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What a Year!

Well, 2012 is sure turning out to be a fascinating year in the world of golf. The first six months have seen some marvelous performances, while many exciting new initiatives have been introduced to help us turn the corner when it comes to attracting new people into the game.

Three individuals stand out for me so far. Bubba Watson, who produced a truly astonishing shot from the trees to win the Masters at Augusta. Seeing that really made me smile! There are many aspects of Bubba’s game that remind me of myself. He never holds back when he goes at the ball and is no slouch on and around the greens.

Tiger Woods’ victories in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard and in Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village were both impressive, but in different ways.

At Bay Hill in March, he blew the field away by five shots to clock up win No.7 in the tournament.

Sure, he knows the golf course well, but it’s one of the harder layouts on the PGA Tour schedule and provides a thorough examination of every aspect of a player’s game. His fifth career victory at the Memorial at Muirfield Village was a much tighter affair, but it was sealed with a truly courageous shot—a delicate, downhill chip-in from an awkward lie with a watery grave lying just beyond the flag and with the slightest error in its execution meaning the event was over for him.

Then there is Webb Simpson’s U.S. Open victory at The Olympic Club. One over par might not sound like an impressive winning total, but believe me this was one heck of a test of golf and to close with two 68s on the weekend proves that Webb has what it takes to become one of the great names in the game. I couldn’t be more pleased for him, not least because he began his golfing journey on an Arnold Palmer scholarship at Wake Forest.

In passing, I would also like to pay tribute to Phil Mickelson, who won at Pebble Beach again in February and is having another fine season. It really impressed me that he took the trouble to join Jack, Gary Player and me on the 1st tee at Augusta National at the crack of dawn for the official starting ceremony at the Masters. Phil is a class act and I am sure he has many great golf moments left in him.

Talking of Jack and Gary, this year is, of course, the 50th anniversary of the Big Three as we came to be known in those years. Between us we won all four Majors in 1962 and the memories of those far-off days are still so vivid for me.

Yes, 2012 has been quite a year so far, but there’s a lot more to come. I’m very much looking forward to the Father/Son Challenge, which is making its return, after a three-year hiatus, thanks to new sponsor PNC Bank. Also, the first PGA Championship to be staged at Kiawah Island and the Ryder Cup matches at Medinah are just around the corner. Indeed, the way the two teams are shaping up, it could be one of the really great Ryder Cups.

I will spend the rest of the summer and the early fall here in Latrobe, following events with a keen interest, something I’m sure all of you, our loyal readers, will be doing as well. With that in mind, I commend this latest issue of Kingdom to you and hope you enjoy the read.

Happy golfing,

Arnold Palmer

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Contenders While fall is always a time of change, this year’s will be particularly contentious. The battle to determine the next world leader will feature epic budgets, the highest stakes, and unparalleled media coverage. Can the incumbent win again? Who knows, but the whole country—indeed, the whole world—will be watching America this fall. I know who Arnold Palmer supports, but for once I am going to have disagree with him. Being a European by birth, I just can’t support America in the Ryder Cup! But more on that later...

By the time you read this, it’s likely that the victor at this year’s [British] Open will already have his name etched on the Claret Jug. At the risk of making myself look foolish, I predict that winner—as with the last two Majors—will be a first-time Major champion.

This is not to say that there are no dominant players left in golf, just that it’s tough for any one of them to consistently shine amidst such a deep pool of talent. Consider the world ranking over the last year or so: Westwood was briefly on top, then it flipped between McIlroy and Luke Donald—so you have the world’s top three, all Europeans, all with brilliant game, yet they can muster only one Major between them (McIlroy’s 2011 U.S. Open).

America has Mahan, Johnson, Haas, Watney and Fowler, all of whom could take a Major, none of them yet to do so. And there’s the rest of the world, of course... Australia, South Africa, Asia, even South America are all recent sources of varied Major triumph. In fact, among all the players in the game, there’s only one that has consistently won at Majors in recent years: the bookmakers, and I don’t see that trend changing any time soon.

If it makes picking a winner difficult, all of this talent augurs superbly for the forthcoming Ryder Cup. For that, I am proud to say that we will publish ‘Honor & Glory’ in mid-September, Mr. Palmer’s guide to the biennial matches. Arnie’s record in the Ryder Cup is second to none, as he still holds just about every record in the event’s history. Indeed, he was the last playing Captain. No doubt his performances serve as inspiration to current Captain (and close friend of Palmer’s) Davis Love III, with whom we recently spoke.

Either way, the bonding experience at the Ryder Cup is mirrored (perhaps even trumped) by the relationships strengthened with the Father/Son Challenge. We’re thrilled it’s back, thanks to new title sponsor PNC Bank.

To qualify for the PNC Father/Son Challenge, participants must have won either a Major championship or Players championship in their career. Also, the professional’s partner must not have held a Tour card at any point. While the majority of partners in the event’s history have been sons of golf legends, the family-themed tournament has seen a daughter, a grandson, and even close family friends participate over the years. I believe that golf is a better sport with events such as this, and I am looking forward to watching the fun unfold.

Before then, however, I must turn my attention to the 10th anniversary of Kingdom and the special collectible issue we will publish this November. I really can’t believe that it has been 10 years since Team Palmer and my organization started work on the first issue of Kingdom, and our keepsake anniversary edition will certainly celebrate the years. Time really does fly when you’re having fun!

Hit ‘em straight,

Matthew Squire—Publisher

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“My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop she must not be full-gorg’d, For then she never looks upon her lure.

Another way I have to man my haggard, To make her come and know her keeper’s call, That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites That bate and beat and will not be obedient.

She ate no meat to-day, nor none shall eat; Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not” —TAMING OF THE SHREW, ACT IV. SCENE 1

With respect to Shakespeare, it’s unimaginable that any modern woman would appreciate the blueprint for “taming” a wife outlined in Taming of the Shrew (it’s unlikely that women of the bard’s time found it appealing, either). But if one ignores the metaphorical implications, the above passage from the comedy is a fairly concise look at falcon training 101. Indeed, I read the passage quite differently following my visit to the British School of Falconry at the Equinox resort in Manchester, VT. There, the school’s dedicated falconers work with hawks, eagles and falcons, using training methods that pre-date Shakespeare’s plays, and share their knowledge in rather thrilling experiences offered to hotel guests. Such an experience forced me to ponder the enormous fact that a working relationship can exist between a man and a bird—and even between a bird and a dog (read more about it on p34). Connections like these, if not exactly friendships, are reminders that the distances between all living things are perhaps not so great as we might think.

More easily measured distances are more easily traversed—though not so readily as by our avian friends. Put simply: We need airplanes to fly. But once we have a plane, we can go just about anywhere—like the excellent courses featured on p90, all accessible on a winged weekend.

It took at least one plane and longer than a weekend, but in 1962 Arnold Palmer bridged quite a bit of distance with a stunning appearance at the [British] Open. The ground he covered exceeded the course in that he re-established the tournament as one of the world’s greatest and reinforced a cherished bond between us and our friends in the UK. Read about it on p56.

If we don’t have wings like the birds we certainly have better in-flight services, which often include a nice glass of wine (p124)—something the terrestrially inclined can enjoy as well, especially if they’re riding in the back of the new Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II (p78), which offers a wine fridge and enough “RR” monogrammed glasses for everyone on board (excepting the driver, naturally).

Really, what more could one want than a world full of Rolls-Royces, in-flight libation and birds that can be trained to fetch your dinner for you (metaphorical implications ignored, of course). It’s good enough for me—though if my wife reads that last sentence I’ll likely be fetching my own meal tonight, and perhaps a few more. Considering Shakespeare’s mastery of falconry as exemplified in Shrew, I get the feeling that he and I could have shared recipes...

See you on course,

Reade Tilley—Editor

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The always energized Latrobe, Pennsylvania, office of Arnold Palmer was buzzing with heightened activity in June as Kingdom correspondent Chris Rodell sat down with Palmer for a wide-ranging discussion. The new Arnold Palmer SpringHill Suites by Marriott was on the verge of its June opening, Latrobe Country Club was preparing for an influx of visitors and Palmer was making plans to fly west to participate in U.S. Open ceremonies at the Olympic Club. He was, as usual, expansive, engaging and brimming with wit as he discussed the state of golf, his best performances in Majors and whether or not Gary Player eats bacon on the sly

Kingdom: You won the 1962 [British] Open by six shots with the guy in third place a further seven shots back. Was it that easy or did you have your doubts until near the end?

Arnold Palmer: I was very confident in that I was playing some of the best golf of my career. Troon was probably more dry than it usually is and my drives on the bowed fairways were staying right in the middle, so that was giving me an advantage. So the whole week I was feeling pretty good about my chances of winning The Open.

K: What was it about the Troon course that suited you so well?

AP: You had to drive the ball very well and I was doing so.

And it was a golf course that was playing to a precision game, meaning if you kept it in the fairway and on the greens, which I was able to do, the golf course played very well.

K: Was this the best you ever played in a Major?

AP: I think it was one of my better outings in a Major championship, certainly.

K: What is your mindset when you find yourself so far clear of everyone else? Do you continue to attack or do you start to play cannily?

AP: To maintain your balance and all the things that were making it happen and to not lose sight of what you’re trying to accomplish. As for playing attack golf, I’ve always played attack golf and there have been times when that mindset cost me. But generally it worked very well, as it did at Troon and I enjoyed that tournament as much as any tournament I ever played.

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Mr. Palmer and Davis Love crossing the bridge to the 12th green at Augusta National

K: Despite your thankfully brief brush with ill health, did you enjoy this year’s Arnold Palmer Invitational?

AP: I enjoyed it very much. I think Tiger displayed some of the best golf I’ve ever seen him play and it was under difficult situations. The pressure was really on him to perform well, which he did.

K: What is it about Tiger Woods that makes him so good at Bay Hill?

AP: I think he likes the golf course. He played there as a junior and won numerous tournaments through the years, and now winning the Invitational seven times is an indication of how much he likes the golf course.

K: In recent weeks, we have seen important victories from Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan and Jason Dufner. Does this fill you with optimism in relation to the United States’ chances in the forthcoming Ryder Cup at Medinah in September?

AP: I think their performance is certainly an indication they are coming into their own. These are young people, excellent players, and each is an example of what can happen in the future, and certainly I would say we can be pretty optimistic about Team USA’s chances in the fall.

K: You’ve known Davis Love III well for a long time.

How would you assess his capabilities as a U.S. Ryder Cup captain?

AP: Davis is one of my favorite people. He’s a great player, a great guy and I think he’ll make a great captain for the Ryder Cup.

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K: Rory McIlroy, for a while the world’s No. 1, seems to play sparingly. Do you think a 22-year-old like him should be out all the time playing tournaments or do you think he’s wise to curtail his schedule?

AP: I can only go from what I know personally and I don’t think it’s in his best interest to play so little. He’s young, he’s strong and I think his future will brighten if he plays consistently and plays often.

K: How much of a contrast do you see in the final two Major venues of the year—Lytham and Kiawah Island? Do you think it possible the events can be won by the same player, which last happened in 2008, courtesy of Padraig Harrington?

AP: Royal Lytham St. Annes is a very interesting golf course and one that can be very challenging, depending on the weather conditions. Kiawah Island is going to be a difficult golf course for the PGA and will give a good test to the player. I think the results will show that. As for repeat winners, the courses are so different I think it’s a real long shot that the same player will be able to win the last two majors of 2012, as Padraig did four years ago.

K: Recently, someone on a minor tour shot 55. Do you think we will ever see the day when someone posts 18 birdies, or is this too big a long shot?

AP: No. I do not think so. It would be remarkable for anyone to birdie nine holes in a row.

“I would say we can be pretty optimistic about Team USA’s chances in the fall [at the Ryder Cup]”

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K: I recall reading that Hogan once dreamed he birdied 17 holes and missed a putt to birdie 18 and woke up furious over the one par. Ever have a dream like that?

AP: I usually dream more realistic dreams—well, I shouldn’t say that. In fact, most of my dreams are anything but realistic. I think certainly having a good tournament is a realistic dream.

K: Gary Player recently regaled the audience at a golf exhibition with details of his obsessive fitness regime—1,000 crunches before breakfast, no alcohol, no white bread, no bacon, etc. What is your particular fitness and diet regime, and how strictly do you adhere to it?

AP: (laughs) I drink a lot of Ketel One vodka and eat a lot of white bread. No! Seriously, I think Gary’s routine is very good. His fitness is excellent. I’m proud of him for keeping on with that. I would like to think that is good for all of us, but doing it to his extreme isn’t necessarily the regimen I would want to do for myself.

K: Given that playing equipment is so different...

AP: Oh, by the way, Gary eats bacon when no one’s watching!

K: Good to know! Given that playing equipment is so different these days, what do you feel is the fundamental difference in the golf swing now compared to 50 years ago?

AP: I don’t think the golf swing has really changed that much. I suppose 50 years ago there was more of a swing and rhythm than there is today. But I feel the boys swing pretty hard at the ball to get the distance they get and the modern equipment allows them to swing harder. That’s all fine. I feel we’ll continue to see more innovation with the golf clubs.

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“I flew from LA to Sydney, Australia, a couple of years ago and the comfort on that flight was outstanding” K: As a pilot and as someone intimately connected to the world of aviation, where do you see the business of air travel headed in terms of the major carriers?

It seems they’re offering passengers less comfort and fewer services but they’re charging more money than ever. Can the industry be saved?

AP: I think as time goes on in aviation we’ll see more luxury incorporated into jet travel and it will be more enjoyable and more pleasant to travel.

K: When was the last time you flew commercial?

AP: An example of what I just mentioned, I flew from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, a couple of years ago and the comfort on that flight was outstanding.

K: I’m guessing you didn’t have the middle seat, did you?

AP: No! I had a bed! It was Qantas. My wife and I had our own bed. It was very nice.

K: If you were to go on a private jet golf trip for a week around the globe, which courses would you like to see included in the schedule?

AP: Once again, Troon is one of my favorite golf courses.

Birkdale. I like St Andrews for a change from time to time. Wentworth is a course I enjoy. Domestically, there’s Augusta, Oakmont, Winged Foot, all of the greats. On the Pacific I’m going to try and play Cypress Point when I’m out there next week. Not so much in the Far East. I won the Australian Open at the Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane on the Gold Coast. That was very nice.

But I think I’d stick with the tried and true.

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K: What can guests expect from a day at Latrobe Country Club?

AP: Think about Latrobe Country Club as an older golf course that is very demanding on direction. Not so much on distance, but one that will keep you thinking and your mind working to score well.

K: Our instructional piece this issue features longtime Latrobe pro Randy Bisi teaching readers the art of the score-shaving bump ’n’ run. What else can guests learn from Randy?

AP: Randy is very good. He’s a great teacher and he does a great job. Our guests will enjoy meeting him and the entire staff at Latrobe Country Club.

K: What do you think of the idea that 12-hole courses are a solution to some of golf’s challenges in terms of growing the game and making it more accessible?

There has also been talk of designing 18-hole courses as three loops of six; is this desirable?

AP: It’s a gimmick. I can’t see it ever becoming a dominant factor in the game of golf. Speed of play is very important, as is being able to play quickly and efficiently, but I don’t see golf ever reverting to 12 holes again.

Mr. Palmer watches grandson Sam Saunders play at the 2010 Mylan Classic

K: We understand you will be helping out with the Mylan Classic at Southpointe Golf Club, not far from here in Canonsburg, PA, later in the summer.

What are your expectations and how pivotal is the Nationwide Tour to the future of the PGA Tour?

AP: The Nationwide Tour is very important to the future of the tour, and the direction they are taking it for qualifying these young people to play on the regular tour is excellent. It’s something that should be developed even further. The Mylan is a good tournament with a good sponsor. It’s an outstanding event for the Nationwide Tour and for Western Pennsylvania area golf fans.

K: What will the new SpringHill Suites by Marriott hotel here on Arnold Palmer Drive do for Latrobe tourism?

AP: The hotel is looking good. People are going to enjoy it and I think it’ll be a real boon in attracting new visitors to the area.

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K: The start of construction for the course that will stage the 2016 Olympic golf tournaments has been delayed because of a wrangle over land rights. Do you think they’re in danger of running out of sufficient time to give the new course a proper test prior to the Games?

AP: I do. I think they are in danger. I think the efficiency of making that happen is very important. They need to get to it and get it done at the designated site or move on to another site. And they need to do it now.

K: Also, would you still be interested in designing courses in Brazil, given that the game seems certain to increase in popularity there over the next few years?

AP: I do have interest in designing courses in Brazil. I think it’s an up and coming country that will enjoy a boom in golf over the next few years and I think the future of golf there is very important.

K: Where else might you possibly design a course in the next few years?

AP: I think Central America and the southern part of the world, even down into Mexico, is going to experience an accelerated growth in golf in the future.

K: Thank you, Mr. Palmer, as always for the lively conversation.

AP: Thank you.

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There’s violence in this. honest, a priori and necessary, it is awe-inspiring in its sudden-ness, its elegant precision and its stark conclusion:Talons digging into the quarry, a quick snap of a neck, and then tearing... it is captivating, but it is not entertainment. it predates modern bloodlust, predates firearms and the coliseum. it is healthy; perhaps it is honorable. And for a falconer, the moment it appears is as fulfilling as it is privileged.

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alconry probably started with somebody looking at a wild hawk and watching it catch a duck or something, and thinking, ‘if i trained that hawk to do that for me, i could be eating that duck.’” emma Ford told me that. She’s one of the world’s foremost falconers and the woman who, with her husband Steve, started the British School of Falconry at Gleneagles, Scotland.

The school offers a look at falconry and a chance to have a hawk land on your arm, among other experiences. i visited a location in Vermont as well, but we’ll get to that later. emma’s assessment of falconry’s beginnings is as close to an exact history as we’re likely to get. Of its precise origin, all that’s known is that falconry—that is, the taking of wild quarry in its natural state with trained birds of prey—hails from preliterate times and probably started in Asia. it spread west, became immensely popular with european royalty and eventually found its way to the States,where it’s currently practiced by nearly 4,000 people, and many more worldwide.The oldest living example of the tradition might be in Kazakhstan’s falconers (they sometimes call the practice“berkutchy”), who are today offered as many looks at tourist cameras as they are quarry. They hunt with eagles, but in fact most birds of prey can be trained to hunt with a human—if not for a human, exactly.

Why the distinction is important and why someone would take the time to train a bird in the first place are interesting questions, with answers that might lie in our very origins.

FirST encOUnTer. “For me, from my point of view, i looked over my next-door neighbor’s wall when i was 8 years old and i was eyeball to eyeball with a falcon,” Ford recalls.“The minute i saw this falcon, i was fascinated.” For emma, it was the falcon next door. For others, she says, “it’s that when they see a hawk they feel a certain kind of affinity... there’s a sudden and real, urgent need to get closer to hawks

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and to learn more about them. it happens with some people when they handle them.”

[It’s worth noting that in the language of falconry, “hawk” is often used as a generic term to mean any bird of prey. See the glossary in this article for more clarifications.]

Standing in Vermont with one of the school’s Master Falconers, Jay Tuttle, i felt no such compulsion toward the harris hawk to which i was introduced, “elmer.” however, i was admittedly awe-struck by his wild-ness, and moreover by the amount of interaction he offered.When elmer landed on my arm—my “fist,” in the parlance, which was covered by a glove—i’m not sure what struck me first: that he seemed to weigh almost nothing but obviously had tremendous power, especially in his talons, or that he regarded a stranger’s arm as a safe perch. it is the latter that begs consideration, for unlike dogs, Ford tells me that hawks do not seek affection nor do they take pleasure in pleasing. So why did elmer decide to leave his perch for my fist? i’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because i was impersonating a falconer, and so he believed i was on his team.

TeAMWOrK. Falconers hunt game with their falcons, sometimes with the help of dogs.Whether its rabbits, grouse or whatever, the dogs find the quarry and the humans flush it out. To the falcon, the dog and the human are essentially support staff for the main event—the falcon’s event—which is the actual kill. The falcon hunts with a team because it has been trained to understand that teamwork maximizes its chance of success. it also knows it will be fed at the end of the night regardless of what happens on the hunt. it takes months to build this understanding, and the methods used to achieve it are centuries-old, basically involving a series of rewarded behaviors. Step to the fist, reward.

Fly to the fist, reward. Fly to the fist from a little further away… And so on. eventually, the hawk can be “entered,” or introduced to quarry. And then the fun begins.

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The hUnT. “A massive amount of things have to happen for it to go right, especially to catch a grouse.

The falconer has to make the right decisions, the dog has to play its part perfectly, and then what you’re waiting for is when the falcon, which is very high, shuts its wings and is stooping like a bolt from the blue.The noise... it’s like ripping canvas, quite a loud noise.

You can hear the wind just tearing through its feathers... it’s doing its best to catch the grouse and all you can do is watch.”“Stoop” is the term for a falcon’s dive, which can see the bird reach speeds of up to 217mph (and likely faster). Falcons hunt other birds, and their beaks have a special adaptation that facilitates neck-snapping. plunging through a flock of pigeons, for example, a falcon’s quarry is dead before it knows what hit it. in the case of grouse it’s less easy, making successful hunts that much more rewarding.

While the falconer is happy—as much for the fulfillment of the training as for the meal— the falcon also has emotions of a sort, Ford says. “We’re only successful maybe one in seven attempts. [The falcons] are very happy if they catch something and, similarly, if they fail to catch something you can see that they’re not at all happy.“They don’t have the same expressions as a dog, but some get quite stroppy if it goes wrong.” And if what goes wrong is on a team member’s failure, Ford says the falcons don’t hold back.“it’s just us, and our pointers who find the game, and the falcons that catch it. And the dogs have a job to do: they have to hold point, hold steady until the falcon is in position… And if the dog makes a mistake, you can see the falcon is really not too happy about the dog.” if, on the other hand, the falcon is successful, it is then distracted with a lure and a reward while the human pockets the game, and everyone’s happy. it’s a bit like a symphony in that it all has to come together,” says Ford. “But if you put a massive amount of work into it, the hawk has worked really hard, then God yes, you’re thrilled that it’s been absolutely successful.”

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The flying weight—the weight at which a bird of prey is both willing and able to hunt— is a crucial measurement in falconry, and it’s different for each bird.Too fed, there’s no incentive to go after quarry nor to return to the falconer’s fist. not fed enough, there’s no energy to hunt.“A half ounce of difference will affect the hawk’s performance the next day,” says Tuttle. Kazakh hunters feel an eagle’s keel (breastplate) to gauge its weight, while most falconers weigh their hawks on scales.Whichever method, dedicated training is required to understand the subtleties of a hawk’s performance and maintenance. in the United States, it officially takes two years to become a falconer. There are federal and state regulations, exams, fees and inspections to navigate. Jay and another Master Falconer/instructor at the Vermont school, Dawn Decrease, have been through it all.

Following that, it can take months or years to train a hawk, and only 48 hours or so for that hawk to lose its training,meaning hawks need constant work over their lifetime. As Jay tells it, nearly 70 percent of hawks in the wild don’t make it past year one, often due to starvation resulting from competition, inexperience or lack of knowledge (if they were orphaned, for example). in this, falconers are teaching young hawks necessary skills they ideally would be taught in any case, but they’re also providing a safety net of sorts.The lengths to which Jay, Dawn, emma and others go to understand birds of prey and to build relationships with them are extreme, and go a long way to helping all of us understand a small part of our bigger world. Of course, not all hawks enjoy such relationships with humans.

MAn VS. BirD. While birds of prey are almost universally admired from a distance, close encounters can provoke all manner of reaction.When primal instincts kick in (ours or theirs), the results can be lethal—and not just for the birds. Three stories:

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IN FEBRUARY OF 2010, a hand surgeon in Virginia shot and killed a hawk in his yard.

As the local nBc channel 4 reported,Thomas Shepler claimed that the raptor had become fixated on his pet squirrel, Oedipus, which the doctor and his wife had long ago found orphaned and raised,even allowing it to sleep in their bedroom at night.Shepler threw a crowbar at the hawk hoping to scare it off, but that had no effect. Desperate to protect Oedipus, Shepler retrieved an antique shotgun from his home, returned to the yard and killed the hawk.A passing police officer heard the shot and investigated, found the doctor with the gun still in his hands, and arrested him. Shepler was later charged with discharging a firearm in a public place and, perhaps ironically, cruelty to animals.

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IN DECEMBER OF 2011, a pigeon lover in Scotland shot and killed a falcon that had been routinely employed to scare pigeons away from a government building.

According to The Scotsman newspaper and the UK’s Daily Record, falconer ryan Dryburgh was exercising “naph,” his peregrine-gyrfalcon cross, at a soccer stadium when a gust of wind carried the bird away. Tracking a radio transmitter attached to the falcon’s leg, Dryburgh and two other falconers followed naph to the house of Andrew hutchison, an elderly man who kept pigeons. Upon Dryburgh’s arrival, hutchison reportedly confessed to shooting naph in the garden—then fled in a car, racing off with the falcon’s body. The falconers gave chase and eventually found the radio transmitter in a stream, still attached to naph’s severed leg, but the rest of the falcon’s body was never recovered. in court, hutchison initially disputed the entire incident, telling the judge, “They’re all telling lies. it’s a witches’ coven.” eventually, however, he relented, admitting that he’d killed the falcon because it was “on the back” of one of his pigeons.“That hawk tried to get away with murder,” he said.

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From the Valentine’s Day, 1922, edition of The New York Times eAGle KillS A SOlDier.

Wounded Bird Clutches Captor’s Gun and Discharges It. SAnTiAGO, chile, Feb. 13 (Associated press).—A curious story of a soldier’s fatal struggle with a huge eagle in a mountain pass near los Andes last Saturday is told by the newspapers here. The soldier shot the eagle and, thinking he had killed it, approached, but the bird had only suffered a broken wing and furiously attacked him. in the struggle which followed, the eagle’s claws clutched the trigger of the soldier’s gun, which was discharged, the bullet entering the man’s body. he died in the arms of his companions, who took his body and the wounded eagle, to los Andes.

TYpe S. In the language of falconry, birds of prey are termed“hawks”whether they are falcons, hawks or eagles. They are divided into three groups: LONGWINGS: includes falcons, sych as SHORTWINGS: hawks, including the peregrine, the saker and the gyrfalcon. sparrowhawks and the harris hawk. hunt Mainly hunt other birds in flight. ground game like rabbit, hare and groundnesting birds.

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BROADWINGS: includes eagles and buzzards. Suited for soaring over rolling countryside and mountains. like shortwings, broadwings hunt ground game.

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Superior eyesight: roughly equivalent of a human reading a newspaper at 300 yards

Nostril tubercle: Deflects airflow/ reduces air pressure in a stoop, allowing the falcon to breathe

Nictitating membranes:Almost like goggles, this third eyelid spreads tears and clears debris to help maintain vision in a stoop

Tomial tooth: notch in falcon’s beak specialized for severing/ snapping necks

Malar Stripe: Dark feathers under eye potentially work like eye-black for athletes, reducing glare

FUrniTUre. The tools of falconry are known as“furniture.” The most basic include:

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to the legs of a falcon so the falconer can find the bird when it’s out of sight. Usually used in pairs, with the pitch of one bell roughly a semitone different, resulting in a sound that carries farther than a melodious pairing would.

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OOD: Used to cover the eyes of a hawk; with longwings (which

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WING LURE:A lure on a line, often made of a bird’s wing or feathers

affixed to a bit of leather, swung in the air to recall a hawk.

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leather straps fastened around the ankles of the hawk, often with a ring to which a leash can be attached.

LOVE: Used to protect the falconer from his hawk’s talons. hunt other birds), it’s used to prevent them seeing other birds flying overhead and then wasting energy trying to leave the All information courtesy of emma Ford, The British School of falconer’s glove.

Falconry and The Encyclopedia Britannica, with which emma Ford worked.

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The experience.

Falconry has shared some language with firearms (including“musket,”which is a male sparrow hawk), but otherwise has little in common with the tools that pushed it into the “enthusiast” column. One of the most important differences from modern hunting methods, as applies to hunter + rifle, is that falconry involves a specific sort of inter-species cooperation. On a hunt involving a falcon, a dog and a human, the falcon and the human are hunting cooperatively with the aim of killing the quarry. The dog is hunting to please the human. it’s an incredible difference.

“There are very few examples of any sort of sport in the world where man gets to work in partnership with a predator,”says Ford.“One of the very few would be the Japanese, who have cormorants that catch fish for them and that sort of thing.Years ago, people used to train cheetahs to hunt for gazelle, but that’s the only sort of idea that comes to mind.”

As such, falconry involves a sort of relationship to which humans are relatively unaccustomed, acclimated as we are to viewing animals in terms of service or pets.

“Yes, that’s right,” says Ford.“it’s not a dog, for example,that has a sense of loyalty which culminates in a desire to please people.

Falcons only seek to please themselves; it’s basically a business relationship. You get very attached to them, but they don’t get that attached to you. i mean, they might prefer you to an unknown person, but they only look to you to provide food and the opportunities to put them in the path of game where they’re going to be able to be successful and catch something.”

Walking across the field with Jay, elmer following alongside us in the distant trees, the relationship between falcon and falconer strikes me as incredibly profound. i wonder what other relationships could have been built—or exist to be built— with the natural world. if they’re there, they doubtless would require the kind of complete immersion practiced by falconers, and they would likely stem from the same kind of shared goal between hawk and human that makes falconry possible and so enduring. primal, privileged and demanding dedication, there is much compelling about falconry. But for all of its mysteries, its lasting appeal for falconers might be more simply put.As emma has it: “it’s a cliché, but it’s the thrill of the chase.”

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From top: Falcon catching a lure, Harris hawk Elmer and falconer Jay Tuttle, and a list of flying weights

GlOSSArY. A small selection of falconry’s language: Bate: To attempt to fly off the falconer’s glove or a perch while restrained.

Cast Off: pushing the hawk airborne from the fist.

Creance: A long line attached to a hawk in training to prevent it from flying away.

Eyas: hawk taken from a nest in the wild or bred in captivity.

Falcon: Technically, the female peregrine falcon.

Feed Up: To give a hawk its full day’s supply of food.

Haggard: hawk trapped in its adult plumage.

Manning: The initial stage of training at which trust is built with a hawk.

Mantle: The act of a hawk covering a quarry with its wings.

Mews: indoor housing for hawks.

Passager: hawk trapped in its first year.

Quarry: prey.

Stoop: To dive from a height headfirst with wings closed at speed (falcons).

Tiercel: Male falcon; from a word for“third,” as male falcons are 1/3 smaller than females.

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Brazil is big.

Very big.

Always has been, I suppose, although only recently has it started to punch its weight on the international stage. Historically regarded as a celebratory curiosity and a jet-set retreat, this enchanting, rhythmic, affable, gigantic country has transformed itself almost overnight into one of the world’s powerhouse economies. But there’s far more to Brazil than the high-rise skyline of downtown Sao Paulo and its G20 membership. In essence, it has a pulsating heartbeat, a generous soul, and a huge smile. My seven-day visit last fall merely scratched the surface, especially as I spent a sizable percentage of that time zigzagging in the air—from Rio de Janeiro north to Salvador, south back to Rio, west to Brasilia, northwest to Manaus, then finally southeast to Sao Paulo. Factoring in a couple of Transatlantic flights before and after, I must have clocked up 13,000 miles in steerage that week. But believe me, it was worth it.

The bare facts about Brazil are staggering: The country

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is the world’s fifth largest both in terms of geographical

At present, there are around 120 courses in Brazil, many of them only nine-holers. Within a decade that number should have risen above 200, with the highest profile of the newer layouts likely being that of the Olympic course (assuming it’s built in time, but more on that later).

My brief visit to Brazil afforded me the opportunity to play four 18-hole courses, all at resorts: Costa do Sauipe Golf Links and Iberostar Praia do Forte Golf Club north of Salvador; Golf Frade, a two-hour drive south of Rio; and Amazonia Golf Resort by Nobile just north of the inland port of Manãus on the piranha- and alligator-infested confluence of the Amazon and Negro rivers in the northwest.

For the first two courses, we were based at Costa do Sauipe. The resort offers a variety of accommodation, from multi-national corporate hotels like Marriott, Renaissance and Breezes Super Club, to smaller “pousadas” (B&Bs, basically). Pleasingly laid out by American designer Brian Costello alongside the Atlantic Ocean amidst sand dunes, clusters of coconut trees and coarse scrub vegetation, Costa do Sauipe stretches to almost 7,000 yards off the back tees and can be quite a handful when the wind gets up.

Praia do Forte, designed by P.B. Dye, is roughly 12 miles south of Costa do Sauipe and is also set beside the sea.

It has fewer trees and elevation changes, but the scrub and deep bunkers can be especially penal for wayward shots and the greens, constructed to USGA standards, are challengingly slick. Its final three oceanfront holes, with ringside views of an expansive beach and crashing surf, are especially memorable.

Bahia has two other high-quality coastline courses to the south of Salvador: Terravista and Ilha de Comandatuba, both designed by American Dan Blankenship, a former associate of P.B. Dye’s brother Perry. The front nine at Terravista, part of a resort complex that has its own private airport near the town of Trancoso on the Discovery Coast, is routed through a rainforest while the back nine is closer to the coast. The signature hole, the much-photographed

size (3.3 million square miles) and population (192 million people). The Amazon contains more water than any other river in the world, there’s a greater variety of wildlife and natural resources here than in any other country, and the coastline (all 4,655 miles of it) has more sand than anywhere else. But these general bits of information only begin to tell the story.

One of the most diverse countries in the world, Brazil’s substantive culture is about to be put on display to the world with back-to-back validations that the country is officially “on the map,” so to speak: It will host the planet’s two largest sporting events, with soccer’s World Cup in 2014 being followed by the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

It is the latter, to be held in Rio, that was of particular interest to me as a golf tourist, for in addition to seeing Brazil showcased as a top-tier international destination, the Olympics will feature golf for the first time since 1904. This inclusion will undoubtedly grow the game in South America, and probably in other parts of the world as well.

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Praia do Forte (above) has a spectacular finishing stretch of holes beside the sea while Costa do Sauipe (below) can be a handful when the wind gets up

The inclusion of golf as an official Olympic sport for the first time since 1904 will undoubtedly have the effect of growing the game in Brazil

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par-3 14th, has a green perched on the edge of a 150-foot cliff overlooking the sea where giant sea turtles can be seen swimming. The fairways at Ilha de Comandatuba, spread out on an island between the sea and a mangrove swamp teeming with wildlife, are all flanked by sand dunes.

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Frade (above) is a popular bolt-hole from Rio and Sao Paulo. Of particular interest (below) is the short 8th featuring the ruins of an old aqueduct

Frade, surrounded by a massive Atlantic rainforest, cloud-capped hills and an exquisite seascape consisting of 365 islands and more than 2,000 beaches, is located just outside the town of Angra dos Reis. It’s a sizable resort, with eight restaurants and 177 accommodation units, and in considerable demand as a weekend bolt-hole for wellto-do folk from Rio and Sao Paulo despite the local cattle that sometimes stray across the property.

It is also Brazil’s oldest golf resort with a course jointly designed by Peter Alliss and his former Ryder Cup team-mate Dave Thomas. In 2007, Rafael Navarro updated Frade, adding new greens to six holes and several new tee boxes, including one on the 11th, at the top of a 150-foot hill that offers amazing views of the course and the sea. Another hole that must not be missed is the 8th, an uphill 148-yard par-3 over the ruined pillars of a 19th-century aqueduct.

Brazil needs to emulate its neighbor Argentina and develop a few players who are capable of competing with the best

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The temperature at the first three courses I visited was warm but comfortable, all assuaged by gentle sea breezes, but it was quite a different story at Amazonia, a superb luxury resort in the middle of the jungle just north of Manãus. This was humidity at its most intense. The course, founded in 1974 by members of Brazil’s Japanese community, is a beauty: largely flat (sensible, given the prevailing heat), not too tight (so not much looking for balls) and grassed throughout by a highly durable Bermuda.

OTHER OPTIONS Obviously, I only obtained a snapshot of golf in Brazil during my trip, but there are many other courses that should be played by anyone staying longer than I did. Near Rio, these include Gavea, just west of the city and offering stunning views of the beach at Sao Conrado; the Pete Dye-designed, Brigitte Bardot-frequented Búzios, situated on a narrow peninsula where unrelenting winds can play havoc with club-selection; and the public 9-hole Japeri, initiated by Gávea caddies to teach children not only golf but citizenship.

The Olympic course (which at the time of writing still lacks a name) is being built by Hanse Golf Design at Reserva da Marapendi in Barra da Tijuca, a fashionable suburb of Rio. Principal architect Gil Hanse teamed up with LPGA Hall-of-Famer Amy Alcott to beat off competition for the contract from the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sorenstam, Gary Player, Greg Norman and Lorena Ochoa, and now he has a bit of a monster on his hands. Already behind schedule, construction on the course is slated to commence in October, but first a judicial ruling is required to establish who actually owns the land on which it is to be built. If the course is finished on time, ideally it will be opened for play in 2015. There’s been much talk of a big tournament taking place late that year as a dummy run before the Games; afterwards, the course is expected to become a public facility.

Another potential addition to Rio’s golfing landscape is the Rio de Janeiro International Golf Resort, a $300 million development that will feature two courses designed by Sir Nick Faldo at Petropolis, 30 miles from the city’s main airport.

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The state of Sao Paulo, by comparison, has far more courses, the most notable of which are: Sao Fernando, where 10 lakes have a mysterious ability to attract errant golf balls; Guarapiranga, where the signature hole is the 605-yard 3rd; PL, which has three loops of nine, named Pansy, Lily and Glory, and was founded by followers of the Japanese religious group Perfect Liberty; Arujá, famous for its spectacular elevation changes; Fazenda Boa Vista, a resort development where Arnold Palmer has been asked to design a course; Clube de Campo, frequented mainly by local businessmen; and Quinta da Baroneza, VistaVerde and Alphaville Graciosa Clube, three more Blankenship designs.

Elsewhere, the highlights consist of the Clube de Golfe de Brasilia, designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr. in 1964, and Iguassu Golf Resort near the giant waterfalls, while Greg Norman is designing 18 holes for Reserva do Paiva just south of Recife on Brazil’s easternmost coast.

BEYOND GOLF While golf seems to be on the rise in Brazil, the country has been a dynamic destination for decades even without the sport. And while the Brazilian people are reason enough to visit, they owe much of their country’s appeal to nature and unbelievable locations like Iguassu Falls (five times bigger than Niagara Falls!) on the border with Argentina and Paraguay, while the enigmatic rainforests’ and, of course, the meandering Amazon River are equally as captivating and breath-taking in their own ways. In contrast, the capital city of Brasilia in all of its eerie, modernist glory is an architectural showpiece and the only city built during the 20th century to be named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Perhaps the greatest (certainly the most expansive and complete) example of modernist architecture to be built, it was designed at the height of the movement between 1956 and 1960 by planner Lúcio Costa and modernist luminary Oscar Niemeyer.

Absolutely worth seeing, even if you’re not into architecture.

In Rio, the highlights include Sugar Loaf Mountain, Copacabana Beach, the statue of Christ the Redeemer and the girls from Ipanema, while in Sao Paulo you can’t help but notice the swarm of helicopters buzzing overhead (far faster than a limo in the city’s chaotic traffic). However, a particular favorite of mine is the extraordinary 19th century opera house in Manãus. Throw in the music, the parties, the cuisine, the soccer and all of those brilliant colors, and you start to get the picture: There’s a lot to this place.

You can’t write about Brazil without mentioning Rio’s Carnival, and though it is perhaps over-covered as a subject, it’s actually an appropriate metaphor for the spirit of the whole country. There are numerous carnivals all over Brazil, of course, but Rio’s is the most vibrant and the best known.

Not only is it the country’s biggest carnival, it’s the world’s biggest with more than 2 million people gathering on the streets each day. With vibrant floats, top-notch dancing from all of the various samba schools that “march” in the parades, and elaborate costumes (at times as jaw-dropping for their scarcity of material as they are for their extravagance, which is not a problem for most of the fantastically fit female Brazilian dancers), it’s one of the greatest shows on Earth and just one small part of the amazing puzzle that is Brazil.

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FOOD AND DRINK Brazilian cuisine and libation are worth the journey alone. Here are just a few menu items you should make sure to try whilst there. Just don’t forget to say “obrigado” (thank you) to your waiter: Feijoada (fay-jo-AH-da): If you’re hungry, the national dish is the answer—a stew consisting of beans, beef and pork, it’s often served with slices of orange or onion, fried plantains and other side dishes.

Coxinha (ko-SHEE-na): A fantastic snack of spiced, shredded chicken that’s deep-fried.

Pão de Queijo (pow-day-kay-EE-ho): Cheese-bread lovers will rejoice with this Brazilian take on the bake.

Acaraje (ah-car-AH-hey): Peeled and deep-fried black-eyed peas balled together with shrimp? Amazing.

Cachaça: Don’t worry about the pronunciations, just do your best to order a Caipirinha, a Batida, a Caju Amigo or a Rabo-de-Galo (the last is sometimes understood to be a mix of “everything in the bar”) and you’ll get a taste of this fantastic spirit made from fermented sugarcane juice. You won’t be alone: it’s Brazil’s national alcoholic drink.

FINALLY With so much to offer, we can only hope Brazil’s golf game really takes hold. As mentioned earlier, there seems to be growing activity on that front (and a handful of excellent options already available). Thanks to its size and increasing affluence, not to mention a burgeoning tourism industry and favorable, year-round climate, golf was bound to become more prominent here, with or without the sport’s reintroduction to the Olympic program. The question, though, is will the game’s new-found popularity in a land so much in love with soccer, volleyball and carnivals help to trigger the desired tourism influx from wealthy residents of North America and Europe? Furthermore, Brazil needs to emulate its neighbor Argentina and develop a few players capable of competing with the best. At present, their only representative on the PGA Tour is Alexandre Rocha and his performances to date have been low-key. So it’s understandable that the Brazilian golf confederation is hoping the 2016 Olympics will help to correct this deficiency.

“The Olympics will show that golf is not a pastime for the older generations,” Robert Trent Jones, Jr., one of the original candidates to build the course for the Games, promised. “It’s a sport for the young people of the world.”

And Brazil, being big… very big… certainly has no shortage of young people. That, along with its numerous other assets, make this a country well worth keeping an eye on. We suggest a visit before the crowds become even more intense, as they surely will.

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The Humana Challenge, won five times by Arnold Palmer when it was known as the Bob Hope Classic, is a great place to run into celebrities who love to golf. Paul Trow was lying in wait to catch rock star Alice Cooper when someone completely different glided into view.

That someone turned out to be Sugar Ray Leonard, world boxing legend, reformed addict, fantastic champion and all-round good guy.

It was hard to believe that the slim, athletic, almost boyish figure chatting to me beside the 18th green at La Quinta golf course in southern California was in his mid-fifties.

Even harder to believe he had taken part in some of the most grueling prize fights in the history of boxing. And harder still to believe that, by his own admission, he had indulged to excess in cocaine and alcohol for long periods of his adult life.

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ut then Sugar Ray Leonard is no ordinary mortal. Such a youthful appearance is usually seen as a reflection of a blameless, possibly hermetic existence with a complete absence of the inner turmoil that haunts so many of us. In Leonard’s case, he had fought for, and won, world boxing titles at five different weights between 1979 and 1991, had taken quite a few beatings as well as handing them out, suffered numerous, career-threatening eye injuries, and endured the heartache of a marriage break-up for which he squarely blames himself.

I couldn’t help thinking, though, that I must be talking to the wrong guy. Then the penny dropped: Sugar Ray Leonard is a split personality. Or rather, split personalities!

As a 16-year-old desperate to impress his capricious father, he gave himself the sobriquet Sugar as a tribute to the late, great Sugar Ray Robinson after narrowly failing to make the U.S. boxing squad for the 1972 Olympic Games due to a contentious points decision by a myopic judge in the semi-finals of the national trials.

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rrogant, from a kid with it all still to prove, or respectful, from a young man with a destiny to fulfill? At the time, you had to take your choice on a 50-50 basis. With the benefit of hindsight, the answer’s clear. “Redemption” could have been Leonard’s middle name from his earliest days. He redeemed himself as a child dodging the emotional bullets his parents would fire at each other, as a once-rejected, ultimately-reclaimed amateur boxer, endlessly throughout a professional career that generated bigger purses than any other before or since, and again in his current life as a role model and business motivator.

On July 4th, 2006, after a row with his younger son Jarrel, he started attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. He knew everyone knew who he was. “Hi, I’m Ray Leonard,” he said. “Your first name is enough,” insisted the moderator. “OK, I’m Ray,” he replied, cueing much mirth. He has stayed dry ever since.

Then there was the angel with the lightning-fast hands who was revered, along with Robinson and perhaps Joe Louis, as one of the very few boxers to have come close to matching Muhammad Ali for skill, charisma and massmarket appeal. Sometimes he would float and glide, as he did so famously in his WBC welterweight title rematch with Roberto Duran in November, 1980, in New Orleans. “No Mas,” Duran grunted as he turned his back towards the end of the eighth round, embarrassed at being rendered impotent by his opponent’s sublime skills and quicksilver speed. But four months previously in Montreal, it was a quite different Leonard who was bamboozled into submission by the Panamanian “pocket rocket,” a Leonard who for some unfathomable reason had decided he wanted to stand toe to toe with the sport’s ultimate street-fighter and slug it out.

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And when it came to making decisions to retire from the sport, Leonard could have taken a Masters degree in schizophrenia. According to my calculations, he officially retired five times from boxing, and regretted the decision each time within minutes of making the announcement— even the last one when he was well into his forties. It’s wellknown within the sport that tax breaks can be achieved if a boxer delays announcing his retirement, but the financial benefits from serial, premature and impermanent announcements are yet to be unearthed.

However, a glance at Leonard’s CV reveals how many really huge box-office contests he was involved in. Perhaps all those retirement decisions were a ploy to generate headlines and boost ticket sales for the next “Fight of the Century” with the likes of Thomas Hearns or Marvin Hagler. From Wilfred Benitez, who he relieved of the WBC world welterweight title at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in November, 1979, to ascend to the game’s top table, to the depressing nadir of his fifth-round knock-out by another Puerto Rican, Hector Camacho, in an IBC world middleweight match-up in Atlantic City in March, 1997, the cash registers certainly kerchinged during the Sweet One’s honeysuckled career.

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ow, much mellowed and aged 56, he’s a media darling who interviews sportsmen with not even the faintest chance of matching his achievements with the self-effacing charm of a human being in a true state of karma. It all started with a 7-Up advertisement he did with his son, Ray Jr., along with Duran and his son, Roberto Jr., in the early 1980s— believe it or not, despite the arrogance which he was often perceived as exuding by the media, he struck up close friendships with all his high-profile opponents.

He was an analyst for HBO for more than a decade until 1990 when the channel was barred from bidding for the rights of his forthcoming WBC light-middleweight title fight with Terry Norris in Madison Square Garden.

Somehow, the statement put out by his attorney and loyal friend Mike Trainer—“There has never been a linkage between his broadcasting and his fighting”— made little sense then, and even less now.

After all, why else would HBO have hired him in the first place? Nonetheless, since then he has worked for, and been welcomed by, all the heavyweights—ABC, CBS, NBC and ESPN—and has become one of the country’s most popular communicators.

Leonard is also among the most sought-after motivational/inspirational speakers in the world and his speech, entitled “Power” (Prepare, Overcome and Win Every Round), is consistently booked with major Fortune 500 companies throughout the U.S. and abroad.

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In recent times, he has appeared as an actor in numerous TV shows and even a few feature films, most recently, in 2010, The Fighter, starring Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. He was the mastermind behind the reality boxing show The Contender, and last year’s Dancing with the Stars appearance was an inevitable, unsurprising extension of the direction in which his media image was projecting.

What wasn’t so predictable was the candor with which he addressed his lifelong personal problems in his compelling autobiography, Sugar Ray Leonard–The Big Fight, written with Michael Arkush and published last year. “My way was drinking and cocaine, which I did a lot,” Leonard said about his downtime while boxing was still his day job. “Even a lot is not the right word to describe how much I consumed.” Indeed, it was reported Leonard would spend $250,000 a year on cocaine which he quaintly described as his “medicine.” He even tells of being sexually abused by a coach during his days as a young amateur struggling to carve out a future for himself from the back streets of Washington, D.C., an experience that has haunted him all his life and part of the reason, he feels now, why he descended into a vortex of alcohol and drugs.

“I couldn’t do it halfway,” Leonard told Arkush. “If I don’t reveal these things at some point it’s going to catch up with me and nail me. I knew all hell would break loose because it’s controversial, it’s crazy, it’s deep. But I had to say it, had to get it off my chest. I’ve suppressed this for over 30 years now.”

One morning in Las Vegas, at the height of his powers, he woke up with $35,000 in jewelry and cash stolen, yet he pleaded with hotel security not to file a police report so his wife wouldn’t find out. “I wanted instant gratification,” Leonard explained. “I knew I needed help, but after the next drink I didn’t need it.”

He gave up cocaine in the 1980s, while he was America’s most bankable sports star with many of his prime-time fights still in the pipeline, but ridding himself of his alcohol habit took two decades longer.

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Frank confessions from a household name are a tried and trusted way to sell a book, but Leonard doesn’t need the money. What he does need, though, is the therapeutic buzz of mea culpa, a feeling, if you will, of catharsis.

Holding his hands up, for instance, spilling the beans about the demons that haunted him throughout his upbringing and his life in the limelight, baring his soul to help facilitate a long, painful recovery.

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is first marriage to his high-school sweetheart Juanita ended predictably in divorce, but they spent almost 20 years battling to make a go of it. They were only in their mid-teens when Juanita became pregnant with Ray Jr., and put off their plans to marry until after the 1976 Olympics in Montreal where Leonard was the boxing tournament’s poster boy— in succession to such illustrious names as Ali (1960), Joe Frazier (1964), George Foreman (1968) and the recently deceased Teofilo Stevenson (1972). To be top dog in the U.S. line-up at that time was quite an achievement, especially as the Spinks brothers, Leon and Michael, Howard Davis and John Tate were among his team-mates.

On message, as ever, he delivered a gold medal in style, bludgeoning Andres Aldama of Cuba to a standstill in the final. Amid considerable fanfare, he duly turned pro and proceeded to tread a gilded, untroubled, almost preordained path to the apex of the fight game. Gone were the uncertainties and shyness of his youth—he only took to fighting as a way of combating the hardships of growing up in mixed-race, lower-class Palmer Park, a structure of one-story, concrete anonymity secreted in the bowels of the capital city and seat of government, the son of parents who would war all day and all night long in alcohol-fueled rage.

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LA, and have two children, Camille and Daniel Ray. Now, His professional career up to the Benitez fight was after a lifetime of fame and infamy, his biggest addiction on a unblemished, managed impeccably by central casting, but after day-to-day basis is golf. His local course is Riviera Country Club, collecting his first world crown it was clear he would need fresh home to a host of celebrities. “One of my best friends took up challenges, maybe at a higher weight, because few contenders golf back in 1991 and got me playing. He never really took it in the welterweight division could hold a candle to him. seriously, but I really did. It’s so therapeutic.

In truth, this was how it was for Leonard since his “I’ve been a member of Riviera now for more than high-school days. The turning point in his transition from 20 years. Michael Jordan proposed me when I’d only just boyhood to manhood, as it invariably is for any smaller guy started playing but somehow I got in. It was the best thing with a big heart, was an encounter with a bully, not long that could have happened to me, it was something to do to after he had started to box seriously. “The sport turned me get me away from all those hot dogs and hamburgers I was into a different person, afraid of no one. One day a bully, eating. I’m the only boxer at Riviera, even today. probably about 6ft 2in, threw me against a locker. I was “I’ve got my handicap down to 13 and I’ve always almost knocked out cold. The old me would have searched wondered how good I could have been if I’d taken it up at for any peaceful way to end the mismatch. The new me fired a younger age. It’s remarkable how many similarities there off a succession of left hooks, missing wildly. The bully began are between golf and boxing—the moment of impact, the to laugh yet each hook kept coming closer till one put his need for timing, keeping your head still.” butt on the ground. The guys surrounding us, who expected After some initial hiccups, fighting came easy to see me getting whipped, were speechless. For the rest of to Leonard. Golf is harder for him, but he works on his the afternoon, I strutted around the school as ‘the man.’” game with the same determination as when he was Experiences such as this clearly stood him in good stead during his gradual yet epic dominance of perhaps the most fertile period in the history of boxing, certainly in terms of a concentration of talents from the same generation. Three times he fought Duran (two wins, one loss).

Twice he fought Hearns (one win and a highly controversial draw at Caesars Palace). And once he fought Hagler (an even more controversial split decision in his favor at Caesars Palace).

These were the contests that shaped an era, not just for boxing but for sport as a whole, at a time when the power of television as a medium Leonard is now contentedly married to his second wife Bernadette was reaching maturity. training under the watchful eye of Angelo Dundee four decades ago. When he trained, he trained hard. When he eonard, who remains fought, he fought hard. In between, he partied hard. Now, financially secure thanks to he golfs hard. the vast fortunes he earned And as a result of his aforementioned autobiography, in the ring and despite his he has certainly got a weight off his chest. “My story is not erstwhile habits, is reaching a sad story,” he says. “I had wanted to tell my real story maturity at last. The boyish for many years but something got in the way. Mostly it was looks might contradict this me. Before I could place my life in any kind of perspective impression, and there is I needed to understand it myself. always a twinkle in his eye. But he is now settled and “I had an illustrious boxing career, wonderful wives, contented in the company of his second wife Bernadette, marvelous family. I’m a much better father second time round, to whom he was introduced in 1989 by saxophonist Kenny and I’m fixing myself. I can finally put my guard down now.”

G at a Luther Vandross concert. They were married at The grin flashed up and suddenly he looked even younger. his home at Pacific Palisades, on the Hollywood side of

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The transformation of the [British] Open from a colonial relic into a modern sports event of global significance was largely the achievement of one man— Arnold Palmer. He was the “Pied Piper” who whistled up the other leading American players to cross the Atlantic, and he twice showed his countrymen how to win the world’s oldest golf championship. Paul Trow recalls a phenomenal performance at Troon exactly half a century ago

When Arnold Palmer made his [British] Open debut in 1960 at St Andrews, amid considerable fanfare as this was the centenary edition of the world’s oldest golf championship, the “off message” Australian Kel Nagle beat him by a stroke.

The 1962 Open at Troon, a dour, forbidding links hard by the Firth of Clyde on the western coast of Scotland, witnessed something of a role-reversal, with Palmer finishing first (for his sixth Major win) and the “on message” Nagle second.

This time, though, it wasn’t remotely close, and the real threat to Palmer’s supremacy turned out to be not the giant dunes, dense bushes and tangled whin grasses that menacingly frame every fairway at Troon, nor the constant whine of jet planes landing less than two miles away at Prestwick International Airport. Rather it was an unruly gallery that swarmed across the course in ever-increasing numbers on the final day when 36 holes were played.

Palmer, who earlier in the year had won The Masters and come up just short in the U.S. Open at Oakmont following a playoff with Jack Nicklaus, led Nagle by five going into the final round, and finished with a six-stroke victory. To underline the extent of the King’s superiority that week, Nagle finished a further seven shots ahead of the third-placed golfers, colorful American Phil Rodgers and combative Welshman Brian Huggett.

It was Palmer’s second straight win in the game’s oldest championship, following his success at Royal Birkdale the previous year, and his popularity with the spectators that week was such that the R&A were forced to introduce stricter crowd control measures at subsequent Opens. The roping-off of fairways and the fencing of course boundaries began a year later at Royal Lytham & St Annes, mainly because of the volume and physicality of support that Palmer had attracted at Troon.

It had been a long time since British golf fans got so worked up about their Open. Occasionally during the relatively recent past there had been exciting individual invaders from the U.S.—most notably Ben Hogan, who won in 1953, and Sam

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Snead, the 1946 winner. But the field at Troon in 1962 was the best in terms of foreign players since the days when Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen and their contemporaries routinely made The Open an annual pilgrimage. “Truly the world championship of golf,” spouted one British newspaper with undisguised pride, and relief.

A good many of the visiting players felt, however, that they were competing on uneven terms. How, they asked, can you ever make a decent score with the wind tearing across the links and the fairways impossibly hard?

To this day, Troon, which became Royal Troon in 1978, the year of its centenary, is a strange course by American standards. The first six holes, which run alongside the Firth of Clyde, are flat and bordered by long, tough grass. But then the course, lengthened to 7,045 yards for the 1962 Open, turns inland over hilly dunes. The fairways were narrow, blotted with deep bunkers that look like moon craters and burned brown that year by a rare Scottish drought. On some parts of the course, indeed, it was possible to get a better lie in the rough than on the fairway. But in other places the rough was full of prickly bushes and spiny broom.

Many of the shots that had to be hit through or around these dangers were totally blind—for example, the second shot on the 9th was over a hump to an unseen green nestling on the edge of a trailer camp and the drive on the 10th had to be aimed over enormous dunes and between the towering poles supporting the approach lights to one of the airport’s runways. Then there was the distraction of the noise from the commuter trains on the 11th.

Gary Player had said earlier in the week that the last nine holes were “the most difficult in the world when the wind is blowing.” Later in the week the wind didn’t blow, but Player still couldn’t handle them. “There’s so much luck involved,” the 1961 U.S. Open champion Gene Littler, who ultimately missed the cut, observed one morning before starting a round.

“You can watch two perfect drives go right down the middle of the fairway, and one will bounce into the rough, while the other will kick straight ahead and roll 50 yards.”

This sounds unfair, but the traditional British view is that a golf course should test a man’s fortune as well as his fortitude, and that over 72 holes the bad bounces and the good ones will even out amongst the players. Certainly, anyone who lets a bad bounce get them down is done for.

But seemingly well-struck approach shots that ended up in trouble bothered the visitors even more than the stray bounces. As can be the case on many British courses, the greens at Troon were hard and American pros, who were used to hitting their iron shots dead to the pin and watching them dig in and spin back to within a few feet, had trouble in adapting to the British technique of hitting short and letting the ball roll to the hole. In addition, it was almost impossible for American pros to impart their beloved backspin to the smaller ball that British golfers played as standard at the time (only 1.62 inches in diameter compared to the 1.68-inch version in the U.S.), even off the tight, sparse Troon fairways.

Just before he was due to tee off for the first qualifying round on the Monday, Palmer sneezed. He thought nothing of it at the time, but a short while later he felt sharp twinges in

Winnie performed her second good deed of the week when she told her husband she thought he was moving his head as he putted

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Boistrous galleries at Troon in 1962 led the R&A to rope off the fairways and fence in course boundaries.

Both Palmer and Nagle (below left) had last-day problems

his hip and acute pains down his left leg. His stomach also was upset. The pains in his back and leg persisted as he played, and he went around the windswept links in an unimpressive 76.

Following a massage that night and the next morning from his wife, Winnie, Palmer kept himself wrapped in long underwear and returned to form with a 67 in the final qualifying round on the shorter, less demanding Lochgreen course. “It hurts,” he said, “but I don’t think it’s anything more than a little cold in my back.”

Winnie said: “I keep rubbing his back every day and it seems to feel better, but the pain comes back each time he sneezes. I think there’s some pollen in the air that keeps making him sneeze.”

On Tuesday night, as the qualifying rounds ended, there began seven blessed hours of rain that slightly softened Troon, and suppressed the pollen. Wednesday dawned warm and clear, the kind of day to give fresh heart to a man with an aching back.

It was obvious, as Palmer shot a first-round 71 that day and followed it up on Thursday with a 69 to lead Nagle by two strokes—with the rest nowhere, by the way—that he had met the physical challenge of his ailments and overcome them.

Yet at the halfway stage, he was still frustrated by his performance on the greens (echoes of the U.S. Open at Oakmont the previous month where his propensity for three-putting without question cost him the title). Winnie then performed her second good deed of the week when she told her husband she thought he was moving his head as he putted. He worked on the tip overnight and the result was nine one-putts in a course-record-breaking third round of 67 on the Friday morning.

But this tour de force of a Friday morning round didn’t start as planned. Nagle birdied the first two holes to pull level and on the 4th Palmer drove into a deep fairway bunker to fall one behind. Palmer tugged sternly at his white sweater, walked briskly to the 5th, a 210-yard par-3,

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and arrowed a fine long-iron shot 12 feet from the cup.

After curling in that birdie putt, he birdied the 6th too and still led by one stroke through 10.

Measuring 485 yards, the par-5 11th required a carry of around 200 yards over a sea of gorse and heather from an elevated tee to an angled fairway that was scarcely 30 yards wide and full of dispiriting humps and valleys.

On each side of the fairway was an abundance of whin, and along the entire right side lay a four-foot stone wall separating the course from the railway line. “The most dangerous hole I have ever seen,” Palmer concluded.

For his three rounds to that point, including his first qualifying round, Palmer had conservatively used a 1-iron for accuracy off the tee here and had been rewarded with two eagles and a birdie. At this point, though, he chose to gamble. He drove with a spoon (3-wood) and found the left center of the fairway. He followed it with a 2-iron that was on the pin all the way and appeared to run right up alongside the hole. Nagle at this moment hit one of his few really poor shots of the week, slicing a spoon into an apparently unplayable lie in the long grass next to the wall.

The fortunes of golf are such, however, that when Palmer arrived at his ball he found it had overrun the green and hidden itself in some long grass on the far side.

Nagle, on the other hand, discovered he could extricate his ball. He played an excellent recovery shot to the green and salvaged what had at first seemed an impossible par.

Palmer was forced to play his chip cautiously out of the long grass, took two putts to get down and gained nothing for his attacking approach. Going down the 12th fairway, he released an enormous sigh and said: “The two best shots of my life, and the ball is covered with grass.”

But he didn’t allow the disappointment to discourage him and he got down in two from a deep bunker in par at the 12th, then birdied 13, 15, 16 and 17 to finish with a five-shot lead over Nagle.

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By the 11th hole in the final round that afternoon, Palmer had galloped 10 strokes clear and one of the wildest galleries in golf history was joyously stampeding with him.

The day was the start of a Glasgow holiday and more than 15,000 Scots were swarming over the course, many having thriftily worked their way along the Firth beach and onto the course without paying for admission. “Please stay still— please,” Palmer begged the fans on one hole. “Please be quiet,” requested Nagle on another as Palmer lined up a putt.

Palmer had to fight his way through this mob on each fairway to reach his ball and it took a phalanx of policemen to usher him through to the 18th green, where the throng had already broken a clubhouse window. When Palmer finally made it, he staggered and stumbled in mock exhaustion, restoring some good humor to a crowd that had seemed on the verge of riot. He sank his birdie putt to finish with a six-stroke margin of victory over Nagle, the biggest in the championship since 1929.

“I’ve never played four rounds of golf like these in my whole life,” said Palmer. “Also, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced any crowds like this one today. We had to wrestle with them the whole way.”

Certainly, Palmer’s four rounds—71-69-67-69 for a total of 276 (the R&A didn’t declare a par for Open courses in those days)—were among the best of his career and were predominantly achieved due to a mastery of the 1-iron tee shot into the heart of hogsback fairways as firm as an aircraft carrier’s deck. He also tied Hogan’s (then) low score in a major, in the 1948 U.S. Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California.

Of the other prominent competitors: 50-year-old Snead, who only played in the Open five times, tied for sixth with Peter Thomson; Nicklaus tied for 34th, having carded a 10 at the 11th in the final round; and Player, uncharacteristically, missed the cut, although he won the PGA Championship the very next week at Aronimink.

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LEADING SCORES (GB & IRELAND UNLESS STATED) Arnold Palmer (USA) 7 1-69-67-69—276 Kel Nagle (Australia) 7 1 -7 1 -70 -70 — 2 8 2 Brian Huggett 7 5 - 7 1 - 74 - 6 9 — 2 8 9 Phil Rodgers (USA) 7 5 -7 0 -7 2 -7 2 — 2 8 9 Bob Charles (New Zealand) 75 -70 -70 -75 — 2 9 0 Sam Snead (USA) 76 -73 -72 -7 1 — 2 92 Peter Thomson (Australia) 7 0 -7 7-7 5 -7 0 — 2 9 2 Peter Alliss 7 7 - 6 9 -74 -7 3 — 2 9 3 Dave Thomas 7 7-70 -7 1 -75 — 2 93 Syd Scott 7 7-74 -7 5 - 6 8 — 2 9 4 Ralph Moffitt 7 5 -7 0 -74 -7 6 — 2 9 5 Jean Garaialde (France) 76 -73 -76 -7 1 — 2 9 6 Sebastian Miguel (Spain) 7 2 -7 9 -7 3 -7 2 — 2 9 6 Harry Weetman 7 5 -7 3 -7 3 -7 5 — 2 9 6 Ross Whitehead 74 -7 5 -7 2 -7 5 — 2 9 6 Roger Foreman 7 7-73 -72 -75 — 2 97 Bernard Hunt 74 - 7 5 - 7 5 - 7 3 — 2 9 7 Denis Hutchinson (South Africa) 7 8 -7 3 -7 6 -7 0 — 2 9 7 Jimmy Martin 73 -72 -76 -76 — 2 97 Christy O’Connor Sr. 74 - 7 8 - 7 3 - 7 2 — 2 9 7 John Panton 74 - 7 3 - 7 9 - 7 1 — 2 9 7 Tony Coop 7 6 -7 5 -7 5 -7 2 — 2 9 8 Donald Swaelens (Belgium) 7 2 -7 9 -74 -74 — 2 9 9 Brian Bamford 7 7-7 3 -74 -7 6 — 3 0 0 Lionel Platts 7 6 -7 5 -7 8 -7 1 — 3 0 0 Guy Wolstenholme 7 8 -74 -7 6 -7 2 — 3 0 0 Hugh Boyle 7 3 - 7 8 - 74 - 7 6 — 3 0 1 Keith MacDonald 69 -7 7-76 -79 —3 0 1 George Low 7 7-75 -7 7-73 —3 02 Harry Bradshaw 72 -75 - 8 1 -75 —3 03 Harold Henning (South Africa) 74 -7 3 -7 9 -7 7 — 3 0 3 Jimmy Hitchcock 7 8 -74 -7 2 -7 9 — 3 0 3 Doug Beattie 7 2 -7 5 -7 9 -7 8 — 3 0 4 Eric Brown 74 -7 8 -7 9 -74 — 3 0 5 Jack Nicklaus (USA) 8 0 -7 2 -74 -7 9 — 3 0 5

At the time, Palmer was as popular as any golfer who had ever played the game, before or since, but, strangely, he never finished higher than seventh in The Open after this, and he won just one more Major—the 1964 Masters.

But in 1962, if a foreigner had to take away their Open title once again, the British public were more than delighted it should be Palmer.

The respect and admiration he received in the local press after this processional triumph was universal. Yet 50 years on, through the prism of two generations of time, it still seems best expressed by the words of Pat Ward-Thomas, the golf correspondent of the Guardian newspaper… “If one adds to [his] technical ability an active enquiring mind, that rare blend of immense self-confidence and true modesty, the ability to acquire concentration through a relaxed approach, and a truly formidable desire to win that is never outwardly aggressive, here is a remarkable man. For all the sum of his achievements in titles and money, Palmer remains a delightful, friendly human being who commands respect and affection.”

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a l i v e The opening part of the round is over, you’re loosened up and the fun’s about to begin. Traditionally, the 5th hole features in one of the harder parts of a course—a cluster of four holes, say, when serious questions are asked about a golfer’s ability, nerve and concentration. A steady start often leads to a false sense of security and every architect worth their salt knows this is the time to display a ruthless streak and ruffle some feathers. In the latest installment of our ongoing series, Kingdom selects 18 of the world’s best 5th holes and explains the nuances of the unique challenge each presents

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Hole No.2

Merion’s East Course, the 2013 U.S. Open venue, has played host to more USGA championships (17) than any other course and showcased some of the game’s greatest moments, including Bobby Jones’ Grand Slam victory at the 1930 U.S. Amateur and Ben Hogan’s legendary long-iron shot to the 72nd hole in the 1950 U.S. Open.

Largely faithful to Hugh Wilson’s original 1912 design with its fast, sculpted greens, narrow, rolling fairways, thick rough and treacherous bunkers, Merion is proof positive that a course need not be slavishly lengthened to continue to present a worthy challenge. The 5th, a gentle rightto-left dogleg, falls towards the creek that runs down the entire left side of the hole from tee to green. The temptation is to drive up the right side, avoiding a large bunker on the right corner, but this leaves an awkward approach to a right-to-left sloping green guarded front right and at the back by yet more sand.

The Boulders Club, some 30 miles northeast of Phoenix, is an oasis of tranquility set in a desert landscape dotted with precariously-balanced granite boulder formations dating back 12 million years. The question posed on the 5th tee of the South Course, designed by Jay Morrish in the mid-1990s, is whether or not to attack the hole. A dry creek bed splits a snaking fairway at around 200 yards, necessitating a long carry to a narrow target to set up a shot to the green. The landing strip short of the creek bed is reachable with a mid-iron, but it’s a long way back and that option is also fraught with danger because anything long, left or right will find the hazard anyway. Assuming you’re in range, the next problem is to thread your ball through an increasingly pinched fairway to find an elevated, two-tier green framed by boulders at the back and bunkers front left and right.

Par-4, 410 yards Merion (East), Ardmore, Pennsylvania

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Par-3, 178 yards Gleneagles (King’s), Perthshire, Scotland

The Nicklaus-designed PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles will stage the 2014 Ryder Cup, but it’s outshone by the original layout at this luxurious resort in the Scottish Highlands—the King’s Course, created by five-time [British] Open champion James Braid in 1919. This infuriating par-3’s pithy local name, Het Girdle, implies that just as oil slides off a hot plate so the imperfectly struck tee-shot will slip off its plateau putting surface. With five teeing areas, none pointing squarely toward the green, the distance can vary between 114 and 178 yards. After lining up correctly, the next task is to clear the four deep bunkers in front of and below a long, narrow green that has a pronounced upslope from front to back and bushes behind and to the sides. There’s no room for error—you either hit your target or roll off into trouble. The ideal finish is short of the pin for an uphill putt.

Hole No.4

Hole No.5

A thrilling view greets golfers as they take on the 5th at this cliff-top course on the northeast coast of Bermuda.

The tee on this treacherous but beautiful par-4 is perched 90 feet above Mangrove Lake, making the carry to the fairway appear much longer than it actually plays. The trick is knowing how much of the carry to bite off, though a metal-wood should leave a medium-iron into a long, awkwardly-shaped putting surface, guarded by an embankment to the left, which topples down toward a pair of bunkers, and a steep slope on the right, which either ricochets a slightly errant approach left into the center of the green or right into another deep trap. Designed in 1921

by Charles Blair Macdonald, a USGA founding father, this cape hole rewards those whose tee shots end closest to the lake because that delivers the flattest lie on the fairway and the best angle into the green.

Home to the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers since it was laid out by ‘Old’ Tom Morris in 1891, Muirfield on the east coast of Scotland will stage its 16th [British] Open Championship in 2013. Among the holes likely to be singled out for scrutiny are the three par-5s, all of which will yield numerous birdies but, by the same token, present plenty of opportunities for calamity. The tee shot at the 5th must be directed from a slight angle over a row of five bunkers lining the right side of the fairway. Anything steered too safely to the left can run out of fairway or into one of two more traps. Straight down the prevailing wind, the green is in easy reach, but the entrance is narrowed by bunkers left and right. In 1992, there were 21 eagles and 234 birdies here, but into a headwind five years earlier it gave up just one eagle and 84 birdies.

Par-4, 433 yards Mid Ocean, Tucker Town, Bermuda

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Par-5, 561 yards Muirfield, East Lothian, Scotland

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Hole No.6

Hole No.7

Of Pinehurst’s eight courses, its jewel in the crown is unquestionably No.2, Donald Ross’s masterpiece. Tommy Armour summed it up: “The man who doesn’t feel emotionally stirred when he plays golf at Pinehurst beneath those clear blue skies and with the pine fragrance in his nostrils is one who should be ruled out of golf for life.

It’s the kind of course that gets into the blood of an old trooper.” The 5th, a behemoth of a par-4, has boiled many a competitor’s blood. The apparently generous landing area from the tee is deceptive because anything not directed at the left side of the fairway will leave an implausible angle to the green. But the predominant feature of No.2’s raised greens is how difficult they are to hit and hold, even from the most pristine of lies. The putting surface at No.5, slick as ceramic and best described as an upside-down bowl, is no exception with nasty, curvaceous contours.

Known as Magnolia, this uphill, right-to-left dogleg par-4 is one of the more underrated, and seldom-viewed, holes at Augusta National, mainly because the TV cameras don’t often follow players at the Masters, even those in contention, between walking off the 4th green and reappearing on the 8th tee. The initial obstacle off a tee that’s been pushed back over the years is a pair of deep fairway bunkers on the left elbow of the dogleg. As the distance required to carry them is now 315 yards, it’s hardly surprising that few players take them on. The green is raised and slopes gently up from the front towards a ridge in the middle of the putting surface, but anyone flying beyond this crest will catch a downhill incline that channels their ball in the direction of a sunken rear bunker.

When the wind’s blowing it can cause all sorts of problems with the approach.

Par-4, 482 yards Pinehurst (No.2), North Carolina

Par-4, 455 yards Augusta National, Georgia

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Par-3, 185 yards Kiawah Island (Ocean), South Carolina

Pete Dye’s rugged coastline masterpiece made its entrance back in 1991 when hosting the “War on the Shore” Ryder Cup match, and will find itself center stage again in August when the PGA Championship comes calling. At the first par-3 on the Ocean Course, players make a 180-degree turn and head west, back toward the ocean and often into a headwind. A sandy waste area runs from the tee to a steep face cutting into the middle of an hourglass-shaped green that runs away diagonally from front right to back left. Dye, who in effect created two greens in one—it’s 49 yards long with a three-club difference between pin placements—has stretched the bunker on the front left side of the putting surface so a flagstick back left is harder to get at. Meanwhile, the large hump across the green’s constricted waist makes it vital to land the ball on the same half as the pin.

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Par-4, 428 yards Bandon Dunes, Oregon

“From the moment I stepped out on these wild, wind-shaped sand dunes, I knew this would be the opportunity of a lifetime. The owner, Mike Keiser, wanted something authentic and true to the Scottish tradition. My reply was: ‘No real estate, no golf carts.’”

These words were spoken by Scotsman David McLay Kidd when the much-feted Bandon Dunes course he designed 100 feet above the Pacific Ocean in southern Oregon was opened in 1999. It is, indeed, a modern rarity because golfers must walk the course rather than rely on four-wheeled transportation. With high dunes and the ocean running down the left side of the 5th hole, the breathtaking scenery provides many visual distractions, but this is a serious golf hole requiring a steely focus. Ideally, the drive should hit the right half of a split fairway. As the hole generally plays into the prevailing wind, golfers often view it as a three-shotter rather than risk a big number.

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Par-4, 386 yards Oakmont Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Industrialist Henry (H.C.) Fownes bought some rolling farmland a few miles east of Pittsburgh in 1903 and one of the world’s greatest and toughest courses was the result of his only foray into golf design. Described by Sergio Garcia during the 2007 U.S. Open as a testing par-78, Oakmont, which has a strict championship par of 70, is revered for the severity of its 210 bunkers and slick, hard greens, not least by Arnold Palmer who has a deep relationship with the course, both from his playing days and also as a design consultant. Many players opt to thread a long-iron off the 5th tee because the bunker-flanked fairway gives way at 290 yards to broken ground crisscrossed by numerous ditches. Care must be taken with the approach as the green is surrounded by six bunkers and, though quite large for a hole of relatively modest length, features some of Oakmont’s severest contours.

Hole No.11

Hole No.12

Another course for walkers only, Bethpage Black is one of America’s leading public facilities though it only came to prominence a decade ago when it first staged the U.S. Open.

Owing to the amount of rain that descended on the course that week, the Black played exceptionally long and into the hands of Tiger Woods. The weather was again unsettled when the national championship returned in 2009, but conditions should be much more hospitable for the Barclays tournament in the FedExCup Playoffs in August. Laid out originally by A.W. Tillinghast in 1936, Bethpage Black was updated in 1997 by Rees Jones so it could assume its rightful place at the game’s top table. The 5th hole, a long par-4 by anyone’s definition, requires a blast from the tee that avoids the grotesque fingers of sand that lie in wait for anything straying right followed by a pinpoint long-iron to a green that appears choked by slopes and trees.

Described by Bernard Darwin as “a beast of a Course, but a just beast,” Lytham remains faithful to its original 1897 layout by the club’s first professional, George Lowe. Modifications two decades later by Harry Colt notwithstanding, the venue for this year’s [British] Open is still quite an anomaly—a links course without a single view of the sea that opens, unusually, with a long par-3. Lytham’s longest par-3 comes four holes later and requires an arrow-straight tee shot with a long-iron to avoid the bunkers surrounding the green.

Moreover, there’s a deceptive 40-yard stretch of dead ground in front of the green that makes the hole play longer than it appears. The narrow landing area falls away on both sides into deep traps from which competitors invariably struggle to escape. When the wind whips down this hole, stopping the ball is very difficult, though Jack Nicklaus holed-in-one here in 1979 with a sweetly-struck 5-iron.

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Par-4, 478 yards Bethpage Park (Black), Long Island, New York

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Par-3, 218 yards Royal Lytham & St. Annes, Lancashire, England

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Hole No.14

The initial 18 holes at the Millbrook resort in the Wakatipu Basin in southernmost New Zealand were laid out in 1993 by Sir Bob Charles, the country’s most famous golfer, against the backdrop of the gleaming-white ski slopes of the Remarkables mountain range. The par-5 5th, the longest hole on the course, doglegs from left to right and features two nasty bunkers alongside the right side of the fairway that pose a severe threat to any attempt at taking a short cut. Two large ponds, also down the right side, await any wayward second shots and it is also a far from simple task to hold the green. The sloping terrain immediately in front of the putting surface is designed to throw any approach that either is pulled or comes up slightly short sharply to the left whence it will invariably be gathered by the lengthy bunker that guards the whole of the left side of the green.

Home to the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second leg of the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Playoffs, the Arnold Palmerdesigned TPC Boston course threw up a popular winner last year in Wake Forest graduate Webb Simpson. The course, which opened in 2002 but looks much older due to its rustic appearance, has been crafted to fit seamlessly into the natural New England landscape. Lush fairways and bentgrass greens traverse gently rolling hills, while mature trees, chocolate-drop mounds, wetland areas, fescues and native grasses, not to mention nearly 100 bunkers, create a stunning backdrop for this superb test of golf. After a challenging, risk-reward type of start, TPC Boston starts to show its teeth on the 5th hole, a slight right-to-left dogleg. Drives must be long and accurate to avoid strategically placed bunkers right and left of the fairway and set up a mid-iron approach to a three-tiered green with trouble on both sides.

Par-5, 550 yards Millbrook, Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand

Par-4, 465 yards TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts

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Par-5, 532 yards Kapalua (Plantation), Maui, Hawaii

Home to the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, the PGA Tour’s season-opening event, the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort in northwest Maui is a veritable force of nature. Kapalua means “arms embracing the sea” and Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore’s 1989 layout, carved from a former pineapple plantation, appropriately sits on a promontory high above the Pacific Ocean. Typical of the dramatic views and elevation changes that characterize this brawny, sweeping, tradewind-whipped course is the 5th hole, known as “Cape.” Most ‘cape’ holes are par-4s, but the designers have stretched this challenge to an extra shot. “Cape” slopes left to right all the way to a green perched on a peninsula high above the gorge that borders the entire right side of the hole. A good drive creates the temptation, usually best resisted, to go for it in two. All approaches should be aimed at the left side of a green protected by bunkers to the right and rear.

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Par-3, 192 yards Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey, California

This beautiful par-3, sitting on bluffs with the Pacific Ocean to the right, is an indelible part of Pebble Beach’s near century-old history even though it only opened for play in 1999. In 1915, the Pacific Improvement Company asked Samuel F.B. Morse to liquidate its land holdings in Monterey County. Eager to impress his clients, Morse sold off a five-acre parcel overlooking Stillwater Cove, yet said at the time: “I’ll probably regret this.” Later that year, it was decided to build a golf course rather than private homes along the Del Monte Forest coastline. Morse tried to buy the property back but the owner declined, so the 5th hole was routed inland. In 1995, Pebble Beach Company re-acquired this long-missing oceanfront link and Jack Nicklaus was hired to create the originally-intended hole.

Ocean breezes affect club selection and the safest play is to the left-center of a lengthy, diagonally-shaped (front left to back right) green.

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Hole No.18

Five years after its design by John Bredemus and Perry Maxwell, Colonial was awarded the 1941 U.S. Open.

Founder Marvin Leonard only funded its creation to prove that bentgrass greens could thrive in the indigenous Texas heat and wind. Since 1946, Colonial has annually hosted a PGA Tour event, currently sponsored by Crowne Plaza. Nicknamed “Death Valley,” this is the most feared hole on the course where Ben Hogan made his ‘home.’

A long, left-to-right dogleg, the last of a three-hole run at the original “Hogan’s Alley” known as the “Horrible Horseshoe,” it’s almost always played in a strong left-toright wind. Therefore, the tee shot has to be struck with a controlled fade over the high oaks and lengthy ditch down the left, but anything too far right will fall foul of the river on the other side of the fairway. All that remains is a long narrow approach to an unpredictable green surrounded by traps and trees.

The Lake Course, venue for this year’s U.S. Open, was laid out by Willie Watson in 1924, though storm damage led to superintendent Sam Whiting redesigning it three years later. Robert Trent Jones, Sr. toughened it up before its first U.S. Open in 1955 and Bill Love made notable alterations before this year’s national championship, the fifth to be held at Olympic. The 5th—the mirror image of the previous hole—doglegs right and downhill to a fairway sloping left.

Despite being 40 yards longer than it was for the 1998 U.S. Open, the hole still requires a 3-wood or long-iron tee shot faded round a row of tall firs which line the right side. The approach should be short and left of any pin location on a subtly-bunkered green that slopes sharply from right to left and can be lightning fast from back to front. However, as with most greens at Olympic, it’s open in front.

Par-4, 470 yards Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas

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Par-4, 498 yards Olympic (Lake), San Francisco, California

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Love, As the 27th U.S. Ryder Cup captain, charged with bringing home the trophy that went missing in Wales two years ago, Davis Love III is well aware of the responsibility heaped upon his shoulders. But, as he tells Dave Shedloski, it’s also the ultimate honor in golf, especially for the son of a PGA professional

Davis Love III has played in six Ryder Cup matches for the United States, and he sank the winning putt in the 1993 tie at The Belfry, the last time America won on European soil. But as the captain of the 2012 U.S. team that hosts Europe this fall at Medinah Country Club near Chicago, Love admits that one of his most searing memories is one for which he holds much less fondness.

It was eight years ago in Detroit, at Oakland Hills Country Club, where Europe hung a nine-point defeat, 18½-9½ on the U.S., the worst shellacking America had ever suffered at home—and which would be repeated in ’06 at the K Club. Love really internalized that 2004 setback, but even more than that he has indicated why he should take responsibility for it. Every player who has ever

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competed in a Ryder Cup has known some disappointment, has lost a match perhaps he should have won. There’s nothing worse than the feeling of leaving points on the table.

Love knows this all too well.

“There were two at the same Ryder Cup in Detroit,” Love says in response to a question about the worst he felt in letting points slip away. “I felt like when we put Tiger [Woods] and Phil [Mickelson] out as a foursomes team Friday morning, and then [USA captain Hal Sutton] said, ‘All right, the second best team is Davis and Chad [Campbell].’ So on the 2nd hole, I missed the green with, like, a 7-iron or a 6-iron. It’s a par-5, and I put him in a bad place. We didn’t make a birdie but the other team did, and we got behind.

“So Tiger and Phil have fallen behind and now, Davis and Chad are down. I [should have] hit a 7-iron to 20 feet —for eagle perhaps, at least [to] make a birdie—so that shot cost us the Ryder Cup. That’s the way I look at it. If I hit it on the green, and we don’t go down [in the match], Chad gets some confidence, because he had never played before [in the Ryder Cup]. If I had got Chad some confidence on that second hole… well, then we would have rolled and that would have given Tiger and Phil some confidence.

Instead, it was, ‘Uh-oh, the guys behind us are getting beat.’

That’s just the way the Ryder Cup works. That one shot for me, if I could take back one shot in my career that would be the shot. Let me hit the green and see if it changes the whole day; and therefore, maybe, the whole week.”

That’s a lot for someone to put on his shoulders, but if there is a man who can handle it, who in fact has been carefully taught to assume such responsibilities without flinching or complaining, it’s Love, who learned at an early age what would be required of him as a golfer.

Love is the 27th U.S. Ryder Cup captain, but the first who holds the distinction of being both a former PGA champion and the son of a PGA professional. Winner of the 1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot, Love learned the game from his late father, Davis Love, Jr. He has used those skills to capture 20 PGA Tour titles, but what makes

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Love’s last win was at Walt Disney World Resort.

Perhaps his next will be at Medinah

him more proud is what he carried forward from his dad that went a long way towards earning his turn as captain.

“One of the nicest things said about me was at a Presidents Cup dinner [in 1994] where Arnold Palmer was talking with all of us players about upholding the traditions of the game, how you have to give something back, always remember the guys that have gone before you. It was a typically great Arnold speech about the responsibilities that come with reaching a certain level in your career,” Love recalls. “Then Arnold looks over at me and says, ‘Davis knows what I’m talking about.’

“Now, this is in a room with great players like Fred Couples and Tom Lehman, Steve Stricker, Phil Mickelson, David Duval, Justin Leonard… and that just hit me: ‘Wow, I’m one of these guys who is supposed to be responsible for upholding the traditions of the game.’ But my dad demanded that of me and expected that of me. I was the pro’s son, and I had to do everything better than everyone else. When we played, I was the kid who took his hat off after 18 holes and shook hands with the other kids. I appreciated who Byron Nelson was and who Arnold Palmer was and knew Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite personally and what they stood for. But my dad pointed that out to me and made me aware of those great players. From that aspect he would understand what being Ryder Cup captain is all about, how you have to do a lot of other things right, and I know he’d be proud of me for that perhaps more than for any win I’ve ever had.”

Love, 48, won his first PGA Tour title at the 1987 MCI Heritage Golf Classic, the year before his father died in a plane crash. He won his last—the Children’s Miracle Network Classic at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fl.—in 2008 after battling a series of injuries the previous few years. Injuries returned in 2012, and he was forced to withdraw from the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in March with a cracked rib that sidelined him for nearly two months.

A native of Charlotte, N.C. and a longtime resident of Sea Island, Ga., Love has understandably been frustrated by these seemingly continuous physical setbacks, particularly a chronic neck problem. With three finishes of 11th or better in his last six starts in Major championships, he was

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understandably dismayed by missing more playing time, even though his responsibilities as captain were increasing.

He wants to win the Ryder Cup, no question. He just wants to win, period, and he believes he still possesses the tools to do it in this modern era when power has become such a prominent weapon among the younger generation.

“I probably sound like some other guys, but I can honestly say that I can still see flashes of playing really well,” Love says with a grin. “What I need to do is get a little bit healthier and more confident. I know I can play one-to-two good rounds. I need to get to four. I have to figure that out. I still want to play, and I want to play some Champions Tour down the road, too. But I can still be relevant in any tournament I’m in right now. I’m still long enough to compete, which is really important. I just need to do things a little bit better.”

In his six Ryder Cup appearances as a player, Love participated in 26 matches. He won nine, lost 12 and halved five times. His record includes a 3-1-2 singles record, and he ranks 12th all-time in points scored for the U.S. with 11½. In his last match in the 2004 edition he halved his singles match against Darren Clarke.

Having so much experience as a player might serve as an advantage, except that his counterpart, Jose Maria Olazabal, has played 31 matches in seven appearances. It will be a splendid battle of wits. But the U.S. has the homefield advantage for this year’s 37th Ryder Cup, and Love hopes to exploit the natural challenges of Medinah’s No.3 Course—if he can.

“Medinah is a major-championship golf course, and you just set it up like a major championship,” he says. “If it

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were me [playing], I don’t like rough, but that might not be the best thing for the way to set this golf course up.

“So I don’t know if there’s a way for it to be an advantage one way or another. We both are going to have super-talented, long-hitting teams that make a lot of birdies. That’s kind of how I would lean; more the way the PGA Championship is set up rather than super-tough and impossible.”

Love says he will not be a captain who makes a lot of speeches. He’ll take a cue from his good friend Fred Couples, who twice has been a winning captain of U.S. Presidents Cup team. “Fred will be involved somehow,” says Love, who had not yet chosen his assistant captains by the time this story was filed. “He’s 2-0 as a captain and he obviously has a way of getting his teams to relax and play well, and I need to tap into that.”

He’ll also look for inspiration from past Ryder Cup leaders.

“I thought every captain I played for had his own style and did a great job in his own way,” Love says. “Lanny [Wadkins] was more intimidating. I got emotional playing for Ben [Crenshaw] because I thought I was also playing for Harvey [Penick, Crenshaw’s longtime instructor]. What I did learn from all of them is that I don’t want one guy not knowing what I’m thinking. I don’t want one guy trying too hard. I know I did that, I tried way too hard for Tom Kite, and I played so poorly… and that was the year I won the PGA. Tom Watson, that was my first one, and he sat us down a few times and just offered a few lines. When we were getting ready to get on the Concorde, he said, ‘Guys, we’re going on an adventure.’ He thought it was going to be cool, and that it was an experience we should savor, and that made me and everyone else excited about what we were doing. It is a special experience, from start to finish.”

Love knows that getting his team prepared and making the pairings are perhaps his most important tasks

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as captain. But there are challenges, big and small, during his two-year stint. “The other day, I asked Hunter Mahan a white-pants question,” Love says with a laugh. “Things that don’t really register to most people, we have to make decisions about. Fabric on shirts, for example. Do you like a banded sleeve? Do you like a white belt? I want to make sure we’re on the same page on things. Things that don’t seem to matter to the general public, little things, I want to make sure that it’s all taken care of.”

Of course, there is one other important job for Love, and that comes before the week of the matches: making his four captain’s picks to fill out his 12-man squad. “It’s going to be tough. You’re going to have a lot of good, young guys, which is nice. But as I get to know these guys better, it’s going to be tough for me to pick four and tell other guys that they didn’t make it.”

At the end of the day, though—or in this case, at the end of a long two years—it’s about winning back the Ryder Cup, which Europe reclaimed two years ago in Wales. But the words of Watson ring in his ears. And also the words of his late father and Penick, who would have wanted him to “take dead aim” at the target, but also try to enjoy the ride, too.

“When I’m working on some aspect of the Ryder Cup, there’s a level of shock sometimes, actually, because it’s still so hard to believe. It is such an honor,” Love says. “It’s not something that you can win. It’s something bestowed upon you for the way you conducted yourself as well as the way you played. To me it’s probably a bigger honor even than being in the Hall of Fame. You can play your way into the Hall of Fame. You can’t necessarily play your way into being the Ryder Cup captain. As the son of a PGA pro, to have won the PGA Championship and to be the Ryder Cup captain… I feel incredibly fortunate.

“No matter what happens, I’m going to savor the whole experience. Of course, it would be better if we win.”

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Love (second right, middle row) was a Ryder Cup rookie when Team USA won at The Belfry in 1993

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Living large Of the iconic brands that define our world, few so immediately inspire a sense of respect as Rolls-Royce. The very mention of the premiere name in motoring has men sitting up a bit straighter, standing a bit taller, and adjusting themselves as if they had somewhere important to be. And if one does, in fact, have somewhere to get to, one could hardly do better than arriving in the new Phantom Series II, an epic manifestation of the supreme quality that is Rolls-Royce

The new Phantom Series II II,, a subtle if significant update to the vehicle we first saw nearly ten years ago, hasn’t changed so much as to be mistaken for anything but a Rolls-Royce. It is unmistakably awe-inspiring, unmistakably luxurious and unmistakably a member of motoring’s royal family. It fits within the brand’s long-established design proportions and features all of the trademark bits we’ve come to expect: the formidable stance, large wheels with the constantly upright “RR” logo and, of course, Charles Robinson Sykes’ Spirit of Ecstasy in all of her billowing glory, face pushed proudly into the wind, pointing the way forward from her spot atop the massive grille.

Because I think it’s a fun feature, the first thing I looked for when I climbed inside the new Phantom—in the front seats, which many Rolls-Royce owners may never visit—was the switch to raise and lower “Emily,” as she’s sometimes called (also “Flying Lady” and “Silver Lady”).

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On past models, the hood ornament could be hidden (or revealed) via an option hidden within the vehicle’s “infotainment” system, which also managed climate, audio, navigation and other functions. The control center still manages all of those functions, but on the Phantom Emily is raised and lowered with a button hidden inside the upper glove box, which on our test model also featured a luxuruious built-in cigar case. After happily watching her disappear and reappear a few times, I used the multipoint seat-adjust system to get comfy (not difficult in a Rolls-Royce) and pushed the large button on the dash to fire up the mighty V12 engine. I was expecting a roar but instead I barely heard a thing; the Phantom is incredibly quiet. Putting the car into gear is as simple as lightly adjusting the shifter on the steering column. I did just that and nudged the prow—I mean “the nose”—of the Phantom into traffic.

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P l U s H i n n o VaT i o n If one can get past the initial sense of awe at the Phantom’s sheer size (which is fairly massive for a car at just over 19 feet long, 6.5 feet wide and 5.4 feet high), the updated Rolls-Royce proves that sometimes bigger is indeed better.

Starting from the front bumper, which has had a slight redesign, there’s a new directional LED headlight system that turns when you do, illuminating your way around corners. The directional aspect isn’t exactly new (something similar appeared on the 1948 Tucker and has reappeared on other cars more recently) but the Phantom’s entire LED cluster’s intensity and coverage area adjusts for vehicle speed and for weather, making it one of the most sophisticated systems going.

I didn’t need the lights during my daytime trip, but I made ample use of the navigation system, which is better than most. Displayed on a large 8.8” screen (which rolls back into the dash to hide when one tires of the electronics) and controlled, like all of the functions on the infotainment system, by a large wheel and button assembly that hides in the center armrest, the system is both easy to program and easy to follow. Additionally, it offers 3D topographic maps, which are great to look at along with being useful. It took no time at all to enter my intended destination, and with just a few adjustments I was on my way.

I should mention that heating and cooling are also controllable via the computer system, though Rolls-Royce also left the standard analog controls, an inclusion for which we’re thankful (no sense navigating numerous menus when one simply wants to cool down a bit).

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a 360-degree “top down” view when navigating the car in reverse. The infotainment system and Rotary knob also control numerous smartphone options, points of vehicle information, the DVD player (please watch movies only when parked somewhere, unless you’re in the back seat) and the music. The last sounds incredible, as one would expect in a spacious interior with a top quality surround sound audio system.

It almost goes without writing that the interior is awash in the highest quality leather, fabrics and wood (grain-matched across the dash), that the control layout is intelligent and ergonomic, and that spending time in the Phantom Series II is nicer than spending time in most of my friends’ apartments. The plush floor mats alone invite you to kick off your shoes and relax, and with the sophisticated entertainment system, available two-bottle wine fridge under the rear seat, RR logo glasses and carafes in the door and storage for whatever elixir tickles your palate, you might think it would be tough to find a reason to ever make the car move—but of course there’s that gorgeous engine under the hood, and so a drive is absolutely worthwhile.

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Pe r f o r m a n ce If the interior of the Phantom is lush, the car’s performance provides the majesty to match. A new eight-speed gearbox serenely handles power distribution from the triedand-true direct-injection Rolls-Royce V12, which makes approximately 453 hp and 531 lb-ft of torque, driving the 5,644-lb monster (curb weight) from zero to 60mph in 5.7 seconds—that’s within a tenth of a second of BMW’s base-level Z4, a two-seat sports roadster that’s half the weight of the Phantom. In a burst of what I have to believe was a bit of playfulness, Rolls-Royce’s team included a Power in Reserve gauge next to the speedo. At 70mph, the company claims that more than 90 percent of the engine’s power is still available in reserve, and watching the needle kick as you put down the accelerator from speed is great fun indeed. Thanks in part to the new transmission, that speed is achieved in a composed (and substantial) power curve that excites without offending; there’s the thrill of acceleration, but it’s not jarring. Rolls-Royce says you’ll feel like you’re in an infinite first gear, and they’re not wrong.

Eight speeds also means slightly better fuel economy, which may or may not be important to customers who park the base-price $398,035 jewel in their garages (somewhat more as tested).

I’ve driven Rolls-Royces before (most recently, the excellent Ghost) and their “magic carpet ride” experience, as the company has it, always baffles me, offering inspired handling for the driver while remaining beyond comfortable for his precious cargo. The sophisticated air suspension adjusts quickly, making the ride stiff enough to allow enthusiastic attacks on corners but plush enough to avoid upsetting the glasses of champagne being clinked by rear-seat passengers. Ditto the huge brakes, which bring the formidable auto to a stop in a dignified manner. Magic carpet ride indeed, and as thrilling as anything Aladdin ever took for a spin.

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f inal i mPression There are the umbrellas in the rear “coach” doors, as RR calls them (convention prefers a more dire adjective), a trunk you could use to sneak a whole football team into a drive-in movie, plenty of storage for all of her ladyship’s luggage and enough rear-seat legroom and amenities to keep passengers comfortable and entertained on an around-the-world trip, much less a drive across town.

There are few better ways to view the world than from the back seat of a Rolls-Royce, but the new Phantom Series II gives the people in the back reason enough to give the chauffeur a day off, climb up front and grab the wheel themselves. More than “just” a beautiful expression of refined, luxury motoring, the new Phantom is also something unexpected: it’s an awful lot of fun to drive.

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Robert A. Taft leaving the U.S Capitol. His grandson, John Taft, continues his family’s legacy of service with his leadership at RBC

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In his book, Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street (Wiley, 2012), CEO of RBC Wealth Management–U.S. John Taft examines the financial turmoil of the last few years and considers how financial leaders have lost their way. More than just calling for a renewed approach to the classic themes of care-taking and responsibility—for investors, their communities and the world at large—Taft leads by example at RBC, a firm that has largely exemplified the best qualities of the values advocated in the book. Here, we’ve excerpted bits of chapter three (Stewardship Defined: Feeding Your Flock First) and chapter eight (Environment, Social, and Governance Investing: Could It Be the Answer?) from Stewardship, published

by J. Wiley & Sons. We hope you enjoy them, and we encourage you to read the whole text, available online and at fine bookstores everywhere.

r d S h i p Stewardship Defined: Feeding Your Flock First The word Stewardship means something different to almost everyone who uses it. As a practical matter, today the term is most frequently and loosely used to provide a justification for annual fundraising appeals. Those who invoke it often point to its Judeo-Christian origins. [In verses like Psalm 24:1: “To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.”]

Yet Stewardship also has a very secular definition. “Stewardship is to hold something in trust for another,” writes author Peter Block. “Historically, Stewardship was a means to protect a kingdom while those rightfully in charge were away.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Stewardship as “the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.”

All of these definitions capture a part of, but ultimately fall short of, the central quality that makes Stewardship a core principle robust enough to power and undergird our financial system.

As Al Watts writes in Navigating Integrity: “We commonly think of stewardship as a caretaking role for resources or affairs entrusted to us…

However, if we have the ‘whole picture’ in mind, accountability requires adopting a broader perspective on our stewardship role.”

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ultimate purpose of organizations and of our communities—is to serve others.

“Stewardship,” writes Peter Block, “is the choice for service.”

Mission Impossible An essential prerequisite to the ability to serve others is the ability to subordinate self-interest. Failing that, you must at least be able to set self-interest alongside and balance your interests with the needs of others. “[S]ervice is a moral activity, subordinating self to what is beyond the self,” writes Stephen Young, global executive director of the Caux Round Table. Expecting financial services executives and their firms to abide by a purely other-oriented virtue alone is probably nothing short of a mission impossible.

As Young puts it, “When virtue speaks to us, its voice may be too soft for us to hear.” But, “where virtue is supported by claims of interest, our resolve grows stronger to achieve what both virtue and interest jointly propose.”

Young describes what he calls “the zone of overlap” between virtue and self-interest. “The more we take into account the needs of others when seeking to meet our own needs, the larger the overlap between our selfinterest and virtue.”

Young also appropriates from Thomas Reid, the phrase “self-interest considered upon the whole.” Reid was a Scotsman who succeeded Adam Smith to chair of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1776.

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“Self-interest considered upon the whole” is the best phrase I have found to describe a real world formulation for the kind of Stewardship principle that should undergird and power the financial services industry. It echoes the admonition I received from Larry Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council for President Barack Obama, in the midst of congressional debate about financial regulatory reform: “You people,” he said, speaking to a group of financial services executives, “have got to demonstrate that you are willing and able to operate your businesses with one eye on what’s good for the country.”

In this context, Stewardship means accepting accountability for the impact of one’s own actions, the impact of the organization one is leading, and the impact of the industry one belongs to, on the larger community.

Stewardship is also closely aligned with the concept of fiduciary duty, which is another term that gets bandied about without a clear or consistent understanding of what it exactly means. As is the case with Stewardship, a fiduciary mindset requires a sense of obligation to others.

Writes Stephen Young in his book Moral Capitalism, “Fiduciary obligations flow from a principle within the moral sense that sensitizes us to the use of power when others come into view.” Young goes on to suggest that a sense of moral responsibility is a common characteristic of “stewardship, of agency, of fiduciary undertaking,” as is “a vision of mutuality, of service, of both self and others.”

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Purposefulness Purposefulness. Humility. Accountability.

Foresight. Integrity. These are not the words that come to mind when we think back on the behaviors of leaders of some of our largest financial institutions during 2008 and 2009. One need only read Charley Ellis’s description of which “certain factors” are “important in any great firm” to see how far the Goldman Sachs of Senator Levin’s hearing had strayed from its one-time Stewardship values. Ellis wrote about these factors in his book The Partnership, written just before the onset of the financial crisis: “[C]ertain factors are important in every great firm: long-serving and devoted ‘servant leaders’; meritocracy in compensation and authority; disproportionate devotion to client service; distinctively high professional and ethical standards; a strong culture that always reinforces professional standards of excellence; and long-term values, policies, concepts and behavior consistently trumping near-term ‘opportunities.’”

The obvious question is whether it was possible for a Stewardship ethic to prevail among our leading financial institutions in the years leading up to and during the financial crisis. Another critical question is: Would things have turned out differently if a Stewardship ethic had prevailed?

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Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing Reconnecting leaders of our financial institutions with their Stewardship missions, values, and responsibilities is the key to mitigating the breadth, scope, and duration of future financial crises.

That’s the good news. But how do we get that to happen? It’s fine for Margaret Mead to say, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Or for Buckminster Fuller to observe that “by changing the minds of 5 percent of the population, one could effectively change the way society operates.”

But how does one go about changing the minds of that small, committed 5 percent?

The answer may lie in “the zone of overlap between virtue and self-interest” (in the words of author Stephen Young) and in creating incentives for leaders to pursue “self-interest considered upon the whole.”

A practical way to make leaders behave like better stewards is to make it economically and financially worthwhile for them to do so… The best vehicle we have for doing that may be a new trend, primarily taking hold within the institutional investor community. The trend is to screen for and invest in organizations that demonstrate the ability to manage across environmental, social, and governance issues.

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Environmental, social, and governance investing (ESG, for short) is the latest evolution of what is generally referred to as socially responsible investing (SRI). The first examples of SRI in the United States date back to the eighteenth century, when Quakers reputedly refused to invest in weapons and slavery, and to the Revolutionary War, when pacifists boycotted bonds being issued by the Continental Congress because proceeds might end up funding the war.

Initially, SRI was about negative or exclusionary screening (usually around “sin sectors”): Don’t invest in companies that make cigarettes, exploit child labor, distribute alcoholic beverages, operate gambling casinos, or manufacture land mines.

Then, in the 1960s, investors began to leverage ownership rights to influence corporate boards and management.

[An example is found in South Africa’s apartheid era, during which investors fled or threatened to flee from companies who profited from doing business in South Africa.]

The most recent innovation in socially responsible investing is ESG investing— also known as sustainable investing. As we see later in the chapter, ESG represents a fundamental shift from largely moral considerations as the primary basis for investment decisions, to an emphasis on economic best practices and sustainable operating practices. ESG investing is about examining the corporate responsibility practices of corporations for indications of how companies, and those companies’ stock prices, will perform over long time periods… “...The specific ESG factors and the way they are used may differ widely from investor to investor, and tactical and technical considerations are often specific to an institution or fund manager. But the basic strategies... share sufficient features to be observed and measured.” [Social Investment Forum Foundation] Amy Domini, founder of Domini Social Investments and author of Socially Responsible Investing: Making Money While Making a Difference, puts it clearly and simply: “What makes a manager a specialist in socially responsible investing?... [T]hey select investments by applying standards that include impacts on people and the planet.”

Pax World Investments president and CEO Joseph Keefe offers a similarly succinct definition of the ESG incarnation of socially responsible investing: “the full integration of environmental, social, and governance

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(ESG) factors into investment analysis and decision making... premised on the financial materiality of [those] ESG factors.”

Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues: Some Examples of Issues that Socially Responsible Investors Are Concerned About:

Environmental Issues » Climate change » Water scarcity » Local environmental pollution and waste management

» New regulations expanding the boundaries of environmental product liability

Social Issues » » » » »

Workplace health and safety Labor and human rights issues Government and community relations Charitable giving Workforce diversity

Governance Issues » Board structure and accountability » Accounting and disclosure practices, transparency

» Executive compensation » Management of corruption and bribery issues

» Money laundering and terrorist financing The idea behind ESG investing is that companies that engage in sustainable business practices will, on average, perform better over time. These business practices include minimizing their carbon footprint, minimizing their consumption of scarce resources or degradation of the environment, treating their employees well, and not only recognizing but celebrating diversity in their workforces. ESG companies have put in place responsible governance practices around compensation and give back to and invest in the communities in which their employees, customers, and clients live and work…

Delivering Alpha There is considerable debate as to whether ESG investing can actually deliver added returns (alpha) over time. At this point, it’s too early to tell, since the time frame over which ESG investing needs to be measured is decades, not years. But there are some encouraging early data points.

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2005 to 2007, the companies on Goldman Sachs’s GS SUSTAIN focus list outperformed the MSCI World Index by 25 percent. While acknowledging that “clearly we do not yet have a long track record of performance in terms of our methodology,” Goldman went on to say, “we believe that the early signs are encouraging.”

“Incorporating our proprietary ESG framework into the long-term industrial analysis and returns-based analysis of the sectors covered to date... has enabled us to select top picks,” 72 percent of whom had outperformed their peers, Goldman reported.

A Pensions and Investments article cites the research of State Street Global Advisors, suggesting that “there is some preliminary evidence that companies with better ESG ratings offered some downside protection during the financial crisis.” Chris McKnett, co-author of the paper, Sustainable Investing: Positioning for Long-Term Success, told P&I “These companies offered more stability during the worst period of the bear market.”

McKnett’s paper continues, “Ultimately, it comes down to the basic premise that well-governed companies are likely to be less risky over time. Incorporating an ESG framework may serve as an effective way to protect shareholder value.”

Then there is the Domini Social Index (DSI), currently known as the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index. Beginning in 1990, Amy Domini and her partners designed an index that used the S&P 500 as its benchmark, but which screened out companies that were considered underperformers from an environmental, social, and governance perspective. They also added companies that were considered proactive and industry leaders in their approach to incorporating ESG considerations in their business models. Though ESG is an abbreviation that did not exist in 1990 when the index went live, they did screen the portfolios for environment, social, and corporate culture, which included governance issues. The Domini Social Index has outperformed its S&P 500 benchmark on an actual and riskadjusted basis over 20 years.

What isn’t subject to debate is that interest in ESG investing has grown dramatically in recent years, as has assets under management.

“ESG investing has moved to the mainstream of institutional investing from the fringes,” trumpets a January 2011

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special report by Pension & Investments.

ESG assets in the United States grew to more than $3 trillion at the start of 2010, up 380 percent from $639 billion in 1995, the year the Social Investment Forum Foundation started tracking this trend. In the three-year period from 2007 to 2009, during which the S&P 500 declined and conventional investment assets grew by less than 1 percent, SRI assets increased by 13 percent. Today, the Foundation estimates one in eight dollars under professional management in the United States “is involved in some strategy of socially responsible investing.”

And in Europe—the leader in SRI—SRI assets under management grew even more robustly, up 85 percent in the two-year period from 2008 and 2009 to the equivalent of $6.5 trillion.

In a sign of the increasing importance of ESG investors, a growing number of publicly traded corporations are publicly disclosing data on their ESG performance.

State Street Global Advisor research says that according to the Global Reporting Initiative, 1,350 companies from 65 countries issued such reports in 2009.

As far back as 2007, RBC established a new approach to corporate responsibility.

RBC is one of North America’s largest financial services companies and has been long recognized as one of the world’s most sustainable investment–oriented companies.

The push toward a more systematic approach to sustainability began when RBC was faced with an increasing number of research requests and demands from stakeholders across a diverse set of issues. RBC conducted a full assessment of its global business strategy, mapped out stakeholder interests and concerns, and then identified the points of strongest intersection between its business strategy and stakeholders’ interests. For example, banks like RBC are also expected to take responsibility, in some measure, for the actions of their clients, especially those to whom they provide credit.

RBC developed an overall framework, vision, and direction for managing the different elements of corporate responsibility. Dubbed “The RBC Blueprint for Doing Better,” RBC’s approach is described each year in a 100-page Corporate Responsibility Report.

“It is clear that we have entered an era in which more people are devoting more thought to their investment choices and

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more scrutiny to the behavior of companies,” says the CEO of RBC, Gordon Nixon. “There is no going back, and corporate officers ignore this reality at their peril. It is true that the precise contours of responsibility may be impossible to define for society at large—but more people will be defining these contours for themselves. They’ll be deciding for themselves what constitutes a responsible company. And they will be investing their money accordingly.”

Virtually the entire November 2011 edition of the Harvard Business Review was dedicated to multiple articles on the topic “How Great Companies Think Differently.”

Inside excerpts from the magazine read: “The companies that perform best over time build a social purpose into their operations that is as important as their economic purpose,” and “Instead of being mere money-generating machines, they combine financial and social logic to build enduring success.”

In 2008, Mercer, a leading investment consultant, announced it would incorporate ESG questions and analysis into its investment manager searches.

In a 2009 survey of global investment managers, 63 percent of the respondents said they were in the process of including ESG undertakings into contracts with investment managers—up from 38 percent the year before.

Fidelity Investments now offers ESG information to its investors as a part of its online investing tools.

A Virtuous Cycle The more assets under management in ESG and other SRI strategies, the more potential dollars are available to flow, at the margin, to the stocks of companies that rank high on ESG scales. And the more demand for those stocks, the better the potential total shareholder return performance of highly ranked companies.

The result? “Companies with strong ESG performance are presumably rewarded for their investments in corporate responsibility programs through improved analyst ratings, more investor interest, and potentially a higher stock price.” Or to put it slightly differently, “investors increasingly seek out companies with positive environmental, social and governance performance not because they are morally admirable but because they are more viable in the long run.”

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Explains Tom Van Dyck, founder of and principal at RBC’s SRI Wealth Management Group in San Francisco: “A management team that embraces the idea of sustainability—uses it to lower their costs, increase their revenues, improve their brand, reduce their risk, and attract talented people—will outperform you, if they are your competitors. That outperformance increases the weighted average cost of capital for companies that have ‘bad’ practices from an ESG perspective, and decreases the cost for those that have better ESG practices.”

Vinay Nair, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, told Institutional Investor that “if an additional 5 percent of the total capital is allocated to sustainability in the equity markets over the next three years, companies that are recognized as ‘good’ will outperform ‘bad’ ones by 3 percentage points annually.”

In a world in which a substantial percentage of executive compensation is linked to absolute or relative share price performance, this is where the incentive for responsible Stewardship is to be found.

In a seminal 2010 speech to the Boston Economic Club, Joseph Keefe, president and CEO of Pax World Investments, envisioned, “A sort of virtuous cycle would be created: investors rewarding stock prices where sustainability is integrated, and companies responding by further improving their sustainability performance.” “[T]his isn’t just about harvesting superior returns,” Keefe said, “It’s also about affecting corporate behavior and ultimately market behavior.”

It may be that ESG investors can affect equity valuations of corporations that rank highly along the dimensions of Stewardship excellence. If so, we will have found all the leverage we need to reward leaders who act like responsible stewards, and change the behaviors of those who don’t.

This is the enormous potential of ESG investing.

It’s already happening. A 2011 survey of 3,203 executives by McKinsey & Company found that “many companies are actively integrating sustainability principles into their businesses... and they are doing so by pursuing goals that go far beyond earlier concern for reputation management—for example, saving energy, developing green products, and retaining and motivating employees, all of which

help companies capture value through growth and return on capital.”

In an interview with Charlie Rose at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association annual meeting in November 2011, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit introduced the concept of “responsible finance.” He told the group: “At Citi...

I tell my people you better ask yourself three questions before you do anything or enter into any transaction with a client.

[One:] Is it in our clients’ interests? Two: Does it add any economic value to anybody?

And three: Is it systemically responsible?

Those are the three questions and the answer to those three questions has to be yes. Then you are practicing responsible financing.”

As authors Yvon Chouinard, Jib Ellison, and Rick Ridgeway write in the Harvard Business Review, “Progress in each area spurs progress in the others, to the extent that the long-sought alignment of a firm’s prosperity with the best interests of the planet seems not only possible but inevitable.”

Part of that potential is the possibility that ESG investing could also strengthen financial markets. As a report by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation titled Future Proof? ambitiously puts it: “Increased consideration of environmental, social, and governance issues will ultimately lead to better investment decisions, create stronger and more resilient financial markets, and contribute to the sustainable development of societies.”

“There can be no better way to restore public confidence in the markets and build a prosperous economic future.”

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Winging W Wi ngi ngi ging n ng it Throwing the clubs in the trunk is all well and good, but just as easy—and infinitely more liberating—is packing them into a private jet and setting out for an epic weekend with friends. There are a number of stunning golf courses located a short flight from just about anywhere, and all of them provide a “world away from it all” experience without being so remote as to be inconvenient. When it comes to great golf, the sky’s the limit

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The benefits of private aviation are myriad, as Arnold Palmer and many others have found. Private aircraft owners or those who use a company like the excellent Richards Aviation, which provides access to private flight services (raijets.com), can vastly increase the reach of even the smallest business, effectively “shrinking” the world and increasing access to clients. For businesses or individuals with frequent travel needs, private aircraft can also lower the overall cost (and increase the comfort) of travel, bypassing the gauntlet and rituals currently required to use commercial aviation and saving time and money in the process. Of course, private aircraft aren’t necessarily relegated to business-only flights. Those with access to private planes enjoy tremendous freedom and opportunities in that they can take off at a moment’s notice for a weekend away, and return to the office on Monday morning. So what better way to dramatically enhance a weekly foursome than with an exhilarating two-night golf trip out of town to an island in the Caribbean or even to one of the more remote corners of our great country? The following courses are close enough that you won’t have to take any time off work, but remote enough that you’ll feel a world away from the responsibilities at home. Whether you need a break or just want a little something different, grab your overnight bag and take to the skies for some great golf.

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Caye Chapel Island Resort Belize It’s flat, located on a private 265-acre island in the Caribbean Sea and it’s the only game in town. Mostly designed by the island’s owner, billionaire industrialist Larry Addington, the par-72 USGA-rated course is the only 18-hole golf course in Belize, and it doesn’t get more exclusive. A deep-water marina can host yachts up to 140 feet, but most guests will likely make the two-hour flight from the U.S. mainland and use the private airstrip. The resort itself has been closed for the last couple of years, but it’s still possible to book rounds on the course via a travel agent. And if you really, really like it, you can buy the whole thing—the course, the marina, 25,000-sq.ft. clubhouse with bar/restaurant and conference facilities, the large swimming pool complex, luxury villas and casitas and even the coconut palms. Caye Chapel is for sale at an asking price near $45 million.

Grenadines Estate GC Canouan Island, Grenadines (Pictured below) Located on the small island of Canouan at the southern tip of the Grenadines Islands chain, the Grenadines Estate Golf Club has to be one of the world’s most spectacular courses, if only for its setting. Fantastically designed by Jim Fazio, the course carves a beautiful path across the verdant slopes of Canouan’s hills before rising to the island’s highest point, where the views are most assuredly breathtaking. Lush, impeccably maintained and satisfying all definitions of “exclusive,” this course and the island’s attendant Canouan Resort and Spa are a welcome place to land—and an easy one. Flying time from Miami is under three hours.

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ArborLinks Nebraska City, NE This “Destination Private Club With a Resort Element” sits in Nebraska City (which has an airport for private aircraft) and features an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, a full-service clubhouse and onsite guest cottages accommodating up to 24 guests. In addition to being absolutely beautiful, the course is a living testament to environmental stewardship and a laboratory for research on environmental practices. Developed in partnership with Landscapes Unlimited, Arnold Palmer Design and The National Arbor Day Foundation (headquartered in Nebraska City), every possible step was taken to ensure the course would serve as an example of environmentally responsible golf. The result is one of the greatest courses in the Midwest, with native grasses rolling over a natural landscape with an old world feel. Even better, if you visit in July of next year you can catch the 2013 U.S. Senior Open, which is being played at the relatively nearby Omaha Country Club. Arnie won the championship in its second year (1981), and the competition since then has always been fierce. Just one more reason to experience the great golf that Nebraska has to offer.

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Prairie Club Valentine, NE The Prairie Club’s owners claim that the club offers the “world’s most undisturbed holes in golf,” and they might be right. Located in the state’s Sand Hills region near the South Dakota border, the golf offerings at Prairie Club are astounding, as much for the sense of remote wonder they inspire as for the excellent quality of play. The vast landscape is almost unbelievable in its expansive beauty, and the Club is as charming as it is comprehensive. The Pines Course is influenced by the Snake River Canyon setting and has a windmill pump on No.3 from which you can get a drink from the world’s largest aquifer, according to management.

The Dunes Course runs through nearly undisturbed parts of the Sand Hills and plays like a links course, with high winds and large natural blowouts. In an inspired bit of fun, the club’s HORSE Course invites you to grab a wedge, a putter and a couple of balls and hit from wherever you like, challenging your playing partner(s) to a game of HORSE over 10 holes. Fly-in to the strip at Valentine. Not to be missed.

Yellowstone Club Big Sky, MT Situated in a valley northwest of Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone Club provides a true backcountry experience with luxuries more common to urban environs.

For golfers, that means a civilized 18-hole course set among some seriously wild country. Mountains stretch in all directions, so inevitably there are some big changes in elevation here—and tremendous views as well, which you’ll start to appreciate as you come into the airport in nearby Bozeman. Comfort stations along the course resemble mountain shelters and are as welcome, offering cold drinks and comfortable seating. Playing to the aesthetics, the pro shop looks like something out of an old Western, a trading post or rustic ranch home. Safe to say that if the Tom Weiskopf design doesn’t thrill you in this setting, you need to check yourself for a pulse.

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Chewelah Golf and Country Club Chewelah, WA Just 200 yards from a newly surfaced (and lighted) small airstrip, the Chewelah Golf and Country Club offers 27 holes of top-quality Washington State golf less than 60 miles north of Spokane. Majestic conifers line the semiprivate courses, which are both straightforward but elegant layouts that make the most of the area’s rolling countryside.

That, and solid BBQ offerings at the club’s Rusty Putter Bar and Grille, make this worth putting on the flight plan.

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Ballyneal Golf & Hunt Club Holyoke, CO (Left) A true destination club, this “inland links” course (as the owners call it) sits three hours northeast of Denver, and offers a rather special kind of experience. In 1979 an area golf enthusiast named Jim O’Neal noted that the inland dunes locals referred to as the “chop hills” reminded him of dunes and course layouts in Scotland, and a sort of seed was planted. O’Neal’s family owned a local hunt club on the property, and in the early 2000s they added golf to the mix.

The layout was largely determined by Mother Nature, there are no tee or yardage markers, and it’s walk-only, meaning that the private course is as close to a proper Scottish links course as one can get nearly 4,000 feet above sea level in the Rocky Mountains. Visually stunning, Ballyneal is a liberating experience easily reached via the airport in the small town of Holyoke.

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Sutton Bay Agar, SD (Right) Benefitting from the tremendous natural landscape carved from the landforms of the mighty Missouri River, the golf course at South Dakota’s Sutton Bay is as dynamic as it is remote.Fantastic changes in elevation, the strong winds coming off Lake Oahe and monster-sized greens remind one of courses on the British Isles, but the rugged terrain that stretches out in all directions under the majestic sky will remind you you’re in the Mount Rushmore State. It is real “take your breath away” stuff and the course is true to its surroundings: challenging, not forced, and exhilarating.

Arnie himself enjoyed some time here (staying in a lux cabin named for him),and landed his Citation X at the airport in nearby Pierre. With tremendous hunting and fishing available as well, there’s no doubt you will too.

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Bandon Dunes Bandon, OR

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Who would’ve known that the closest to Scotland one could get in America was Oregon. Bandon Dunes is an absolutely superb example of a traditional links course, right here in the U.S.A. Located 100 feet above the Pacific Ocean along Oregon’s beautifully severe coast, four distinctly different courses roll through and over the natural grassy dunes and rock outcroppings. A regional airport in nearby North Bend takes care of access, while a host of top-drawer accommodations, restaurants, lounges and club amenities invite you to stay longer than a round or two. Windswept, primeval, and elegantly rugged, Bandon Dunes is not to be missed.

This course is a municipal track but it’s no less a get-awayfrom-it-all experience than the most remote private club.

Lauded by Golf Digest as one of the top muni’s in the country, its par-5 No.2 is reportedly one of the most beautiful holes in the state—and the highest: the entire course sits at 7,000 feet above sea level, making it the state’s most elevated course.

The course is set along the edge of the Abajo Mountains, which provide dramatic changes in elevation along with great views, and is located in the town of Monticello, between Canyonlands and Mesa Verde National Parks. A relatively new (and quite nice) runway in town provides access, unless you’d rather make the long drive through the desert.

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Lajitas Golf Resort & Spa Lajitas, Texas It’s not necessarily easy to find, and that’s rather the point. This superb property near Big Bend National Park in the state’s southwest offers 27,000 acres of rugged beauty served up in high luxury. Cowboy country it is, but the amenities are top-flight, right down the convenient airport in town. Golf all day, go shooting, swim in the pool or just kick your boots up and relax.

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LIFE IN PICTURES “Troon is one of my favorite golf courses. Birkdale. I like St. Andrews for a change from time to time. Wentworth is a course I enjoy. Domestically, there’s Augusta...

I think I’d stick with the tried and true.”

Few people have played most of the great courses in the world—fewer still have found victory on them. Arnold Palmer has found that and more, with an enduring legacy of great golf and great friends made around the world.

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The King picks up his clubs from the caddies on his way to a tie for second at the 1961 Masters

Palmer hoists the trophy after winning the Piccadilly World Match Play Final at Wentworth

The King works his way out of the rough at Royal Troon, Scotland, in the Sean Connery Invitational

Arnold Palmer hits a shot from the bunker onto the green during the 1976 [British] Open at Royal Birkdale

Palmer plots a path out of the infamous ‘Church Pews’ during the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in 1994

Driving off No.18 at the end of his second round in the 1995 [British] Open Championships on the Old Course at St Andrews, his final competitive Open appearance

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The old adage about certain horses being suited to certain courses could have been coined with Tiger Woods in mind; and it seems the harder the layout— Firestone, Torrey Pines, Augusta National, to name but three—the more he tends to win. Despite his recent inconsistencies, one place where he is still very much at home is Bay Hill Club & Lodge. After the former world No.1 chalked up his 7th victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard this March, Dave Shedloski pondered the secret behind such an inspired record Tiger Woods has enjoyed success on a number of different styles of golf course and in practically every corner of the planet, his hegemony overcoming myriad conditions such as terrain, weather patterns and architectural styles. But no layout has the world’s former No.1 player bent to his will more than the Championship Course at Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Arnold Palmer’s magnificent playground in Orlando, Fla. Naturally, there is no total defense a championship track can muster against a player of Woods’ caliber, especially when his game is in full song—which it was for many years, a fact validated by his record run atop the Official World Golf Ranking. But Bay Hill is truly a special place for the 14-time major championship winner, a course where he has won a record seven times in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

There have been certain layouts to which Woods returns religiously because of his affection for them—and his destruction of them. What first might come to mind is the South Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, where Woods has won seven World Golf ChampionshipBridgestone Invitational titles. Then there is the South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Course near San Diego, where he’s also won on seven occasions. Six of those were at the annual PGA Tour event known currently as the Farmers Insurance Open, conducted in January as part of the PGA Tour’s West Coast Swing. His most recent conquest at Torrey Pines occurred in June 2008 when he won his third U.S. Open title despite playing on an injured leg that days later required surgery.

Like Bay Hill, Torrey Pines South surrendered to Woods over four consecutive years. His Bay Hill streak ran from 2000-03 while he won four straight at Torrey Pines from 2005-08. Indeed, you could easily claim that he won five in a row when you throw in his U.S. Open later in the ’08 season.

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Only four men have won a Tour event in four straight starts: Woods, Walter Hagen in the PGA Championship, Gene Sarazen at the Miami Open, and Tom Morris Jr. in the [British] Open Championship.

“This course has always been pretty good to me,” Woods says with an air of modesty, almost understatement.

“I’ve always felt pretty comfortable at Bay Hill, pretty confident, and a lot of that is because of the success I’ve had there. It sets up well for me. It sets up well to my eye.”

You could say there’s no place like home for a golfer like Tiger Woods. Of course, Orlando used to be home for him until he moved south to Jupiter Island, Fla., last year.

But Bay Hill in particular has been like home to him in so many respects, principally as a safe haven where his game can rejuvenate itself and where he naturally seems to flourish.

“It’s not like I play here all the time though,” Woods said.

“I play here basically five times a year. For some reason it just suits me. Ever since the U.S. Junior, granted, they have changed this place, but I don’t know why, it just fits. I feel comfortable coming here, hitting shots, shaping it, putting these greens. You know, the greens… I think since I started playing here, three times they’ve redone these greens. For some reason, I just understand how to play them.”

That understanding was on display earlier this year when Woods claimed his seventh Arnold Palmer Invitational title in late March. In the process, he was as dominant as ever in winning by five strokes over Northern Ireland’s Graham McDowell.

With a final-round 70, Woods completed 72 holes in 13-under-par 275 for his 72nd PGA Tour title, drawing him up to one win behind Jack Nicklaus and second place on the all-time victories’ list. Sam Snead is still way out ahead with 82

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Victory No.7 at Torrey Pines in 2008 was particularly sweet for Tiger as it came with the U.S. Open trophy, Woods’ 14th major

wins, including eight in a 27-year span from 1938-65 at his own personal favorite tournament—the Greater Greensboro Open.

“Oh, yeah,” Woods screamed with delight when the final putt dropped to enable him to post his first PGA Tour win since the 2009 BMW Championship—a victory that had seemed as far away as possible two weeks earlier when he limped out of the final round of his previous start at the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral Resort, Miami, Fla. “It was a rough day. The conditions, the greens were feisty. Pins were unbelievable,” Woods said at Bay Hill after emphatically proving his recovery from this latest injury setback. “I’ve never seen pins this difficult and greens this fast and firm. The wind was blustery, changed directions enough, and the intensity was tough out there. It was a day of survival.”

And still he emerged with another victory, breaking the longest drought of his professional career.

“One win doesn’t mean you’re back, but obviously he beat the field by five and played great golf,” said Woods’ caddie Joe LaCava, who picked up the game’s most precious bag last fall. “Who knows what he’s going to do down the road or if he’ll win 10 tournaments. I think these days it’s pretty hard with all the depth of playing talent currently on the Tour, but he’s definitely back.”

Interestingly, yet not so well known, is that this was his eighth overall success at Bay Hill. Woods, who alluded to this fact earlier, first tasted triumph at Mr. Palmer’s place in the 1991 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, which began another streak of six straight years winning a U.S. Golf Association title, a feat not even the great Bobby Jones ever accomplished. He defeated Brad Zwetschke at the first extra hole in that ’91 championship, when he was just 15 years old.

“Yeah, fortunately, I’ve had a few places where I’ve felt comfortable and I’ve played well, and this is one of them,” Woods said. “It’s always been the case that certain golf courses, no matter how I’m playing coming in, I feel comfortable once I get there. This one, Doral has been like that, Firestone, Augusta National [where, like Mr. Palmer, he has won the Masters four times], and Torrey Pines. So I’ve had a few places where I’ve had a pretty good record.”

Along with his seven victories, Woods also holds several other records in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, including his 11-stroke margin of victory in 2003 which was achieved even though he was fighting off the effects of food poisoning. He has earned a PGA Tour record (for one tournament) haul of $6.2 million at Bay Hill. He won wireto-wire in 2002, one of only four men to accomplish that feat since the tournament’s inception in 1979.

“Bay Hill is almost like playing in his backyard, in a couple of ways, you might say,” noted Mr. Palmer, the tournament host who won seven majors among his 62 PGA Tour victories. “I mean, it practically is his backyard. I always expect him to play quite well. He has that combination of skills that enable him to set himself apart on this golf course, and it’s been pretty impressive. Whenever Tiger is in this event, all I can say to everyone else in the field is, ‘look out,’ because you can probably guess what’s coming.”

What’s coming, usually, is a thumping for everyone else. The collective margin of Woods’ seven victories at Bay Hill over the runners-up is 27 shots, including that

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11-stroke romp in ’03. About the only records he doesn’t hold are the scoring marks. Andy Bean and Greg Norman share the course record of 62, carded respectively in 1981 and ’84, while the late Payne Stewart still holds the low aggregate of 264, 24-under-par, that he set in 1987.

Mr. Palmer, now approaching his 83rd birthday, has overseen the execution of many design tweaks to Bay Hill’s Championship Course over the years. The first was in the 1970s when he first acquired the club and turned the course designed by the late Dick Wilson into a muscular, tee-to-green shot-making test. Even more recently, he completed a similarly extensive renovation with his own Arnold Palmer Design Company. Yet despite this ongoing, toughening-up process, Woods manages to adjust to the evolving challenges—ones that always present an examination of all-around proficiency worthy of a major championship. Mr. Palmer is proud of the fact that Bay Hill becomes one of the more exacting on the Tour when the rough is grown in and the greens get firm and fast.

“Winning breeds winning and the more you win, the more you understand how to do it, and you do it different ways,” Woods explains. “I’ve done it with great ball-striking, I’ve done it with lousy ball-striking, I’ve done it with great putting and so-so putting, and sometimes I’ve done it with my short game. If you’re able to do it different ways, it just breeds more and more confidence when you’re put in that situation again. I’ve been lucky over my career to have had successes. And I can only say, I’ve done it before, and…

I know I can pull these shots off and I just keep reminding myself of those things.”

What does winning at Bay Hill mean to Woods? Well, in the previous six years in which he walked out with the famed blue blazer that the winner receives, Woods won multiple PGA Tour titles. In four of those six years, at least one of the other victories was in a major. “I enjoy building momentum off what I’m able to do here,” he says. “And it’s always nice to win here, with Arnold’s involvement in the tournament. We all owe a lot to Arnold.” However, Woods, you might say, owes the King a bit more than most.

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Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer have been quite a double act at Bay Hill over the years

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The PGA Tour is still to celebrate its 44th birthday as a stand-alone governing body, yet it has traveled light years in terms of its growth and development. Only three men have filled the role of commissioner during its existence but the current incumbent is now arguably the most powerful figure in golf, past or present. In the latest in our series of articles about the business of golf and its executives, Kingdom looks at the Tour under the leadership of Tim Finchem

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t all teed off late in ’68. Back in those days, players on Tour were in thrall to the same rules and constraints as club and teaching professionals despite the fact that their leading lights, the likes of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, were among the most marketable sports personalities on the planet. But there was money, in the form of sponsorship and television rights, queuing up to hit the tournament scene and so the breakaway from the PGA of America, advocated

by Mr. Palmer among others, had become inevitable.

Thus the PGA Tour was born, with Joe Dey, executive director of the USGA from 1934-68, as its first commissioner.

After some consolidation, the green light for future expansion came with the creation of the Players Championship in 1974. Having put this innovative tournament on the schedule, Dey stepped down. His successor was Deane Beman, who had enjoyed a distinguished amateur career before turning pro at the relatively late age of 29 in 1967 and winning four times on Tour between 1969 and 1973.

Looking back, it must have been a risky call to hire a contemporary of many of the players, albeit one with a successful business background. But Beman’s 20 years in the post, a time when the game grew in popularity both domestically and overseas, resulted in the development of a widely-respected brand. During his term, he lifted the number of exempt players from 60 to 125, introduced player pension plans, formed the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) and the developmental Ben Hogan Tour (now renamed the Web.com Tour after previous years under the banner of Nike, Buy.com and, most recently, Nationwide), and established the model for the Tour’s television coverage.

He also initiated a policy requiring all tournaments to support a charity, triggering a growth in the Tour’s annual charitable contributions from less than $1 million in 1974 to more than $30 million in 1994, the year he retired.

The network of Tournament Players’ Courses was part of his legacy, along with an expansion of the Tour’s assets from $730,000 in 1974 to more than $200 million two decades later. But there were also a few issues for his successor to address. At the time of Beman’s departure, it was very much taken for granted that the upward surge of prizemoney levels over which he had presided would continue automatically. In addition, Greg Norman was voicing strong opinions about the need for a world tour to be formed, something that would surely have undermined the PGA Tour’s position.

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Therefore, it could be said that Timothy W. Finchem, deputy commissioner and chief operating officer for several years under Beman, was facing considerable pressure to hit the ground running when he was promoted to become the Tour’s third commissioner on June 1, 1994.

After taking stock of what he inherited, Finchem undertook a restructuring program designed to strengthen the PGA Tour’s core business (its competitions) and expand its international scope. His first project was to organize the inaugural Presidents Cup, played in non-Ryder Cup years between U.S. and International teams, in three and a half months from a standing start. In 1996 he helped spearhead the formation of the International Federation of PGA Tours and under the umbrella of this new organization the World Golf Championships made their debut in 1999 with three events—the Accenture Match Play Championship, NEC Invitational and American Express Championship.

So who is Tim Finchem and what qualities has he brought to the PGA Tour during his 18 years in the hot seat?

Born in Ottawa, IL, on April 19, 1947, the son of a U.S. Marine, Finchem graduated from Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, VA. He attended the University of Richmond (UR) on a debate scholarship, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969, then graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1973. After practicing law in Virginia Beach for three years, Finchem served in the White House, first as deputy advisor to President Jimmy Carter in the Office of Economic Affairs and then as national staff director of his reelection campaign. After Carter’s defeat in 1980 by Ronald Reagan, Finchem co-founded the National Strategies and Marketing Group, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. that helped corporations break into new markets. In 1984, he served as national finance director for Walter Mondale during the primaries, and then for the presidential election he was appointed vicechairman of the Democratic National Committee.

The turning-point in his career, and life, came two years later when his company was asked to help organize a new PGA Senior Tour event, the Chrysler Cup. One of the first meetings was attended by a lady named Holly Bachand, who was working for Mr. Palmer‘s event management firm.

“I was immediately smitten,” Finchem is reported to have said. “After the meeting I told my staff I’d handle this one myself.” Within the year, Finchem and Bachand were married and Mr. Palmer attended the wedding reception.

That same year, Finchem was first asked by the Tour to move in-house. He demurred, but another offer soon

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The University of Richmond Alumni Association and the Office of Alumni and Career Services salute

Timothy W. Finchem, R’69 for his leadership of the PGA TOUR, Inc. and dedication to the University.

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followed. By then, Holly was pregnant with the first of their four children and the Finchems decided that Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, might be a nice place to raise a family. “It’s a classic story of being in the right place at the right time,” he said. So Finchem sold his share of the company and became the Tour’s vice-president of business affairs. “He was impactful from the very beginning,” Charlie Zink, now the PGA Tour’s co-chief operating officer, recalls. “Within a year it was pretty clear who would be the next commissioner.”

His prowess as a debater while at UR clearly marked him out as someone destined for high office. “The debate coach was Dr. Bert Bradley, and he was a very highly regarded coach on a national level,” Finchem recalls. “He

Paying tribute to the gradual upgrade of UR’s admissions standards, Finchem told his daughters: “If I was applying now, I wouldn’t be getting into the University of Richmond.” Invariably, when he tells associates that he has two daughters at UR, “the response is, almost to the word, identical: ‘That is one hot school right now.’”

Nowadays, his golf handicap is six, impressive for a 65-year-old who spends so much of his time on the road or in the air. “When I was young, I got it down to two for a while,” Finchem said. “Six is pretty good. I don’t play as much as I used to, but I’m a little smarter. I think if you watch these professionals as much as I do, some of it rubs off.” Quite a bit of Tim Finchem has rubbed off on

The right man, Finchem, was in the right place at the right time to exploit the emergence of this dynamic genius

Palmer and Finchem after the final round of the 2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational

taught me a great deal, and I will always be indebted to him.”

Debate conveyed four lifelong lessons: “One, consider both sides of an issue. Two, outline your arguments of the case.

Three, think on your feet. And four, connect with the listener.”

Finchem still savors winning the debate at the U.S. Naval Academy Invitational in 1967, when the topic was whether the U.S. should reduce its foreign policy commitments. “We were on the negative [side of the question] and the University of Miami was on the affirmative, and their plan was to get out of Vietnam, which at that point in time was a fairly unpopular position, especially at the U.S. Naval Academy. That may be the reason we won.”

Now Finchem serves on UR’s board of trustees and has two daughters who are undergraduates there (one a senior, the other a freshman). Certainly, he marvels at how the university has grown since his student days. “I had to get a scholarship to go to college,” he said. “I got a small scholarship to attend UR and that was the deciding factor, really. It was clear that getting a scholarship in golf wasn’t going to happen. When I came here, 85 percent of the students were from the state of Virginia. Today, 85 percent of the students are from outside the state of Virginia.”

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both these professionals and the PGA Tour as a whole.

On his watch, more than $1 billion has been raised from tournaments for charitable bodies, sponsors that have fallen by the wayside due to financial crises have mostly been replaced, four multi-year television deals have been negotiated, and the FedExCup series, recently extended to 2017, has proved to be a phenomenal success.

There has also been another phenomenon on his watch, one that changed the shape of the game just as he was settling into his role—the phenomenon of Tiger Woods.

When evaluating Finchem’s performance as commissioner, Woods’ role cannot be discounted. He turned pro in 1996 and was already a multiple winner by the time he cleaned up at the Masters the following April. Television ratings for PGA Tour events soared by 50 percent, especially when Woods was in the field. On this occasion the right man, Finchem, was in the right place at the right time to exploit the emergence of the most dynamic and recognizable genius the game had ever seen. The money flooded in from the TV deals, and the waiting list of potential sponsors became even longer than the list of actual sponsors.

Finchem’s priority during this era was to make sure every pro who played on Tour, from Ryder Cup players and Major winners to the humblest of journeymen, could benefit from the trickle-down of vastly increased purses.

But every success story is apt to have a flipside, and in the case of Woods it most surely did. A combination of injuries and personal scandals meant that not much was seen of him on Tour from the end of 2009 until this season.

That period also coincided with an economic crisis that saw many corporations being forced to adopt stringent, belttightening exercises. This led to a few sponsors cashing in their chips while the television networks could use declining ratings as a ploy to cut back on rights fees.

As the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going,’ and in the face of this unpromising scenario Finchem really got going. With a combination of forceful negotiating and an astute switching of the public’s focus towards some of the Tour’s younger guns, like Rory McIlory and Rickie Fowler, he managed to increase the Tour’s

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income despite his main star being apparently in decline and largely absent from the fray. However, he acknowledges this was “the most trying period” of his tenure. “It was a combination of things. It wasn’t just a downturn; we had bankruptcies going on. We had the No.1 player not playing a lot. That plays into television. There was an extra level of concern. It wasn’t a big downer. It was just hard work.”

Some may feel he fits the mould of a chief executive who responds to being incentivized. For most of the past decade his salary (including bonuses) has been between $3million and $5 million, sums that have attracted criticism in some quarters. However, it is generally accepted that despite this level of cost he has earned the Tour far more than he has ever taken out, not least through his TV negotiations, the most recent of which—a nine-year deal with CBS Sports and NBC Sports—secured network coverage of the Tour through 2021. No wonder he was happy to extend his contract to stay in position as commissioner from the start of this year through 2016. “It was a no-brainer decision,” Finchem said.

“It’s what I do. Plus, we got done with TV. And with a runway for 10 years, I figured we could do some good stuff long term.

I’m as optimistic as I’ve ever been.”

While he’s been at the helm, prizemoney has rocketed from just over $50 million a year to more than $300 million—a fact that has no doubt pleased his parishioners.

And despite his habitually hard-headed approach to business, his commitment to growing the game and to golf’s return to the Olympics for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro is clearly passionate. Certainly, his devotion to the World Golf Foundation’s First Tee initiative over the past decade has been a major factor in helping it reach 2.5 million young people.

Perhaps the finest accomplishment of his 18 years in power has been the development and introduction of the FedExCup, a season-long, points-gathering process that culminates with four Playoff tournaments in the fall. The idea behind this ‘tour within a tour’ is that the business end of the year, when the prize-money incentives are astronomical and the top players are all on parade, can enjoy prominent exposure on network television and is not lost, as it used to be, amidst all the frenzy surrounding the kick-off of the NFL season. The result, since its introduction in 2007, has been significant increases in television and online audiences, tournament attendances, sponsor input and media coverage. Not surprisingly, FedEx has signed up for another five seasons. From now on, though, there will be a slight difference with the final three tournaments of the season after the Playoffs now counting towards the following year’s FedExCup rankings.

In keeping with the lifestyle of a man who likes to rise at 4.45am and work out rigorously before bursting through the doors of the Tour’s headquarters to start his day, Finchem doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet.

“An organization needs to be constantly refreshed,” he claims. His latest deals include the aforementioned Web. com sponsorship, effective immediately and subject to a 10-year agreement, plus the imminent launch of the new LatinoAmerica Tour, where the leading player at the end of this season will receive the Roberto de Vicenzo Trophy, and a closer tie-up with the Canadian Tour in 2013. Both the

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Matt Kuchar receives the Players Championship trophy from Finchem in May

LatinoAmerica Tour—which opens with the Mundo Maya Open at the superb Yucatan Country Club in Mexico from September 5-8 and concludes with the Argentine Open from December 13-16—and the proposed PGA Tour of Canada are expected to act as feeder circuits into the Web.com Tour.

Finchem is also about to revamp the qualifying school system that has been the traditional path on to the PGA Tour. The idea is that three tournaments on consecutive weeks will be contested by the 75 players who finish the PGA Tour season in positions 126-200 on the PGA Tour money list and the leading 75 players on the Web.com Tour.

The exact formula for this process has yet to be finalized, but most of the groundwork is in place.

During the course of a year, Finchem averages 170 days on the road, attending to a dizzying number of duties.

“Connecting with people, getting things done—that’s what makes the travel worthwhile,” he explains. But across the three Tours he has to coordinate more than 600 players, some 2,200 Tour employees, 100 or so corporate sponsors, a similar number of host venues, and a multitude of television networks and other media outlets. By the time his current contract expires, Finchem will be a few months shy of his 70th birthday. So will he carry on or will he pass on the torch to the fourth PGA Tour commissioner? “I never rule out any possibilities,” he said. “But the likelihood is this will probably be it for me. There’s other things I want to do.”

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Shoulder —to— Shoulder Insperity is more than just an HR company: it could be the bestdeveloped department in your small or medium-sized business

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Any smAll or medium-sized business owner will tell you that it’s not easy, not ever. In addition to rising and falling markets and the variable strength of the economy at large, there are a host of day-to-day challenges facing anyone who’s trying to launch or maintain a successful enterprise.

What many business owners may not realize is that they’re not alone. In fact, there are a number of services and companies that can expedite success, and one of the best is Insperity, which has been helping small and mediumsized business owners build their dreams since 1986.

“We have the opportunity to help people who are my heroes, some of the greatest people in the country: owners of small and medium-sized companies,” said Paul J. Sarvadi, Insperity co-founder, chairman and CEO. “We’re there with human resources (HR) services and business performance solutions to help them run better, grow faster and make more money.”

Insperity’s array of services addresses those aspects of business administration and development that can feel peripheral to the business itself—especially to those who wish to stay focused on the ideas on which their burgeoning enterprises are built. In fact, the employer-related tasks Insperity can manage are crucial to the success of any business, no matter the product or service. With a tremendous amount of expertise and a solid track record of success, Insperity can manage HR components such as payroll

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and taxes, employee benefits, workers’ compensation, training, governmental compliance and a host of other competencies.

While there are large firms that can help manage similar business operations, they usually work only with similarly large companies and manage from afar. Insperity works with businesses employing as few as 10 people. And unlike a larger, outside firm, Insperity makes sure that its representatives are directly connected to their clients.

“We’re very different from most companies that help with business solutions, which offer consulting or a ‘quick hit’ solution through software or some other form of support,” Sarvadi explained. “What’s unique about Insperity is that we stand shoulderto-shoulder with the company, rolling up our sleeves and helping them achieve their goals.”

Insperity assigns a dedicated team of professionals to address the specific HR needs of a client, and that team works directly alongside the client, helping the company grow and prosper. Their strategic approach to HR can help your business negotiate the ever-changing worlds of governmental compliance, rising health care costs, and other fundamental obligations.

“In my view, our team of service providers can be the most well-developed department some small companies will have,” added Sarvadi. “Working alongside the managers or a supervisor, over the phone, via fax or the Internet, we’re literally in the trenches

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with them, blocking and tackling, doing whatever it takes to help them succeed. No one else does that.”

Insperity’s full range of HR services are available in its comprehensive Workforce Optimization™ solution, though many of its services can also be accessed with a program tailored to meet the specific needs of your business.

In addition to Workforce Optimization, Insperity provides solutions designed to help improve business performance, such as Recruiting Services, Employment Screening, Retirement Services and Insurance Services. Their software offerings include systems for Performance Management, Organizational Planning, Time and Attendance and Expense Management.

Whatever level of involvement Insperity assumes, they ultimately leave business owners and managers free to focus on developing the ideas and product sides of their businesses, rather than being bogged down with employer-related administrative responsibilities.

What started as a small company in a 600-square-foot office in 1986 is today a publicly traded (NYSE: NSP) workforce powerhouse serving more than 100,000 companies with over 2 million employees.

Insperity has helped thousands of companies grow and realize their goals and dreams, and it’s done so by offering administrative relief and resources where needed. Underlying the firm’s work is a strong belief in small and medium-sized companies and a dedication to the communities in which they operate.

As Sarvadi explained, “We really believe in the direct link, that the success of small and medium-sized companies is linked to the success of their communities.

When people are employed, when businesses succeed, you have more employment, more philanthropy, more volunteerism... Success breeds success, and that’s what we’re all about.”

InSperIty Golf In addition to providing a full range of HR services and business performance solutions to small and mediumsized businesses, Insperity also supports top-drawer golf with the PGA Champions Tour Insperity ChampionshipTM. “The centerpiece of our client appreciation strategy is to conduct a Champions Tour tournament that’s full of all of the heroes of our heroes—the small and medium-sized companies with which we work,” explained Paul J. Sarvadi, Insperity co-founder, chairman and CEO. “There’s so much interaction with the players, it’s great.”

The tournament enjoyed its 9th anniversary this year at The Woodlands Country Club Tournament Course in Texas, with Fred Funk taking the trophy at the end of play.

Among the notable guests were Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Lee Trevino, among others.

“To have the legends play in an exhibition match where we had Arnold, Jack and Gary Player in the last group, with Lee Trevino making the big four, was a really special moment,” said Sarvadi. “It was the icing on the cake.”

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Finding a wine that travels well, at altitude, is an intensely complicated exercise, one that requires considerable skills on the part of those entrusted with the task by the world’s leading airlines.

Steve Killick talks to some of the industry’s expert viticulturists about what to serve, especially in business- and first-class, and how best to serve it

How fitting it is that the winner of the world’s oldest golf championship is rewarded for his efforts by being presented with a claret jug. With golf being such a companionable sport, at amateur levels at least, an agreeable glass of wine has long played an integral part in post-match deliberation, celebration and relaxation.

For the many thousands heading toward windswept Lancastrian shores to enjoy the 141st [British] Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, many thousands more glasses will be enjoyed along the way. And many of these will be taken at altitude by golf lovers flying in from all parts of the globe.

Providing top-flight wines to airlines is almost as challenging a business as staging a golf championship to the satisfaction of everyone concerned; and to make matters even more potentially problematic, when it comes to selecting a decent wine to be enjoyed as part of the in-flight

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entertainment, altitude can play strange tricks on one’s taste buds. Sometimes the consumption of food and drink 30,000 feet up is like dining while suffering from a thumping head cold—everything tastes bland and uninteresting.

Research has shown that altitude can dull our taste buds by as much as a third, and the longer the flight the more the palate is likely to become jaded. Ironically, the longer a bottle is open in the air the more uninteresting it will probably become. This has nothing to do with the innate quality of the wine, and everything to do with us.

So wine merchants dealing with airlines require a huge amount of skill, especially when stocking premium cabins, to ensure that what they supply delivers not only value for money as far as the airlines are concerned but also a satisfying taste to the customer particularly when he or she is paying ‘top dollar’ for the flight.

The wine may be free but what all the airlines want is a well-to-do client coming back for more, and afterwards telling their business colleagues and friends what a great flight experience they had.

Many airlines contract their wine operations out of house in order to minimize operational costs and also to employ some of the leading names when it comes to suppliers. Andy Sparrow spent 30 years at British Airways (BA), starting out as part of the cabin crew team. This is where his interest in wine began, as he enjoyed a glass or two of something different in far-flung destinations.

He ended up as menu development manager before joining Bibendum Wine in London when BA contracted out its wine buying. Now, as Bibendum’s national account manager, he supplies BA first-class cabins with all its wines and Champagnes.

“It was great to get back to my favorite subject,” he says. “And dealing with wines for the first-class cabin you get to taste some sensational bottles.” Sadly for Sparrow and his tasting colleagues, they have to spit the wine out given the volumes they are sampling.

At any given time, BA will have eight wines available and try to provide a mixed selection that will strike a chord with first-class passengers. “When you are flying people to and from the United States, it would be crazy not to offer a really classy indigenous U.S. wine,” says Sparrow. “So, when it comes to the reds, I will typically be looking for a big

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Zinfandel from California or Oregon, or a stylish pinot noir.”

The wine list for May first-class flights to the U.S. includes a Laurent-Perrier Grande Siecle, retailing at more than $110 a bottle—“I want the passengers to have a Champagne that is both delicious and a well-known name,” Sparrow explains—and a Mary Edwards River Sauvignon Blanc, 2010, from California.

There is a classic 2005 red Bordeaux from Chateau Larrivet Haut-Brion and a Freestone pinot noir from the Sonoma Valley in northern California. “This gives passengers a taste of something really recognizable—I always look for a top quality red Bordeaux and also a classy regional alternative,” Sparrow adds. “Balance has got to be there in the wine style to make it taste just as good at altitude as it does on the ground, not something that you can say about all wines.”

Despite being a fan of Italian wine, Sparrow says that a big, chewy Barolo, regarded as the king of Italian reds, simply does not work at altitude. “The old vintages just don’t have the right structure to work at 35,000 feet.”

Sparrow often operates an ABC policy when considering wine, with ABC standing for “anything but Cabernet” in the red selection and “anything but Chardonnay” amongst the whites. “I am looking for acidity in the whites that will ensure customers’ taste buds will experience the citrus zest of a really good sauvignon blanc.

Too many of the new-world Chardonnays are fruit-driven and buttery, which just won’t cut it at altitude. In contrast, a high-quality Sancerre works really well in the air.”

Mark Parsloe, a master of wine at Berry Bros. & Rudd, of London’s St. James, supplies wines and Champagne to Virgin Atlantic Airways. He says: “What Virgin was looking for when it employed us was a name its customers could feel safe with, and that is pretty much the case when providing wines—you need to have a number of familiar bottles that people recognize, trust and like.”

However, that does not mean that Parsloe is simply there to deliver big-name Champagnes along with wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux. Far from it, as alongside a French pinot noir from the Languedoc and a California Zinfandel, he recently presented Virgin’s Upper Class flyers with a red from Crete based on an indigenous Cretan grape blended with a Syrah.

“You obviously can’t do things like this when you’re dealing with economy customers because there is simply not enough of the wine available,” he says. Another reason Pardoe will always include an unusual, slightly off-beat wine variety is because it suits Virgin’s image. “They want to be seen as slightly quirky and a bit daring,” he explains.

It also gives him the opportunity to negotiate favorable deals with the wine merchants whose wines he selects. “I don’t want a ‘cheap as chips’ Burgundy, which is why I will buy a really first-rate pinot noir from southern France. The fact that we don’t have to have a Chablis or a famous Bordeaux gives me a chance to deliver real value for money.”

Upper Class passengers on Virgin Atlantic get three reds and three whites. The wines available to

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Upper Class passengers on Virgin Atlantic get three reds and three whites—some of which are daring passengers travelling to the [British] Open in July will include a crisp and flinty Italian Gavi Aurora from Liguria, a fruity and flavorsome Chilean Chardonnay Claya white, and a Peachy Canyon Zinfandel from California, known as “Incredible Red” and supplied by a small family winery from Big Sur. Virgin runs its wines on a three-month cycle with Berry Bros. evaluating consumption at the end of each period and taking back anything that is not drunk. “We can tell exactly what has proved most popular, although that does not change our philosophy when it comes to providing Virgin wines,” says Parsloe. “We are simply looking for quality, harmony and balance.” And (although he doesn’t say it) at a price Virgin is prepared to pay.

American Airlines, like many carriers, custom-fits its wines for its routes. Montreal-born Ken Chase, a classically trained wine maker and viticulturist in his own right, is American’s wine consultant. Taking time out from writing his first book on wine, he reveals: “What we aim to do is fit the diversity of the culture, cuisine and season for the particular market being served. It is important for our selection to have a grape variety that expresses its geographic origin and which can tie in to different routes. For example, a New Zealand Marlborough Valley sauvignon blanc should be very different from a Napa Valley sauvignon blanc.”

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At any one time, American has more than 60 wines in service and maintains more than 25 different wine lists.

During 2011, the company bought a staggering 3m bottles of wine. Given how tastes buds differ at altitude, Chase selects different wines for different times of the day with pinot grigio popular on afternoon flights and other Italian white varieties, such as Vermentino and Cortese, also favorite selections.

Cabernet Sauvignon is American’s most consistently selected red wine.

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almost impossible to detect so he will go for full-bodied, well-balanced wines. His personal favorites when flying from the U.S. to London are Gosset Grande Reserve Champagne, a Domaine de Rochers Pouilly Fuisse, and a “fourth growth” Bordeaux, Chateau Lafon-Rochet. Definitely not a selection that will be found in coach!

But even back in the cheap seats there is stiff competition to become a supplier, and the ability to deliver sufficient volume is crucial. Wine producers selected to provide the quarter bottles of wine, typically 187ml, selling at between $5 and $7, are usually on long-term contracts which enable them to produce sufficient volume.

But almost as important as the contents for the economy market are labeling and packaging. In fact, there have been complaints from wine writers that many wineries regard airline economy cabins as something of a dumping ground for excess stock.

Storage also plays a big part, so don’t expect to drink anything special whilst on an internal short-haul flight where the reds and whites, and even the quarter bottles of Champagne occasionally carried, will be of a uniform temperature, usually settling at around cool to middling.

Sad to say, it is far from unusual on some carriers to be offered ice with one’s Champagne.

However, turning left when boarding the aircraft should see you in far safer territory although there is never a cast-iron

Wines in American’s first-class cabin include a “fourth growth” Bordeaux from Chateau Lafon-Rochet, definitely not a selection that will be found in coach guarantee. Robin Padgett is vice-president of aircraft catering at Emirates and handles both food and beverage on board.

As Emirates is based in Dubai it has to deal with a diversity of palates—from Asia, Australia and Africa as well as Europe.

Emirates plays it safe with a wine selection that is generally very classical and focuses, albeit not exclusively, on the most famous wine regions. “Red Bordeaux features on every first- and business-class list without fail,” Padgett says. “Emirates invests millions of euros every year forward-purchasing these wines and laying them down in the cellar for future enjoyment.

“For example, Château Batailley 2000 from Pauillac was served in business-class recently. This is perfect to drink now but would no longer be available to purchase.

Without exception, the Bordeaux red is the most popular on any flight. Another classic region we focus on is Burgundy, especially for whites. We have recently experimented with German Rieslings as these wines are superb.”

Having recently opened a route to Buenos Aires in Argentina, Emirates currently has a pouring which, according to Padgett, is getting “great feedback from our customers.” Given that it retails at around $65 a bottle, it should certainly slip down smoothly.

So the next time you sit back and relax over your glass of wine at 35,000 feet, maybe just spend a moment or two to think of all the work that has been undertaken in order to deliver something with a delicious taste in an effort to persuade you to travel with the same airline again.

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Water heaters have historically been out of sight and out of mind, fulfilling necessary functions in home operation and maintenance and helping to ensure personal comfort while not troubling their owners one bit. Sadly, most water heaters are all too noticeable, especially when it comes to cost. The appliances are second only to heating and air-conditioning equipment in terms of energy consumption, meaning you’re probably paying top dollar for your clean clothes, clean dishes, and your hot showers in the morning, among other uses. But you don’t have to be.

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tOmmy “twO gLOves” gainey The story of a hard-working guy sweating it out on an assembly line during the day and trying to make his dreams come true on the weekend is usually associated with Hollywood movies and blue collar fairy tales, but in the case of Tommy Gainey, it’s a biography. Today a pro on the PGA TOUR, the South Carolina native used to spend his days wrapping insulation on water heaters for A. O. Smith. He turned pro in 1998, spent the next few years earning his stripes on smaller tours down south, and eventually earned his tour card in 2007 after a run through the Nationwide Tour and Q-School. Known for his distinctive two gloves (one on each hand), Gainey credits A. O. Smith with both a living in his early days and support in his current endeavors.

“A. O. Smith gave me an opportunity to make a living so many years ago when I began working at the McBee plant,” Gainey said in a press release. “I don’t think that I can ever thank them enough for putting their faith in me yet again and deciding to sponsor me on the tour.”

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The quality products produced by A. O. Smith have a solid foundation of integrity. The company’s earliest days saw it pioneering the usage of steel and sheet metal, exemplified in its production of the first pressed steel automobile frames in the world in 1899. After pioneering the process of fusing glass to steel, the firm patented the method and produced its first glass-lined residential water tank in 1936, with its first residential water heater coming three years later. Though glass-lined tanks are now standard, A. O. Smith’s remain ahead of the competition with the patented Blue Diamond glass coating, more than twice as corrosionresistant compared to industry-standard glass linings.

This durability, along with efficient operation, means that A. O. Smith water heaters are a cost-effective upgrade to a home. They can be built into new construction or installed as replacements to older systems, simultaneously lowering a home’s operating costs while increasing its overall value.

The company has a motto, which reads: “Innovation Has a Name.” As A. O. Smith’s David Chisolm insists, that motto isn’t just corporate jargon.

“It’s not just writing on the wall to us, not just a saying,” he says, “It’s in our DNA.” With more than 100 years of pushing the envelope in whatever field it’s tackled, the proof is in the products, and the products are exceptional.

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It’s not every day that you see a man in one of those triangle-shaped hats and Revolutionary War-era military garb go charging by on horseback, and if I was anywhere else I’d be wondering what, exactly, was in my previous evening’s nightcap, but in Colonial Williamsburg I suppose such a sight is to be expected. The place is a living museum, after all, which explains the hat, known as a “Tricorne.” As museums go, it’s one of the most dynamic I’ve seen. And as a golf destination, it’s not bad either.

My home state of Connecticut (the fifth state) was established as a haven for Puritan noblemen in 1636. Accordingly, its first political act was to start a fight in a bar (Jerry Adams’ Inn & Tavern; the fight was over ceding authority and a coalition of other colonies). At any rate, that, combined with the facts that Connecticut was No.8 of the original 13 colonies, that Benedict Arnold was born there, and that I now live in California, did not impress anyone at Colonial Williamsburg.

This is Virginia, after all, and though it’s said to be for lovers, that doesn’t necessarily mean lovers of West Coast golf writers who roll up with their “endless summer” tans.

It’s true: Southern California is an ideal residence for the avid golfer. With its abundant sunshine, moderate temperatures and numerous affordable golf options, I often feel like the luckiest mid-handicapper in America. I wouldn’t change a thing about my choice to move West, but I often long to play my favorite tracks back home on the East Coast, like Fox Hopyard in East Haddam, Connecticut. But enough about Connecticut, which just happens to be Katharine Hepburn’s home state and the place where Meg Ryan grew up. But enough about... Oh, I just wrote that.

As I was saying, I often long to play my favorite tracks back home on the East Coast, and that now includes the courses in Colonial Williamsburg, which is absolutely in Virginia. While you’ll find plenty of information on other activities in other parts of the state, this particular bit of copy will focus on golf, and golf in Colonial Williamsburg begins with The Golden Horseshoe.

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Forty-five (count ‘em) holes of championship golf are available here, just steps from the historical Colonial village. Your options are many with two outstanding 18-hole layouts (The Gold and Green Courses) and an award-winning 9-hole “short” course that can go the distance with any executive track in the country. All of the golf properties are designated Audubon sanctuaries, and I recently had the rare opportunity to play all three in a 30-hour span.

The Gold Course is a classic Robert Trent Jones design that doesn’t disappoint, from its opening tee box to its superb finishing holes. Since its debut in 1963, the Gold Course has continually received high accolades from the major golf publications. A traditional layout in the finest sense, it features tree-lined fairways, elevated tee boxes and strategic bunker placements. Decision-making is key even before you begin your round. To wit: In a burst of egocentric bravado I chose the blue tees at 6,522 yards, then paid for it dearly all day. Many of the par 4s can play a bit longer than advertised due to gentle breezes that aren’t always so gentle and subtle elevations that aren’t so subtle. The 2nd hole is a short but very tricky par 5 (476 yards from the blues) with a steep drop-off in the fairway down to a green that’s well protected by water and slopes from back to front (yikes!). Long hitters will face a tough approach on their 2nd shot, an obvious lay-up for most of us. The following hole is a lengthy downhill par 3 from the tips with a force carry over water. It displays the course’s playability for all skill levels with the white tees a mere 145 yards out.

After the turn is where the Gold really shows its teeth.

The 10th is a long 450 yard par four with a subtle right turn, the 11th is shorter but narrower, the 15th is a seriously long (634 yard from the tips) par five that plays every inch of its posted distance. The signature 16th hole is a breathtaking island-green hole. Rumored to be the first of its kind, it’s brawn will surely fill a void if you’ve never played the 17th at Sawgrass. The Gold continues its glorious finish with its own distinctive 17th and its narrow chute off the tee followed by a classic dogleg left at 18 with water left of the green and clubhouse views. The greens are in impeccable shape and roll fast but true. Despite the numerous challenges, the Gold Course exhibits the consistency of so many Jones Sr. masterpieces. In many ways it reminded me of Spyglass Hill (once you head into the Del Monte forest) with its natural

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beauty and mature trees. One welcome difference to many of the greats was the noticeable lack of private residences or developments anywhere on the property. The Gold just feels right, even when you’re hitting it wrong.

Green A mile and a half down the road, the Golden Horseshoe delivers again with its Reese Jones offering, the 7,120 yard Green Course. Fortunately, I learned my lesson on the Gold Course and played the white tees at 6,244 yards and a slope of 133. I found it to be a sturdy test of skill even at the shorter distance. While not quite as tantalizing at first glance, many in our group preferred its playability and thought the greens were rolling as good or better than the Gold. As your round on the Green Course rolls on, you realize the peaceful surroundings are as gratifying as the well-manicured Bermuda grass. A straightforward front side provides scoring opportunities but mistakes are still costly. Hole No. 5 has a dozen bunkers flanking the left side of the fairway and 3 more protecting the green from shots long or right. Hole No.8 is a dogleg with a forced carry over a ravine from the tee. The protected green is tucked away to the right and taunts any second shot risk takers. The 11th and the 18th holes steal the show after the turn. An elevated tee looks down upon the amphitheater-like 11th green of this scenic par 3. Water in front swallows all bad misses and quadruplet bunkers surround the rear of the putting surface.

18 is an excellent risk/reward par 5 featuring a daunting tee shot over water followed be a long uphill second shot into a well protected green. Draining a 20 footer for my lone birdie indeed added to my affinity for this epic closing hole.

No.3 Gold Course (top), No.18 Green Course (below right) and Spotswood’s No.2

spoTswood Later the same day I walked out to the Golden Horseshoe’s Spotswood Course and teed it up again. A short (1,865 yards) but sometimes tricky 9 hole course with six par 3s and one par 5, Spotswood’s original 1947 layout was redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1963. It reminded me of the course in Connecticut where I first learned to play the game, where the short par 3s often have small targets. The major differences here were the superior conditions and, like so many things in Williamsburg, the fascinating history behind it.

Find out more about Colonial Williamsburg and its excellent golf at colonialwilliamsburg.com

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livinG MuseuM The word “unique” is perhaps the most over-used adjective in the English language, and yet it’s completely appropriate when describing the experience offered by Colonial Williamsburg. Indeed, where else can one become (albeit for a short time) a resident of an American Colonial city on the verge of war—or in the midst of it? In this city, built in replica of Virginia’s Colonial capital and with residents dressed in fantastically accurate period garb, visitors get to experience, as near as possible we think, a recurring two days in America’s history during which the Revolutionary War began. On day one (which repeats on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays), visitors feel the mounting tension around town as some of the colonists start to express misgivings about their relationship with Great Britain. The community is torn apart as people take sides: those who want peace and those who want independence at any cost. On day two (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) the town is immersed in the war, but life must go on. As you make your way through the town and talk with actual working blacksmiths and other townspeople—including a host of loyalists and patriots, slaves and free men, and more—you can get a sense of how hope was maintained in the face of sacrifice and uncertainty.

With plenty to do and see for all ages, and a range of accommodations and dining that are far more modern and luxurious than anything the colonists enjoyed, there’s no question the experience trumps that offered by any classroom with its invigorating and fully immersed depiction of a crucial moment in our nation’s history. Well worth a visit. colonialwilliamsburg.com

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ouT of Town They say Virginia is for Lovers, and that certainly includes lovers of wine. The state has a nice selection of wineries and breweries spread across its interior, with many a quick trip from Colonial Williamsburg. Here are just a few worth visiting:

James river Cellars Located just north of Richmond, right off of I-95, this winery is well acquainted with entertaining visitors. A range of award-winning wines make this a place worth stopping, while live music, organized tastings and tours and plenty of room to picnic (pets invited as well!) offer reasons to stick around. For a bit of fun and a great souvenir, explore the winery’s “Civil War Wines,” which feature Civil War-era illustrations on a range of wines including “Lee’s Last Stand” on a Reserve Chardonnay, “Monitor Vs. CSS Virginia” on a Merlot and “The Battle of Cold Harbor” on a Vidal Blanc, to name a few.

Annefield vineyards

saudé Creek vineyards

Saxe, Virginia

Just half an hour’s drive from Colonial Williamsburg, Saudé

Roughly three hours from Colonial Williamsburg, this

Creek Vineyards is sited on land that used to hold Frank’s

charming winery on the eastern slope of the Staunton River

Tavern, a colonial inn and public house. George Washington

Valley produces a range of balanced, expressive wines.

reportedly slaked his thirst at Frank’s, and you can assuage

Their off-dry Viognier with its pineapple, honeydew and

yours at the winery. We’re particularly intrigued by their

touch of sugar is perfect for summer, while meat lovers

hybrids, which include Tavern White, a Muscat/Chardonel

should like a glass of their Cab Sauvignon with dinner. A

blend made in the style of the “à peine douce” wines

nice touch: The tasting room is located in the farm’s 1858

beloved of the Colonials, and its darker sibling, Tavern Red.

plantation house, attributed to noted antebellum master builder Jacob W. Holt and beautifully restored.

Find out more about these wineries and the state’s numerous others at Virginiawine.org

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N o r t h East I was raised in the Northeast, so many of my first experiences with golf were in this area. I also golfed a few times in Florida, but I was primarily based in the Northeast. I particularly like Winged Foot, where I am a member, and since I’ve become a golf course developer, I love to play my courses in Westchester, New York (Trump National Golf Club-Westchester) and Bedminster, New Jersey (Trump National Golf Club-Bedminster). Also nearby is Trump National Golf Club-Washington D.C., which fronts the Potomac River for many miles, and in addition, Trump National Golf Club-Colts Neck, Trump National Golf Club-Hudson Valley, and Trump National Golf Club-Philadelphia have been added to my golf course portfolio.

These are all exceptionally beautiful courses and have been designed with the golf connoisseur in mind. I am particular about where I golf and these courses are superb.

I’ve been asked how I’d rate this region against the rest of the country in terms of great golfing opportunities. There are benefits and challenges. There are some very great courses here, a lot of them, but due to the winter weather, several months a year are lost. I can play my courses in Florida and California in the winter season, but that’s not so easy for everyone. Both Trump National Golf Club-Los Angeles and Trump International Golf Course-Palm Beach are spectacular, with the Los Angeles club having year-round availability and the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop. That’s one way to work around the winter months.

One significant benefit that should be pointed out is that the fall in the Northeast is amazingly colorful and it often stays warm enough to play late into the season, which makes golfing a pleasure in every way. The scenery can be breathtaking and enhances the experience to a level that can’t be matched in any other place in the country.

On the whole, the Northeast has a great deal to offer golfers, in particular many great courses. I’ll see you in the Northeast—or lots of other places—real soon.

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With the World Cup and Olympic Games on the horizon, Brazil is destined to be the planet’s sporting epicenter for the next few years.

And nowhere in this enchanted, soccer-crazy country will be busier than the grand old stadium in Rio de Janeiro where once it was impossible even to jive to the samba due to a serious lack of elbow room.

But as Paul Trow discovers, things are a little different these days at the fabled MaracanĂŁ

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Think of the largest open-air stadium you’ve ever entered, let alone stood or sat in, and imagine you’re confronted by a wall of more than 210,000 people, all shoehorned into the same finite space and generating noise on a volcanic scale. Never been anywhere like that before? Then, like me, you obviously weren’t in the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro on July 16, 1950 when host nation Brazil suffered a heart-rending 2-1 defeat against arch rivals Uruguay in the final match of that year’s soccer World Cup. Despite the result, one that reportedly prompted a spate of suicides across the vast South American country, the Maracanã instantly assumed iconic status.

Once Brazil had won the right to host the 1950 World Cup, shortly after the conclusion of World War II, the government decided to build a new stadium worthy of the event. Named originally after the canalized Rio Maracanã that crosses the northern bairros (neighborhoods) of the city, the Maracanã stadium, formerly a horse racing track, was conceived by the Rio de Janeiro mayor of the time, General Ângelo Mendes de Morais, not only as the centerpiece of the forthcoming tournament but also as the world’s biggest stadium. From the outset, the project was criticized by Carlos Lacerda, a local congressman and political enemy of Mendes de Morais. Lacerda’s objections were based on the stadium’s overall expense and chosen location—his preference was to have it built instead in the sprawling hinterland town of Jacarepaguá, a few miles west of Rio. But largely due to the support of the country’s president, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, and more vociferously an influential journalist, Mário Rodrigues Filho, Mendes de

It was not only regarded as the height of spectator luxury throughout the 1950s and beyond, but also as a masterpiece of functionality

Morais won the argument. Upon Filho’s death in 1966, the arena was duly renamed Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho in honor of the mayor’s most valuable ally, though to this day it is generally known to the hoi polloi, and indeed the world at large, as the Maracanã.

At the time of its construction, its imposing elliptical framework, almost circular but not quite, was positively groundbreaking from an architectural viewpoint.

Characterized by two large rings of tiers laid down around the entire playing field, it was not only regarded as the height of spectator luxury throughout the 1950s and beyond but also as a masterpiece of functionality and security. In respect of the latter, two large external flights of stairs connect the upper tiers of the stadium with the surrounding park to guarantee a fast evacuation.

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A Brazilian shot beats Uruguay’s goalkeeper but flies narrowly wide in the 1950 World Cup final

was laid on August 2, 1948 and initially 1,500 workers were deployed on site. But with the first World Cup game scheduled for mid-June 1950, the developers had less than two years to complete construction. Predictably, work soon fell behind schedule, so a further 2,000 workers were drafted in and the stadium was completed, by the skin of its teeth. But from a purist’s viewpoint, it remained unrefined, lacked restroom facilities and a press box, and still looked largely like a building site.

The first match to be staged in the stadium took place on June 16, 1950. Rio de Janeiro All-Stars beat São Paulo All-Stars 3-1, with Didi, the best Brazilian soccer player of his era before the emergence of Pelé a few years later, scoring the first goal. On June 24, 1950, the first World Cup match took place at the Maracanã in front of 81,000 spectators. Brazil beat Mexico 4-0, Ademir becoming the first scorer of a competitive goal at the stadium with his 30th-minute strike. In the end, Ademir netted twice and Brazil’s other goals came from Baltazar and Jair. Five of Brazil’s six games at the tournament were played at the Maracanã (the exception being their 2-2 draw with Switzerland, which took place in São Paulo).

Since its inception, the Maracanã has mainly been used for matches between major domestic soccer clubs, most prominently Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama, not to mention several high-profile concerts and numerous other sporting events.

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Soccer’s governing body, FIFA, officially declared the attendance at the final of the 1950 World Cup as 199,854, (with 173,850 confirmed as having paid). When you add on all the players, officials, ground staff, VIPs and assorted hangers-on that were in the stadium as well that day, there’s little question that in excess of 210,000 people were jostling for air space, let alone a view.

By contrast, standing is now not an option and the Maracanã, following numerous modernization phases, currently seats 82,238 spectators, two-fifths of its original capacity but enough to make it still the largest stadium in South America, never mind Brazil. That figure will rise to around 85,000 following the latest round of renovations, in time for next year’s FIFA Confederations Cup and, beyond it, the World Cup and the Olympics.

On March 21, 1954, a new official attendance record was set at an international soccer match between Brazil and Paraguay after 183,513 spectators entered the stadium with a ticket. In 1963, stadium authorities replaced the square goal posts with round ones (an important move, as any soccer aficionado will tell you) and two years later the stadium was finally deemed to be finished.

In 1969, Pelé, playing for Santos of Sao Paulo, scored the 1,000th goal of his career at the Maracanã against Vasco da Gama in front of 125,000 spectators; and in 1989, Zico scored his final goal for Flamengo, taking his tally at the stadium to 333, a record that still stands.

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While playing for Santos in 1969, Pelé scored his 1,000th goal

In 2016, it will become the sixth stadium to host both a soccer World Cup final and the opening/closing ceremonies of the Olympics On July 19, 1992, an upper stand in the stadium collapsed, resulting in three deaths and more than 50 injuries. Following this disaster, it was converted to an all-seater, and six years later it was classified as a national landmark, meaning it could not be demolished.

The stadium has staged numerous domestic football cup finals, most notably the Copa do Brasil and the Campeonato Cariocan, and in 2000 it hosted the first ever FIFA Club World Cup final between Vasco da Gama and Corinthians, which Corinthians won on penalties.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the stadium, on January 16, 1980, Frank Sinatra performed to a crowd of 180,000—a figure matched officially by both Tina Turner and Sir Paul McCartney, in 1988 and 1990 respectively, and in all probability by Pope John Paul II when he celebrated masses there in 1980 and 1997. From 18-27 January 1991, the second edition of Rock in Rio was headlined by Prince, Guns N’ Roses, George Michael, INXS, New Kids on the Block and a-ha, who played for a world-record-breaking paying audience of 198,000 people.

Other performers to have showcased their skills over the past decade or so at the Maracanã—opinion is divided as to whether the word in native Tupi means “parrot” or “rattle”—include the Rolling Stones, Sting, Madonna and KISS. In 2014, the Maracanã will become only the second stadium to host two World Cup finals, the first being the Estadio Azteca in Mexico (in 1970 and 1986). And in 2016, it is due to become the sixth stadium to host both a World Cup final and the opening/closing ceremonies of the summer Olympic Games. Its predecessors in this respect are: the original Wembley in London (the 1948 Olympics and 1966 World Cup final); Stade Olympique in Paris (the 1924 Olympics and 1938 World Cup final); Stadio Olimpico in Rome (the 1960 Olympics and 1990 World Cup final);

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Munich’s Olympic Stadium (1972 Olympics and 1974 World Cup final); and Berlin’s Olympic Stadium (1936 Olympics and 2006 World Cup final). As a footnote, the Estadio Azteca only staged the soccer competition when Mexico hosted the Olympics in 1968.

For the World Cup in 2014 (and the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics), the roof will be expanded to cover all the seats inside the Maracanã. In addition, the original seating bowl, with a two-tier configuration, is to be demolished, giving way to a new seating bowl, possibly with a single level of luxury boxes on one side and a couple of levels on the other. The old boxes, installed above the stands for the 2000 FIFA Club World Cup, were dismantled during this reconstruction process.

But the legacy of that 1950 World Cup, and all the great occasions since, will never be dismantled as far as Brazilian sports fans are concerned. And the noise will still be there. Or will it? I wasn’t alive at the time so I only have his word for it, but Alcides Ghiggia, scorer of Uruguay’s winning goal at the 1950 World Cup, presumably knew what he was talking about when he said: “Down through its history, only three people have managed to silence the Maracanã: the Pope, Frank Sinatra and me.”

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Guns N’ Roses headlined Rock in Rio in 1991

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In the beautiful countryside near Arnold Palmer’s hometown sits one of America’s finest educational institutions. More than just a degree, Saint Vincent College offers lessons students can use in life

Archabbot Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B., the Bavarian monk who founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States, once said that “People plant trees though they are certain that the fruit will benefit only the next generation.”

In this spirit, America’s smaller colleges continue to define the bounds of excellence in education, pushing and preparing young men and women to be future leaders.

Among those colleges, one of the best is Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which is a remarkable institution as much for its history as for its excellent academic programs.

Founded in 1846 by Archabbot Wimmer as the Saint Vincent Archabbey and College, Saint Vincent College is steadfastly grounded in the Benedictine tradition. This solid self-awareness allows the college to offer a blueprint for living in addition to its rigorous academic curriculum, shaping students in the tradition of community-living while preparing their intellectual minds in one of 49 undergraduate majors and 51 minors.

“We believe, certainly, that the education of the mind is an important part of the experience here, but equally important is an education that reflects values in terms of the way we live our lives,” says Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B., who serves as Archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey and as Chancellor of Saint Vincent College and Seminary.

In addition to being the first Benedictine monastery founded in the United States, Archabbot Douglas says the Archabbey is the largest Benedictine monastery in the world, with 165 monks in total. Approximately 120 reside on the campus in Latrobe and 30 of those serve as professors to the nearly 1,800 students, joining the other faculty in providing formidable educations in such areas as the Natural Sciences, Business, Education and Social Sciences, and basic Humanities, just to name a few.

ResouRces Of Saint Vincent’s numerous resources, one of its most enduring is the Fred Rogers Center. The Center, named for the iconic and beloved “Mister Rogers” of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” children’s television fame, exists to advance the fields of early learning and children’s media.

Rogers himself—a Latrobe native and Latrobe High School classmate of Arnold Palmer—pioneered the use of television as a tool for nurturing and educating children. Faculty and students of Saint Vincent College work in the Center to build on his legacy, expanding the potential of all new media to improve the educational foundations of youth.

Just across the street from the Fred Rogers Center is another tremendous resource, the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College. Mr. Palmer’s late wife, Winnie, served on the board of Saint Vincent College, and her well-known commitment to nature is beautifully exemplified in the Reserve.

As Archabbot Douglas explains, “One of Winnie’s great concerns over the years is that kids spend too much time in front of the computer and not enough time outdoors.

As part of her ongoing legacy, Arnie and his daughters decided it would be a great tribute to Winnie if they did something that reflected her interest and commitment to nature. Now we have this beautiful community resource.”

With its 50 acres of hiking and biking trails, an education center and a number of nature programs offered throughout the year, the Reserve is more than just another beautiful asset at Saint Vincent College, fully open to the public, it’s also a Latrobe treasure.

On a visit to the recently completed science center, Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson (astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City) said: “The Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion at Saint Vincent College is more than just a building. It’s a symbol of the school’s commitment to science education. I am particularly impressed by the facility’s innovative design elements—inspired by science and math themes—alongside its multi-use labs where different sciences can cross-pollinate their methods, tools, and ideas toward a greater understanding of the physical world. The country needs this right now.”

The Saint Vincent Basilica (facing page) was built by 40 Benedictine monks in 1905 while the Sis and Herman Dupre Science Pavilion (left) was completed earlier this year

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The Laurel Highlands of Western Pennsylvania and the town of Latrobe are as pastoral and charming as anyone could wish. The community of Saint Vincent College sits on nearly 300 acres of this serene environment, offering plenty of opportunities for physical development, reflection and academic pursuits. With a small faculty-to-student ratio, students get individual attention and each student, whether graduate or undergraduate, has a faculty advisor who serves as a guide and sounding board to help plan both academic schedules and extracurricular activities, of which there are many. Of the 82 percent of the students that graduate from Saint Vincent College, 93 percent find employment in their chosen field, gain admittance to a graduate or professional school or engage in full-time service, meaning Saint Vincent’s success rate is one of the highest in the land.

Of course, there is life beyond academics: While the mind is certainly worked at Saint Vincent College, the body is hardly ignored. After all, this is where the Pittsburgh Steelers run their training camp. And with its natural setting, there’s plenty of off-campus hiking, riding, skiing, mountain biking, hunting, fishing and whitewater rafting. On campus, there are 20 organized sports offered by the college (ten each for men and women) in which approximately 25 percent of the student body participates, competing in Division III of the NCAA. Not surprisingly as the hometown of Mr. Palmer, golf is one of them and there are fantastic opportunities for that nearby.

Additionally, there are approximately 60 clubs and programs offered by the college, meaning students have plenty of chances to socialize and broaden their college experience beyond the classroom—and even beyond the country. Many students take a semester to head for educational opportunities in countries like Australia, Italy, Ireland, England and Spain, to name just a few. Quite interestingly, Saint Vincent College has a particularly strong relationship with China, one that dates to the 1920s.

The longevity of the ties—understandably suspended temporarily during the reign of Mao Tse-tung—underscores a tremendous resource in that students at Saint Vincent College have access to building their own relationships and understanding with what is perhaps the world’s premiere new economy.

“Our students are involved with the language, they get a Chinese roommate, they learn about the philosophy and the culture and they get deeply involved in understanding the country,” says Br. Norman Hipps, O.S.B., Saint Vincent College president. “They’re studying China, rather than simply studying abroad.”

Backed by strong educational programs at home through the college’s on-campus Loe China Studies Center, the opportunity provided by Saint Vincent College in this regard is fairly tremendous.

Off-campus experiences aren’t relegated to study-abroad programs and, like the college’s China program, offer as much character-building as they do education.

“Service opportunities are an important part of our educational experience as well,” says Archabbot Douglas.

“We have students working in Calcutta [India] with Mother Teresa’s sisters, in China and Taiwan working at orphanages, in Guatemala, Brazil, also in Alaska working with poor students in distant areas, and we have our Appalachian programs... A lot of this is through volunteers and direct-involvement programs with which our own students are involved.”

An education at Saint Vincent College is a journey, then, not just a period of unguided information-gathering.

“It’s a wonderful place for a person to come and to spend that 18- to 22-year-old time period,” says Br. Norman. “A student can be focused on the particular course of studies that student might want to pursue, go through that in a way that prepares them for early employment opportunities or advanced studies, in the context of the committed community that is part of the Saint Vincent program, whether that person happens to be of my faith, another faith, or no faith at all. Each individual is valued in our community, and we look for each person’s growth to be maximized over an experience that is, quite frankly, the beginning of a lifetime of quality.”

Find out more about Saint Vincent College at www.stvincent.edu

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enedictine monks from bavaria came to latrobe, Pennsylvania to begin their first educational foundation in the United states in 1846. From humble beginnings, saint Vincent has grown into one of the premiere educational institutions in the United states. sponsored by saint Vincent Archabbey, a liberal arts and sciences college offers undergraduate and graduate education of the highest quality and a seminary offers preparation for the priesthood and graduate studies in theology. located adjacent to Arnold Palmer’s latrobe Country Club, Arnold Palmer regional Airport and the springhill suites by marriott, saint Vincent welcomes students and visitors from all over the world to its scenic campus and outstanding educational, cultural and recreational facilities including the Fred m. rogers Center, Winnie Palmer nature reserve and the sis and herman duprÊ science Pavilion. Plan a campus visit whenever you are in the neighborhood!

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PieceS of Summer Sunshine and long days are well and good, but you can’t go out there empty-handed. The simplest things can make the biggest difference, evidenced by these hot-season cool classics Photography r e a d e T i l l e y

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Put summer’s soundtrack in your head with the C5 headphones from audio luminaries Bowers & Wilkins. The absolute best in-ears we’ve tried.

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Beach-side, poolside or en route to anywhere, a good book is a summer must-have. We like hard-boiled detective classics from the likes of Dashiell Hammett, the Thin Man and Maltese Falcon author who once said, “You gotta look on the bright side, even if there ain’t one.”

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Jamaican Rum

it’s a fact: sunshine goes better with rum. We like ours rich, dark and unpretentious, like this offering from Jamaica’s Sea Dog.

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How Cleveland Clinic is capturing the invisible powers of creativity and collaboration and helping to define our country’s healthcare future

There is no indusTry or organization that would not want to be considered “innovative.” The term “innovation” itself has become ever-present in our country in recent years as reliance on an industrial and service base has yielded to a knowledge-driven economy. The one sector that can probably lay claim to leading in introducing advances that have continually improved their “product” and outcomes is the U.S. medical system.

Putting aside the rhetoric, and even some of the reality of the challenges that modern healthcare faces, there are real and consistent facts that must be acknowledged. Life expectancy has almost doubled since 1900. Disorders and chronic diseases that were once considered “death sentences” have been either eliminated or controlled through medical advancements and disease management. Not only have lives been extended, but they have also been improved through introduction of devices and drugs.

If medical innovation had a capital city, it would likely be Cleveland, Ohio. For over 90 years, Cleveland Clinic has been at the cutting edge of patient-centered creativity and scientific advancement. This physician-led organization is where medical advancement took place: the first blood transfusion (1906); kidney dialysis (1943); cardiac catheterization (1958); and near-total face transplant (2008). Now, The Clinic has taken its penchant for generating transcendent thought and coupled it with the region’s entrepreneurial spirit to write a new chapter in America’s primacy in global healthcare.

The InnovaTIon allIance: ParTnerIng To helP PaTIenTs Following the same playbook that brought Cleveland Clinic to international prominence in delivery of advanced healthcare, the CCI team took its formula for profound success built from the creativity on the Clinic’s campus and made it transferable. The Healthcare Innovation Alliance is intended to extend CCI’s core competencies to other healthcare systems and academic institutions in an effort to promote innovation and accelerate the development and commercialization innovation. This Alliance network allows not only a delivery of healthcare innovation, but also the opportunity to best serve their respective communities through considerable economic impact.

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Through the Healthcare Innovation Alliance, CCI provides the same high level of commercialization services to other organizations as it provides to its own clinicians. The primary purpose of the Innovation Alliance is to develop a national network to improve and extend lives through joint collaboration, research, clinical investigation, development and commercialization. In January 2011, the Healthcare Innovation Alliance was launched with the announcement of the inaugural collaboration between CCI and MedStar Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in the Mid-Atlantic. In early 2012, North Shore Long Island Jewish, the nation’s second-largest non-profit secular healthcare system, was added to the growing Healthcare Innovation Alliance network. In May 2012, the University of Notre Dame was the first U.S. university to join the Healthcare Innovation Alliance.

The sTaTe of InnovaTIon Some have argued that the lack of systems thinking has long been a burden on innovation in healthcare.

A substantial amount of healthcare innovation occurs in “silos” of unconnected healthcare systems, hospitals, academic research centers and corporations spread across the country and the world. Even within healthcare systems and hospitals, silos between physicians and administration, and nursing and administration departments have contributed significantly to a lack of innovation.

The Healthcare Innovation Alliance is intended to work on breaking the silo mentality and connect innovative healthcare systems and academic research centers to each other. New treatments, products and services are to be identified developed through collaboration.

Over the next 20 years, investment opportunities within the healthcare delivery system will be driven by an imperative to create and deploy cost-effective business and technological solutions to address U.S. healthcare challenges. The convergence of the requirements of reform and the need for innovation create an opportunity to leverage the intellectual capital of healthcare services providers and academic research centers to incubate new ideas and ventures.

Cleveland Clinic Innovations believes that the Alliances will unite exciting ideas, premier partnerships and prosperous communities to improve healthcare.

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The evoluTIon of cleveland clInIc InnovaTIons One of the most fascinating and complex journeys to chart is the one from idea generation at the point of care, to the medical marketplace, and ultimately back to the bedside. Every day, health care providers on the front lines of the fight against disease are recognizing unmet needs and solving the problems that affect both patients and the larger community.

Building on the Clinic’s legacy of positioning itself as the medical leader, Cleveland Clinic looks at innovation as being an institutional priority. Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove is one of the Clinic’s most prolific inventors, holding over 30 patents in the field of Cardiac Surgery. There is a culture within the Clinic that has a vision and commitment to advancing health through developing new techniques and technology.

In the mid-1990s Dr. Cosgrove and Neurosurgeon/ the Clinic’s current Chief of Staff Dr. Joseph Hahn launched a robust, systematic and sustainable process to stimulate, develop and divest new ideas. By assembling the engineers, investors, prototyping facilities, regulatory experts and market intelligence veterans who all must touch a new innovation as it travels from “bench to the bedside,” these physician-entrepreneurs defined the function that would assist inventors and become known as Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI).

In 2010, Dr. Thomas Graham was named Chief Innovations Officer of Cleveland Clinic. Along with Executive Director of Innovations, Chris Coburn, Dr. Graham identified industry veterans with advanced expertise and acute cultural sensitivity. Graham described, “In order for us to continue to build CCI into a championship organization that can compete in both the challenging healthcare and business climates, we needed leaders who believed in our mission to extend and improve patient lives, and appreciated the opportunity to represent Cleveland Clinic.”

From very early on, CCI marked a tipping point in academic, not-for-profit medicine when private sector minds decided to collaborate and provide an in-house service to assist Cleveland Clinic to compete more successfully and fuel both their local economy, while helping to define a new direction in global healthcare.

“There are few things more sacred and gratifying than caring for another human being, but we as practicing physicians are limited to performing the art of medicine one patient at a time,” describes Dr. Graham. “However, when you can invent something that places advanced capability in the hands of your colleagues around the world, you can touch hundreds or thousands of patients who would not have otherwise benefitted”.

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Summer wish list When the world heats up, there’s no reason to stay indoors (unless you want to). These great gifts and accessories offer a lot of fun for the sun and some serious cool for the inside

BOWERS & WILKINS WEATHER PROOF MONITORS

SUNBRITE TV Lovers of the outdoors don’t have to leave the entertainment inside thanks to SunBriteTV. Offerings like their 4660HD—which is a True Outdoor All-Weather 46” LCD TV that delivers full 1080p HD entertainment and is resistant to rain, snow, dust, insects, and extreme heat and cold—can be the life of the patio party, the centerpiece of a big game-day get-together, a fun distraction for the family or even the perfect complement to a moonlit night as you curl up under the stars to watch a romantic feature with a loved one.

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In the summer so many things are simply better in the fresh air—and that includes music. Forget the extension cords and cumbersome battery packs, Bowers & Wilkins have created a series of hard-wearing weather monitors that bring the company’s unparalleled clarity, depth and range of sound to gardens, pools and even putting greens.

With a clever design that prevents rainwater from ever entering the unit, these classical looking beauties will carry on delivering great sound for years and years in any outdoor environment, dry or wet. Moisture just rolls off them while the sound keeps rolling out. bowers-wilkins.com

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HANGER PROJECT One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to your clothes, so why shouldn’t the same be true when it comes to your hangers? The Hanger Project’s Luxury Suit Hangers, available in four widths, are specifically designed to mimic your shoulders with a contoured profile that preserves both the drape of your suit and prevents the collar from stretching. Not forgetting the trousers, a felted trouser bar completely eliminates the creasing caused by locking bars. As well as your clothes the Hanger Project also want to look after your shoes with their Frenchmade Saphir Medaille d’Or Shoe Polish. We say fine hangers and fine polish. Check out their other products for the discerning.

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BOWLER & BLAKE A golf industry specialist, Bowler & Blake provide fine woven silk ties.

Using the finest materials, they custom weave your club crest or logo to become an integral part of the tie. Bowler & Blake also provide Blazer Crests, Blazer Buttons, ProClip Money Clips and Bag Tags, all customized to your club or company’s specifications.

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TOMMY HILFIGER GOLF SWEATER Classic American cool with a sporting edge, or, as Tommy Hilfiger themselves proclaim, their current golf collection is ‘Preppy with a Twist.’ To make this season’s collection appeal to the serious golfer meant designing a line displaying golf sportswear at the core but one that can be worn equally well off the golf course. Traditionally a cotton driven category, Hilfiger Golf embraced the modern trend of incorporating technical fabrics to improve performance and providing fits that accommodate the freedom of movement required in the back swing. Shown here is the Landon Sweater, inspired by the island of St Barth’s, a location that conjures up thoughts of white sandy beaches, billowing palm trees and pure blue waters which are reflected in this sweater. Ideal for links golf! usa.tommy.com

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ROLEX COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA “PAUL NEWMAN”

LA PALINA CIGARS La Palina Cigars was established in 1896

by Samuel Paley. When Sam retired in 1926, sadly the company retired with him.

That is until his grandson, William Paley, re-launched La Palina Cigars in 2010.

Featured here is the Churchill and Torpedo, from the La Palina El Diario collection.

Rolled at the Raices Cubana factory in Honduras, El Diario is presented in a box of 20 cigars and available in 7 sizes. All of the cigars are richly-flavored, mediumbodied and so balanced to be designed as the ideal choice for daily enjoyment. El Diario translates to “The Daily” in English.

Like Arnold Palmer, Rolex is our favorite watch brand at Kingdom by some distance and we commend readers to check out their latest offerings. Here, though, we go back in time and feature a beautiful example of a 1966 Rolex Cosmograph Paul Newman Daytona in the sought-after, three-color, stepped combination of black, red and white.

The Paul Newman Daytona is a manualwind watch, powered by a Val-joux 72 movement and rare to find, especially a top quality example. The watch is available through 1stdibs, a website that allows buyers to find an incredible array of one-of-a-kind, collectible items.

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GLENMORANGIE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP LIMITED EDITION GIFT SET The Glenmorangie Open Championship Limited Editions make perfect gifts for both Scotch and golf enthusiasts alike. The Open Championship Gift Set (shown here) and a 1.75-litre bottle were created to mark Glenmorangie’s recent designation as the Official Whisky of The Open Championship.

The Gift Set contains one 750ml bottle of Glenmorangie Original and two commemorative glasses engraved with the 2012 Royal Lytham & St Annes Open Championship logo. The 1.75-litre is a stunning collector’s item which features the Open Championship logo on its limited edition label.

Glenmorangie Single Malt Scotch Whisky originates in the Scottish Highlands where, at the Glenmorangie Distillery, it is distilled in the tallest malt whisky stills in Scotland, expertly matured in the finest oak casks, and perfected by the 16 Men of Tain. The Distillery was founded in 1843 and is renowned as a pioneer in its field, uniting tradition with innovation to create ‘unnecessarily well-made whiskies.’

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I’M CADDIE Clip it on on your cap, press the button and a voice magically pipes up to tell you the precise distance to the flag. We at Kingdom are yet to try these little beauties but with 17,000 courses covered in the United States and 30,000 worldwide, this certainly sounds like an extremely handy and incredibly light GPS. With 13 hours of battery time before the need to recharge and a choice of seven languages, this is obviously the template for the next generation of rangefinders.

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KRU 82 VODKA CLIP BOTTLE Distilled in Holland, KRU 82 is a crisp, clean and exceptionally well-balanced vodka. Along with its smooth taste, these qualities make KRU 82 equally desirable as a strong martini or for mixing in a fruit-based cocktail. KRU 82 comes in a variety of sizes from 1.75-litre down to a handy 200ml and its innovative stainlesssteel container not only looks great but is sturdy, recyclable, reusable and, best of all, you can clip it straight onto your golf bag. KRU 82 is one of our new favorite vodkas here at Kingdom.. If you are looking for a fun round, clip it on and let the swing juice work its magic.

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SWING BOX If you have the space to swing a golf club in your house, apartment or office then you now have the space to practice properly with a full swing and real golf ball, thanks to Swingbox.

Their ingenious design absorbs the energy of a golf ball hit at full strength, then gently allows the ball to descend along the front face of the unit—so you know whether the shot was true, left or right— before returning the ball back to your feet to be hit again. We particularly like the “thud” on impact of a well-struck shot. Check out the video on the website to see it in action.

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DAVE HICKS PUTTING DHP is a British company that has developed a device that revolutionizes the feel of putting based on their unique patented putter shaft damping device called GOTTHEVIBE. DHP has also introduced a range of putters that come premanufactured with GOTTHEVIBE inside. The VIBE Series range of putters are forged, 100% CNC machine-milled in high quality stainless or carbon steel. Extremely forgiving! This writer is a recent and very happy convert to the brand.

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HYPER-LITE 4.5 STAND BAG The Hyper-Lite 4.5 Stand Bag delivers lightweight performance at its finest, with a great combination of advanced features and ample storage for every level of golfer. It is fitted with an integrated lightweight rubber handle on the spine, five full-length dividers, new XTT® base and stand technology, a hip pad for better ventilation, and a padded 4-point double strap (a single-strap option is also available). Handily, it has 11 pockets, including a large apparel pocket with a scorecard slot, a waterproof zip pocket, a hidden pocket for valuables (see how quickly you can find it), a water-bottle slot, ball marker, glove, pen and umbrella holders, towel ring and rain hood.

RAZR RANGEFINDER

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The Callaway RAZR Rangefinder provides quick and accurate distance measurement up to 600 yards and features First Target Priority Mode. RAZR’s cutting edge laser is the company’s most advanced golf product ever, which yields faster target acquisition for the golfer. Callaway’s most compact and powerful golf rangefinder has a fully elastomer armored body design that is 10% smaller than previous models.

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CALLAWAY FORGED WEDGES The latest creations from Callaway chief designer Roger Cleveland offer golfers all the control, spin and feel they could ever want to attack the pin.

Tour CC grooves help promote ideal trajectory and distance control while a softer ‘C’ shape allows for versatility and precise shot making.

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M-CLIP MONEY CLIP This is a money clip that really 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, sliding-lever 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 from 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.

Elvis had one, which should be all the reason you need to park one of these classic beauties in your garage. In any trim, the 1957 Chevrolet was a stunner, but true style aficionados will go for the Bel Air, which offered gold trim on the grille and fenders, a beefed-up interior and acres of chrome (which, to be fair, they all had). You’ll also want Chevy’s iconic 5.7L V8 under the hood, which looks as good as what it’s pushing. One accessory you can probably forget: The optional electric shaver connected to the dash. After all, a little stubble is cool, baby.

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ORIGINAL COCA COLA PICNIC COOLER Want to picnic 1940’s style? Then keep your soda cold in a Coca-Cola branded cooler. Hinged at the rear with a small wire latch and two wire handles, to the base it is marked Progress Refrigerator Co. Louisville Ky. Cool in every sense of the word, a true American classic and another fantastic example of the type of curios and original antiques that can be found at 1stdibs.com

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1940S FRENCH TRAVEL POSTER “JUAN LE PINS” The French Riviera was the very definition of chic in the 1940s and ’50s. This is an original poster from the 1940s promoting Juan le Pins, Antibes, the most exclusive area on the French Riviera. Today the Riviera is changed and they sure don’t make them like this anymore—more’s the shame.

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Take a Full Swing at Home An elegant solution to the traditional bulky golf net.

SwingBox offers golfers a lightweight, innovative home hitting solution that is small enough to fit in your home. No need to have sleeves of golf balls or guess on your shot, SwingBox returns your ball for you and gives you visual and audio feedback that provides a realistic hitting experience

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If you’d prefer to take full swings at real balls inside your house, you might consider the SwingBox, an ingeniously compact indoor practice target that stops balls dead and returns them gently to your feet. The unit looks like an oversize folded-up card table.

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SUMME ThE 20Th CENTurY After being thrilled by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or devastated by Of Mice and Men, people in 1937 had a new drink to help them relish life: The 20th century, which debuted the same year as those iconic works from Disney and Steinbeck, respectively. This smooth, elegant cocktail was brought to the masses by mixologist William Jarling of the UK’s Café Royal, who created the perfect gin libation for anyone who claims they hate gin—assuming you still associate with those people, which you shouldn’t.

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• 1.5 oz gin • .75 oz lilet blanc • .75 oz white Creme de Cacoa • .75 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice Shake ingredients vigorously in a boston Mixer, then serve up in a coupe glass, with a lemon twist.

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Henry James once opined that the two most beautiful words in the English language are “summer afternoon,” and we don’t disagree.

But at its zenith the sun casts no shadows, and those without shade would do well to seek alternative respite. A cold libation is a cooling answer to what can be our overzealous ball of fire overhead, and these—from mixologist Jeff Ashworth—are as beautiful as they are sheltering. Moreover, they prove a long-tested summer truth: ice tastes better when it’s covered with booze. Enjoy.

ERLOVE ER THE OREGON 75 This twist on the classic French 75 features dance partners from Oregon doing a waltz usually reserved for Europeans. Rogue Distillery’s Spruce Gin takes the place of the more traditional English botanical, while a sparkling Chardonnay/Pinot Noir blend from Argyle Vineyards (also Oregonian) stands in for champagne. The Cointreau (just there for the accent anyway) is still French, while the lemon juice can be from anywhere, as long as they’re fresh enough to earn a slap.

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• 1/2 oz lemon juice • 1 oz Rogue Distillery Spruce Gin • 1/2 oz Cointreau • Sparkling Wine from Argyle Vineyards Mix the first three ingredients in a Boston Mixer with ice, then pour into a glass of your choice. Top with bubbly.

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E l D i a b lo This refreshing, slightly sweet take on the margarita first appeared in print in Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink in 1946. Its bold maroon color makes a strong statement— as will the individual drinking it (especially if he has more than three).

• 1 1/2 oz tequila • 1/2 oz crème de cassis • 1/2 oz fresh lime juice • 1 1/2 oz ginger beer Mix the first three ingredients in a boston Mixer with ice, then pour into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Top with ginger beer, and garnish with a lime. Salted rim optional, as are the devil horns.

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ThE CurE Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur is a fairly recent addition to the cocktail world, and as far as we’re concerned it’s a welcome guest at the party. While it complements almost any spirit, this beer-based creation is the perfect example of how it can add a little lift to a drink—and to your spirits.

While The Cure is the most complicated drink on our list (you have to cut some ginger), the result is well worth the extra time. In fact, it’s a cocktail worth calling in sick for, which we might have done after finishing the research for this article...

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• 1 oz Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur • 5 oz fresh lemon juice • 5 oz light lager • 3-5 thin sticks of peeled ginger Peel and cut some fresh ginger into slim sticks. Pour all ingredients in a glass over ice. Stir gently, and add the ginger sticks.

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The Snack: Chile Cashews Mix 1tbsp of light vegetable oil, 1tsp of salt, 1tsp of pepper and 2tsp of chile flakes in a bowl and set aside. Laid flat on a tray, roast 2 cups of cashews on 320˚F for five minutes or so, then toss them in the bowl with the other ingredients until the nuts are evenly coated. Roast for another couple of minutes, let cool and enjoy.

The Tool: Zester Zest from a citrus rind not only enlivens a cocktail, it impresses your guests. Try this well-designed zester from KitchenAid in your bar’s tool kit. kitchenaid.com

B LO O D A N D S A N D It might remind you of Rudolph Valentino, bullfighting or the Roman Colosseum, but the best incarnation of the “Blood and Sand” moniker should be served over ice in glass with warm sand and cool waves underfoot.

Its name belies both its smoothness and its complexity, both of which are sufficient to impress a single malt enthusiast.

A sophisticated drink that sounds tough when you order it. Fantastico!

• 1 1/2 oz blended Scotch • 3/4 oz Cherry Heering • 3/4 oz sweet vermouth • 3/4 oz fresh orange juice Mix all ingredients in a Boston Mixer with ice, serve in a coupe glass, with an orange twist.

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Whether responding to acts of God or crediting them with design help, the excellent team at the Arnold Palmer Design Company has been hard at work repairing, creating and refreshing places to play our favorite game. While the work is happening as far afield as South America and as close to home as South Carolina, most recently team members have had a bit of an Irish twinkle in their eyes...

Ah, Tralee. One of golf’s glittering jewels on the Emerald Isle and the first European golf club to be built by Arnold Palmer, it’s one he’s happy to have had help designing. As Palmer himself put it after the club opened, “I may have designed the first nine, but surely God designed the back nine.”

The reason for Arnie’s sentiments are obvious, for the course—with its vibrant green rolling hills and dramatic seascapes—is simply stunning. How happy we are, then, that it’s getting even better (if that’s possible).

“For the last year we’ve been talking to them and working with them, and they asked us to look at everything,” says APDC architect Brandon Johnson. “It’s really exciting.”

Johnson explained that Tralee recently acquired a parcel of land, enabling the club to create a proper practice facility, relocate and re-design the current set-up, which, as Johnson puts it, suffered design-wise from land constraints. Relocating the facility also opens ground that could theoretically be used to revisit the design of the front nine as well.

“We’re looking at how we can make some improvements there, inject some more life into the front nine. It’s already good—the views are incredible—but there are some opportunities there. We’ll see.”

As for Tralee’s part, they’re excited about the possibilities, which are still very much in the planning stages.

“Arnie did a fantastic job here, and we’re absolutely thrilled to be working with him again,” said Tralee’s General Manager Anthony Byrne.”We want to be the best golf course we can be, and we’re always looking at ways to ensure that we are. An updated and world-class practice facility will be part of that, and we’re very excited about other possibilities.”

As far as the staff at Kingdom are concerned, so are we.

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SPRING ISLAND Another storied Palmer design exists a bit closer to home in Old Tabby Links, at South Carolina’s Spring Island community. Designed and built by Palmer and his long-time associate and friend Ed Seay, Old Tabby Links is an absolute gem, 7,004 yards of golf that, as Palmer has it, is akin to “a walk in a nature park.” Recently, the Palmer team was invited back in to give the track a bit of their Refresh treatment, which restores courses to their original glory and perhaps invigorates them with some modernization as well.

“We’ve been working for two years now on the master plan,” says Johnson, “and it’s a big one.”

A new aeration system, new drainage, some fairway work, revisiting all the greens and bunkers, turf

reduction, are all being introduced “We’re bringing back the natural rugged look of Spring Island; it’s a true Refresh, taking a course that had become perhaps over-manicured and bringing back all of the natural features. Once again, you really feel like you’re in the nature preserve that is Spring Island.”

Johnson says fans of the course should rest assured that they won’t be losing any of the charm or challenge they’ve come to love over the years.

“The changes we made were in the spirit of what we had there before, but we alleviated some of the issues that were there. It’s not the same exact golf course, but it’s not a completely different golf course. We were certainly inspired by what was there, and it is really exciting.”

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If Old Tabby Links offers serenity in a Southern island setting, then Dakota Dunes Golf Course in South Dakota is currently at the other end of the “natural” experience.

Ravaged by violent floods last year, the course is in dire need of some repair, and APDC is there.

“Two holes were completely destroyed by the floods last year,” Johnson says. “There was an issue upstream, a bunch of water came down and almost took out the community.”

To save the town, the Army Corps of Engineers had to build emergency levees along the course’s 18th hole, which plays along the bank of the Missouri River. You can guess where they found the dirt for the levees...

“They had to mine that fairway and mine other parts of the course to get enough dirt to save the homes, the clubhouse and other things. At one point, the dirt from the levee is literally touching the porch of one of the houses.

“This happened about this time last year. The water started receding in October or November of last year. I went up there in December and it was freezing cold. They still had the emergency levees up—it looked like a war zone, and it still kind of does, but they’re starting to put it back together.”

APDC’s immediate job is to reconstruct the two holes that were completely destroyed. That, along with work already done by the course managers, should resurrect what was—and what will be again—a beloved club course.

Leaving our (rather over-soaked) shores again, APDC has been busy down in South America, with efforts in the Southern Hemisphere coming along nicely. One that’s getting nearer to opening is Las Piedras, a 9-hole course situated in Uruguay’s popular vacation regions of Punta del Este.

“Construction is almost complete, they’re just finishing up a few details with the grassing,” says APDC architect Thad Layton, who’s been working on the project for some years now. “There was a little step back because of weather, but we’re on track. They’ll be growing it in through winter and spring, with a target opening of December, which is their summer and thus the high season.”

The name translates to “rocks,” which should offer some insight as to the landscape. But in fact, Layton says, it’s actually beautiful, rolling farmland, with the rocks just adding a bit of visual flavor here and there. With a bit of clever design work from Palmer’s guys, the course appears to be revealing itself from the landscape, rather than being built on top of it.

“It’s the least invasive project I’ve been involved in,” Layton told us last year, “and it’s really pushing the envelope.”

Once the construction crew is finished there, they should be moving on to Fazenda Boa Vista, an 18-hole track near Sao Paolo. While construction has yet to begin, chalk up one more great course design for the country that’s getting set to host the return of Olympic golf at the 2016 Summer Games. With a Palmer course on the ground in Brazil, there’s no question golf will be a winner.

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There is one aspect of Latrobe Country Club head pro Randy Bisi’s job that never fails to mystify him and it involves basic math. He can’t understand the high percentage of golf lessons by students who fixate on using a club that, at most, they’ll be able to deploy just 14 times per round. Yes, most golfers devote more time to mastering the big dog, and not the easier-to-learn skill shots that can have a direct impact on reducing golf scores. “If they’re hitting the driver poorly, then the shot that will compensate for the deficiency best is the bump ‘n’ run,” Bisi told Kingdom correspondent Chris Rodell Mastering the bump ‘n’ run, Bisi says, is the shot-shaving key to a round that will confound the big hitters who spend long solitary walks strolling down the fairways wondering why their long drives don’t lead to better scores. Bisi says improving your bump ‘n’ run skills works twofold: once in the fairway and once again on the green where the reduced putting distance will build confidence where it matters most. Randy offered his tips that will help any golfer improve on this crucial course management skill from the fairway of the 8th hole on the course where Arnold Palmer became adept at the bump ‘n’ run...

SURVEY “The first thing you want to do is observe the surroundings of your ball position, what’s between you and the hole and the breaks of the green you’ll need to traverse,” he says.

Ideally, the bump ‘n’ run is deployed on an approach from about 80 yards or less to a green that has no cross hazards.

Reading the green break is essential in helping you secure a good position. Of course, try and leave yourself a short, uphill putt. Bisi says a successful bump ‘n’ run will leave your ball about half the distance of a flag lain on the green— about 4 feet. Executing the shot properly will increase the odds you’ll have of making multiple single-putts on even the trickiest green surfaces.

MINDSET Confidence is essential in any golf swing, and confidence is easy to achieve through practice repetitions of the basics of this shot, one that is simple in its mechanics compared with a full swing with the lob wedge. “Golfers love to hit the flop,” Bisi says, “but the bump ‘n’ run is much more likely to have a better result. It’s a stroke that by its simple nature reduces the chances of a ball being mishit.” He says he tries to get golfers to expand the cup so that a successful shot is within 4 feet of the hole—one-putt range for most golfers more than 50 percent of the time. It’s easier to improve on this shot than it is with many more complex swings, he says. Getting good with the driver makes the fairway seem wider, but getting good with the bump ‘n’ run makes the hole seem bigger and that’s where scoring matters most. “When you’re considering the bump ‘n’ run, understand you’re within golf’s crucial scoring area.

Becoming good at this shot could conceivably knock 12 to 18 shots off your round.”

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ADDRESS Play the ball back in your stance with the majority of your weight on the left foot. Bisi says he tries to keep the stance open with the ball positioned off his right toe. You want to ‘sit’ into the shot and feel the weight on your hamstrings.

The hands are slightly forward. “You want to create a strong ‘V’ from the hands through the elbows and up to the shoulders,” he says. “The ‘V’ helps you swing the club like a pendulum and that’s the motion you need to hit a successful bump ‘n’ run.” A sturdy ‘V’ helps golfers bring the club back and through with minimal movement. Bisi says when the ‘V’ is absent, the arms tend to resemble an ‘O’ and flop around when the club is swung resulting in a lack of essential control. Golfers need to choke up on the grip and not be afraid to put their fingers on the steel below the grip. One rule: closer to the green, closer to the steel on the grip. “The key is to shorten the swing and reduce the number of moving parts,” he says. Don’t be afraid to put your heels together the nearer your position is to the front of the putting surface.

CLUB SELECTION The high lofted club off a tight lie is one of the most difficult shots in golf to master. “Many golfers make the mistake of trying to rely on the flop shot,” Bisi says, “but unless you practice it with regularity, it can really embarrass you.

Amateur golfers use the flop shot in the hopes of hitting something heroic. But they’re more than likely to blade it or hit it fat. Either result can ruin your confidence—not to mention your score.” Bisi likes to rely on a hooded 8-iron. The loft helps the ball spring from the clubface and the resulting trajectory takes the surface irregularities out of play so golfers can focus on getting the ball to follow a putt-like track once it nears the hole. By hooding a club with a higher loft, golfers still get the necessary clubface spring that reduces the chances of the shot being struck fat. “Slightly hooding the toe of the club will turn an 8 into 6 and a 5 into a 3,” he says. “You still get the loft without sacrificing control. This helps trap the ball and makes the shot more safe.”

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STROKE A strong arm ‘V’ will increase the chances that this will be a successful finesse shot, he says. You want to think of the pendulum stroke when you take the club back, moving just the way it does on a dependable old grandfather clock.

“Because there are so few moving parts, it helps me to imagine the logo on my Callaway golf glove on my left hand moving straight toward the target. You want the clubface to go down through the ball, through the grass and straight at the target. You should be feeling that ‘V’ in your elbows close to your body and know that the clubface is square through impact. Keep the eyes over the ball and, as always, keep the head down a full second after impact.”

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ALABAMA Craft Farms

Cotton Creek and Cypress Bend Gulf Shores, Alabama

www.craftfarms.com

Empire Lake Golf Course

Rolling Hills Golf Club

Rancho Cucamonga, California

Palos Verdes Estates, California

www.empirelakes.com

www.rollinghillscc.com

Hiddenbrooke Golf Club

SilverRock Resort

Vallejo, California

La Quinta, California

www.hiddenbrookegolf.com

www.silverrock.org

ARIZONA

Indian Ridge Country Club

The Tradition Golf Club

Arrowhead Country Club

Glendale, Arizona

Arroyo and Grove Courses Palm Desert, California

www.traditiongolfclub.net

www.arrowheadccaz.com

www.indianridgecc.com

Mesa del Sol

Mission Hills Country Club

Yuma, Arizona

www.mesadelsolgolf.com

Starfire at Scottsdale Country Club

Scottsdale, Arizona

www.starfiregolfclub.com

Starr Pass Resort

Tucson, Arizona

www.jwmarriottstarrpass.com

Wildfire at Desert Ridge

Phoenix, Arizona

www.wildfiregolf.com

CALIFORNIA Aviara at Park Hyatt Resort

Carlsbad, California

www.parkaviara.hyatt.com

The Classic Club

Palm Desert, California

www.classicclubgolf.com

Pga WesT, Ca, hole 15

The Arnold Palmer Course Rancho Mirage, California www.missionhills.com

Mountain View Country Club

La Quinta, California

www.mountainviewatlaquinta.com

Pebble Beach Golf Links +

Monterey, California

www.pebblebeach.com

PGA West

The Palmer Private Course La Quinta, California www.pgawest.com

The Presidio Golf Course +@

San Francisco, California

www.presidiogolfclub.com

La Quinta, California

COLORADO Bear Creek Golf Course

Denver, Colorado

www.bearcreekgolfclub.net

Cherry Hills Country Club +

Englewood, Colorado

www.chcc.com

Eagle Ranch Golf Course @

Eagle, Colorado

www.eagleranchgolf.com

Lone Tree Golf Club

Littleton, Colorado

www.golfcolorado.com/lonetree

CONNECtICUt Gillette Ridge Golf Club

Bloomfield, Connecticut

www.gilletteridgegolf.com

Rancho Murieta Country Club

Rancho Murieta, California

www.ranchomurietacc.com

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KEY: + Remodel

FLORIDA Adios Golf Club

Coconut Creek, Florida

www.adiosgolfclub.org

Bay Hill Club and Lodge +

Orlando, Florida

www.bayhill.com

Boca West #1 and Boca West #3

Boca Raton, Florida

www.bocawestcc.org

Deering Bay Yacht and Country Club

Coral Gables, Florida

www.dbycc.com

Frenchman's Reserve

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

Pasadena Yacht and Country Club +

St. Petersburg, Florida

www.pyccgolf.com

Legends at Orange Lake

PGA National

Kissimmee, Florida

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

www.orangelake.com

www.pgaresort.com

Lost Key Golf Course @*

Pine Lakes at Palm Coast Resort

Perdido Key, Florida

Palm Coast, Florida

www.lostkey.com

www.palmcoastresort.com/golf.html

Majors Golf Club at Palm Bay

The Plantation at Ponte Vedra

Palm Bay, Florida

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

www.majorsgolfclub.com

www.theplantationpv.com

Marsh Landing Country Club

Ponte Vedra Golf & Country Club at Sawgrass +

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

www.marshlandingcc.com

Matanzas Woods, Palm Coast Resort

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

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

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GEORGIA

ILLINOIS

The Legend at Shanty Creek

Augusta First Tee

The Den at Fox Creek Golf Club @

www.shantycreek.com/golf

www.thefirstteeaugusta.org

Champions Retreat

Augusta, Georgia

www.championsretreat.net

Cherokee Run Golf Club

Conyers, Georgia

www.cherokeerungolfclub.com

Eagle Watch

Woodstock, Georgia

www.eaglewatchgolf.com

Forest Hills Golf Club +

Augusta, Georgia

www.theforesthillsgolfcourse.com

Landings on Skidaway Island @

Bloomington, Illinois

www.thedengc.com

Hawthorn Woods Country Club

Hawthorn Township, Illinois

www.hwccgolf.com

Spencer T. Olin Community Golf Course

Alton, Illinois

www.spencertolingolf.com

White Eagle Golf Club

Naperville, Illinois

www.whiteeaglegc.com

IOWA Tournament Club of Iowa

Polk City, Iowa

Manitou Passage Golf Club

Cedar, Michigan

www.manitoupassagegolfclub.com

Northville Hills Country Club @

Northville, Michigan

www.northvillehills.com

Ravines Golf Club

Saugatuck, Michigan

www.ravinesgolfclub.com

MINNESOtA Deacon's Lodge

Nisswa, Minnesota

www.deaconslodge.com

Minnesota Valley Golf Club +@

Magnolia Course Savannah, Georgia

www.tcofiowa.com

Bloomington, Minnesota

www.thelandings.com

KENtUCKY

TPC of the Twin Cities @

Stouffers Pine Isle +

Lake Forest Country Club

www.tpctwincities.com

Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia Whitewater Country Club

Fayetteville, Georgia

www.whitewatercc.com

HAWAII The Hapuna Golf Course

Kamuela, Hawaii

www.princeresortshawaii.com

Hawaii Prince Golf Club

Louisville, Kentucky

www.lakeforestgolf.com

MISSISSIPPI

LOUISIANA

The Bridges Golf Club at Hollywood Casino @*

The Bluffs on Thompson Creek

St. Francesville, Louisiana

www.thebluffs.com

MARYLAND Country Club at Woodmore

Mitchellville, Maryland

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

www.ccwoodmore.com

Kapalua Golf Club @

MASSACHUSEttS

www.princeresortshawaii.com

The Bay Course Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii

www.hawaiigolfacademy.com

Turtle Bay Resort

The Palmer Course Kakuku, Hawaii

www.turtlebayresort.com

Blaine, Minnesota

TPC of Boston at Great Woods

Norton, Massachusetts

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

www.tpcboston.com

MONtANA

MICHIGAN

Big Sky Golf Club

Coyote Preserve Golf Club

Big Sky, Montana

www.bigskyresort.com

Fenton, Michigan

www.coyotepreserve.com

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Augusta, Georgia

Bellaire, Michigan

NEBRASKA Arbor Links Golf Course

Regency at Monroe

Scotch Hall Preserve

Freehold, New Jersey

Merry Hill, North Carolina

www.regencyatmonroe.com

www.scotchhallpreserve.com

www.arborlinks.com

NORtH CAROLINA

The Players Club at Deer Creek

Balsam Mountain Preserve

Vass, North Carolina

Nebraska City, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

www.playersclubomaha.com

NEVADA Angel Park Golf Club

Palm Course and Mountain Course Las Vegas, Nevada

www.angelparkgolfclub.com

ArrowCreek Country Club

The Legend Course Reno, Nevada

www.arrowcreekcc.com

Dayton Valley Country Club

Dayton, Nevada

Sylva, North Carolina

www.balsammountain.com

Birkdale Golf Club

Huntersville, North Carolina

www.birkdale.com

Brier Creek Country Club @

Raleigh, North Carolina

www.briercreekcountryclub.com

The Carolina Golf Club

Pinehurst, North Carolina

www.thecarolina.com

Cullasaja Club

Highlands, North Carolina

www.daytonvalley.com

www.cullasajaclub.org

Oasis Golf Club

Mid South Club

Mesquite, Nevada

Southern Pines, North Carolina

www.theoasisgolfclub.com

www.talamore.com

Red Rock Country Club

NCSU—Lonnie Poole Golf Course

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

Woodlake Resort & Golf Club www.woodlakecc.com

White Oak Golf & Equestrian Community

Tryon, North Carolina www.whiteoaktryon.com

NORtH DAKOtA King’s Walk Golf Course

Grand Forks, North Dakota

www.kingswalk.org

OHIO Oasis Golf Club

Loveland, Ohio

www.oasisclub.com

TPC River’s Bend

Cincinnati, Ohio

www.tpcatriversbend.com

Tartan Fields Golf Club

Dublin, Ohio

Raleigh, North Carolina

www.tartanfields.com

Oak Valley Golf Club

OREGON

www.lonniepoolegolfcourse.com

Advance, North Carolina www.oakvalleygolfclub.com

TPC at Piper Glen @

Charlotte, North Carolina

www.tpcpiperglen.com

Quail Hollow Country Club +

Running Y Ranch Resort @

Klamath Falls, Oregon

www.runningy.com

PENNSYLVANIA Blue Bell Country Club

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Charlotte, North Carolina

www.bluebellcc.com

Rivers Edge Golf Club

The Club at Blackthorne

Shallotte, North Carolina

www.river18.com

Penn Township, Pennsylvania

www.theclubatblackthorne.com

Commonwealth National Golf Club @

Horsham, Pennsylvania

www.commonwealthgolfclub.com

deacon’s lodge, mn, hole 5

Ridgeway Country Club

Colliersville, Tennessee

Fawn Lake @

Spotsylvania, Virginia

www.ridgewaycountryclub.com

www.fawnlakevirginia.com

Oakmont, Pennsylvania

tEXAS

Keswick, Virginia

Treesdale Golf and Country Club @

Palmer Lakeside Course Spicewood, Texas

Oakmont Country Club + www.oakmont-countryclub.org

Gibsonia, Pennsylvania

www.treesdalegolf.com

SOUtH CAROLINA Crescent Pointe Golf Club

Bluffton, South Carolina

www.crescentpointegolf.com

Musgrove Mill Golf Club

Clinton, South Carolina

www.musgrovemill.com

Myrtle Beach National

King’s North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

www.mbn.com

Barton Creek Resort @

www.bartoncreek.com

Twin Creeks Golf Course

Allen, Texas

www.twincreeksgolf.com

The Golf Club at Fossil Creek

Fort Worth, Texas

Keswick Golf Club @ www.keswickclub.com

Kingsmill on the James @

The Plantation Course Williamsburg, Virginia www.kingsmill.com

Signature at West Neck

Virginia Beach, Virginia

www.signatureatwestneck.com

www.thegolfclubatfossilcreek.com

WASHINGtON

Lakecliff on Lake Travis

Seattle Golf Club + Seattle, Washington

Spicewood, Texas

www.lakecliff.net

Newport Dunes

Port Aransas, Texas

www.seattlegolfclub.com

Semiahmoo Golf and Country Club @

Blaine, Washington

www.newportdunesgolf.com

www.semiahmoo.com

www.springisland-sc.com

Okatie, South Carolina

La Cantera Resort @ The Palmer Course

Suncadia Resort The Prospector Course

The Reserve at Lake Keowee

www.lacanteragolfclub.com

www.suncadia.com

The Woodlands

WESt VIRGINIA

Old Tabby Links @

Sunset, South Carolina

www.reserveatlakekeowee.com

RiverTowne Country Club

Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

www.rivertownecountryclub.com

San Antonio, Texas

The Palmer Course The Woodlands, Texas www.thewoodlands.com

Roslyn, Washington

Speidel Golf Club Palmer Course

Wheeling, West Virginia

Wexford Golf Club

UtAH

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Jeremy Golf and Country Club

Stonewall Jackson Lake Resort

Park City, Utah

Walkersville, West Virginia

VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN

Bay Creek Golf Club @*

The Bog

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

www.thejeremy.com

Cape Charles, Virginia

www.baycreekgolfclub.com

www.oglebay-resort.com/golf/index.cfm

www.stonewallresort.com

Saukville, Wisconsin

www.golfthebog.com

Belmont Country Club @

Geneva National Golf Club

Ashburn, Virginia

The Palmer Course Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

www.belmontcountryclub.com

Dominion Valley Country Club and Executive Course

Haymarket, Virginia

www.dominionvalley.com

www.genevanationalresort.com

WYOMING Teton Pines Resort and Country Club @

Jackson, Wyoming www.tetonpines.com

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Laurel Valley Golf Club +

Ligonier, Pennsylvania

INTERNATIONAL

GeRmANy

AUSTRALIA

Hannover

Sanctuary Cove Pines Golf Course

Sanctuary Cove, Queensland

www.sanctuarycove.com

BAhAmAS Ginn Sur Mer (formerly West End)

West End, Grand Bahama Island

CANADA 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

Pure Scene Golf Club & Resort

Kunming

Rethmar Golf Links

JApAN

Sporting Club Berlin

Adonis Garden Club

Bad Saarow

www.sporting-club-berlin.de

GUAm

Asahi Miki

Yona

www.leopalaceresort.com

INDIA DLF Golf Club

New Delhi

www.dlfgolfresort.com

Crecy Golf Club (Domain de la Brie) www.domainedelabrie.com

TRALEE, ireland, hole 3

Osaka Aso Prince Hotel Golf Course

Kumamoto Prefecture Forest Miki Golf Club

Hyogo Prefecture Fuji Excellent Ono Club

Hyogo Prefecture

INDoNeSIA

Furano Golf Course

Emeralda Golf and Country Club

The King & Palmer Courses Hokkaido Prefecture

Desa Tapos, Cimanggis (Jakarta)

www.emeraldagolfclub.com

IReLAND Kildare Hotel & Country Club

The Palmer Course & Smurfit Course Straffan, County Kildare www.kclub.ie

Tralee Golf Club

Ardfert, County Kerry

ITALy

Crecy–la–Chapelle

Ajigasawa Kogen Golf Course

LeoPalace Resort The Palmer Course

Four Seasons Resort Peninsula Papagayo

FRANCe

Gifu Prefecture Aomori Prefecture

www.traleegolfclub.com

www.fourseasons.com/costarica/golf/

www.golfclublepavoniere.com

www.rethmar-golf-links.de

CoSTA RICA Papagayo, Guanacaste

Golf Club Le Pavoniere

Prato

Ca’della Nave Golf Club

Japan Classic Country Club

Iga Ueno Kanegasaki Golf Course

Iwate Prefecture Manago Country Club

Tochigi Prefecture Minakami-Kogen Golf Course

Gunma Prefecture Misawa Adonis Golf Club

Gifu Prefecture Niseko Golf Course

Martellago

Hokkaido Prefecture

Castello di Tolcinasco Golf and Country Club

Tochigi Prefecture

www.cadellanave.com

Milano

www.golftolcinasco.it

Shimotsuke Country Club Shin-Foresta Country Club

Mie Prefecture

Shin-Yubari Golf Club

Evercrest Golf Club and Resort

Muju Resort

Hokkaido Prefecture

Nasugbu, Batangas

Muju-Gun

Tsugaru Kogen Golf Course

Aomori Prefecture

www.evercrestgolfclubresort.com

Forest Hills Golf & Country Club

Antipolo, Luzon

Wakasa Country Club Suigetsuko Course

Orchard Golf and Country Club The Legacy

Fukui Prefecture

Dasmarinas, Cavite

Wakasa Country Club Hyugako Course

Kukui Prefecture

www.mujuresort.com

SINGAPORE The Legends Fort Canning Park

www.legendsfortcanning.com

www.theorchardgolf.com

SPAIN

Sun Valley

La Manga Club Resort

Kingsville

Cartagena, Murcia

MALAYSIA

Sun Valley Golf Course

Damai Golf & Country Club

Antipolo City, Luzon

TAIWAN

PORTUGAL

Taoyuan County

Sarawak

www.damaigolf.com

The Legends Golf & Country Resort

Sedenak, Johor

www.oceanicogolf.com

PHILIPPINES Caliraya Springs Golf & Country Club

Barangay Cavinti, Laguna

www.calirayasprings.com

Imperial Golf & Country Club (formerly Cebu Mactan)

REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN Zhailjau Golf Resort

Formosa First Country Club Formosa Yangmei Country Club

Taoyuan County

THAILAND Bangpoo Country Club

Bangkok

Almaty

www.bangpoogolf.com

SOUTH KOREA

Las Piedras

Eunhwasam Country Club

Punte del Este

www.zgr.kz

URUGUAY

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SimpSon HailS palmer legacy Webb Simpson acknowledged the debt he owes to Arnold Palmer after landing his maiden Major title in the 2012 U.S. Open at The Olympic Club in June The 26-year-old, who studied religion at Wake Forest on an Arnold Palmer scholarship, said after his one-stroke victory: “Arnold has been so good to me. He’s meant so much to me and to Wake Forest. I played four years at Wake under his scholarship, which was a huge help. I’ve always been such a big fan of the King and what he represents. Hopefully, I can get a little back for him and make him smile.”

Simpson certainly managed to make Mr. Palmer smile with his nerveless, attacking play down the stretch in San Francisco.

“Someone asked me on Sunday morning who would win, and I said Webb Simpson,” Mr. Palmer said. “He’s been playing wonderful golf, and he was lurking in a good position.

He wasn’t under the pressure of leading and that helped him.

“He’s a great player and I think he will do really well as he goes forward. And now he knows he can win the toughest tournament out there. He’s a great representative of the game of golf and a wonderful man. Golf is better off for him playing so well.”

Simpson, who closed with a brace of two-under-par 68s for a total of 281, didn’t look at a leaderboard after the second hole of his final round. “It’s just not going to help us today,” he recalled his caddie and coach Paul Tesori saying to him at the time. But that’s not to say Simpson was unaware of what was going on.

He could tell from the galleries’ reactions that he was in the thick of things, especially with every tap-in for par eliciting increasingly loud cheers from the Northern Californian spectators.

Simpson, runner-up in last year’s PGA Tour money list with $6.3 million, added: “I probably prayed more on the last three holes than I’ve ever done in my life, and that kept me calm and got me home. It was pretty nerve-racking. I’m glad my wife [Dowd] was with me. I needed her with me because I never felt nerves like I did today. A lot of times I had to hit my legs, because I couldn’t really feel them. I’ve no idea how Tiger has managed to win 14 of these things.”

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