the epic hood to reveal an engine that, while it’s an absolute beast, looks composed and refined in typical Rolls-Royce fashion. In addition to being understated in appearance, the engine is quiet. Really quiet, all the way up to the governed top speed of 155mph. If it weren’t for the “V12” badge hung like a military medal on the top, you could be looking at anything—but of course you’re not. You’re looking at a 6.6-litre 48-valve 12-cylinder twin turbo Rolls-Royce engine that offers 563hp and 575 lb/ft of torque—80 percent of which is available from idle. The 8-speed automatic transmission moves through gears like wine from a decanter, helping the 5,445-pound Ghost (curb weight) reach 60mph in 4.9 seconds with nary a flutter in your lady’s feathered hat.

Through the large windows you’ll see the world moving by very, very quickly, but you won’t feel a thing. Don’t ask me how they did that.

Handling, as I mentioned before, is better than good and even confidence-inspiring thanks to the company’s Dynamic Stability Control and Active Roll Stabilisation systems. The latter is particularly good, as we can attest after pushing the weighty Ghost through turns and lane changes in such a way that, were we employed by the rear-seat passenger, we most certainly would have been fired. If you’re being chased through a dramatically lit urban environment by a team of international super agents in black SUVs and on motorcycles, you’ll have no trouble escaping. Likewise, a leisurely drive through the country will deliver everything Miss Daisy would hope for. Stopping is impressive as well, courtesy of large, ventilated disc brakes, though Rolls-Royce owners shouldn’t often find need for abrupt halts.

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finally Whether you’re driving yourself or letting someone else have the fun up front, the Ghost is an excellent RollsRoyce. It has the Spirit of Ecstasy, the coach doors, a fantastic ride, the company’s latest tech and all the luxury, performance and personal touches you could want from a car that’s built to order. Perhaps the most straightforward expression of the marque, the Ghost is another worthy member of the Rolls-Royce family, both inspiring and reassuring us that, yes, it’s still business as usual at RollsRoyce—a place where “usual” means exceptional.

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The Deck is a feature of anticipation, a blank slate that suggests activity. It’s where all hands are called when action is needed, where a batter warms up before stepping up to the plate. You’ll see the view from the observation deck, you’ll find the exclusive party on the roof deck. The deck can be stacked for or against you, the deck doesn’t care. It is merely a stage. The actors upon it—and the set design—are up to you. When it comes to the backyard deck, the nicer you dress the stage, the better the chance you have of hosting a successful performance. In plain terms: Put nice things on your deck and people will want to spend time there. Here are Kingdom’s choices for creating the ultimate backyard deck:

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It all happens on the deck. It’s where you sit with a loved one on a quiet evening, drinks in hand, and watch the sun go down. It’s where the guys gather around the pool to grill steaks for the big game, and it’s where many of your family’s best memories are made. When it comes to building a deck you should make sure the foundation for your best times is built to last, and that’s why you should build your deck with TAMKO. The Joplin, Missouri-based company offers composite decking, dockboard, and railing products that add stunning natural beauty and outstanding durability to your home’s outdoor areas. Their compression-molded EverGrain Composite Decking material is exclusive to TAMKO, and makes for decks that have that deep grain beauty for years of low-maintenance enjoyment. The company stands behind its products with an impressive 20-year limited warranty with a 5-year full start period.

For more information on how to create an outdoor space that will add beauty, durable functionality and enhance the enjoyment of outdoor living for your home, visit TAMKO online at tamko.com

Bespoke backyards demand fine furnishings, and Veneman delivers with a selection of artful designs built with quality and confidence. The company’s numerous collections offer styles to fit any vision— even custom ideas—while their high quality materials ensure years of attractive, trouble-free comfort. Pieces made from cast aluminium are a nod to the company’s history (it was established as a cast aluminium manufacturer nearly 40 years ago) while commitments to plantation-grown teak and all-weather wicker underline Veneman as the top outfitter for contemporary casual outdoor furniture.

Whether you’re after a modern woven chaise, an elegant cast iron dining cube, something from the official Walt Disney Signature collection or a custom piece that you imagine and which Veneman designs and creates, you’ll benefit from the company’s mantra, evident in every piece it produces: “The best and most desirable items are handcrafted from design to finish.”

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Royal and ancient Relationship Images of the Westminster Abbey wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton may remain fresh in the mind, but it should not be forgotten that the happy couple met as students at the home of golf. Paul Trow sees their marriage as a modern metaphor for the game’s centuries-old link with royalty that has sometimes seemed akin to a love affair

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Left: The Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VIII, drives off at the official opening of Richmond Park Golf Club in southwest London in 1923

Horse racing may be the sport of kings, but a glance at the bloodline of golf’s royal patronage over six centuries suggests there’s also no shortage of regal affection for the sport of ‘the King.’ As a patriot, Arnold Palmer is rightly proud of America’s Republican traditions. But he would be the first to acknowledge the influence the British Royal Family has had on golf’s evolution from a quaint pastime involving sticks and pebbles amid bleak sand dunes to the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today, with an estimated 60 million people playing worldwide.

The newly-wed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, both aged 29, received their college education at the University of St. Andrews which celebrates its 600th anniversary in 2013. And the presence of all those golf courses around the Auld Gray Toun can hardly have escaped their notice during their four years in residence on the east coast of Scotland. Yet neither has developed a noticeable affinity for the game so far even though Prince William has been seen on occasion with a club in his hands and his swing is considered to have potential.

During one photo-shoot at the Golf Practice Centre in St. Andrews in December 2003, he warned bystanders to take cover by stretching out his arms and informing them his shots could go “anywhere between here and here.” Indeed, he’s had personal experience of the pain that an errant ball or club can inflict, and has a ‘Harry Potter’ scar to prove it. “I call it that because it glows sometimes,” explained the second in line to the Throne.

“We were on a putting green and the next thing [I knew] there was a 7-iron and it came out of nowhere and hit me in the head.” The incident gave a whole new meaning to the word ‘crowned.’ While studying at St. Andrews, the Prince must have met up on several occasions with his uncle—Prince Andrew, Duke of York—who was captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club from 2003-04, the year of the R&A’s 250th anniversary.

The Duke of York, whose handicap has come down impressively from 7 to 4 since his year of captaincy, is the sixth member of the Royal Family to hold the post.

Unfortunately, the jury is out on whether he’s been a force for good within the game. On the plus side, he’s by far the best player the Royal Family has ever produced. He loves playing and works tirelessly on the administrative front.

His worthy roles have included acting as patron of the Golf Foundation (the U.K. equivalent of the First Tee Program), as captain of Royal Mid-Surrey GC in 2003 and patron of numerous other clubs and societies, and as president of the Faldo Junior Series for talented youngsters. He has also set up the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy (an international 54-hole tournament for boys and girls) and the charitable Duke of York Sports Foundation to offer academic and golf scholarships to teenagers.

But his passion for the game has not come without controversy. Each time he attends a golf event, his visit seems to cost public money, most notably in 2005 when his Royal Air Force flight to St. Andrews for the [British] Open set the U.K. taxpayer back around $50,000. The explanation his spokesman gave at the time was: “He’s a proud supporter of golf in the United Kingdom”.

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Prince William hones his bunker play on the beach at St. Andrews

Regardless of claims by countries as diverse as China and the Netherlands to have spawned the game back in the mists of antiquity, golf would surely never have advanced beyond the cradle had it not been nurtured by royalty, starting in late-medieval Scotland.

The key to this process of popularization was the game’s eclectic appeal—to folk as diverse as laborers, traders and landowners—but the vanguard of this movement was royalty. Golf met with their approval and everyone else followed their lead.

When, as legend had it, Mary, Queen of Scots strolled out to play a few holes only a couple of days after the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, in 1567, her apparent indifference was regarded as callousness by those who knew no better. But there were others— golfers, presumably—who instinctively saw it as a selfdefining, cathartic act on the part of a wretched though reckless woman. Certainly, it did no more to check the game’s growth than bans on golf by a trio of Mary’s ancestors—James II, III and IV—had done a century or so earlier. The reasoning behind those sanctions was that the men of Scotland who would normally make

Mary, Queen of Scots strolled out to play a few holes only a couple of days after the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, in 1567

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Sundays. From that point onwards, golfers were free to play whenever they wished, and those with royal blood coursing through their veins were clearly no exception.

The first golf club to become established outside Scotland was Blackheath in southeast London. It recently celebrated its 400th anniversary so there’s little doubt it’s the oldest golf club in England and, in all probability, the world as well. Naturally, golf in England was imported from north of the border and originates from the time James I (VI) moved his court to the Royal Palace at nearby Greenwich. The king’s entourage included several golfers who, according to records, adopted the higher ground above the palace on Blackheath for play from 1606. The club was formed two years later but had to wait until 1849 to receive Queen Victoria’s assent to become Royal Blackheath.

Following the invention of the automobile, it was eventually forced to move when golfers found themselves obstructing traffic on the A2 highway that runs across the middle of the heath. In 1923, the club merged with nearby Eltham GC and adopted as its clubhouse the splendid 17th century mansion Eltham Lodge.

Edward VIII, restyled the Duke of Windsor, was not such a high-profile golfer in 1952

up the army at a moment’s notice in the event of an invasion were neglecting to practice their archery skills in favor of playing ‘gowf.’ Once the Treaty of Glasgow between England and Scotland was signed in 1502, though, James IV immediately lifted the ban.

Half a century later, the game was accorded ‘official’ status when the Archbishop of St. Andrews decreed that the local populace could play on the town’s links, and by 1618 James VI (Mary’s son and also James I of England) had given approval for golf matches to take place on

Bertie (Edward VII) grew rather fond of golf in late middle age and laid out a course in the grounds of Windsor Castle

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After a quiet time in the 18th century, the British monarchy revived its interest in golf in 1833 when William IV ennobled the Royal Perth Golfing Society in Scotland, to this day a city-center organization without a course of its own. William IV was also patron of the Society of St. Andrews Golfers which he elevated to the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews a year later.

This, of course, paved the way so the R&A could periodically appoint a royal captain—a practice that began in September 1863 with the then Prince of Wales, who was known as Bertie to his family and later became Edward VII. However, the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who at the time was 21, failed to attend his own drive-in, so the ceremonial shot off the 1st tee on the Old Course that confirmed him in office was taken in his absence by former captain John Whyte Melville.

Even though Bertie never visited St. Andrews (he preferred to spend his vacations in places like Biarritz in southwest France and the Czech spa town of Marienbad), he grew rather fond of golf in late middle age. He laid out a course in the grounds of Windsor Castle and continued to play well into his reign (from 1901–10), more often than not at Royal Cinque Ports just outside the town of Deal in southeast England where he was club president from 1905–07.

Prince Leopold, the youngest of Queen Victoria’s sons, followed in his brother’s footsteps in 1876 when he agreed to serve as R&A captain, but unlike his brother he actually showed up and drove himself into office. “The Prince’s stroke was a very good one—the ball being lifted over the heads of the crowd and down a good distance on towards the hole,” reported the Fifeshire Journal. He was a hemophiliac and had been encouraged by his doctors to play golf, but he was not long for this world and he passed away ten days shy of his 31st birthday in 1884. Still he is remembered as the

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The Duke of York, the future King George VI, plays golf with the Queen Mother during their honeymoon in 1923 on the Polesden Lacey estate in Surrey

first member of the Royal Family to visit St. Andrews since Charles II, more than two centuries previously.

The first decade of the 20th century saw the creation of hundreds of golf courses across the British Isles, though how much that had to do with the patronage of Edward VII is impossible to tell. The proliferation of rail travel and advances in club, ball and greenkeeping technology were probably more significant factors.

The Royal Family did not provide another R&A captain until September 27, 1922 when the Prince of Wales—grandson of Edward VII, son of George V and later to become Edward VIII—drove himself in. With heavy rain lashing down on more than 6,000 spectators, his low, miscued pull off the tee was an inauspicious way to usher in what proved to be a golden era for British golf. In the years leading up to the Second World War, the sport became rapidly more visible and accessible, especially to the middle classes.

This particular Prince of Wales was a golf fanatic whose appetite for the game and the company of golfers was insatiable

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This particular Prince of Wales was a real golf fanatic, despite never getting his handicap down to single figures. However, his appetite for the game and the company of golfers was insatiable. In the decade and a half between his spell as R&A captain and his ill-fated year on the Throne in 1936, he served as captain to many prestigious clubs, including Royal St. David’s in Wales, the Royal Burgess Golfing Society in Scotland, Sunningdale, Royal Mid-Surrey, Royal Wimbledon (where he once had a hole-in-one on the 6th which was then a 265-yard, par-4), Royal St. George’s (venue for this year’s [British] Open), St. George’s Hill and Luffenham Heath.

At the time of his father’s death, he was patron of the Society of London Golf Captains and the serving captain at Walton Heath. Within a year, sadly, his associations with the game had dried up in the wake of his decision to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

To be fair, he’d always had a soft spot for North America. In 1924, during a royal tour, he donated the Prince of Wales Trophy (now presented annually to the Eastern Conference playoff champions) to the National Hockey League, and later confided to one of his hosts: “I like coming here for golf—America’s one vast golf course these days.” Upon his return to Britain, he caused much

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merriment with the observation: “The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.” Years later, having received the title of Duke of Windsor upon his abdication, his former subjects were considerably less amused by his apparent friendliness toward the Nazi regime as war with Germany approached.

By then, his younger brother, also known as Bertie to his relatives, had succeeded him to the Throne.

George VI, father of Queen Elizabeth II, was also quite a keen golfer, but he had enjoyed greater success as a tennis player in his youth, having competed in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon in 1926.

On September 24, 1930, as Duke of York, he became the first R&A captain to drive into office using a steel-shafted club (steel shafts had only been declared ‘legal’ less than a year earlier). Pausing only to remove his jacket, he impressed the 2,000-strong crowd by hitting his ball about 200 yards down the fairway.

Yet another son of George V—Prince George, Duke of Kent—took up the R&A captaincy in 1937, but after hitting the ground before the ball his drive barely scuttled 100 yards. “In his eagerness he dropped his right shoulder,” was the euphemistic verdict of the St. Andrews Citizen. He was 34 at the time and lived only five more years before being killed in an air crash while on active service.

Prince Andrew, present Duke of York, plays golf all over the world

Of the nine golf clubs that currently stage the [British] Open, five have received the royal assent: Royal St. George’s, host club for this year’s [British] Open, Royal Lytham & St. Annes, next year’s venue, Royal Liverpool, where it will be held in 2014, Royal Birkdale and Royal Troon.

A total of 64 clubs across the world have had British royal status conferred upon them. Of that figure, England has 19, Scotland 10, Australia eight, Canada six, Ireland five, South Africa four, Wales two and the Channel Islands two. Those that boast genuinely great courses, though, are fairly easy to identify—like Royal Montreal in Canada, venue for the 2007 Presidents Cup, and Royal Melbourne in Australia, host club for this year’s biennial match between the U.S. and the International team from November 17-20.

Of the remainder, a few ‘Royal’ clubs are to be found in far-flung outposts of the British Empire where the enhanced status was in effect a reward to intrepid citizens who had left the mother country to oversee the process of colonization. Indeed, the building of golf courses was not simply an exercise in making a colony more British or, to be more precise, more Scottish. It was in many respects an extension of the courage and tenacity required to subdue a potentially hostile environment. Hence the grim determination of the founder members of Malaysia’s second oldest club, Royal Selangor in Kuala Lumpur, where the early rules stated: “You cannot ground your club in addressing the ball, or move anything, however loose or dead it may be, when you find yourself in a grave.”

Part of the course had been built on an old Chinese burial ground, which naturally was treated as a hazard.

The most recent clubs to be honored by the British monarchy were Marianske Lazne (formerly Marienbad) in the Czech Republic, where Edward VII was a frequent visitor for spa treatments, and Royal Mayfair in Edmonton, Canada.

The concept of royalty might seem an anachronism to some, but the chances are that more clubs will be recruited in due course to this most exclusive of golfing families. And it surely cannot be long before the Royal Family’s younger generation embraces the game. Prince William would be a front runner, but what if his beloved bride takes up golf? After all, St. Andrews is in her DNA and what a great story it would be for the sport if she became the R&A’s first lady captain. Readers, however, are advised not to hold their breath on that one.

Unfortunately, golf is not yet the chosen sport of the principal participants in this year’s other royal wedding—between Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, and the England rugby union captain Mike Tindall—at Canongate Kirk on The Royal Mile in Edinburgh on Saturday, July 30. But the only reason for that is they have other sporting fish to fry at present—Tindall at the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in the fall and Phillips in the equestrian events at next year’s Olympic Games in London.

After that, it would be no surprise if one or both of these gifted sporting luminaries decided to take up this most royal and ancient of games—the king of sports!

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Stay In The Game Kingdom magazine has teamed up with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) to offer health information important to everyone who loves to golf (and that’s basically all of us). In this installment, CCF tells us that what you thought was just leg pain could signal a condition called PAD—not a good thing. Fortunately, PAD is treatable.

The experts at CCF explain…

The 63-year-old lifelong golfer suddenly announced, “I’m giving up the game.” His friends and family were stunned. Although the ex-golfer offered no explanation for his decision, his doctor suspected there might be some serious physical problem. Indeed, it turned out that the man was experiencing leg pain—but not the usual muscle ache. It was pain that came on whenever he walked, and stopped when he stopped walking. The pain had leached so much pleasure from the game, that the golfer saw no recourse but to banish his clubs to the closet—for good.

To vascular specialists at the Cleveland Clinic Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute, the patient’s condition would be no mystery. Cleveland Clinic has treated thousands of patients who have similarly experienced pain while walking that goes away with rest.

It is sometimes the first symptom of a serious condition known as peripheral arterial disease, or PAD. What’s sad about PAD is how little respect it gets. Too often, doctors don’t recognize it or they undertreat it. The patient pays for this neglect, sometimes with an arm or a leg.

Doctors are recognizing that PAD is a much more common problem than originally thought. Up to one in five people older than age 70 have PAD. Fewer than half of the patients with PAD know they have a problem.

PAD is like coronary artery disease or atherosclerosis.

It’s a blockage of the arteries. Only it doesn’t happen in the heart, it happens in the arteries that carry blood to the arms or legs.

Well, sometimes you get leg pain…

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PAD is tricky. Only about 10 percent of patients actually have claudication. Some 50 percent report something more like fatigue, numbness, tightness or heaviness in the limb. Forty percent don’t mention leg problems at all (although they may have a mobility problem that prevents them from using their legs very much). Like coronary disease, you can have a severe case without serious symptoms.

What causes PAD? The conditions that increase the risk of PAD are the same risk factors that increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. These include age, diabetes mellitus, and cigarettes (smoking is the leading risk factor for PAD). Other factors include diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Fortunately, there’s a good test for PAD. It’s called the ankle brachial index, or ABI. Your ABI is derived from blood pressure readings in the ankle and leg, taken while resting and lying down. Sometimes these blood pressure readings are repeated after a period of walking on a treadmill. The 63-year old golfer had an ABI of .078 at rest. Mild disease.

Treatment follows diagnosis. Our patient didn’t need to quit golf. He needed to quit smoking. His one-packa-day habit had to be reduced to no-pack-a-day. In many patients, losing the cigarettes means improving the claudication. There are currently two medications available in the United States to treat claudication.

Patients with PAD also need to work on their risk factors for heart attack and stroke, and that generally includes cholesterol lowering medication, antiplatelet

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therapy (e.g., aspirin or clopidogrel), and rigorous control of blood pressure and blood sugar (for diabetic patients).

Exercise is astonishingly effective for treating claudication. It must be 30 to 60 minute walking sessions, pushing the pain envelope, at least three times a week for six months. This regimen beats antiplatelet therapy, angioplasty, and even surgery in getting some patients moving again.

(Don’t try it at home alone, though; talk to your doctor about a supervised exercise program in your area or for a specific exercise prescription for a walking program.)

For some patients with severe claudication, intervention is necessary. As PAD parallels coronary artery disease, so do its treatments. Angioplasty and stenting may be done to clear a blocked arm or leg artery. In some cases, the blockage can be surgically bypassed, using a healthy blood vessel or synthetic graft. In 2 percent of patients, the disease can become limb-threatening. The limb must be removed. PAD accounts for 90 percent of all amputations in North America. Patients who have both PAD and diabetes are at particularly high risk for amputation.

Our ex-golfer? He discussed his options including angioplasty and surgery in detail with his physician. He chose conservative therapy—medication and exercise.

His physician prescribed a medication to lower his cholesterol and a daily aspirin tablet. His physician also had a serious talk with him about smoking.

Six months later, the cigarettes had gone into the trash bin. Although he wasn’t happy about having to stop smoking, he was happy to take his golf clubs out of the closet. Spring was in the air. He could play a full 18 holes with only the mildest of symptoms. Quit smoking?

Sure, if he had to. But quit golf? Not on your life.

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Members of Cleveland Clinic Global CARE include businesspeople, professionals and others whose lifestyle calls for them to travel frequently or far. Many parents enroll their children in the program during overseas study or travel—or if the children are simply attending college out of town. Why take the chance of getting substandard care?

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A word on heA he At For purposes of this article, “medium-hot” means you can hold your hand just above the cooking surface for roughly three seconds.

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Steaks, ribs and pork roasts are fine if you have the time, but weekend barbeques often command simple fare.

Here’s how to not screw up the backyard basics everybody loves As the summer sun rises over our world of ballgames, picnics and poolside parties, we, like the ancients before us, call our people together and gather in celebration around that most venerated altar of the sacred fire: The Grill. We at Kingdom like the ceramic masterfulness of the Big Green Egg, but the Grill can take many forms, from the iconic knee-high Weber to a multi-thousanddollar installation behind which maestro Grillmasters conduct symphonies of sausages, steaks and pork butt to culinary crescendos of palatially palatable pleasures.

But beware: The Grill can also provide a theater of the absurd, a stage upon which even the most nimble dancer may slip and fall. There are rules. Defy them, and your slighted guests will depose you as Grillmaster, leaving the blades of your backyard grasses unbent, the waters of your pool unbroken and the air of your gatherings untroubled by laughter all summer long.

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Burgers Forget complex burger “recipes” that have you folding-in everything from blue cheese to Alba truffles.

The secret to a great hamburger has nothing to do with the seasoning and everything to do with the quality of the meat you use. For a top burger, never under any circumstances use frozen, pre-made patties. In addition to there being no guarantee of freshness, the meat could be sourced from 100 different cows butchered in a 100 different variations of cleanliness all over the world. For the absolute best results, grind your hamburger meat yourself at home from your favorite whole cuts. If that’s not an option, source your meat from farmers markets, quality butchers or stores such as Whole Foods that will grind meat on request and that also carry high-quality grass-fed ground beef (lower in fat, higher in Omega 3 fatty acids). Now that you have some great meat, don’t do anything to it.

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In ground beef, the fat and the lean meat of the whole cut have been worked together in the grinder— you don’t need to work it much more. So, put your meat in a bowl and go gently working-in your spices. As the individual bits of meat within ground beef hit the heat, they initially contract, then expand and release their juices and flavor. If there’s room in-between the bits of meat in your burger, the juices and flavor will stay inside the burger. If you over-work the meat, the patty will be too dense and you’ll find your entire burger contracting and then puffing up like a distended hockey puck, the juices and flavor excreting from the sides, resulting in an oddly shaped mess with a nasty exterior and a dry center. Burgers need room to breathe.

For four burgers, divide the gently worked meat in half, then divide in half again. Form the quarters into loose, average-size patties. Press in the middle with index and thumb to form a slight depression (this keeps the burger from turning into a meatball on the grill). When it comes to the actual cooking, burgers are an exercise in restraint. Grill on medium-high heat for four minutes on the first side—don’t touch it while it’s grilling. After four minutes, reduce the heat to medium, flip, and grill for five minutes. Again, don’t touch it. That should do it for medium rare. Serve with garnishes of your choice.

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First of all, there are two great things about grilling sausage: (1) It’s easy, and (2) You must purchase a new gadget to do it right. A digital, instant-read thermometer is the only way to ensure your sausages are perfect every time. When it comes to purchasing your sausages, do the right thing: In the USA we have access to top quality meats so don’t go cheap just to save a buck or two. Like you would with steaks or ground beef (see above), go to a top butcher who makes the sausages fresh or to a store that offers fresh-made sausages.

Forget pre-cooked sausages (you won’t be grilling them, you’ll just be warming them up) and forget anything vacuum-packed in plastic, which is pre-cooked anyway.

Otherwise, most of the work has been done for you.

The secret to cooking sausages is that you don’t want to over-cook them. Inside the sausage casing is a medley of protein, fats, juices and seasonings, all of which you want to stay in the casing. The secret is to cook slow and low, over medium-low heat and for as long as it takes.

There’s no optimum grilling time because of the variety of meats used in sausages—hence the aforementioned thermometer. For pork sausages, 145 degrees interior temp will give you a soft and juicy sausage, while 155 degrees will yield a much firmer sausage. Anything above that and they’re going to be sputtering grease all over the inside of your grill. This doesn’t hold true for chicken and turkey sausages, however, for which the interior temperature of the sausage should be between 155 and 160 degrees to ensure safety. Whatever type of sausage you’re grilling, if you feel it’s getting too hot and the sausages are leaking juice—and thus losing flavor— move them to the perimeter of the grilling surface and onto less heat. We like ours with mustard; serve yours with your favorite garnish.

Because there’s always that guy or his girlfriend or wife or their teenager who’s going through a “no meat” phase or someone else who wants to participate in the summer ritual of the backyard BBQ—on their own terms. Fine. Flip the script on them by knowing how your garden grills. Here are the basics:

Marinade for any Vegetable > > > > > >

2 cloves garlic, crushed ½ tsp. Thyme ½ tsp. Dried parsley ½ tbsp. Dijon mustard 2 tbsp. Safflower oil 1 tbsp. Balsamic vinegar

Whisk ingredients together as if you’re making a salad dressing, then marinade vegetables in the mix for up to three hours. You can also use this as a basting sauce as the veggies grill. If you’re in a rush and don’t have time to marinate, you can’t go wrong with a sprinkling of salt and pepper and a light coating of a high-heat vegetable oil.

PePPers Slice in half or quarters, grill on medium heat until tender. Check often: If they’re black on the outside, they’re overdone.

AsPArAgus To prevent the asparagus from falling into the fire, use a grill pan on the grill—that way you get the grill marks and flavor but don’t lose any of your veg. Grill until tender.

squAsh Cut in half or into thick slices, grill until tender.

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Big Wines 2006 Bonaccorsi syrah This lush red from Santa Barbara County delivers cassis, blueberry, plum, crushed rose petal and sweet vanilla. More toast than earth, there’s a hint of bacon in here—making it a perfect grill-side libation.

Cut into four segments as you would an orange, making sure each segment retains a portion of the root stem.

This will hold the onion together as it grills. Flip often to avoid charring.

POrtObellO MushrOOMs Marinate, grill whole until tender. Flip often to avoid charring. Can be used as a substitute for hamburger patties.

2006 hidden ridge 55% slope caBernet sauvignon With a bit of earth and dense fruits, this classic Napa wine is a steak’s best friend. Blackberry, cassis, and black currant don’t overwhelm the mineral core, leaving a balanced pour that will only get better.

Find these and more at exclusive wine club Lot18.com

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The Bold Big times demand big flavors in the glass, and whether you’re looking to enhance a rich feast or simply to cut the fog of evening with a straight, pure dram of something inspiring, there are libations to be found. The elegance, quality and undeniable presence of Glenmorangie makes it our Scotch of choice, while Tequila Avion satisfies the genre with well-crafted fortitude. And should you desire a beer that’s something else indeed, we’ve a suggestion there as well. Find fortune’s favor in these bold offerings, and thrill your palate with conviction:

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GlenmoranGie Even amongst the bottles on the top shelf a hierarchy exists, and at the top of the top you’ll find the superb offerings from Glenmorangie. The distillery owns the land on which it sits, ensuring the barley and the mineral-rich water—pulled from a spring on site—that are used to make the fine single malt whisky are as near to perfect as they ever were. Glenmorangie has ever only employed 16 men who know the secrets involved in crafting the brand’s “unnecessarily well made whisky,” a tradition that’s lasted for more than 160 years. The stills are the tallest in Scotland, coming in at 16 feet, 10 1/4 inches. The oak casks in which Glenmorangie matures are used only twice, and the end product is absolutely stunning. Whether you’re experiencing the supreme 25 Year Old, trying something from the Private Edition or Extra Matured selections, or just enjoying The Original, Glenmorangie should occupy a place at the center of your top shelf. Visit glenmorangie.com for more information.

Taste: Glenmorangie astar Matured in Missouri oak, Astar is a departure from the ordinary, offering a rich flair for the sinfully sweet. Toffee and crème-brulee flirt with cinnamon and aniseed on the nose, while poached pears, vanilla custard and pineapple fill the mouth. Smooth and full across the tongue, Astra will leave memories of honey, almonds and a flash of aniseed long after the dram is gone.

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TacTical nuclear Penguin It’s beer, and it’s 32% alcohol. This odd brew is the brainchild of the team at BrewDog microbrewery in Scotland, and like many of the country’s more refined offerings it (not surprisingly) offers a huge mouthful of flavor. TNP landed on U.S. shores last year and, somewhat surprisingly, is actually drinkable—albeit in small amounts. We found a single bottle too much for one and instead shared it amongst a small group, with everyone getting roughly a double shot, which worked fine. In an inspired bit of brewing, the crew at BrewDog first made a 10% Imperial Stout and aged it in an Isle of Arran whisky cask for 8 months, then in an Islay cask for 8 months. Rather than bottle the result, they took it to an ice cream factory and froze it at –4˚F over a period of 21 days. As the water in the beer turned to ice it separated from the brew, leaving a beer with a higher concentration of alcohol. When it premiered in 2010, TNP was the world’s strongest beer. A German company soon trumped it with a 40% offering, but BrewDog immediately fired back this year with Sink the Bismarck!, a beer that comes in at 41%.

For now, Sink the Bismarck! is sold out, but Tactical Nuclear Penguin can still be found at specialty stores, occasional Whole Foods locations and on brewdog.com.

Tequila avión There’s nothing subtle about the land in which the agave plant grows. Rugged and bold, the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, stand in stark contrast to the best of the beautiful nectar they yield: Tequila Avión, which is elegant and smooth, with a character that is at once effortless and complex. Made from Blue Weber Agave that is hand-picked by jimadores nearly 7,000 feet above sea level, Tequila Avión is deliciously refined in taste. The agaves are slow roasted in brick ovens before they’re pressed, and the resulting tequila is aged ten times longer than other brands. This Ultra Slow Filtration process compels the deepest secrets from the libation, giving Tequila Avión a flavor profile that is as satisfying as it is lauded, and in fact the marque took Double Gold distinction at the 2011 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Truly “Taste Elevated.” Visit tequilaavion.com to learn more.

Taste: Absolutely massive. Smoked BBQ ribs, peat, molasses, leather, Scotch whiskey and spice. There’s some dark fruit in here and chocolate as well, but the up-front meaty smokiness and the burning smack of the alcohol on the back of the throat distract from any delicate components that might be drowning under the [sinister, dark] surface.

Taste: The undeniable Avion Silver brings mint and rosemary through a veil of flowers and pepper, adding just a dash of grapefruit and pineapple. Crisp and clean, it is what a silver tequila is meant to be. Avión Reposado is aged for six months, and here you begin to find the roasted agave. Cherry, pear and peach mix with rose petals and herbs against an oak background painted with caramel and vanilla. Easily one of the best examples of a reposado. Our personal favorite is the Avión Añejo, which is aged for two years. Exquisite and rich, this beautiful expression of vanilla, caramel, coconut and maple truly enjoys the roasted agave and celebrates with endnotes of mint, rosemary, peach and cherry. Sublime.

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A Life in the Air

Arnold Palmer might have grown up by a Pennsylvania golf course, but the Latrobe airport was just a mile away.

And in 1956, under the tutelage of pilot instructor Babe Krinock, Palmer earned his pilot’s license there. The rest, as they say, is history. He’s flown the Boeing 747, set an around-the-world flight record and owned more aircraft than most people have cars. With the airport in Latrobe now bearing his name, Palmer averaged 150-200 hours in the cockpit each year, and was managing 400-500 during the peak of his career. With that, he’s logged more than 18,000 hours total, adding up to approximately 4.8 million statute miles. He turned in his pilot’s license this year, but tells us that he’s contemplating getting it back.

Whether or not he decides to take the stick again or to leave the flying to others, his reputation as a pilot is secure. In honor of a fantastic career in the air, here’s a timeline view of Palmer’s legacy of flight:

Compiled by Chris Rodell and Kingdom staff

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Palmer walks into a hangar at his hometown’s Latrobe Airport and asks Babe Krinock for flying lessons. He takes his first solo flight after only eight hours of training, and soon earns his pilot’s license. The legacy begins.

Palmer, 37, becomes agitated by meddling tasks given to him by Winnie in order to distract him from Secret Service men surreptitiously prowling the Latrobe countryside.

Unbeknownst to Palmer, they were there to assure the safety of one of the most powerful and popular men in the world who flew to Latrobe for a surprise birthday visit. And for the first time in his life, Palmer’s plane is flown without him or his knowledge—pilot Darrell Brown flies it to Gettysburg to pick up President Dwight Eisenhower for a surprise visit. “I was oblivious to it all,” Palmer says, “until I answered the door and found General Eisenhower standing there with an overnight bag. ‘Say, you wouldn’t have room to put up an old man for the night, would you?’ One of the nicest weekends of my life followed. It was the thrill of a lifetime.”

1961 Palmer buys his first plane, a1961 Aero Commander 500.

1963 A second plane purchase, a 1963 560F Commander.

The light twin-engine aircraft was designed in the 1940s by the Aero Design and Engineering Company, which eventually became the Aero Commander division of Rockwell. A Commander similar to Palmer’s holds the status of smallest Air Force One ever, shuttling Palmer’s friend President Dwight Eisenhower around between 1956 and 1960. That particular AF1 was the first to sport the now standard blue-and-white color design.

1966 Palmer buys his first jet, a Jet Commander. A May 1966 edition of Flight magazine advertised this jet-powered Aero Commander as “The only business jet in the world in which everybody rides first-class.”

1968 Palmer purchases a Lear 24. Capable of clipping along at a brisk 565 mph at 45,000 ft fully loaded, this luxury class business jet was one of the most popular of its day—and remained so. At least 200 were still in use as of 2001. A top flight all around, the 1976 version boasted an extended ceiling to 51,000 feet, the highest at the time for civilian aviation.

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November 25, 1969

The New York Sunday News profiles Palmer on the eve of the U.S. Open in a story headlined, “From Fairway to Skyway.” It reads, “When Arnold Palmer pilots his $750,000 plane into San Francisco this week, he will neither be showing off nor throwing his money away foolishly. Doesn’t every corporate giant have its own executive-type twin-engine jet? Arnold Palmer Inc. has become big business the likes of which professional sports have never seen.”

A last minute withdrawal from the inaugural Heritage Classic on Hilton Head Island leaves promoters scrambling to fill a high-profile slot. They call Palmer who says he’ll play, but only if he can fly his plane to the still-underconstruction airport. They agree. Five days later Palmer flies out with the first place trophy and a check for $20,000. The victory ends a 20-month winless streak.

Palmer’s Jet Commander (left) and Aero Commander (above)

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September 13, 1971 Palmer spends day at and above Scott Air Force Base in Illinois where he takes controls of the C-9 Nightingale, the C-141 Starlifter and is entertained by General Jack Catton and staff, who pepper him with questions about golf as he peppers back with questions about aviation.

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Palmer sets a record (still standing) by circumnavigating the globe in a Lear 36 in 57 hours, 25 minutes and 42 seconds. “I did it for the thrill, and it became a motivation to get a new airplane, which was promised when I finished it,” Palmer told Kingdom some years ago. “That part of the deal, as it turns out, didn’t come through. Every five hours there was a new challenge. Whether it was a typhoon or making it to the next destination with enough fuel. The challenges never stopped.” During a stop in Sri Lanka he paused to go for a ride—on an elephant. “I did,” he said. “They met me at the plane with the elephant and I rode into town for the golf awards and then back… It was a busy 55 minutes in Sri Lanka.”

Palmer logs his 250th hour in the left seat of his Citation X jet, a position and number significant to pilots in that it allows the 76-year-old pilot to stay current with FAA regulations. He tells reporters: “If my airplane goes, I’m flying—either in the left seat or the right seat. And 250 is a lot of hours and a lot of miles when you’re flying as fast as we do.”

1980s In the mid 1980s, Palmer went vertical with a Hughes MD500E helicopter. Lee Lauderback, Arnie’s chief pilot at the time, said the whirlybird was ideal for quick courseto-course transport because Palmer could land where he played. A civilian version of a military observation helicopter, the MD500E is capable of approximately 175mph and has a range of roughly 267 miles.

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July 12, 2010 On this day The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced that Arnold Palmer, the legendary golfer and esteemed businessman who serves as a voice for the No Plane No Gain advocacy campaign, will receive the 2010 NBAA Meritorious Service to Aviation Award. The Meritorious Service to Aviation Award is NBAA’s most distinguished honor, presented annually to an individual who, by virtue of a lifetime of personal dedication, has made significant, identifiable contributions that have materially advanced aviation interests. Palmer explained why he felt compelled to lend his voice to the No Plane No Gain program. “I know the value of business airplanes,” he said. “I know what they have done for me and my companies. I know how important they are to my hometown. And I know how important they are to this country.”

Palmer tells Directions, the Cessna Citation magazine, that he never would have been able to accomplish all he’s accomplished without the wings. “I started flying in 1956,” Palmer said. “An airplane helped me keep up with my golf schedule and my family life, and see that business obligations were taken care of. Now, my airplane is part of my existence and a great diversion.

June 3, 1996 Cessna receives official certification for its new Citation X, a mid-sized aircraft that immediately becomes the fastest production business jet. The company announces its plans to deliver its first one to Arnold Palmer.

February 23, 2002 Palmer takes possession of the latest model of the Citation X, the 176, and compliments makers at Cessna for improving the performance of what was already the fastest business-class jet in the skies. “It has almost all of the gadgetry you could ever want, but it’s still a small enough airplane that you can get a real good feel for it—and it goes real fast! I fly the Citation X from Latrobe to Europe nonstop almost every year. Heck, if the bathroom’s far away, I’ll fly my Citation X.”

November 17, 2003 Pilot Journal, a magazine for aficionados of elite planes and high adventure, says, “Palmer, 74, is to professional golf what Charles Lindbergh is to flying: With his engaging personality and go-forbroke style of play, he took the game to new heights of popularity.”

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January 31, 2011

Take To The Sky

Golf Digest writes online: Long before Arnold Palmer piloted his first aircraft, in 1956, he was aware of the Newtonian law, “What goes up must come down.”

On Jan. 31, the rule had slightly sadder, more literal implications. When Palmer, 81, piloted his Cessna Citation 10 jet from Palm Springs to Orlando that morning, it was his last flight as pilot. His license expired that day, and he elected not to have it renewed.

“I’ll still be flying in my plane as much as always, just not in the cockpit,” said Palmer. “Flying has been one of the great things in my life. It’s taken me to the far corners of the world. I met thousands of people I otherwise wouldn’t have met. And I even got to play a little golf along the way.” Golf notwithstanding, aviation has always been Palmer’s most passionate vocation.

Before he relinquished his wings, he logged just shy of a staggering 20,000 hours in the cockpit.

Whether you’re a pilot or not, the professional and personal benefits of private aviation are many. Here are a few great ways to get into the air: Richards aviation It may not be the biggest in the business, but Richards Aviation is certainly one of the best. Providing executive aircraft management and premium commercial aviation services since 1981, the Memphis-based firm is known for stellar customer service, top aircraft and rigorous maintenance practices. Compellingly, it offers all of this with its charter flight and ownership options at up to 40% less than the competition—and adds a human touch to the business of flight. “It’s a very personalized service,” says Richards Aviation President, Gary Kennedy. “We’ve pulled people out of other fractional programs at a steady pace and they like what we’re doing here.” No wonder: Richards AirAccess preferred travel program begins with as little as $1,500 per year providing access to their jets one hour at a time or in 20- to 50-hour increments at a 25% savings over other card programs. Likewise, the company’s AirAccess Partner program offers a $12,500 per month rate for a 25% share in a new Lear45XR, which is

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Mr. Palmer told Kingdom recently that he misses flying and that he’s considering a return to the pilot’s seat, so don’t rule out more golf course fly-bys in the future!

Flexjet programs. Similar savings are found in the Challenger 300 program.

In addition, their AirAccess Manager program offers a wide array of custom tailored ownership options. All of the programs provide none of the headaches or limitations of similar programs with other providers.

Palmer and his current ride, the Citation X

Citationair CitationAir is a division of the Cessna Aircraft Company, and exclusively flies Cessna Citation aircraft. While others have come and gone, CitationAir has been in the fractional share business since the beginning and is now the premiere provider, offering products and services that go far beyond basic fractional ownership. Today, CitationAir offers individuals and businesses the advantages of private jet travel through several options, including Jet Cards that start at $100,000; Jet Shares that allow you to purchase a fraction of an aircraft starting at 1/16th of a share; a Jet Management program that allows you to purchase a whole aircraft and earn revenue when other CitationAir customers use your aircraft; and most recently, Corporate Solutions. The last product aims to ensure a smooth operation for flights needed outside of a company’s fleet through their Supplemental Lift product. CitationAir’s other programs are incredibly flexible, offering a range of options to fit all needs with great savings. Visit citationair.com or call 1.877.MY.CITATION (1.877.692.4828) for more information.

Cessna More than just a business that builds airplanes, Cessna Aircraft Company is a top-tier flight services partner for life. It’s also the aircraft manufacturer of choice for Arnold Palmer and other top professionals, accounting for nearly half of all global light and mid-size business jets in the air. Part of Textron Inc., a multi-industry company that includes such storied brands as Bell Helicopter, E-Z-GO golf carts and Textron Systems, among others, Cessna has put more than 192,000 planes in the sky their first plane flew in 1927; more than 6,000 of those are Citation business aircraft. Citations are among the fastest, most efficient and safest planes flying today, and the company’s customer service—at point of purchase and throughout ownership—is unparalleled. With new offerings on the way and a full complement of services including flight instruction, aircraft management and maintenance, and associated ownership programs, there’s no better choice than Cessna. For more information on Citation jets, Caravan series aircraft, Cessna Pilot Centers or the company overall, visit cessna.com or call 1.800.4.CESSNA.

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meetourkids.org For over 20 years, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children has been caring for kids in Central Florida. We’ve watched them grow. Celebrated birthdays. And holidays.

Happy days, sad days—we’ve been here through it all. That’s why we’re more than just a hospital. We’re a part of the community. And our kids are more than just patients. They’re part of our family. And we’d like you to meet them.

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Start to Finish Kingdom’s latest Gift Guide focuses on those desirable products that help to ease a golfer’s passage to the course, around it and then into the clubhouse afterwards. Here, we showcase an impressive array of ‘must have’ luxury goods

AdidAs shoes Premium materials, full-grain leather, hand-finished detailing, refined craftsmanship and three subtly debossed stripes give the adiPURE Z golf shoes from adidas an extraordinarily rich look and feel.

Crafted by Thintech, a low-profile technology for improved stability, balance and power transfer, the adiPURE Z’s leather-lined interior and mono-tongued construction deliver glove-like fit and comfort.

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sAddlebAck leAther It’s not often you’ll find anyone prepared to offer a 100-year warranty, but Saddleback Leather founder Dave Munson does exactly that with his company’s exceptionally well designed and superbly constructed range of leather goods. If you’re on the hoof from the office to the course, you’ll have no problem throwing this briefcase into the back of the car. Equally appropriate in the boardroom and clubhouse, this briefcase will not age with its owner but instead be passed down the generations. Available in chestnut, dark coffee brown, tobacco and carbon black colors. saddlebackstore.com

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Never Compromise puTTers From Never Compromise, the Gambler series comprises four classic designs including Boat (left) and Royal (right). Each putter is forged using 303 stainless steel and individually machined with artwork on the sole. Softer material and a forged grain structure combine to produce unprecedented feel at impact. For discerning golfers that prize uniqueness Gamblers can be customized to suit individual preference. nevercompromise.com

TiTleisT 910 series Titleist takes high-performance fitting to a new level with the 910D3—a classic 445cc driver that produces mid-launch with medium/low spin. The 910D3 delivers distance through an advanced head design and a responsive, fast-face insert. The SureFit Tour, dual-angle hosel provides precise, independent loft and lie adjustments to fine-tune ball flight. The 910F fairway metal delivers versatile performance from tee or turf. Its thin crown and weighting create a deep, low CG for easier launch. titleist.com/golf-clubs

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Callaway jaws wedges Engineered by Callaway chief designer Roger Cleveland, the X Series Jaws CC wedges feature the new Tour CC grooves that meet competition conditions on Tour. Callaway’s proprietary groove pattern produces enhanced spin, even under the new USGA regulations. The C-Grind sole and classic design of the head, which comes in a choice of chrome or slate, ensure short-game versatility while providing Tour-level feel from its soft, forged 1020 carbon steel construction. callawaygolf.com

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MUSTY PUTTERS In golf’s pioneer days, clubs had shafts made of wood and heads were shaped from either wood or iron. Subsequent eras were dominated by steel, graphite and titanium, but wood still sounds and feels great. David Musty of Musty Putters has recaptured that feel to create the world’s only high-tech wooden putter. By raising the entire weighting system to the equator of the golf ball, face hop and backspin have been eliminated. The center of the putter head, a super-light beater bar with aiming line, ensures that offcenter putts roll straight and the same distance as full-center putts. Each putter can be individually tailored to its owner, making it the ideal, long-lasting gift.

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PING ScoTTSdalE PUTTERS Advances in the Scottsdale putters will help improve a golfer’s distance control and accuracy. An insert made of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) delivers a soft yet solid feel and a consistent response - essential keys to gauging distance. The highcontrast alignment aids make aiming these models remarkably easy, which will translate to more holed putts and lower scores. The ZB model in particular has a significant amount of toe-hang, which is generally beneficial for golfers whose putting stroke has a strong arc. ping.com/clubs

BRIdGESToNE ToUR BallS Looking for something colourful to hit?

If you are, Bridgestone have recently released a bright optic yellow version of their most famous ball, the TOUR B330-RX. The ball comprises a soft core and mantle that reduces excess spin, resulting in straighter, more precise shots. The soft gradational compression core also means the ball is easily compressed for longer distance and great feel - effectively optimizing distance and accuracy off the tee for those with a moderate swing speed.

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Arnold pAlMer iced teA AriZona Beverages began its partnership with Arnold Palmer in 2002 when the Arnold Palmer Half & Half Lite was first released.Thus Arnie’s refreshing invention was brought to the wider American public. At first it was available only in the classic 23-ounce can and in its original flavor - half lemonade and half AriZona tea. Today, the Arnold Palmer line is also available in a 20-ounce amber PET bottle, which has a globe in its neck and keeps light and oxygen from altering the ingredients or flavors inside. This particular range, much better suited to fulfilling a player’s needs for on-course refreshment on a hot day, also includes Green Tea Half & Half Lite and Pomegranate Half & Half Lite. We at Kingdom also like it in the 19th, perhaps fortified with a shot of or two of Ketel One Vodka. arnoldpalmertee.com

spotless swinG towels

MuscleGel enerGy drinks

We have chosen the Spotless Swing premium golf towel for the next Kingdom Cup. Simple yet cunning in design, Spotless Swing is actually three golf towels in one: The outside cleans your hands, gloves and grips while the inside traps debris from muddy, wet clubfaces. Then, with the MicroBrush fabric on the lower inside, you can clean club grooves. Spotless Swing is already the #1 selling golf towel on Amazon.com, but for corporate clients and golf days the towel makes not only a tremendous client gift but by embroidering your logo on Spotless Swing it becomes a walking billboard for your organization. This towel is recommended by more than 25 independent golf product reviewers. We are happy to add Kingdom’s name to that list. spotlessswing.com

To play golf to your full potential, your body and muscles need hydration and fuel. For fast, on-the-go nutrition between shots, MuscleGel is a genuine game-changer.

Packaged in a convenient, portable Gel-Pack, ideal for throwing a few into your golf bag before setting out on your round. Then, when your energy wanes and your muscles call for protein, Muscle-Gel, through its unique Profusion Technology, delivers high-quality protein and powerful, energy-yielding nutritional substrates as fast as the body can absorb. Tastes good too! musclepharm.com

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The versatile Diablo Octane Rangefinder provides quick, accurate, one-touch distance measurements up to 550 yards and features Nikon’s First Target Priority mode. This batterypowered, waterproof monocular has a compact lightweight design, a folding rubber eyecup to provide eyeglass wearers with easy viewing, and a diopter that focuses by a simple twisting action. Capable of measuring different target distances in succession for up to 8 seconds, it comes with a built-in carabiner and 3-volt CR2 lithium batteries.

A group of golfing friends were so frustrated by the lack of what they considered to be fashionable, snug-fitting golf clothing, that they decided to make their own. Now established, Sligo apparel is best known for its bold colors and cutting-edge materials. Featured here is their white and Vegas Pink shirt and Vegas Pink pants. Sligo shirt designs offer superb moisture-wicking performance and UV protection and stretch to allow golfers maximum playability.

Their pants are equally playable, and present a straight-cut, flat-front look. The stylish PGA Tour professional Brian Gay, who has been with the brand for the last three years, says: “The designs offer ultimate comfort and the new age fabrics are versatile enough to provide the protection I need in all conditions.” We totally agree. sligowear.com

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mulligan from Tanman No golfer today should ever risk skin cancer. In sunny conditions it’s essential to wear sunblock, but the trouble is that most sunscreen lotions are greasy, awkward to apply on course and leave your hands slippery. New from TanMan, Mulligan presents a real solution. USGA allowable, Mulligan provides SPF 30+ full-spectrum protection and as a co-polymer can actually help improve the grip. It comes in ‘take anywhere’ packaging, is water- and sweat-resistant and dries in seconds. Mulligan is available at many pro shops and can also be ordered online. tanmanonline.com

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m-CliP money CliPs Finally, a money clip that works! The M-Clip holds cash and credit cards securely and will not bend or weaken its grip after being used only a few times. With a unique, slidinglever design, the M-Clip is ideal for the golfer who needs to take his valuables out on to the course but doesn’t want to be saddled with a bulky wallet. Manufactured with the finest available materials, the M-Clip is available with custom laser etching for a whole range of special needs, including golf tournaments, corporate and incentive awards, and logos.

The M-Clip can be found at many golf clubs and online.

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Ketel one VodKa Ketel One Vodka is a liquor flagship brand from the Nolet Distillery in Schiedam in the Netherlands; and it also happens to be Arnold Palmer’s favorite vodka. Ketel One is distilled from 100 percent wheat in copper pot stills, filtered over loose charcoal, and rests in tile-lined tanks until ready for sale. Named after the original copper pot still, “Distilleerketel #1,” it is handcrafted in small batches.

The alcohol content of this spirit is 40 percent (80 proof).

The Nolet Distillery also makes Ketel One Citroen, Ketel One Oranje and Ketel One Jenever. ketelone.com

Gourmet Peanuts Virginia Cocktail gourmet peanuts provide an appetizing snack, ideal for consumption on the golf course and after one’s round. Easily stored in the cup holder on most golf carts, the contents of these elegantly wrapped tins come in six flavors and are packed with protein, healthy and filling.

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The Importance of Teamwork in Golf Golf isn’t usually considered a team sport.

A golfer, just like a swimmer or gymnast, is judged on their individual performance.

However, if you look into these sports you will notice a team of people behind each of them. What kind of teamwork is involved?

In golf, there is the upkeep of the greens to be considered, and the designer of the course. How did the course become what it is? Golf courses are works of art and represent the work of hundreds of people. Then we have the people who run the clubhouse, and of course, the caddies. There are coaches to be considered.

There are the fans. It’s a complex layering of people and endeavors and interests. The star of the event is the golfer. Everything revolves around his or her performance.

Golfers are aware that they are the focal point, but they may or may not know the extent of what’s behind them. Most golfers have enough ego to make them excel—and enough humility to keep them trying to outdo their best at all times.

As both a golfer and a golf course developer, it’s enabling for me to see both sides rather clearly. I never just see a golf course as a place to golf, but I see every foot of the course and every detail that has gone into making it what it is. I had mentioned before that I studied geomorphology (the study of movement landforms) when developing my links course in Scotland because of the enormous sand dunes on the property. And of course as a developer, I see the incredible amount of manpower required to sculpt the land and get it into playable shape. I don’t take anything for granted.

As a golfer, I know these details and am aware of them as I golf.

That doesn’t take away from my concentration, but it enhances it in the sense that I have a full appreciation for what I am doing. Golf is fantastic, and to golf is even more fantastic. I get the big picture and it’s very clear to me. I would hope that every golfer has this tremendous sense of gratitude when they are golfing. It’s a great team feeling.

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Instruction: David Power, Head Professional, Tralee Golf Club Wo r d s : Ivan Morris Photographs: Ian Cronin Playing over links land is the ultimate golfing challenge.

Fast running sandy soil, bare lies, tangly rough and an ever-present wind conspire to demand a repertoire of shot-making skills, crisp, clean and controlled ball striking, and imaginative visualization that adds up to a unique golfing experience. It’s different, but a lot of fun.

Forget about specific target areas into which to “drop” your golf ball, think instead of flighting lower shots beneath the turbulence, figuring out how to keep it straight and making the ball stop in the right place.

True links land is extremely rare. Ireland has more than one-third of the planet’s 153 official links courses, even more than Scotland. One of the Emerald Isle’s best is Tralee, in the southwest of this golf-mad country. Arnold Palmer, its designer, is proud of Tralee’s first nine but admits he really didn’t have much to do with the back nine because “God had already designed it.” There are views of the ocean from every hole and its elevated location leaves it exposed to Atlantic breezes.

For the exclusive benefit of Kingdom readers, Tralee’s Head Professional, David Power, has kindly agreed to reveal a few secrets on how to execute some of the shots that are peculiar to playing links golf in the wind. At the outset, David was keen to dispel a myth: “It’s a common misconception that our inconsistent weather takes from the attractiveness of playing golf in Ireland.

The opposite is the case. Thousands of adventurous

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golfers come here each year looking forward to testing themselves on unfamiliar courses, in unfamiliar conditions and unpredictable elements. They are more likely to complain when the weather is perfect!

“But two important points need to be made before we get down to the nitty-gritty. When playing on a links, a patient attitude is vital. Links golf stringently tests temperament because we don’t always get what we deserve—either with good shots or bad ones. Accept the challenges and have fun. Secondly, as much as possible use the wind rather than “fight” it by playing lower-flying, punched shots with a choked-down grip and restricted follow-through. Don’t worry excessively about calculating yardages; play by feel, imagination and trajectory control, as if you were shooting baskets or throwing a baseball in your yard. Nobody would have to tell you how far to throw the ball. One look at the target and go!

“In general, it’s probably best not to apply backspin to make the ball stop going downwind. Instead, work on your angle of approach and play into the fat of the green.

Playing links golf is highly imaginative and strategic. You have to figure out when to attack and when to defend!

Playing in wind means fewer greens are hit in regulation; be prepared to play a greater variety of recovery shots.

Think about putting an extra wedge in your bag.”

Over the next few pages, David identifies some shots that require a different approach on a links.

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What is a Links?

A classic links always sits beside the sea, a shoreline or estuary and features sand dunes and sandy waste ground recovered from ebbing tides, usually by an evolutionary process over centuries. The word “links” actually means that the uncultivated shoreline is “linked” to more fertile soil further inland.

In the early days in Scotland, golf was always played on this type of common waste ground with natural characteristics that made it unsuitable for agriculture. The sandy, gravelly soil and short, stubbly and relatively thin bent grasses were ideal because they required minimal upkeep. The flattish ground amongst rolling sand dunes was easily adaptable to the challenges of the game as it evolved over the centuries and it did not require a huge amount of care and maintenance. Rabbits, sheep and goats did most of the work keeping the grass short, crisp and free from weeds as well as fertilizing it in the process!

On inland courses you can loft the ball up in the air with a less than perfect contact from lush, grassy lies but on a links, the tight turf makes it impossible to get the ball up without striking it accurately, bringing an extra dimension into the game. When playing a links, the ball must be kept close to the ground.

Experienced links golfers enjoy watching the ball skip across rumples, ridges and slopes, while using their ability to judge how the ball will bounce. It’s the key distinguishing factor between playing on a links or the inland parkland variety of the same game.

Instead of the multiplicity of trees and bushes that one finds on inland, parkland courses, there are usually awkward, side-hill lies and a taller, wispier grass in the rough that devours golf balls. Most links courses have the additional hazard of deeper bunkers, while the exposed nature and undulations on the greens in strong winds presents the severest of tests of a player’s putting skills.

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Choking Down the hanDle Choking down the handle (as demonstrated here) is probably the single, most important pre-shot move you can make when playing in the wind.

It helps to restrict the length of the swing back and through and it creates more passive hands, improves control and helps the player to “cut-off” his swing as recommended.

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The Bump and Run Irrespective of whether the wind is behind or against, to cheat it on short approach shots around the green, regular links golfers use the bump-and-run shot.

Again, play the ball in the centre of your stance, keep your arms close to the body, reduce hand action, turn your body towards the target on the forward swing and cut off the follow through. Study the contours and work the ball along the ground towards the target. It’s easier than you might think!

playing OuT Of pOT BunkeRs Pot bunkers on links courses tend to be smaller and deeper than the traps most golfers are used to. Better to forget about maximizing distance and accept the adage of taking your medicine and concentrating on getting out in one stroke. Being too ambitious will cost you dear. Playing out of pot bunkers is where the 60-degree wedge really pays its way. Open up your stance and the clubface; swing along an “outsideto-in� path, right through the ball so that your belt buckle ends up facing the target.

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Putting in the Wind When putting in the wind, staying steady over the ball is critical—a wider stance than normal, as demonstrated, helps. With the wind behind you, strike the ball with the toe of the putter; the ball will come off “dead” and it won’t roll too far. When putting into the wind you have to firm up your grip and give it an extra rap. Putting in a crosswind is very tricky and requires some guesswork!

RecoveRing fRom tangly Rough It’s almost impossible to avoid being in the rough on at least a few occasions during a round on a links— even good shots roll off the fairway at times. The first principle to remember when playing from a heavy lie in tangly rough is the importance of getting back into play as efficiently as possible. Don’t go from trouble to trouble. If buried deep in the grass, address the ball in the middle of your stance, take plenty of loft, choke down on the handle, hover the club head at address so that it doesn’t snag during the takeaway, grip tight and beat hard down on the ball—no messing!

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Before you laugh, we’re doing this for the children. Well, we’re doing this for the children... and to prove that we can do it. Four guys who are quite comfortable in jeans and T-shirts sitting at a pub watching the game and sharing pints of lager, decide to get off their barstools, put on skin-tight clothing and ride bicycles for 100 miles.

What was it Hemingway said? “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk; that’ll teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Yeah, well… We said it, and we’re going to do it. We’re going to spend the next three issues of Kingdom training to ride 100 miles, and this fall—with the help of Cannondale bicycles, Lake shoes, Speedplay pedals, Sugoi clothing and a few others—we’re going to do it. We’re going to ride a cycling century because we said we would, because the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a good cause and because Lycra can stretch to fit almost any body. We’re going to ride 100 miles because we are Team Mulligan and we haven’t needed training wheels in a long, long time.

The Mission Take three average guys (and one guy who’s quite athletic but who hasn’t owned a bike in years) and have them cycle 100 miles to demonstrate the importance of fitness on golf and to raise money for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

The Gear Cannondale Synapse Carbon Lake 401cx Shoes Speedplay Zero Pedals Sugoi RS Shorts and Jersey GoPro Hero HD Camera Julbo Race Sunglasses Gu Energy

The Good Cause Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Help us help kids with a donation or by fundraising and riding with us.

Follow our progress online at team-mulligan.com

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MaTTHeW Halnan

(aka Captain America, aka El Guapo, aka Machine) Resides: Venice, CA age: 39 Weight: Six camels Height: 5’11”

(aka Fiddy-Fo—because he does NOT ride a 53cm frame) Resides: London, England age: 26 Weight: 152lbs Height: 5’8”

Number of push-ups you caN do iN 60 secoNds? 4,369,413 (possible only with Chuck Norris standing near me) favorite vegetable? I could always keep a BEET! HA HA! Ha…heh. Umm… favorite exercise? Women’s Yoga. Oh wait, you mean… gaNdhi vs. chuck Norris, who wiNs aNd why?

I’d love to say Gandhi because he can fly, but I have to give this one to Chuck because he’s the only person on earth ever to have climbed—barefoot and carrying a panda cub—a mountain higher than Mt. Everest. (Only he knows where it is, because he was born on its summit.) bike memory?

My red Schwinn Stingray with the banana seat, which I got for Christmas somewhere near age 5 or 6. At a birthday party, a friend once asked if he could ride it around the block. I said “sure” and off he went. When he got back he said, “Man, I really like your bike—it’s fast!” I said, “I know, now get off.”

Number of push-ups you caN do iN 60 secoNds? 43, and it hurt favorite vegetable? I love mushrooms—but are they a fungus? If they’re not a vegetable, then canned sweetcorn. favorite exercise? Exercise would be golf, billiards then cycling! gaNdhi vs. chuck Norris, who wiNs aNd why?

Chuck Norris. In fine print on the last page of the Guinness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Chuck Norris, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone has ever gotten.

You can’t beat that. bike memory?

The biggest cycling memory for me was my trike. A big plastic thing. I always wore my racing helmet whilst on it. Pretty much rode it everywhere including in the shops.

I was cooler back then.

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(aka Lance, aka The Boss, aka The Texan) Resides: London, England age: 29 (the, ahem, age Lance won his second TDF) Weight: 165lbs Height: 5’10.5”

(aka Marathon Man, aka G.Money) Resides: Venice, CA age: 37 Weight: 175lbs Height: 6’1”

Number of push-ups you caN do iN 60 secoNds? Not attempted favorite vegetable? Asparagus favorite exercise? Bike riding, of course gaNdhi vs. chuck Norris, who wiNs aNd why?

Chuck, as Gandhi wouldn’t fight. Besides, Chuck would win against anyone. bike memory?

My earliest bike memory is trying to ride my BMX hands-free in the back garden to show off to friends and family. Long story short: fell off, split leg open, leaked lots of blood, still got the scar 20 years later.

Number of push-ups you caN do iN 60 secoNds? 30. That’s the same I can do in 40 seconds. I run out of steam before I run out of time. favorite vegetable? Coffee beans. I consume them every morning. favorite exercise? Running to catch an earlier flight home and getting on board just before the plane door closes. gaNdhi vs. chuck Norris, who wiNs aNd why? Chuck. I would cheer for Gandhi but in one-on-one conflict, martial arts will triumph over non-violent resistance every day. In fact, unless it means running, non-violent resistance tends to make the beating worse. Chuck’s not going to show any mercy. bike memory?

I received a beautiful Huffy for my third birthday and spent the first few days contentedly looping up and down the driveway with my training wheels. Pretty soon I started to feel a bit cramped, had my dad remove the trainers and headed off on my first solo voyage around the block. Pure freedom.

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APDC RounDuP With more than 300 incredible golf courses around the world, it’s inevitable that properties designed by Arnold Palmer and the team at the Arnold Palmer Design Company are going to be celebrating a few awards, anniversaries and top events at any given time. This year, Palmer courses close to home and far afield are being lauded for all of the qualities that make APDC tracks so enjoyable. Not least among those features: a sense of timelessness. Let’s have a look at what’s been happening in the world of Palmer golf courses…

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One of the best courses in Texas—and in the whole country—The Westin La Cantera’s Palmer Course in San Antonio celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

In honor of a decade of great golf, the resort is offering special summer fares with lunch included.

“La Cantera was one of the most challenging courses I designed,” Palmer told Kingdom. “Though the property was stunning, it was mostly rock from the 1st tee to the 18th green. We moved a lot of stone and in some places had to blast the irrigation trenches. We also had to search for enough good soil to plate the rock so we could grow grass. But in the end, the geography that created the most challenges also helped us create a very beautiful, and unique, tournament-quality course in the scenic Texas hill country. The views are superb from every spot on the course and it is fun yet challenging to play. I am very proud of what we did here.”

The Palmer Course opened in March 2001 on 225 acres of spectacular scenery, including dramatic waterfalls along the entire front edge of the green on the par-3 4th. The green itself is connected to the fairway by a bridge named for Palmer’s late wife Winnie. It’s a must-play if you’re ever in the Lone Star State.

Three Palmer layouts made Golfweek’s 2011 Best Courses You Can Play list, and deservedly so. Oasis Golf Club in Mesquite, NV, is a stunner, with some exquisitely scenic desert panoramas. It’s rugged canyon fairways and meticulous contour greens certainly set this particular golfing paradise apart. In complete contrast, West Virginia’s Stonewall Resort, in Roanoke, is the model of a distinguished East Coast course, elegantly placed among the forested mountain slopes over Stonewall Jackson Lake. In the fall, the course is awash with vibrant, changing leaves, making any round worthy of a picture postcard. Also on Golfweek’s list, the iconic Bay Hill Club & Lodge, which Palmer & Co. refreshed just a few years ago. Host to the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, Bay Hill is on every golfer’s list.

RefReSh The update APDC brought to Bay Hill’s design was evidence of a new company mission to refresh existing courses—and in fact, that’s exactly what it’s called: “Palmer Refresh.” The initiative aims to restore life to courses suffering from overly expensive maintenance issues, tired greens, collapsing bunkers or just decreasing player interest. It is probably fair to say that any course over 15 to 20 years old can benefit from some sort of overhaul, whether large or small. “‘Palmer Refresh’ is something we’ve launched domestically that is about more than just improving course playability,” said APDC Executive Vice President and Senior Golf Course Architect Erik Larsen, who has just finished his one-year term as president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects. “It’s about driving bottom line improvement.”

Larsen emphasized that any course could benefit from Palmer Refresh, including non-Palmer courses.

The program brings the Palmer brand along with a package of services that will improve both the overall business and the level of golf. On the architecture side, services include full course overhauls, from site assessments and redesigns to construction supervision.

Agronomic services are available to restore native landscapes and to update courses with cutting-edge, environmentally friendly grasses and management programs. Lastly, there are programs available to help with course operations, facility management and even marketing. The idea is to improve not only the quality of play, but the income potential, environmental responsibility, operational stability and profitability.

Improve all of that, and you improve the happiness and satisfaction of members and players.

Below: Palmer gives the thumbs up to Westin La Cantera during construction. Left: The widely praised Texan course as it is today

Down South APDC is as busy as ever, spending quite a bit of time on the road these days, and much of that down south—as in South America. A course in Brazil called Fazenda Boa Vista (loosely translated as “Farm of the Beautiful View”) will offer 36 holes of golf, 18 of which will be from Palmer’s team. The site is said to resemble the rolling hills of Kentucky, with forested undulations and rustic beauty that should appeal to locals and visitors alike. JHSF, the Brazilian firm working with APDC on the project, is also working with Palmer’s people on a course in Uruguay and recently committed to another development in Brazil, just outside Sao Paolo.

One might credit the uptick in Brazilian golf interest to the sport’s inclusion in the upcoming 2016 Olympic Games, which Brazil is hosting. In addition to Brazil and Uruguay, there are stirrings in the breeze regarding other locations south of the border, but we’ll keep a lid on those for now.

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ALABAMA Craft Farms

Cotton Creek and Cypress Bend Gulf Shores, Alabama

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ARIZONA Arrowhead Country Club

Glendale, Arizona

www.arrowheadccaz.com

Mesa del Sol

Yuma, Arizona

www.mesadelsolgolf.com

Starfire at Scottsdale Country Club

Scottsdale, Arizona

www.starfiregolfclub.com

Starr Pass Resort

Tucson, Arizona

www.starrpasstucson.com

Wildfire at Desert Ridge

Phoenix, Arizona

Hiddenbrooke Golf Club

Vallejo, California

www.hiddenbrookegolf.com

Indian Ridge Country Club

Arroyo and Grove Courses Palm Desert, California www.indianridgecc.com

Mission Hills Country Club

The Arnold Palmer Course Rancho Mirage, California www.missionhills.com

Mountain View Country Club

LaQuinta, California

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Pebble Beach Golf Links +

Monterey, California

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PGA West

The Palmer Private Course La Quinta, California www.pgawest.com

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CALIFORNIA

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Aviara at Park Hyatt Resort

Carlsbad, California

San Francisco, California

Rancho Murieta Country Club

The Tradition Golf Club

LaQuinta, California

www.traditiongolfclub.net

COLORADO Bear Creek Golf Course

Denver, Colorado

www.bearcreekgolfclub.net

Cherry Hills Country Club +

Englewood, Colorado

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Eagle Ranch Golf Course @

Eagle, Colorado

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Lone Tree Golf Club

Littleton, Colorado

www.golfcolorado.com/lonetree

CONNECTICUT Gillette Ridge Golf Club

Bloomfield, Connecticut

www.gilletteridgegolf.com

FLORIDA Adios Golf Club

Coconut Creek, Florida

www.adiosgolfclub.org

www.parkaviara.hyatt.com

Rancho Murieta, California

www.ranchomurietacc.com

The Classic Club

Rolling Hills Golf Club

Orlando, Florida

Bay Hill Club and Lodge +

Palos Verdes Estates, California

www.bayhill.com

www.classicclubgolf.com

www.rollinghillscc.com

Empire Lake Golf Course

SilverRock Resort

Boca Raton, Florida

Palm Desert, California

Rancho Cucamonga, California

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LaQuinta, California

Boca West #1 and Boca West #3 www.bocawestcc.org

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Deering Bay Yacht and Country Club

Marsh Landing Country Club

Coral Gables, Florida

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

The Plantation at Ponte Vedra

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

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www.marshlandingcc.com

www.theplantationpv.com

Frenchman's Reserve

Matanzas Woods at Palm Coast Resort

Ponte Vedra Golf & Country Club at Sawgrass +

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

www.frenchmansreserve.com

The Golf Club at North Hampton

Fernandina Beach, Florida

www.northhampton.com/golfclub.asp

Hidden Hills Country Club +

Jacksonville, Florida www.hiddenhillscc.com

Isleworth Golf and Country Club

Windermere, Florida www.isleworth.com

The King and The Bear

St. Augustine, Florida

www.kingandbear.com

Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club

Cypress Links and King's Dunes Bradenton, Florida

www.lakewoodranchgolf.com

Legacy Golf Club

Bradenton, Florida

www.legacygolfclub.com

Legends at Orange Lake

Kissimmee, Florida

www.orangelake.com

Lost Key Golf Course @*

Perdido Key, Florida

www.lostkey.com

Majors Golf Club at Palm Bay

Palm Bay, Florida

www.majorsgolfclub.com

Palm Coast, Florida

www.palmcoastresort.com

Mill Cove Golf Club

Jacksonville, Florida

www.millcovegolfcourse.com

Mizner Golf and Country Club @

Delray Beach, Florida

www.miznercountryclub.com

Monarch Country Club

Palm City, Florida

www.monarchclub.com

Naples Lakes Country Club @

Naples, Florida

www.napleslakesfl.com

Orchid Island Golf Club

Vero Beach, Florida

www.orchidislandgolfandbeachclub.com

Palmer Legends Country Club

The Villages, Florida www.thevillages.com

Pasadena Yacht and Country Club +

St. Petersburg, Florida

www.pyccgolf.com

PGA National

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

www.pgaresort.com

Pine Lakes at Palm Coast Resort

Palm Coast, Florida

www.palmcoastresort.com/golf.html

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

www.pontevedragolfandcc.com

Reunion Resort & Club

The Legacy Course Orlando, Florida

www.reunionresort.com

Saddlebrook Resort

Wesley Chapel, Florida www.saddlebrook.com

Sawgrass Country Club +

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

www.sawgrasscountryclub.com

Spessard Holland Golf Park

Melbourne, Florida

www.golfspessardholland.com

St. Andrews Country Club +

Boca Raton, Florida

www.standrewscc.com

Suntree Country Club

Melbourne, Florida

www.suntree.com

Tesoro—The Palmer Course

Port St. Lucie, Florida

www.tesoroclub.com

Wildcat Run Country Club @

Estero, Florida

www.wildcatruncc.com

GEORGIA Augusta First Tee

Augusta, Georgia

www.thefirstteeaugusta.org

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Hawthorn Woods Country Club

Hawthorn Township, Illinois

Manitou Passage Golf Club

Cedar, Michigan

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Cherokee Run Golf Club

Spencer T. Olin Community Golf Course

Northville, Michigan

Conyers, Georgia

www.cherokeerun.com

Eagle Watch

Woodstock, Georgia

www.eaglewatchgolf.com

Forest Hills Golf Club +

Augusta, Georgia

www.theforesthillsgolfcourse.com

Landings on Skidaway Island @

Magnolia Course Savannah, Georgia

www.thelandings.com

Stouffers Pine Isle +

Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia Whitewater Country Club

Fayetteville, Georgia

www.whitewatercc.com

Hawaii The Hapuna Golf Course

Kamuela, Hawaii

www.hapunabeachhotel.com

Hawaii Prince Golf Club

Alton, Illinois

www.spencertolingolf.com

White Eagle Golf Club

Deacon's Lodge

Tournament Club of Iowa

Turtle Bay Resort

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iLLiNOiS The Den at Fox Creek Golf Club @

Bloomington, Illinois

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MiNNESOTa Nisswa, Minnesota

Polk City, Iowa

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KENTUCKY

Bloomington, Minnesota

Lake Forest Country Club

TPC of the Twin Cities @

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Louisville, Kentucky

www.lakeforestgolf.com

Minnesota Valley Golf Club +@

Blaine, Minnesota

www.tpctwincities.com

LOUiSiaNa

MiSSiSSiPPi

The Bluffs on Thompson Creek

The Bridges Golf Club at Hollywood Casino @*

St. Francesville, Louisiana

www.thebluffs.com

MaRYLaND Country Club at Woodmore

Mitchellville, Maryland

MaSSaCHUSETTS

The Palmer Course Kakuku, Hawaii

Saugatuck, Michigan

iOwa

www.whiteeaglegc.com

Kapalua Golf Club @

www.hawaiigolfacademy.com

Ravines Golf Club www.ravinesgolfclub.com

www.ccwoodmore.com

The Bay Course Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii

www.northvillehills.com

Naperville, Illinois

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

www.hawaiiprincehotel.com

Northville Hills Country Club @

TPC of Boston at Great Woods

Norton, Massachusetts

www.tpcboston.com

Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

www.hollywoodcasinobsl.com/golf

MiSSOURi Big Cedar

Arnold Palmer Practice Facility* Ridgedale, Missouri www.big-cedar.com

Osage National Golf Club

Lake Ozark, Missouri

www.osagenational.com

MiCHiGaN

MONTaNa

Coyote Preserve Golf Club

Big Sky Golf Club

Fenton, Michigan

www.coyotepreserve.com

The Legend at Shanty Creek

Bellaire, Michigan

www.shantycreek.com/golf

Big Sky, Montana

www.bigskyresort.com

NEBRaSKa Arbor Links Golf Course

Nebraska City, Nebraska

www.arborlinks.com

Photo by Evan Schiller / golfshots.com

Champions Retreat

Augusta, Georgia

The Players Club at Deer Creek

Brier Creek Country Club @

Omaha, Nebraska

Raleigh, North Carolina

www.playersclubomaha.com

www.briercreekcountryclub.com

oHIo Oasis Golf Club

Loveland, Ohio

NEVADA

The Carolina Golf Club

Angel Park Golf Club

www.thecarolina.com

TPC River’s Bend

Palm Course and Mountain Course Las Vegas, Nevada

Cullasaja Club

www.tpcatriversbend.com

www.angelparkgolfclub.com

ArrowCreek Country Club

The Legend Course Reno, Nevada

www.arrowcreekcc.com

Dayton Valley Country Club

Dayton, Nevada

www.daytonvalley.com

Oasis Golf Club

Mesquite, Nevada

www.theoasisgolfclub.com

Red Rock Country Club

Arroyo Course and Mountain Course Las Vegas, Nevada www.redrockcountryclub.com

NEW HAMPSHIRE Golf Club of New England

Greenland, New Hampshire

www.golfclubne.com

NEW JERSEY Laurel Creek Country Club @

Mt. Laurel, New Jersey

www.laurelcreekcc.org

Pinehurst, North Carolina

Highlands, North Carolina

www.oasisclub.com

Cincinnati, Ohio

www.cullasajaclub.org

Tartan Fields Golf Club

Mid South Club

www.tartanfields.com

Southern Pines, North Carolina

www.talamore.com

Dublin, Ohio

oREGoN

NCSU—Lonnie Poole Golf Course

Running Y Ranch Resort @

Raleigh, North Carolina

Klamath Falls, Oregon

www.lonniepoolegolfcourse.com

www.runningy.com

Oak Valley Golf Club

PENNSYLVANIA

Advance, North Carolina www.oakvalleygolfclub.com

TPC at Piper Glen @

Charlotte, North Carolina

Blue Bell Country Club

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

www.bluebellcc.com

www.tpcpiperglen.com

The Club at Blackthorne

Quail Hollow Country Club +

www.theclubatblackthorne.com

Charlotte, North Carolina Rivers Edge Golf Club

Penn Township, Pennsylvania Commonwealth National Golf Club @

Horsham, Pennsylvania

Shallotte, North Carolina

www.commonwealthgolfclub.com

Scotch Hall Preserve

Ligonier, Pennsylvania

www.river18.com

Merry Hill, North Carolina

www.scotchhallpreserve.com

Woodlake Resort & Golf Club

Vass, North Carolina

Laurel Valley Golf Club + Oakmont Country Club +

Oakmont, Pennsylvania

www.oakmont-countryclub.org

Regency at Monroe

www.woodlakecc.com

Treesdale Golf and Country Club @

Freehold, New Jersey

White Oak Golf & Equestrian Community

www.treesdalegolf.com

www.regencyatmonroe.com

NoRtH CARoLINA Balsam Mountain Preserve

Sylva, North Carolina

www.balsammountain.com

Birkdale Golf Club

Huntersville, North Carolina

www.birkdale.com

newport dunes, tx, hole 12

Gibsonia, Pennsylvania

Tryon, North Carolina

SoUtH CARoLINA

NoRtH DAKotA

Bluffton, South Carolina

www.whiteoaktryon.com

King’s Walk Golf Course

Grand Forks, North Dakota

www.kingswalk.org

Crescent Pointe Golf Club www.crescentpointegolf.com

Musgrove Mill Golf Club

Clinton, South Carolina

www.musgrovemill.com

Myrtle Beach National

The Golf Club at Fossil Creek

Kingsmill on the James @

King’s North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Fort Worth, Texas

The Plantation Course Williamsburg, Virginia

www.mbn.com

Old Tabby Links @

Okatie, South Carolina

www.springisland-sc.com

The Reserve at Lake Keowee

www.thegolfclubatfossilcreek.com

Lakecliff on Lake Travis

Spicewood, Texas

www.lakecliff.net

Newport Dunes

Port Aransas, Texas

Sunset, South Carolina

www.newportdunesgolf.com

RiverTowne Country Club

La Cantera Resort @ The Palmer Course

www.reserveatlakekeowee.com

Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

www.rivertownecountryclub.com

Wexford Golf Club

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

www.wexfordhiltonhead.com

SOUTH DAKOTA Dakota Dunes Country Club

Dakota Dunes, South Dakota

www.dakotadunescountryclub.com

TENNESSEE The Governors Golf Club

Brentwood, Tennessee

www.thegovernorsclub.com

King’s Creek

Spring Hill, Tennessee

www.kingscreekgolf.com

Ridgeway Country Club

Colliersville, Tennessee

www.ridgewaycountryclub.com

San Antonio, Texas

www.lacanteragolfclub.com

The Woodlands

The Palmer Course The Woodlands, Texas www.thewoodlands.com

UTAH Jeremy Golf and Country Club

Park City, Utah

www.thejeremy.com

VIRGINIA Bay Creek Golf Club @*

Cape Charles, Virginia

www.baycreekgolfclub.com

Belmont Country Club @

Ashburn, Virginia

www.belmontcountryclub.com

Dominion Valley Country Club and Executive Course

Haymarket, Virginia

TEXAS

www.dominionvalley.com

Barton Creek Resort @

Fawn Lake @

Palmer Lakeside Course Spicewood, Texas

www.bartoncreek.com

Twin Creeks Golf Course

Allen, Texas

www.twincreeksgolf.com

www.kingsmill.com

Signature at West Neck

Virginia Beach, Virginia

www.signatureatwestneck.com

WASHINGTON Seattle Golf Club + Seattle, Washington

www.seattlegolfclub.com

Semiahmoo Golf and Country Club @

Blaine, Washington

www.semiahmoo.com

Suncadia Resort—The Prospector Course

Roslyn, Washington

www.suncadia.com

WEST VIRGINIA Speidel Golf Club, Palmer Course

Wheeling, West Virginia

www.oglebay-resort.com/golf/index.cfm

Stonewall Jackson Lake Resort

Walkersville, West Virginia www.stonewallresort.com

WISCONSIN The Bog

Saukville, Wisconsin

www.golfthebog.com

Geneva National Golf Club

The Palmer Course Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

www.genevanationalresort.com

Spotsylvania, Virginia

WYOMING

Keswick Golf Club @

Jackson, Wyoming

www.fawnlakevirginia.com

Keswick, Virginia

www.keswickclub.com

Teton Pines Resort and Country Club @ www.tetonpines.com

INTERNATIONAL

AUSTRALIA

FRANCe

ITALy

Crecy Golf Club (Domain de la Brie)

Ca’della Nave Golf Club

Crecy–la–Chapelle

Martellago

www.domainedelabrie.com

www.cadellanave.com

www.sanctuarycove.com

GeRmANy

Castello di Tolcinasco Golf and Country Club

BAhAmAS

Hannover

Ginn Sur Mer (formerly West End)

www.rethmar-golf-links.de

www.golftolcinasco.it

West End, Grand Bahama Island

Sporting Club Berlin

Prato

CANADA

www.sporting-club-berlin.de

Sanctuary Cove—Pines Golf Course

Sanctuary Cove, Queensland

Northview Golf and Country Club

Ridge Course and Canal Course Cloverdale, British Columbia

www.northviewgolf.com

Whistler Golf Club

Whistler, British Columbia www.whistlergolf.com

ChINA Beijing Cascades Golf Course

Beijing

www.cascadesgolf.cn/index_2.html

Chung Shan Hot Springs Golf Course

Guangdong Province

www.cshsgc.com.cn/index.php?lg=en

Pure Scene Golf Club & Resort

Kunming

CoSTA RICA Four Seasons Resort Peninsula Papagayo

Papagayo, Guanacaste

www.fourseasons.com/costarica/golf/

TRALEE, ireland, hole 16

Rethmar Golf Links

Bad Saarow

GUAm LeoPalace Resort—The Palmer Course

Yona

www.leopalaceresort.com

INDIA DLF Golf Club

New Delhi

www.dlfgolfresort.com

Milano

Golf Club Le Pavoniere www.golfclublepavoniere.com

JApAN Adonis Garden Club

Gifu Prefecture Ajigasawa Kogen Golf Course

Aomori Prefecture Asahi Miki

Osaka Aso Prince Hotel Golf Course

Kumamoto Prefecture

INDoNeSIA

Forest Miki Golf Club

Emeralda Golf and Country Club

Hyogo Prefecture

Desa Tapos, Cimanggis (Jakarta)

www.emeraldagolfclub.com

Fuji Excellent Ono Club

Hyogo Prefecture

IReLAND

Furano Golf Course

Kildare Hotel & Country Club

The King & Palmer Courses Hokkaido Prefecture

The Palmer Course and & Smurfit Course Straffan, County Kildare www.kclub.ie

Tralee Golf Club

Ardfert, County Kerry www.traleegolfclub.com

Japan Classic Country Club

Iga Ueno Kanegasaki Golf Course

Iwate Prefecture

Minakami-Kogen Golf Course

PHILIPPINES

SOUTH KOREA

Caliraya Springs

Eunhwasam Country Club

Gunma Prefecture

www.calirayalake.com

Lumban, Cavinti, Laguna

Seoul

Misawa Adonis Golf Club

Gifu Prefecture

Imperial Golf & Country Club (formerly Cebu Mactan)

Muju-Gun

Niseko Golf Course

www.theorchardgolf.com

SINGAPORE

Evercrest Golf Club and Resort

The Legends Fort Canning Park

Hokkaido Prefecture Shimotsuke Country Club

Tochigi Prefecture Shin-Foresta Country Club

Cebu

Nasugbu, Batangas

www.legendsfortcanning.com

Forest Hills Golf & Country Club

SPAIN

Antipolo, Luzon

Shin-Yubari Golf Club

Orchard Golf and Country Club — The Legacy

Tsugaru Kogen Golf Course

Aomori Prefecture Wakasa Country Club— Suigetsuko Course

Fukui Prefecture Wakasa Country Club— Hyugako Course

Dasmarinas, Cavite

www.theorchardgolf.com

Sun Valley

Kingsville Sun Valley Golf Course

Antipolo City, Luzon

www.sunvalleyphilippines.com

Kukui Prefecture

PORTUGAL

MALAYSIA

Oceanico Victoria

Damai Golf & Country Club

Sarawak

Vilamoura

www.oceanicogolf.com

www.damaigolf.com

REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

The Legends Golf & Country Resort

Zhailjau Golf Resort

Sedenak, Johor

www.legends-resort.com

www.mujuresort.com

www.evercrestgolfclubresort.com

Mie Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture

Muju Resort

Almaty

Hyatt La Manga Club Resort

Cartagena, Murcia

www.lamanga.regency.hyatt.com

TAIWAN Formosa First Country Club

Taoyuan County Formosa Yangmei Country Club

Taoyuan County

THAILAND Bangpoo Country Club

Bangkok

www.bangpoogolf.com

URUGUAY Las Piedras

Punte del Este

www.zgr.kz

Photo by Evan Schiller / golfshots.com

Manago Country Club

Tochigi Prefecture

Mr. Palmer lines up with the U.S. and European teams prior to the 2011 Palmer Cup match at the Stanwich Club in Greenwich, CT

Palmer Cup Win for U.S. The United States won five of the eight final singles matches to claim the 15th annual Palmer Cup at the Stanwich Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, in June by the narrow margin of 13-11 This was the second straight U.S. victory over Europe in the Ryder Cup-style international college students’ series that began at Bay Hill Club & Lodge back in 1997.

Skillfully mentored by University of Central Missouri coach Tim Poe, the winning U.S. team included three players—Patrick Cantlay, Russell Henley and Chris Williams—who teed it up in the 111th U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club the following week.

However, the best individual performance in the three-day match came from Stanford sophomore Andrew Yun who won all four of his matches to become the 13th competitor in Palmer Cup history to go 4-0.

“All of us involved express our appreciation to the Stanwich membership for making their fine club and course available for the event,” said Mr. Palmer. “[Over the years] the Palmer Cup has flourished as it has been contested at an unbroken string of outstanding courses.

Yet another fine course—Royal County Down in Northern Ireland—will host the 2012 match.”

After Bay Hill, the Palmer Cup was contested in 1998 at St. Andrews and the subsequent venues include Royal Liverpool, Baltusrol, Doonbeg, Ballybunion, Whistling Straits, Prestwick, Cherry Hills and Royal Portrush.

In 1997, Mr. Palmer, who studied at Wake Forest, was asked by the Golf Coaches’ Association of America to lend his name to an event between eight-man student teams representing the U.S. and Great Britain & Ireland.

“I had long thought that an international competition such as this would enrich the lives of young men through the universal bond of the great game of golf,” Mr. Palmer added. “Not only does this international competition

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enrich the lives of these fine young collegiate golfers but it also often moves them a step closer to successful careers on the professional tours of the world.”

Previous participants include current world No.1 Luke Donald, major champions Graeme McDowell, Ben Curtis and Lucas Glover, and PGA Tour winners Rory Sabbatini, Charles Howell III, Jonathan Byrd, Bill Haas, Hunter Mahan, Ryan Moore, D.J. Trahan, J.B. Holmes and Dustin Johnson.

From 2003, the GB&I team was strengthened by the inclusion of players from other European countries.

To date, the Americans hold an 8-6-1 overall lead in the series.

Mr. Palmer is joined at the 15th Palmer Cup by U.S. team coach Tim Poe (right) and his European counterpart Rickard Lindberg

summer

2011

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