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EDITOR’S LETTER

On Education

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n her third novel, The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather wrote that “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” Amidst the recent global politics, pandemic and pandemonium I’m sure we’re all learning quite a lot, but at this point I’d be happy to play hooky, copy your homework, and graduate back into calm. Reflecting on the year, my patience has increased, my resolve has strengthened, and my skills at the grill have vastly improved (create epic pork shoulders with both perfect bark and a succulent interior? Oh yes I have). But otherwise I generally find myself more irritable, more annoyed, and more tired than usual. There are various reasons for this, but I lay a rather large part of the blame at the feet of 2020. If I’m taking one lesson from this ridiculous year, it’s that “storm” and “calm” are not always imposed or exclusive conditions; sometimes they are simultaneous and chosen, and so choosing to find the calm within a storm can be the best way to survive it. How does one find the calm within a storm, you might ask? Gather round kids, for here is my secret: Get yourself a new Bentley Flying Spur, kit it out with a top Naim Audio system, put on Dave Brubeck’s 1959 classic, Time Out, drive to Savannah, Georgia, and spend a week at the Perry Lane Hotel. Top that off with a few cocktails, a glass of something beautiful from Château d’Esclans, fresh oysters and a steak, and there you go: Calm found.

For more details, check out p34 (Savannah), p132 (Bentley), p152 (wine/food) and p158 (drinks).

Then again, if Southern sojourns on the road aren’t your thing, take to the skies in Learjet’s new Liberty 75 aircraft (p138) and head to California, where you can debate which part of the state offers the best combination of wine + golf (p88). For execs pulling all-nighters, take a lesson from the team at Insperity and the new e-book, Success Strategies in the Age of COVID, which offers the firm’s steadyhanded advice on doing business in challenging times. An excerpt can be found on p148, and it’s a good read (as is the whole book).

Lastly, I want to offer a hearty congratulations to Kingdom’s founders, Matthew Squire and John Halnan, on reaching the 50th issue of this incredible publication. When they co-founded it with Arnold Palmer some 17 years ago, I’m not sure they understood how much of a reflection of their own integrity and character it would become, but it has, and in so many ways that is the reason for its success (that, and its top-notch staff, of course! Joe, Jonny, Matt H, Robin and Kieron, I’m looking at you). Providing calm within everyday storms for 50 issues now, Kingdom offers a lot to willing students of best living.

I’ll be studying up on that subject myself this winter, and looking forward to the spring semester and beyond, when, hopefully, the pop quizzes won’t be so hard. Here’s hoping that all of you and yours have a lovely holiday season.

Be well, Reade Tilley

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PUBLISHER’S LETTER

Looking Back, Stepping Forward

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t has become a cliché to say that 2020 has been an unprecedently awful year, but like so many clichés it is rooted in truth.

My heart goes out to all those that have lost loved ones or seen their livelihoods threatened. Yet despite—or perhaps in contrast to— the loss and lockdowns, 2020 has also brought into clear focus the positive and memorable. Being out on course with family and friends, as one of the few pursuits that has been safely playable, has been a joy of renewed appreciation and refuelled motivation.

The golf industry as a whole, like a DeChambeau drive at Winged Foot, is sailing over hazards and booming.

A personal note of celebration is that this is the 50th issue for us here at Kingdom, so please forgive my self-indulgent pride at reaching this milestone. I must add that my own contribution to this achievement is insignificant in comparison to the collective effort of our talented team, and also compared to the help Arnold Palmer gave us along the way. It doesn’t seem long ago at a Kingdom Cup at Bay Hill, while being interviewed by Kelly Tilghman from the Golf Channel about the 27th issue, that Arnie remarked he was looking forward to the 1000th. I am not sure I will be around to see that but the go-for-the-green, can do mentality that Arnie brought to golf, business and life is something we try to emulate every day.

Bay Hill was Arnold’s second home club after Latrobe but he was also a member of many more clubs; discover which ones and just how many on page 96. Multi-club access for the rest of us is made easy by programs like Palmer Advantage and by the Dormie Network, through which members join six outstanding golf clubs all at once. We take a look at one of the Dormie Network’s prestigious clubs, Arbor Links, on page 114; an Arnold Palmer design that had just opened in time to be covered in our very first issue back in 2003. Also gazing “back to the future”, we feature the latest Bentley supercar, just as we did in our very first issue, a truly prestige marque that is also DeChambeau’s drive.

Lastly, I would like to extend sincere thanks to our readers. Without you, Kingdom would not exist. We always get a kick out of hearing from readers who try to collect every edition of our magazine.

It is great to hear that some readers take as much pride in collecting Kingdom as we do in producing it, and I hope you enjoy our 50th.

Enjoy the holiday season, Matthew Squire

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CONTENTS

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Savannah

Historical, modern, and as charming as ever

The first 50

Still going strong after all these years

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Simply Majestic

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Talking to Trevino

The great Lee Trevino still talks world-class game

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Charting golf’s long-term relationship with royalty Jim Nantz on his friendship with Arnold Palmer

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In case you were wondering, you’re not crazy. Probably

Barefoot luxury

Cali Combination

Wine & golf in one of the world’s great homes for both LEGACY

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Flying High

Why We Golf

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Doc Giffin charts Arnold Palmer’s 76 club memberships

“Arnie didn’t just like to fly.

He loved to fly”

Feeling sand between the toes in the Bahamas

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House on the Prairie

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The mountain-top majesty of the McLemore Club Great holes that continue to inspire great work Golf on the Great Plains at ArborLinks

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Golf destinations at one with their natural landscapes

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The sky looks better with Learjet’s new offering in it COMMUNITY

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GIFT GUIDE

Flying high in the incomparable Flying Spur

Special Reserve Legacy on offer at the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve BUSINESS

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Bouncing back

Rescue, recover and rebuild with Insperity

Pairings elevated by Château d’Esclans

Celebrating both sides of great spirits LAST PAGE

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Sweet Home Virginia

Arnold Palmer’s bond to The Greenbrier dates back to his rookie year on tour

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50 editions of Kingdom magazine, 16 years of publishing, 10,000 pages to read yet there will always only be one King

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SCENE SETTER Travel

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ut in the Atlantic yet just a short hop from Florida, unless you have sailed around them in person, the Bahamas are probably bigger than you think. They spread over a chain that extends for more than 500 miles in all and straddles the Tropic of Cancer. In fact there are more than 700 islands, cays and islets that comprise the Bahamas, although only 30 of them are inhabited. From that 30, in this issue we concentrate on seven golf destinations that span six islands, with some stunning photography that will have you reaching for the golf travel bag.

For a start, this aerial shot from the Abacos has us wanting to dive in right through these pages.

Once a haven for pirates, including the real-life Captain Blackbeard in the 18th century—the Englishman living on New Providence for a short while—today’s big business on the Bahamas is tourism and golf, as the exalted list of course designers bears testimony: Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus among others.

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TA L K I N G TO TREVINO

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hen Lee Trevino was struck by lightning at the Western Open in 1975 at Butler National, it nearly killed him but didn’t phase his sense of humour.

“Damn, I thought to myself,” he would later write in They call me Super Mex, “This is a helluva penalty for slow play”. It’s a helluva a book too, if you are looking for a recommendation, even though he wrote it nearly four decades ago.

It was ironic too, because just a week before he was struck, Trevino played in the U.S. Open at Medinah, and as thunder rumbled overhead he joked to the gallery: “I’m not scared of lightning. I’ve made my peace with the Lord and he promised he wouldn’t throw any darts at me.”

Trevino turns 81 in December and his life has been an incredible journey, from a childhood living in a small wooden house with dirt floors, without plumbing or electricity, to becoming a winner of six major championships and one of the greatest golfers of the 20th century.

We’ll leave the tale of the lightning strike here because it has been told many times and because Trevino has so many more stories to tell.

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Investing in Values

Financial Adviser, Dick Connolly was Arnold’s Palmer’s long-time trusted wealth manager and friend. “’In the 38 years I knew Arnold on professional and personal levels, he never changed as a person; not in the way he treated anyone from presidents to maintenance workers to locker room attendants. And when he made a commitment, he stuck to that commitment, no matter what. It is an ethos I have tried to maintain everyday in my professional and personal life.”

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SHORT GAME

Earning Our Wings

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The story of how Kingdom magazine got off the ground

ingdom magazine launched in 2003. At the time, famous course architect Ed Seay ran Arnold Palmer Golf Design (APDC), and he said to publisher Matthew Squire: “If Arnold likes the first issue he will be with you forever. If you mess up, you’ll never do anything with us again.”

Seay and Arnold Palmer wanted a magazine that would help Palmer, APDC and Arnold Palmer Enterprises communicate regularly with all its designed and managed golf courses, with clients, friends and associates. As it remains to this day, it was an incredibly broad network.

Once the first issue landed, Palmer wanted to meet Matthew. When the publisher arrived at Bay Hill he was told he would be escorting Palmer and the design team on his plane to a course opening.

“Arnold and I had shaken hands but nothing more at this point,” recalls Matthew. “I was in the back with his design colleagues and he was up front, left seat. It was the first time I had ever been on a private jet and I was pretty nervous, not about the flight but about the meeting. A lot was at stake.

“We were coming into land and I noticed everyone in the cabin had their eyes fixed on me. ‘Why are you all looking at me?’ But before I got an answer there was an almighty roar from the engines as Arnold pulled straight up away from the ground. For a couple seconds we must have been virtually vertical. I don’t remember yelling but it must have been close.”

Matthew was not the first rookie on the receiving end of this prank and he was not the last. After the stunt Palmer turned around in the cockpit with a wink and a smile.

“I was green as I disembarked,” adds Matthew, “and unfortunately a moment later was when Arnold and I had

our picture taken with the first issue of Kingdom. If you look [below] you might detect a dose of shell shock…

“Then Arnold told me how pleased he was with the magazine, how he wanted to see it grow and that it was exactly what he wanted to support his business. He told me to call him at any time if there was ever anything he could do to help.

“Ed was right. Arnold did stick with us, and Arnold stuck to his word too. He was always there when we needed him. We tried not to ask for too much, but whatever the request, he never hinted it was over the mark.”

Matthew and his company TMC USA remain publishers of Kingdom to this day, now 50 issues on from the start, and TMC USA repays Palmer’s loyalty by continuing to contribute to the Arnold and Winnie Palmer Foundation and all its great work.

“Arnold’s legacy is one of extraordinary strength and breadth,” says Matthew. “I can’t tell you how proud I am that Kingdom magazine is a small part of that.”

Matthew Squire [left] and Arnold Palmer with the first issue of Kingdom

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FEATURE Savannah

It existed before its first cobblestone was laid. Nothing so silly as a dream, but an ideal, committed to paper with its town squares and its moral compass plotted neatly in straight lines. James Oglethorpe and others believed in it, and so in 1733 they sailed from England and built it, an Enlightenment-era utopian experiment in charity and freedom in which economic equality was mandated, religious freedom proclaimed, and slavery banned.

Standing in one of its town squares 150 years later, looking back through the ruins of the Civil War, could anyone have imagined what might have been—or what was yet to come—for Savannah

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I’M COMPLETELY OUT OF TOUCH. Things are different at The Landings. Quieter. Calmer. The world’s problems seem far away here. And while I’m playing my part by social distancing on 108 holes of golf, for me, it’s just another Tuesday.

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Perry Lane Hotel, elegant study and [below] detail of the whimsical elevator wall

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h dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you’re going, I’m going your way.

The Savannah River inspired Johnny Mercer’s lazily hopeful lyrics in the song Moon River, evoking his childhood along its banks dreamily anticipating life’s possibilities. But the song’s melancholic tune seems to accept that there’s sadness in life’s journey as well, and so it has been for Mercer’s hometown. One of America’s most charming cities began as a utopian ideal, quickly entered a monstrous period of success as a center of the slave trade, and then suffered the consequences of the Civil War. Savannah carries all of that in its soul today, and as it works to reconcile with its past so has it rediscovered some aspects of its idyllic foundations. In 2020 Savannah’s charms are as present as they’ve ever been, but there’s also a progressive feeling in the air, a sense that, in some ways at least, it is more like the city it was envisioned to be in 1733— only with much better dining and accommodations.

For evidence of progress, one need look no further than the Perry Lane Hotel. Fresh, clean, cutting-edge luxury awaits in a property that will delight discerning explorers accustomed to metropolitan standards and cultural felicity.

The place is bursting with curious art and playful design, the rooms are modern, and the on-site sustenance—via the Emporium and Peregrine restaurants and The Wayward bar—is some of the city’s best. But more than just appealing to contemporary-minded guests, Perry Lane is enjoyed by

local regulars, and there are visiting artists, fashion shows, and ties with Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), an institution founded in 1978 that many credit as a force for local culture. One morning at Perry Lane’s Bowerbird Coffee, the young barista at the counter had just finished sketching an incredible illustration on a napkin. A SCAD student, her employ here underlines the connection between the hotel and the college, and the resulting creative energy. In regard to plotting Savannah’s future, spaces like this don’t just accommodate the conversation, they help to drive it and, in a city with Savannah’s possibilities, that’s fantastic.

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For its first 19 years Savannah was a bright experiment in Enlightenment ideals. Slavery was outlawed, religious freedom assured, and every settler in the new Colony of Georgia received 50 acres of land, which could not be sold, traded nor borrowed against—policies meant to prevent individuals from concentrating land and wealth. British Parlimentarian James Oglethorpe and a group of investors created Georgia in 1733 by convincing King George to free those in England’s debtors prisons and to give them a second chance. The land laws, prohibition of slavery and religious freedoms were based on Enlightenment ideals and, for a brief time, it seemed to work. Oglethorpe had planned the city before he arrived, designing it around 24 town squares (22 of which remain today). A Jewish community was established, and the future looked good. But a failed agricultural program and discord among residents who felt trapped on their land led to the crown pulling the colony’s charter and taking over in 1752, with the most dire consequence being the permittance of slavery. More than just allow it, Savannah embraced it, and in 1859 the city hosted the largest single sale of enslaved persons in Georgia history. Over two days in March, 436 men, women, and children were sold by plantation owner Pierce M. Butler to satisfy creditors. The auction’s destruction of families became known as “The Weeping Time” and, via its reporting in Northern newspapers, it deepened the then-growing divide in the run-up to the Civil War. Savannahns of the late 19th century would find the structure and legendary hospitality of their city much as they left it, but they hardly would believe its improved égalité.

Four of the last five mayors have been African Americans, the crowds on River Street hail from all over the world, and the emerging arts and culinary scenes transcend traditional Southern offerings. Nowhere else in America, perhaps, does the past so effortlessly house the present and drive the modern. Consider Mashama Bailey, an African American woman and arguably Savannah’s best chef. The Bronx native, who attended grammar school in Savannah then returned to NYC as a kid, was featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table. On the show, she discussed her return to Savannah to open The Grey restaurant with John O. Morisano, siting it in a restored, formerly segregated Greyhound bus terminal.

“My ancestors were here,” she explained, “and so many struggles have happened in this building. I felt a connection.”

When Bailey won the 2019 James Beard award for Best Chef in the Southeast, she was the first Savannah chef in 19 years to take such an honor. The Grey, and her side project The Grey Market, are among Savannah’s most lauded food venues, and are surrounded by others as well, including Repeal 33 and its house-made wonders. Even the city’s staples are good, such as Sorry Charlie’s Oyster Bar. The neon fish sign is from 1947, but the service and fare are wonderfully timeless, like so much else here. (Ask for Marvin Duran, and tip him well.)

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SCAD’s influence is but one example of Savannah’s modern and historical cultures coexisting

Clockwise from top left: SCAD; classic house on a square; Grey Market; Sorry Charlie’s; St. John’s Cathedral

In 1864, after Savannah’s defiant belles had stood in their crinolines and bows as Gen. Sherman marched into town with his troops—and did not burn the city, instead presenting it to President Lincoln as a “Christmas Gift”—a young girl named Daisy was compelled to entertain Union Gen. O.O. Howard in her prominent Southern family’s home. “You have only got one arm!” she is said to have exclaimed to the General, who replied, “It was shot off in battle,” adding that Southern rebels had done it. “Did they!”

Daisy gaily said. “Well, I shouldn’t wonder if my papa did it.

He has shot lots of Yankees!”

Daisy, aka Juliette Gordon Low, went on to found the Girl Scouts, and today her home is a museum. Not far from that you can order a “Unicorn’s Mane” at Mirabelle Cafe (2015)—double espresso, rose water, cardamom, steamed milk, and just incredible—only steps from St. John’s Cathedral (1876), then make the short walk to the fountain at Forsyth Park (1858) where you can ponder the fact that the Perry Lane Hotel exists in a new building that seems historic, and that Savannah isn’t as easy to describe as parasols and horse-drawn carriages and the river running through it. All of that is a part of the story, but a bigger part is being written today by people like Chef Bailey, the barista sketching on a napkin, and others who are more aligned with their city’s original plan than its 19th century history. When it comes to the Savannah of tomorrow, count us in as smitten dreamers. It’s waiting ’round the bend, and wherever it’s going, we’re going that way.

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The Landings

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Marshwood Clubhouse and just one of Landings’ courses

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raveling to Savannah, it occurred to us that the city’s charms might compel us to stay, and so it was impossible not to consider life at the incredible Landings community. Tucked amidst Southern pines on Skidaway island, just 10 minutes or so from Savannah’s city center, The Landings is one of America’s premiere communities, boasting six championship golf courses, great dining options and an engaged membership. Everyone here enjoys 30 miles of walking, biking and jogging trails; two fullservice deep-water marinas; a two-acre community garden; and a host of other incredible amenities. Club members also enjoy world-class golf, 30 or so tennis courts, four unique clubhouses with farm-to-table dining, numerous swimming pools, an astounding Fitness & Wellness Center, and more.

Beyond the amenities, however, The Landings holds tremendous appeal due to its commitment to its members and for its incredibly well-balanced lifestyle, offering a range of resort-style amenities that support working families, retirees or seasonal residents in equal measure.

Most notably for fans of Arnold Palmer, The Landings’ Marshwood Clubhouse recently underwent a complete renovation. The new venue is an architecturally stunning 23,500 square feet with a resort-style pool complex featuring a Cabana Bar and two interior dining options that honor Arnold Palmer: Palmer’s Steakhouse and Arnie’s Tavern.

Recently, it won an award from Golf Inc.’s “Clubhouse of the Year” awards, and it’s no wonder. Equal parts beautiful and functional, the clubhouse is but one of four clubhouses at The Landings, each with its own personality. A range of dining options and identities are on offer throughout the property, with the upscale community’s relaxed side on view at The Deck, a “fast-casual” dining facility that’s happy to take members coming off the tennis courts or golf course, from the pool or anyplace else where people are dressed to play and relax. Serving a variety of approachable fare such as sandwiches, pastries, hand-tossed pizzas and more, it is one of the more popular venues on site. With young families and retirees alike making homes here, and so close to Savannah, The Landings is a model for other club communities looking to move forward, and not just for its incredible homesites, dining and hospitality. More than anything, The Landings is committed to its members. As Landings Executive Director Steven Freund told Kingdom, “Our members have embraced it all: pickleball, golf, wellness, tennis, we have a croquet lawn, the pools… It’s this multi-experiential club and a fantastic community of friends. People who want to live an abundant life, a life overflowing, we’d love to meet them.” landingsclub.com

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ess than an hour by car from Savannah we discovered Haig Point, one of those fantastic secrets hidden in plain sight that provides a lifestyle worthy of the best literature, distinctly American but appealingly universal in its simultaneous provision of pure Old World excellence and direct engagement with the modern world—when you want it. This is the setting for great stories and great lives, whether by resident or visitor.

Located on South Carolina’s Daufuskie Island, Haig Point has its own ferry. Embarkation is handled in a woodland area: pull up, drop your groceries and luggage with the valet, park in the protected lot, walk down the dock and there you are. The ride is 15 minutes or so, with hourly departures on the half hour, and the trip is beautiful, transformative even, allowing just enough time to exhale and to shift mentally from mainland to island. Residents can find their groceries waiting at their homes, while we found our luggage in our room. On an “experience” visit, we parked our Bentley in the lot and boarded the ferry at sunset, arriving a short time later at Haig Point’s centerpiece Strachan Mansion. The elegant 1910 building serves as the community’s centerpiece, housing the post office, a general store and a bar, along with accommodations for visitors and guests of residents/members.

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Our room featured a deeply comfortable bed, a mammoth clawfoot tub and access to the mansion’s large deck, with incredible views of the island and waterways. The next morning we toured the area by golf cart (there are no cars on the island), visiting the incredible Equestrian Center, games areas—including six Har-Tru tennis courts, bocce and more—and other amenities. There are 29 holes of golf here, including a well-maintained 20-hole course designed

by Rees Jones in 1986 and another 9 (the “Osprey”) added later. The modern clubhouse holds everything golfers could want, including an executive meeting room—and truly, Haig Point’s out-of-area memberships are an unbelievable offering, providing opportunities for unique client or family engagements at a beyond-reasonable price point—while the rest of the island offers full-time residents (of which there are many) an enviable lifestyle just 10 minutes via water taxi from Hilton Head’s Harbour Town.

Internet here is better than most of the mainland, valet and concierge services are comprehensive and well managed by Haig Point staff, and the greater island holds charms as well, including the Daufuskie Island Crab Co, a waterside restaurant and bar at which you might see a rock star or two. Beyond all of that, the forested lanes, the pastoral vistas, the clean beaches and refreshing quiet make for the kind of living one might believe to be reserved for the best fiction, but this is real. There’s a new elementary school here, a Beach Club and incredible dining and amenities, all of it a world away from anything but so close to the best of everything. We found it clarifyingly real, and difficult to leave. For vacation, for business, or for living, Haig Point is simply stunning. Visit haigpoint.com for more.

Great golf, fine dining and an incredible lifestyle at Haig Point

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TIMELINE 50 issues

e First 50

2004 JA N U A R Y Ground is broken on the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies in Orlando APRIL Palmer makes his 50th and final playing appearance at the Masters JUNE Palmer receives the presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush at the White House [right]

What they say is true: time really does fly when you’re having fun. Here we chart the rise and times of Kingdom magazine

NOVEMBER Palmer leads the United States to a 14-10 victory over the Rest of the World in the final UBS Cup match at Kiawah Island

2005

2003 FEBRUARY Kingdom publisher Matthew Squire begins talks with Ed Seay of Arnold Palmer Course Design about a publication for the members of Palmerdesigned golf courses MARCH Tiger Woods wins the Bay Hill Invitational to become the first PGA Tour player to win the same tournament in four consecutive years since Gene Sarazen in 1930. Woods sets a tournament record with an 11-shot winning margin that stands to this day

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JA N U A R Y Palmer and Kathleen ‘Kit’ Gawthorp marry at Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii

APRIL Agreement is reached with Arnold Palmer and work on the inaugural issue of Kingdom begins M AY IMG founder Mark McCormack dies, aged 73 SEPTEMBER The 100,000th birth is recorded at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children NOVEMBER The first edition of Kingdom is published [above]

APRIL Tiger Woods matches Palmer’s achievement of winning the Masters four times [below] (Palmer was the first golfer to do so, in 1964)

2006 OCTOBER Palmer announces his retirement from competitive golf

2007

2008

2009

JUNE The Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History opens at the USGA Museum in Far Hills, N.J.

SEPTEMBER 10 Palmer celebrates his 80th birthday

NOVEMBER Palmer hosts the inaugural Kingdom Cup, held over two days at Bay Hill Club & Lodge

2010

Barack Obama is elected President of the United States for the first time

J U LY Palmer receives an honorary degree from the University of St Andrews

JA N UA R Y The Kingdom website is launched, originally at arnieskingdom.com before later moving to kingdom.golf Apple launches the first iPhone MARCH The Bay Hill Invitational is renamed the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard APRIL Palmer serves as honorary starter at the Masters for the first time [right] J U LY The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve in Latrobe, Pa. opens [top right]

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2011 NOVEMBER Palmer records his 20th hole-in-one on the 163-yard 7th hole of the Charger Course at Bay Hill

2012 APRIL Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player—The Big Three—join forces as honorary starters of the Masters for the first time

2014

2015

SEPTEMBER Palmer becomes the sixth sports person in history to receive the Congressional Gold Medal

APRIL Palmer celebrates the 60th anniversary of his fourth Masters victory (1964) at Augusta National [above]

J U LY Palmer participates in the Champion Golfers’ Challenge on the Old Course, St Andrews, on the eve of The Open, and makes an emotional farewell to the major championship he twice won [left]

2013 JA N UA R Y Kingdom magazine and TMC USA recognized by the Arnie’s Army Foundation [now the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation] for raising more than $500,000 for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando.

TMC USA’s fund-raising efforts continue to this day.

2016 APRIL Palmer serves as honorary starter at the Masters for the last time SEPTEMBER 25 Palmer dies at the age of 87

MARCH At the Arnold Palmer Invitational Tiger Woods extends his own record by becoming the only player on the PGA Tour to win the same tournament eight times

OCTOBER 4 A Life Well Played, a celebration of the life of Arnold Palmer, is held at the St. Vincent Basilica, Latrobe

NOVEMBER Kingdom’s 10th anniversary issue is published

NOVEMBER The Tribute edition of Kingdom is published [left]

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MARCH Bay Hill stages the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the 40th time and Rory McIlroy wins [left]

2 PARTS FEVER-TREE CLUB SODA OR GINGER ALE SERVE OVER ICE WITH A LEMON TWIST

2017 JA N U A R Y Donald Trump is sworn in as President of the United States MARCH A bronze statue of Palmer is unveiled at Bay Hill, located between the first and 10th tees of the tournament course, ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational

J U LY Women join men for the first time in the Arnold Palmer Cup, for college golfers, at the famous Evian Resort in Switzerland

2019 APRIL Tiger Woods wins his 15th major title at the Masters, 11 years after claiming his 14th major at the 2008 U.S. Open M AY Brooks Koepka completes an astonishing quartet of major victories at the PGA Championship. It is Koepka’s second PGA Championship title in as many years, following a pair of U.S. Open triumphs in 2017 & 2018

2020 NOVEMBER The 50th edition of Kingdom is published [left]

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All precautions under the control of Hygiene Expert In the new era, precautions in the sky will be under the purview of Hygiene Expert cabin crews. Working as a health inspector, Hygiene Experts will solely focus on the enforcement of all on-board hygiene and social distancing measures for the healthy travel of passengers.

Responsible for lessening the on-board circulation of individuals and making sure cabin crew and passengers adhere to the social distancing rules, Hygiene Experts will monitor the mask usage of passengers, while making sure that passengers do not remove their masks all at once during the service of food and beverages. Instructing passengers to prevent lines forming during lavatory usage, Hygiene Experts will also disinfect the lavatories. Hygiene and safety checks of the lavatories will also continue to be performed by all cabin crew as well.

Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee, M. Ilker Ayci stated, “We are working hard on all contact points to ensure a healthy and safe travel experience for our passengers. At Turkish Airlines, we are providing significant services to our passengers with our enhanced guidelines for safe travel that are prepared in accordance with instructions of scientists. Some of the significant new implementations in accordance with these guidelines are our Hygiene Expert cabin crews and Hygiene Kits distributed by them. Responsible solely for all on-board hygiene and enforcement of social distancing measures between our passengers, we believe that our Hygiene Experts will help our passengers to feel more comfortable and relaxed about their travels.”

Ultra-hygiene for aircrafts before every flight Turkish Airlines aircrafts are disinfected prior to every flight via thorough cleaning methods. Hygiene in the cabin is ensured as all contact points in our aircraft are thoroughly cleaned using chemicals safe for human health, and with methods that are proven scientifically to be effective.

Special equipment and chemicals are used for different surfaces such as seats, windows, screens and lavatories.

FEATURE Lee Trevino

Lee Trevino at the 1974 [British] Open at Royal Lytham

A R DES H E T H T TO BEAT

Lee Trevino has some stories to tell but he does not give many interviews these days. He doesn’t design golf courses any more, he doesn’t play much golf and he’s answered just about every question you could ask. But this is the 50th issue of Kingdom and for Arnold Palmer, Trevino is happy to talk. And when Trevino gets on a roll you see his memory remains vivid, he still talks fast, he still laughs often and his quick wit lightens every turn.

Robin Barwick tried to keep up

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y the summer of 1974, Lee Trevino was a champion of four majors and, aged 34 , he was vying with Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Johnny Miller to be the world’s best golfer. Nicklaus would later admit: “Of all my contemporaries Trevino was the hardest to beat.”

We’ll return to that statement but as the PGA Championship approached that August, at Tanglewood Park in North Carolina, Trevino was lost in the darkness of a putting slump.

“Listen, let me explain something to you about putters, okay?”

Absolutely.

“Kittens are born blind. A lot of people don’t know that,” continues Trevino, who turns 81 on December 1.

“When kittens are born they can’t see for a week and their

mother takes care of them and feeds them. Putters are the same way. A new putter is blind. You can go in the pro shop and there will be 20 putters. You take two of them out to the putting green, you pick one and with that putter you make every putt in the world. So you buy that putter but after seven days it opens its eyes, it recognises you, sees you putt and from that moment you putt just as bad with that putter as with your old ones. This is what happens.

“So back in 1974 I was looking for a blind putter. If I could find that blind putter then I just hoped I could get the tournament over with before it opened its eyes and recognised me. That is exactly what I did that week and there is a lot of truth to that.”

Trevino was convinced that the best blind putter for him at the time would be a Wilson-made Arnold Palmer blade. When Palmer turned professional in 1954 he did so on the back of a sponsorship deal with Wilson,

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and while Palmer never much liked the irons they made in his name, the putters felt like precious metal. Palmer won the Masters with them and today they are collectors’ items of considerable value—lots of zeros if you find one Palmer used—but these classic steel blades came out of production back in 1963 and 11 years on, Trevino couldn’t find one.

For the ’74 PGA Championship Trevino rented a house from a lady called Mrs. Mayberry.

“I was sleeping in the top bedroom and down the hall was an attic with a glass door,” recalls Trevino. “As I walked down the hall, through the door I saw a set of clubs lying on the floor, and sticking out was this Wilson blade by Arnold Palmer. I brought it out and it was the original version still with the original grip, which was very difficult to find. This putter fitted me just perfect. The loft, the lie, the grip. I putt with a forward press and this putter had about four degrees of loft which was perfect for me.

“Mrs. Mayberry had lost her husband about six months before and she had a son who was 17 or 18. She came to the house that day to collect her rent check and I said, ‘I didn’t mean to snoop but I saw this putter. It’s not for sale is it?’

‘No,’ she said. ‘That is my past husband’s putter and I am saving the clubs for my son.’

‘Okay,’ I said, ‘No problem’.

‘However,’ she said, ‘If you would like to use it in the tournament you are welcome to.’

“So I took it out there the next day for practice and I holed everything. It was just unbelievable. I holed everything. So I kept it in the bag.”

Trevino shot 73 in the first round but the putter warmed up again in the second round and he shot 66, 4 under par, to get into contention. That evening Mrs Mayberry told Trevino that if he won the PGA, he could keep the putter.

Well, he shot 68-69 over the weekend to beat Nicklaus by 1. Over 72 holes, Trevino only three-putted once. Trevino still has the putter at home in Dallas.

“It’s in a box upstairs,” he says. “I call it Mrs. Mayberry.”

Like Palmer, Trevino grew up working at golf courses.

He lived in a small house with his mother and grandfather near Dallas Athletic Club and from the age of eight Trevino caddied there. From five he had been picking cotton in the fields. He taught himself to play golf, playing the occasional shot for members when they were out of view of the clubhouse. He also shared a handful of old, handed-down clubs with the other caddies to play three short golf holes they had fashioned out behind the caddie barn.

Before and after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Trevino worked on the construction team of a nine-hole course, mowed the grass and collected the balls at a driving range and learned how to tinker with golf clubs along the

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“I love Merion and I don’t even know her last name” —Lee Trevino, 1971 U.S. Open way, as Palmer had done in his father’s workshop at Latrobe Country Club.

“Arnold and I were alike in that way,” he says. “Arnold liked to grind on every club. He had that workshop. Arnold and I ruined more golf clubs than I can remember! I have a workshop here in the house. I’ll probably burn the house down one of these days.

“And I probably have 150 putters but I never had as many as Arnie. He had thousands of them. Arnie was a hoarder. He kept everything. I’ve seen it. If Arnie had lived alone he would not have been able to get into the house!”

“I hadn’t had so much attention from the cops since I backfired my 1949 Ford on the North Central Expressway” Trevino admires his newly acquired U.S. Open trophy at Oak Hill in 1968 [left], and playing that day in his “payday colours” [right]

PAYDAY COLOURS The long-lasting friendship between Palmer and Trevino began at the 1968 U.S. Open at Oak Hill. Trevino was just beginning to get established on tour. He made his U.S. Open debut in 1966 at the Olympic Club but only tied for 54th. He wasn’t even going to enter in 1967 so his first wife Claudia sent in the form and the $20 entry fee without telling him.

Trevino was scraping around for money at the time and once he had eased through U.S. Open Qualifying, he had to borrow $400 to pay for the trip to Baltusrol in New Jersey.

He only had one pair of golf shoes and 12 clubs in his bag.

It was the first time Trevino had travelled out east beyond the Mississippi but he finished fifth, pocketed a check for $6,000 and the tournament invitations began to drop.

Suddenly Trevino was a tour golfer and he finished 1967 as Rookie of the Year.

By the time Trevino arrived at Oak Hill in New York for the ’68 U.S. Open he was yet to win on tour and while he arrived with a pair of runner-up finishes, Trevino remained

an outsider. But he was fearless and in form and when he started the final round just two shots behind Bert Yancey— who was by now a four-time winner on tour—Trevino revelled in his underdog role. While Yancey fell away with a final-round 76, Trevino held strong to shoot 69 and win by four clear shots from Nicklaus. In his book ‘They call me Super Mex’, Trevino wrote: “There were thousands around the green and five policemen escorted me through the crowd to the clubhouse. I hadn’t had so much attention from the cops since I backfired my 1949 Ford on North Central Expressway when I was 15.”

And this time the check was for $30,000. Trevino would not have to worry about travel costs again.

“When I was signing my scorecard in the scorer’s tent, Mr. Palmer walked in to hand in his card,” Trevino tells us. “He stood over me, shook my hand and said, ‘Nice golf young man, you played well’. God damn, I was happier to meet Arnold Palmer than I was to win the trophy!”

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Trevino and Palmer put on a show at Mississaugua Golf Club, Toronto, during an exhibition

Trevino started a tradition that day that many have since attributed to another major champ; to wear a red shirt with black pants for the final round. Trevino also wore a black cap and even red socks. He looked great and continued to wear red and black on final-round Sundays. He calls them his “payday colors”, and like fans of Tiger Woods today, Trevino’s fans started clicking through tournament turnstiles decked in red and black. Years later, when Trevino won a tournament sponsored by Chrysler and was given a car, he ordered it in his payday colors and gave it to his mother-in-law.

Anyway, that meeting in the scorer’s tent at Oak Hill in ’68 was the beginning of a friendship between Trevino and Palmer that would endure.

“Arnold turned out to be one of the greatest friends I ever had,” says Trevino. “You hear about the guy and you think, ‘Nah, he can’t be as nice as everyone says, nobody can be that nice or that thoughtful, nobody can be that gracious.

It must be put on’. But I’ll tell you something, once you had been around Arnold Palmer for a while privately, in the locker room, on the golf course, at his birthday party, he was genuine. I have never met anyone like Arnold Palmer and it will be a long time, a long time, before there will be anyone like him again.

“When he passed away I said, ‘They will be talking about Arnold Palmer 100 years from now. Believe me when I tell you this.’”

BEATING JACK Trevino’s win at Oak Hill in ’68 is one of the great U.S. Open stories but of Trevino’s six major victories, the one he might cherish just above the others is his second success in the U.S. Open, at Merion in 1971.

“I was very proud to have won that ’68 U.S. Open but at the time I didn’t have a clue about what it really meant,” confides Trevino, who did not start playing golf competitively until he represented the U.S. Marines while based in Okinawa, Japan, in 1958, at the age of 19. “I wasn’t familiar with all this stuff. You could talk about the Masters or the PGA Championship but a tournament was a tournament to me. I still saw myself as a journeyman. I was just playing golf like everybody else, no big deal. I didn’t know who the favorites were each week, I had no clue. I just turned up and teed up on the Thursday.

“A lot of golfers have won one major and then never won anything else, so winning my second U.S. Open was my greatest moment, and because I beat Jack Nicklaus in a playoff. That’s when I became accepted on tour and by all the players. That was the moment when I felt for the first time that I really belonged on tour. That’s when I started to relax and have more fun.”

The ’71 U.S. Open was also the second time Trevino had left Nicklaus as runner-up in the national championship.

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Hubert Green [far left] and Nicklaus congratulate Trevino (with ‘Mrs. Mayberry’) at the 1974 PGA Championship at Tanglewood Park

It happened again at the 1974 PGA Championship, with Mrs. Mayberry, leaving Nicklaus in the shade by one, and again in the 1972 [British] Open at Muirfield, with Nicklaus again finishing a single shot behind Trevino as he claimed backto-back Claret Jugs. Little wonder Nicklaus rated Trevino as the hardest to beat.

“That comment is the feather in my hat,” says Trevino.

“I was so proud when I heard he said that. It was Jack’s coach Jim Flick who told me. I said, ‘What? Your joking!’ I get goosebumps telling you this now. I am proud of a lot of things that I have done but I have never received a greater compliment. Not when that comes from the greatest golfer of all time.”

Today, at home in Dallas, Trevino could not be happier to be taking a back seat from professional golf and its affiliated industries. “When I can see my glass is full, I’m not going to try to drink out of yours,” he says. Even the paraphernalia of Trevino’s remarkable career is shut away in an upstairs bedroom.

“You wouldn’t realise a golfer lived in this house,” he says. “When people come over I don’t want to have to answer questions about golf! I don’t need reminding, I have a good memory. I remember the majors; the shots, the golf courses, who I played with.”

Trevino rarely even plays 18 holes although he holds memberships at three local clubs; Dallas National,

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Trevino is happy to take a back seat today: “When I can see my glass is full, I’m not going to try to drink out of yours” Maridoe and Preston Trail, and he practices most days at the pristine, tour-level Dallas National. Since recent eye surgery, Trevino can even see where he’s hitting the golf ball. He wasn’t blind like a new-born kitten but things were blurred.

“I was having a lot of trouble with my eyes,” he admits.

“That’s what happens when you get older. The doctor said he could put lenses in surgically. Gary Player tried to get me to do this a long time ago, so I went in and God Almighty, I could see like a hawk.

“I called my doctor and said, ‘I’m suing you. I’m talking to a lawyer.’ He asked, ‘What’s the problem?’. I said, ‘Well, I thought I was hitting the ball really well until you gave me these new eyes, and now I can see where my ball is going and you’ve ruined my life. I’m hitting the ball terrible!’”

So Trevino can see things as clearly now as he ever did.

He could still roll in some testy 20-footers too, if he could only get his hands on a blind putter again.

FEATURE The Royals

B Y R O YA L APPOINTMENT

London’s famous Royal Blackheath Golf Club, circa 1905

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Horse racing may be the sport of kings, but the bloodline of golf’s royal patronage shows similar affinity to the sport of ‘the King.’ Arnold Palmer dined with royalty on many occasions and as a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews he was keenly aware of the British Royal Family’s influence on golf’s evolution from a peculiar post-medieval pastime to the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today.

Paul Trow reflects on this regal romance

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he Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews—the R&A—may boast no fewer than six kings and princes among its list of past captains, but over and above club captaincy, back in its Scottish infancy, golf itself might never have advanced beyond the cradle had it not been nurtured by royalty. The key to this process of popularization was the game’s eclectic appeal—to folk as diverse as laborers, traders, soldiers and landowners—but the vanguard of this movement was royalty. Golf gained their approval and everyone else followed their lead.

When Mary, Queen of Scots strolled out for a round only a couple of days after the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, in 1567, her apparent indifference was seen as callousness rather than a self-defining, cathartic act on the part of a wretched woman. However, it inflicted no more harm on golf than bans by a trio of her ancestors—James II, III and IV—a century or so earlier. The reasoning behind those sanctions was that the men of Scotland who would normally make up the army in the event of an invasion were neglecting to practice their archery skills in favor of ‘gowf.’ Once the Treaty of Glasgow between England and Scotland was signed in 1502, though, James IV immediately lifted the ban.

In 1608, King James I (Mary, Queen of Scots’ son and also James VI of Scotland) brought golf to England— specifically, to Blackheath in southeast London—when he moved his court to the Royal Palace at nearby Greenwich.

His entourage included several golfing noblemen but it took nearly two and a half centuries for the club they formed to receive Queen Victoria’s assent. Following the invention of the automobile and the opening of the A2 highway across the middle of the heath, Royal Blackheath relocated in 1923 by merging with a nearby club and adopting as its clubhouse the 17th century mansion, Eltham Lodge.

After an uneventful 18th century, the British monarchy revived its interest in 1833 when Lord Kinnaird, captain of the Perth Golfing Society in Scotland, met William IV during a trip to London. The King duly ennobled the Perth citycenter body even though it didn’t have its own course. To this day, its members use the nearby public layout at North Inch on the banks of the River Tay, designed by ‘Old’ Tom Morris. In his additional capacity as Duke of St Andrews, William IV was later persuaded to confer similar patronage on the Society of St Andrews Golfers. Thus was born the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the genie, so to speak, was out of the bottle.

The men of Scotland were neglecting to practice their archery skills in favor of ‘gowf’

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The R&A reciprocated the honor by appointing a royal captain and in 1863 the Prince of Wales, nicknamed Bertie and later to become King Edward VII, took the reins.

Regrettably, the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 21 at the time, missed his own drive-in off the 1st tee on the Old Course.

Bertie never visited St Andrews (he vacationed in places like Biarritz in southwest France and the Czech spa town of Marienbad) but he grew fond of golf in late middle age. He laid out a course in the grounds of Windsor Castle and played regularly at Royal Cinque Ports in Deal on the Kent coast, where he was club president from 1905-07.

Prince Leopold, the youngest of Queen Victoria’s sons, served as R&A captain in 1876 but unlike his brother he actually showed up to drive himself into office. “The Prince’s stroke was a very good one—the ball being lifted over the heads of the crowd and down a good distance on towards the hole,” reported the Fifeshire Journal. As a hemophiliac, he had been encouraged by his doctors to play golf but was not long for this world and passed away ten days shy of his 31st birthday in 1884. Still, he was the first Royal Family member to visit St Andrews in person since Charles II, more than two centuries earlier.

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

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

At the time of his father’s death, Edward was patron of the Society of London Golf Captains and the captain at Walton Heath. Within a year, sadly, his associations

The NHL’s Prince of Wales Trophy [far left]; the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) opens Richmond GC, London in 1923 [left]; the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI & Queen Elizabeth) enjoyed golf on their honeymoon on the Polesden Lacey estate in Surrey, also in 1923 [right]

In 1930 the Duke of York became the first R&A captain to drive into office with a steel-shafted club

with the game had dried up in the wake of his decision to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson—a hugely controversial move at the time—and to abdicate the Throne.

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

His younger brother (another Bertie, who replaced Edward as King, George VI) was also a keen golfer [pictured above]. On September 24, 1930, as Duke of York, he became the first R&A captain to drive into office using a steelshafted club. Pausing only to remove his jacket, he whacked his ball more than 200 yards down the fairway.

Another son of George V—Prince George, Duke of Kent—took up the R&A captaincy in 1937, but after hitting the ground before the ball his drive barely scuttled 100 yards. “In his eagerness he dropped his right shoulder,” was the euphemistic verdict of the St Andrews Citizen.

It might be regrettable that the club’s most recent royal captain is Prince Andrew, the current Duke of York, who served during the year of the R&A’s 250th anniversary

in 2003-04.

His association with the late, disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has resulted in Prince Andrew withdrawing from public life. The Royal Family’s links with the R&A were further underlined in 2015 when Princess Anne was granted honorary membership, although as a former Olympic equestrian competitor, riding horses has always been her preferred sporting activity.

Of course, royalty’s involvement with golf is not confined to the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.

Special mention goes to Hassan II, who was king of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. Early in his otherwise tyrannical reign he identified golf as a potential tourism driver and translated his hunch into an extensive investment, which included engaging Robert Trent Jones, Sr., to design the three Royal Dar Es Salam courses in the palace grounds of the capital city, Rabat. Several other Moroccan courses, headlined by Royal Marrakech, designed in 1927 by Arnaud Massy, France’s only winner of the [British] Open, also bear a regal title.

The Belgian monarchy has also liberally spread its favors across the fairways with no fewer than 11 of its 90 or so courses bearing the royal moniker, most notably Royal Waterloo.

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Of the nine golf clubs that currently stage the [British] Open, six have been royalized: Royal St. George’s, host of next year’s postponed Championship, Royal Portrush, Royal Lytham & St Annes, Royal Liverpool, Royal Birkdale and Royal Troon.

Approaching 200 clubs across the world have acquired royal status since Perth Golfing Society became the first such honoree in 1833. Of the 66 clubs of definite British origin, England has 19, Scotland 10, Australia eight, Canada six, Ireland five, South Africa four, Wales two and the Channel Islands two. Royal Montreal in Canada and Royal Melbourne in Australia are genuinely great golf courses and both are Presidents Cup venues.

A few ‘Royal’ clubs exist in far-flung outposts of the former British Empire—like Harare in Zimbabwe, Colombo in Sri Lanka and Calcutta in India—where the enhanced status was in effect a reward to intrepid citizens who had left the mother country to oversee the process of colonization.

While the building of golf courses extended British culture amid the colonies, the process at times brought out the tenacity and brutality prescribed to subdue a potentially hostile indiginous population. Hence the grim disregard of the founder members of Malaysia’s second oldest club, Royal Selangor in Kuala Lumpur, where the early rules stated: “You cannot ground your club in addressing the ball, or move anything, however loose or dead it may be, when you find yourself in a grave.” Part of the course had been built on an old Chinese cemetery, with scant regard for the sacrilege. Naturally, it was treated as a hazard.

Two of the six most recent clubs to be honored by the monarchy are about as far removed from the Commonwealth, or its parent, the British Empire, as possible—Marianske Lazne (formerly Marienbad) in the Czech Republic and Royal Homburger near Frankfurt in Germany—but both sneaked below the radar because they were regular haunts of Edward VII. The other four are Royal

Wellington and Royal Auckland in New Zealand, Royal Mayfair in Edmonton, Canada and Royal Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.

The concept of royalty might seem an anachronism to some, but the chances are that more clubs will be recruited to this most exclusive of golfing families, such is the cachet conferred.

After the R&A the club with the strongest ‘connections’ is Royal West Norfolk Golf Club at Brancaster on England’s East Anglian coast, with four royal captains. Ironically, the Crown’s very own club—the Royal Household, which was opened by King Edward VII in 1901 at Home Park in the grounds of Windsor Castle—has had only one.

Officially, clubs must apply for the royal title and only the sovereign has the authority to grant it. Furthermore, the granting of a royal title and royal patronage are separate honors. Royal Liverpool Golf Club, renowned for hosting the first Amateur Championship in 1885 and due to host its 13th [British] Open Championship in 2023, has a particularly interesting royal story in that respect.

In 1871, Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and seventh child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, happily accepted the title of club president. Later that same year, the club added ‘Royal’ to its name, as evidenced by a medal presented to the club in 1872 known as the Duke of Connaught Star. But upon the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the club wrote to the Home Office asking permission to keep using the royal title. To its overwhelming delight, not to mention sparing its blushes, Edward VII was “graciously pleased to comply with the request.”

So one wonders… with so many non-British clubs on the royal roster, could there ever be, say, a Royal Riviera or a Royal Pebble Beach? Now Harry and Meghan, aka the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are resident in California and sprinkling largesse across the Golden State on a daily basis, why on earth not?

Presentations to the Coldstream Guards on the Royal Household golf course at Windsor Castle in 1951

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By Royal Decree A total of 66 golf clubs have had ‘Royal’ status conferred on them by the British monarchy AU S T RAL IA

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Royal Adelaide 1923 Royal Canberra 1933 Royal Fremantle 1930 Royal Hobart 1925 Royal Melbourne 1895 Royal Perth 1937 Royal Queensland 1921 Royal Sydney 1897

Royal Ascot 1887 Royal Ashdown Forest 1893 Royal Birkdale 1951 Royal Blackheath 1857 Royal Cinque Ports 1910 Royal Cromer 1887 Royal Eastbourne 1887 Royal Epping Forest 1888 Royal Liverpool 1871 Royal Lytham & St Annes 1926 Royal Mid-Surrey 1926 Royal North Devon 1866 Royal Norwich 1893 Royal St George’s 1902 Royal West Norfolk 1892 Royal Wimbledon 1882 Royal Winchester 1913 Royal Worlington & Newmarket 1895

Royal Nairobi 1935

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Royal Colwood 1931 Royal Mayfair 2005 Royal Montreal 1884 Royal Ottawa 1912 Royal Quebec 1934 Royal Regina 1999 C H AN N E L I S L A N D S

Royal Guernsey 1891 Royal Jersey 1879

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Royal Selangor 2 1963

Royal Dornoch 1906 Royal Montrose 1845 Royal Musselburgh 1876 Royal Perth Golfing Society 1833 Royal Tarlair 1926 Royal Troon 1978

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Royal Malta 1888 NEW ZEA L A ND

Royal Wellington 2004 NORT H ERN I REL A ND

Royal Belfast 1885 Royal County Down 1908 Royal Portrush 1892

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Royal Cape 1910 Royal Durban 1932 Royal Johannesburg & Kensington 1931 Royal Port Alfred 1924 SI NGA PORE

Singapore Island Country Club 4 1952

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Royal Dublin 1891 SRI L A NKA 3 The Curragh Golf Club 1910 Royal Colombo 1928

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Hong Kong 1 1897

Royal Marianske Lazne Golf Club 2003

Royal Porthcawl 1909 Royal St David’s 1908

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Royal & Ancient Golf Club 1834 Duff House Royal Golf Club 1925 Royal Aberdeen 1903 Royal Burgess Golfing Society 1929

Royal Calcutta 1912

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Royal Harare 1929

The 18th hole at Royal West Norfolk GC, which has received Royal captains on four occasions

1 ‘Royal’ prefix dropped following return to China in 1996 2 There is uncertainty as to whether the ‘Royal’ status of this Kuala Lumpur club is due to recognition by the British or Malaysian Royal Families 3 ‘Royal’ prefix no longer used, as the club ceased to be ‘Royal’ with the departure of the British Army in May 1922 4 There were originally two Royal clubs in Singapore—Royal Singapore and Royal Island, which merged on July 1st 1963 to form Singapore Island Country Club

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FEATURE Jim Nantz

A Man of Words A golfer delivers the ball from the tee to the hole as directly as possible. Broadcasting is similar, where a commentator delivers words from the brain to the microphone as smoothly as possible, while trying to avoid whatever hazards appear ahead. Jim Nantz is a pretty good golfer but put him in the broadcast booth and he shoots under par every time. The voice of the Masters on CBS spoke to Robin Barwick

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A AT CBS, they knew Jim Nantz had something special from the start. He had covered local sports in Houston and Salt Lake City but when he sat in a New York studio to audition for the national network back in 1985, they fired all the ammo they had as Nantz reported game summaries to camera. He had to run through college football games while the scores appeared on-screen, except the control room mixed it up so the order of games in the notes didn’t match the scores on screen, just to keep Nantz off balance.

Then he had to interview an analyst who was intentionally difficult. Long, rambling answers at first and then some abrupt one-word cutters. Nantz dodged every bullet, got the job and he hasn’t been lost for words since.

But then came the day in October 2016 when Nantz was invited to pay tribute to his great friend, Arnold Palmer, at Palmer’s memorial service and more than the Super Bowl, the Masters or college basketball’s frenzied Final Four, Nantz feared for the first time that an occasion might get the better of him.

“When I flew to Latrobe the gravity of the moment became too big and I felt overwhelmed,” starts Nantz in an exclusive interview with Kingdom. He was set to speak at the memorial service on October 4, 2016 at Saint Vincent College, along with Palmer’s grandson Sam Saunders,

Jim Nantz speaks at the memorial service for Arnold Palmer at the Saint Vincent Basilica, Latrobe, in October 2016

Jack Nicklaus, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem and Annika Sorenstam among others. “I was honored beyond belief that I was asked to say a few words but in the hours leading up to the service I was terrified of standing before that room and thinking of Arnold and having a complete meltdown and not having anywhere to go. This is foreign to me by the way; I am never short of confidence in being able to stand up in front of people and speak, but my gosh, this was Arnold Palmer.

“I carried four pages of notes to the Basilica, tucked into my inside pocket. I sat there praying for the strength to get up there and to have the confidence to talk about my friend with love and passion and hopefully with some humour and some poignancy. I was one of the last people to speak and I can’t explain it but as soon as I opened my mouth I felt completely relaxed. I never took those notes out of my pocket.”

It was standing room only in the old Saint Vincent Basilica—which dates back to 1905—and the giant church was gripped by emotion. Nantz captivated the congregation and his eulogy featured this memory: Before Arnie’s last Masters round in competition, he had shaken so many hands on the way that he got to the putting green just in time to hit a couple of putts. I was standing there and as soon as we locked eyes he said, “Have you made your decision?”

I was at a significant career crossroads. Was I going to go over and do news in the morning? I told him, “I have. I am staying with sports. It was my dream to one day broadcast the Masters and there’s no way I’m going to walk away from that.”

He said, “Was it a tough decision?” I said, “It was.”

“I was terrified of standing before that room and thinking of Arnold and having a complete meltdown”

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At that time my father was deep in the throes of Alzheimer’s, a battle that he would lose soon after, and Arnie was aware of all that. I told him, “It was the first time in my life that I could not seek my father’s counsel.”

Here he was, Arnold, about to tee off for the last time, and he leaned over and he pointed right here [pointing to heart] with great force. He said, “You don’t understand; your father helped you make that decision. You were listening to him. He was right here the whole time.”

We’re going to miss him, the captain of our game, but you are going to find him in a lot of places. He is going to spring to mind. It’s going to hurt that he is not going to be there to pick up that phone, it’s going to hurt when he is not going to be there on the first tee when our springtime tradition rolls around, but I hope you will always remember, he’s right here [pointing to heart].

Way to get the congregation reaching for their handkerchiefs, Nantz.

“I got up there and felt totally at peace,” adds Nantz, 61. “I just felt like I was channelling Arnold while I was up there.”

Nantz and Palmer came to know each other as their respective professions frequently brought them together to talk, whether in front of a TV camera or to an audience at a corporate or charity dinner.

“It was never like work with Arnold,” adds Nantz.

“Rolex would bring us both to the U.S. Open course each year for a dinner [prior to the championship week] and Arnold and I would do a Q&A. We would get up on the stage and I knew the golden stories Arnold had and they are always worth repeating to a new audience. We would just get up there and have a chat. Seriously, zero preparation.

It was just two friends having a chat. I would not apply the word ‘work’ to it.

“I have thousands of memories of Arnold. He was a man of the people, he could relate to anyone. Arnold made people feel special. He was brilliant at that and he cared. It wasn’t hard work for him to extend himself and to shake hands, sign every autograph and to look people in the eye.

He loved people and that is the bottom line, and he enjoyed the fact that people loved him back.”

STORIES TO TELL

Nantz was a talented high school athlete, an excellent golfer and captain of the basketball team, but right from the beginning his fascination was with the story-telling more than it was with the starring roles.

“As a dye-in-the-wool golf fan as a young boy I just couldn’t round up enough information,” remembers Nantz, who was born in North Carolina but spent many of his teenage years in New Jersey as his family moved with his father’s career in sales. “This was pre-internet, pre-cable television and I was completely smitten with everything about golf, and of course Arnold Palmer was on top of the

Jim Nantz with Arnold Palmer at the 2007 Masters [above], and with Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus [right] in the broadcast booth at the Memorial Tournament in 2016

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Fred Couples [left] and Nantz as the careers of these college teammates converged, live on air, at the 1992 Masters

world. He was the ‘King’ and he was just bigger than life.

I was born in ’59 and I started watching golf in the late sixties and Arnold was in some respects on the back half of his playing career. He last won [on the PGA Tour] at the ’73 Bob Hope and I watched that but he was so beloved that he almost seemed like a mythical figure.”

Nantz played on the University of Houston golf team and roomed with three teammates who would all progress to the PGA Tour: Fred Couples, Blain McCallister and John Horne. They played golf together and got up at the crack of dawn at weekends to caddie at Houston Country Club or at River Oaks. Nantz knew he was not destined to perform inside the ropes for money but there was one college tournament that asked a question.

“In my freshman year I played in a one-day challenge match,” recalls Nantz. “I shot 35, 1-under on the front which was the low score. I parred 10 and 11 so I was still 1-under through 11. I was clearly the weakest guy on the Houston freshman team but the coach came out to watch me play as word had circulated back that ‘Nantz is beating everyone’.

As soon as he showed up on the 12th tee I went doublebogey, double-bogey, double-bogey, three in a row.”

An outcome most of us can relate to one way or another, but you can’t take away that 35 on the front.

Not much more than a decade later, in April 1992, a pair of lifetime ambitions were fulfilled in one sublime moment—as if pre-destined—when Nantz hosted the CBS broadcast from the Butler Cabin at Augusta National as his former roommate Couples was presented with the Green Jacket as Masters champion.

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Nantz hosted the broadcast as his former roommate Couples was presented with the Green Jacket Another playing highlight of sorts unfolded years later when Nantz was stuck in a traffic jam on I-95 in Maryland in 2004, having visited the Baltimore Ravens’ training camp before a game. Nantz was in a car with his commentary partner of the time, Phil Simms, the Super Bowl-winning quarterback with the New York Giants, and while the northbound traffic they were in came to a standstill for a matter of hours, the southbound side of the highway was completely desolate. After three hours of sitting there, Nantz and Simms got out of the car to stretch their legs.

Nantz gazed down the empty half of highway and had an idea. He managed to borrow a driver, tee and ball from a random car driver nearby, and found a crack in the southbound tarmac that would hold the tee.

Nantz would later write in his book, Always by my side: “The ball began soaring toward New Jersey with a gentle fade, just enough to carry it over the trees on the far-side shoulder and slowly bring it back in line with the fairway (i.e. I-95), but not over-sliced so that it became a danger to the gridlocked gallery… the ball continued bouncing toward the Delaware Memorial Bridge…”

As usual, Nantz nailed it.

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FEATURE Existence

WHY DO WE GOLF? Is it the fun-horrible fashions we get to wear? The visors?

Addiction, obsession, the pursuit of perfection...? Here, two philosophy professors indulge Kingdom’s existential questions and offer insights on why we torture ourselves.

Short answer: We might (not) be nuts

By Reade Tilley

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s the great René Desgolfcartes once said: “golfo, ergo bogeyo,” and yet he continued to play, unnecessarily subjecting himself to frustration and pain every weekend. What was he thinking? Or rather, what are we thinking, for while Desgolfcartes never existed, the rest of us certainly do (I think). We labor to put a ball in a hole, then we take it out and put it in another hole. Why? After years of repetitive stress injuries to my ego I was compelled to look for answers, and so I reached out to two professors of philosophy with expertise in the philosophy of sport: Dr. W. Thomas Schmid of UNC Wilmington, and Dr. Christopher Yorke at The Open University. Here’s what they had to say: “You’re crazy.”

Well, no, they didn’t say that. Not exactly. In fact, it appears there could be more to this game than meets the id. The good news: You’re probably not a masochist. You might be revisiting your childhood, honing your warrior skills or doing something that makes sense only to you. Your answer might or might not be in this conversation but, if nothing else, I hope that this helps you to form a more eloquent response the next time someone asks you: Why do you golf?

What’s The Point?

“Getting a ball in a hole... There’s nothing intrinsically valuable about that state of affairs,” says Wolfe, referencing Bernard Suits, a key 20th century figure in the philosophy of games. “One of the things Suits talks about is, ‘the prelusory goal.’ In golf, for example, that would be getting a ball in a hole, but we don’t seek ball-filled holes as a species, that is not something we put a high priority on. Even golfers, they don’t just want ball-filled holes,

otherwise they would just carry the ball to the hole and put it in. Suits puts it to the reader, saying, ‘Look, why are we being technically unintelligent here? Why are we making it harder for ourselves to achieve the prelusory goal, introducing the golf club and obstacles between having a ball and putting it in a hole?’ Sports and games are the kinds of activities that are interested in process more than product. If any sport is valuable it’s because of the difficulty it generates that we can savor trying to overcome. Suits talks about a ‘Goldilocks’ zone, a zone in which a good game exists. On the one side, ‘Impossible Golf,’ where the hole is the size of a pinhole. On the other side, the hole is a meteor crater and it’s too easy. So over time we have this sport that’s built up over an appropriately difficult activity wherein the value that we ascribe to it is ascribed to it on the virtue of that difficulty; and for some reason we find this intrinsically valuable.”

“As far as when it began, that’s an anthropological theme,” offers Schmid, author of Golf As Meaningful Play and a self-described weekend warrior type of golfer (Wolfe does not play). “People have been throwing rocks or spears or aiming things at targets probably for as long as there have been people, and golf is kind of a target sport in one way. It also has problems, and we’re a problem-solving animal. It’s part of a very ancient beginning in what it is that composes human beings, and yet with sport you get something new, you’re taken out of the practical world. You’re no longer trying to spear a deer, you’re trying to hit the little ball into a little hole, and if you get it in you jump up and down, and if you mess it up you go screaming off the green (or maybe you don’t, fortunately). The passions involved are related to this very ancient sort of structure of human life, which is to try to bring something about consciously, to carry out a physical activity that achieves an end.”

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Does Golf Impart Ethics?

You’ve heard it said before and you might have said it yourself, some version of “golf makes you a better person,” but Wolfe and Schmid aren’t convinced.

“In general, ethics is not something that you can learn except by making a decision to be an ethical person,” says Schmid. “I’m sure there are pros who are infinitely greater golfers than you or I will ever be, but at some point they realized they were leading messed-up lives and that golf wasn’t helping them. And in fact, they had to straighten out their personal lives before they could get better in their golf games, so the idea that golf leads to ethics or that ethics is something you can teach seems to me to be a little iffy.

You can certainly give people rules, you can certainly model good behavior, but I’ve seen grown men move the ball in a trap out of a situation when it was completely unnecessary, and they were just cheating to get ahead... I do think that there’s a way in which you can play the game of golf ‘right’ and there can be an ethical dimension to it, but it seems to me that people probably have to learn that themselves and it comes at very different parts of their lives.”

Wolfe concurs. “There’s a philosophy of emotivism, where you think that all of morality boils down to things you think are morally good—the things that make you go ‘Yay!’ And the things you don’t like, you give them a negative moral charge. Whenever I hear someone putting golf on a pedestal—‘It’s the best way to instill moral values!’—what I’m hearing is just a little bit like ‘Yay golf!’ Unless you have some sort of study showing that golf really is the best methodology for implicating virtues, it’s hard to say that golf gives more value or structure to people’s lives than darts or field hockey.

“I guess what you could say if you were going down that line, is that there’s human ingenuity baked into golf at every level. Someone has to create and curate golf courses, and each one is slightly different, and it’s not a standardized course where no matter where you play you’re bringing the same techniques to bear. Each golf course will bring something from you and give you something unique to appreciate. I’ll refer to [philosopher] Jon Pike and affordance theory. An affordance is any interface of an organism in their environment that allows the potential for action. If you have a different course with different traps and obstacles, each course is going to open up a unique set of affordances; those affordances will allow for the expression of human capacities in slightly different ways.

I wouldn’t say that would give you a sufficient theoretical foundation to tout golf as the morally superior form of sport, but there is an interesting curiosity about it for the aesthetic appreciation rather than, say, the moral elevation.”

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“One of my regular golf partners is a psychiatrist.

After a really bad shot off the tee I made, I said ‘I need to make an appointment with you to find out why I seem to like torturing myself...’ After his less-than-stellar shot off the tee, he turned to me and said, ‘Like I would know.’”

— A post on TheSandTrap.com re: Why do you play golf?

“YOU ARE IN NATURE, YOU ARE ALWAYS CONNECTED... AND I LOVE TO HAVE THE REALLY GOOD BALL IMPACT WITH MY CLUB. WOW, THAT’S GREAT, THAT’S SO GREAT.” — Andrea Weissmann from Berlin, on Facebook

What About A Spiritual Component?

Wolfe and Schmid aren’t psychologists or spiritual gurus, but I was curious what they thought of people who claim a spiritual element to golf, from those who say simply that they find peace clear through to the Shivas Irons Society and golfers who claim to have seen Hindu deities on course.

Wolfe is direct: “There are people who see the face of Jesus in burnt toast. Why should golf be any different? Why shouldn’t people have transcendental manifestations when they tee off? If you play enough rounds of golf with enough people over enough time, they will occur and then become part of the story of the game.”

Schmid’s view isn’t entirely dissimilar: “If you’re talking about somebody who is certain that God is out there on the golf course, I would refer them to Caddyshack and the minister who discovered that maybe God wasn’t 100% on his side and therefore said there is no God. “There are these moments in sport that seem transcendent, right? A soccer player kicks a ball backwards and it’s the perfect goal, then he scores another one and then a third. Michael Jordan making long distance shots over and over again... This is the ‘in the zone’ experience, and some people tend to associate this with feelings of transcendence. They’re so in tune with the experience it’s not like they’re trying to do something, it’s like something is coming through them. There’s this aspect of transcendence, but if there’s a relationship with religion it has to be related to humility, and there’s an aspect to golf to develop a sense of humility, and the moral aspect has to be related to your sense of community and the kind of community you can form in playing golf, the mutual pleasure that you can take in your friends’ success. There certainly is an aesthetic meaning in golf, but I don’t know; religion is not just about the presence of God, it’s also about the yearning for that kind of wholeness in one’s life and in the things you do, and

the realization that we don’t achieve that wholeness; we maybe have intonations of it, but I don’t know that we really get there on a golf course.”

Is Golf Bad For Me? “The game can be played in a way that enhances its feelings of freedom or feelings of constraint,” Schmid says. “Are you drawing on it to enhance your life or are you taking it in a way that doesn’t enhance your life? And for a lot of golfers, I think very often it really doesn’t enhance their life much. They become rabidly perfectionist about the game, they go out and come home angry because they play angry, they’re too competitive with their playing partners, they don’t appreciate a lot of the aspects of the game that are not simply making the lowest score and winning the match, and I think that’s destructive. There, too, it can be escapist. You can lose sight of how the game ought to fit into your life. Also, people can delude themselves, they can think things like, ‘If I can only get to a 6 handicap I will be a better person’... There are a lot of ways you can get screwed up in golf.”

Can My Playing Golf Create Goodness?

“There’s something that Gwen Bradford [professor of philosophy at Rice University] dabbles in,” Wolfe explains.

“She has a book called Achievement in which she discusses amare bonum bonus, ‘to love the good is good.’ You could say that if there is value in sport, in golf for example, and it’s good to achieve things under difficult circumstances, then loving the good would also be good. I suppose spectators enjoying this second order of good, of seeing the good exhibited, could also receive benefit.”

“DURING THE [NBA] SEASON I PLAY TO GET AWAY. I’LL PLAY ON A DAY BEFORE A GAME, I’LL PLAY ON THE DAY AFTER A BIG LOSS… I’LL DRIVE UP TO BEL AIR ON MY WAY HOME AND RUN OUT AND PLAY THREE OR FOUR HOLES, JUST TO BE OUT THERE BY MYSELF. I DEFINITELY USE IT AS A MEDITATION DEVICE DURING THE SEASON.” — Coach Doc Rivers, to Urban Golf Podcast

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Am I Wasting My Time?

“Big organized sport began, in many ways, under conditions where people had to work enormous hours,” says Schmid. “If you think of the beginnings of soccer, you think of golf or baseball or other sports in the 19th century, people worked really hard at a lot of jobs that weren’t particularly meaningful, and then they had some leisure time, and sport became this venue, this arena, in which they could perform, in which they could display excellence, test themselves. There were a lot of opportunities for friendships that weren’t hierarchical, relationships where you weren’t being told what to do by your foreman or whatever. That and the qualities of life that are available in that kind of free and yet still skillrelated environment...

“Golf is in this incredible garden filled with hazards and filled with beautiful opportunities, and so it’s quite a beautiful place just as a physical setting, and as a temporal setting it’s time apart. I would emphasize that when you think of it that way, it’s a return to youth, a return to when life was simpler and having fun wasn’t something that you only could do when you had time off, so I think that’s part of it. If we are looking for need, those are some of the things that speak to our need for venues as human beings, venues in which we can experience freedom, can experience achievement, can experience friendship, and golf is like that.”

Wolfe, likewise, offers some reassuring perspective when it comes to spending time on course: “Imagine if we had a life that was simply an ant’s life, we only did things that were scratching itches and this kind of thing, we do x to get y, so there’s a product at the end of every one of those activities. For Suits, he says this kind of life actually takes out of existence what makes life worth living. If there’s anything that makes life worth living, it’s something that we choose because we want to do it, something we find valuable in and of itself. It’s following Aristotle’s discussion of value. Where golf is chosen among competing activities it must be chosen because of its importance to that person. We shouldn’t see golf or any other sport in terms of what it gives to our working life—‘it is valuable because it helps me work through business problems,’ or something like that. To Suits and myself, that is completely the wrong way to view it. What I would say is that the proof is in the playing: The fact that people play golf is evidence of its value.”

“I PLAY GOLF BECAUSE I THINK IT’S REALLY ODD HOW IT CAN BE ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING GAMES, BUT STILL THE MAIN WAY I USE TO RELAX AND UNWIND.” — Ladiesgolfblog from the UK, on Instagram

“Golf pretty much means everything to me. It has given me an education, it has given me a career, and it’s moved my whole life over to America. I’ve learned etiquette, manners and sportsmanship, and I’m fortunate enough to meet some wonderful people.”

— Megan Johnston in Florida, on Instagram

“I PLAY BECAUSE I LOVE IT.” — Phil Mickelson in 2012

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TRAVEL Bahamas

BASKING IN THE BAHAMAS

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The warmth and calm of tropical revitalisation might be closer to home than you imagine. It’s only 100 miles of blue sky from Miami to Freeport in the Bahamas, and just a few miles more to find the beaches and golf courses of your sunniest daydreams

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T HAS NOW BEEN more than a year since Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas, in September 2019, which was the most intense tropical cyclone to strike the islands on record. The eye of this category five storm narrowly missed The Abaco Club [main picture] but did not spare the nearby town of Marsh Harbour, the island’s largest town and home to most of the club’s staff. The Abaco islands lost 60 people.

The Treasure Cay Beach Resort and its Dick Wilsondesigned golf course, to the north of Marsh Harbour, were also destroyed, but ongoing reconstruction there points to an exciting future.

To the destruction and despair, the local community responded with determination and speed. “Abaco Strong” is what they say and actions have backed up the simple, unifying message. Home owners and members at The Abaco Club offered compassion and generosity, opening up their exclusive homes to shelter hundreds of club staff, their families and other locals who were left homeless.

Southworth Development, the owner and operator of The Abaco Club, acted quickly to set up the Abaco-Winding Bay Fund to assist the people of Abaco. Thanks to the generosity of many, with donations both large and small pouring in from Abaco Club members, Southworth sister club-members and caring citizens far and wide, more than $3 million was quickly raised, including a $1 million donation match from Southworth Development Chairman, Joe Dietch. Some of the fund was spent on bringing in 34 trailer homes, which were installed at the 600-acre club and opened up rent-free to staff and their families.

The sense of community at The Abaco Club has never been stronger and the sense of positivity is unfailing. The past cannot be changed but the future is bright and there for the taking.

BAREFOOT LUXURY While Freeport on Grand Bahama is only 100 miles from the Florida shore, the string of Abaco islands are not much further; only 186 miles east of Palm Beach to be exact. Yet this haven of tropical tranquility feels like it is 1,000 miles from the mainland. From the white sands of Winding Bay, along the western fringes of Great Abaco, the panorama is defined by blue skies over the azure waters of the Sea of Abaco, with the occasional small uninhabited island or cay to which visitors can sail.

The Abaco Club, which hugs the tranquil crystal-clear waters of Winding Bay, is a private sporting club that sets the standard in the Bahamas for golf, water sports, fishing, island living, real estate, hospitality and as they aptly call it, for “barefoot luxury”.

The 18-hole championship golf course is widely recognised as the finest in the Bahamas. It is a lush, tropical

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challenge yet the layout is shaped distinctly like an ancient Scottish links, complete with pot bunkers and fast-rolling, undulating oceanside greens. The fairways are not as firmrunning as a true British links, and Scottish gorse is replaced

by Bahamian palms, yet those who can steer their golf balls below the ocean breezes will often reap rewards here, in true links fashion.

The Abaco Club brought in British links specialists Donald Steel and Tom Mackenzie to design the course, which opened in 2004. Mackenzie told Kingdom at the time: “The mixture of tropical turquoises and cliff-top views is pretty potent.”

Properties at The Abaco Club come in three guises: the Estate Lots all have ocean views, many have their own beach access and they vary in size between one and two acres.

Homes can be built on the plots, which start at $1.5 million.

Cottages of three to five bedrooms are available from $3.35 million, while one-bedroom cabanas start from $400,000.

The Abaco Club is a private member’s club but prospective members are welcome to make one-off discovery visits.

There is a blissful calm to be found here in every direction you look

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The Abaco Club from the skies [top left], Flippers Beach Bar on Winding Bay [top right], Darren Clarke bone fishing [above], the 13th at Sandals Emerald Bay [right]

Being a member here is made even more special by the feeling of family created with its Southworth sister club members, who often enjoy group pilgrimages to this tropical oasis for friendly cross-club competitions and long relaxing days on the beach. Abaco Club members also enjoy privileges across Southworth’s portfolio of luxury private clubs and award-winning golf courses across the globe.

Other than sport on the beautiful golf course, fishing, island hopping, snorkeling and SCUBA diving on the surrounding coral reef head the list of activities here.

Darren Clarke, the former European Ryder Cup captain and [British] Open champion, has long been a homeowner at The Abaco Club, and these days he can be found casting out a bone fishing line into the warm shallows more often than teeing up. You can’t blame him. After a career of intense competition on tour and a cell phone that never stops buzzing, there is a blissful calm to be found just a few feet out from the beach.

GLINT OF AN EMERALD The Exumas are a string of over 300 (mainly tiny) Bahamian islands. The largest of them, Great Exuma, is only 37 miles long, and halfway down its north-eastern shore lies the dynamic Sandals Emerald Bay Golf, Tennis and Spa Resort.

The 500-acre, five-star property has a mile of beach all of its own and one of the world’s most visually stunning golf courses: an 18-hole championship layout designed by Australian legend Greg Norman.

“The largest challenge of creating the course at Sandals Emerald Bay was to make sure that the non-ocean side—the front nine—was as spectacular as the ocean holes [on the] back nine,” starts Greg Norman when we got in touch. “We created a special nine holes carved against the wetland areas and in the rocks to make it really unique.

We also built an island green to complement the course on that side. The wind direction was always on our minds and this gave us an opportunity to create a course with varying shots—downwind, crosswind and upwind—which we did quite nicely.”

As for that ocean-side back nine, it reaches out on a promontory with the lime green tones of the golf course— fringed by the soft white sand of Exuma’s beaches— leading to the turquoise ocean as a backdrop. The views are intoxicating but the ever-present breezes demand the golfer’s full attention.

“Enjoy the front nine and try to make your score here as it tends to play a bit easier,” adds Norman, whose

personal best here is a sizzling 66, six under par. “The trade winds do not affect your ball flight as much on the front, but beware of the back nine! When playing the ocean holes, try to forget about the views and focus on your shot making!

The amazing scenery can be distracting and the wind along the ocean holes can be deceiving.

“Don’t try to bite too much off at the tee. The play is to keep the ball in the fairways which are very wide comparatively. The dramatic contrast of the ocean and the fairway doesn’t let your mind believe that the fairways are spacious, but there is plenty of room to find the grass. This way, you can have a nice second or third shot into the green area, and have a decent shot at scoring well.”

Readers may have caught sight of the golf course on television from the past four years hosting The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay on the Korn Ferry Tour. Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey is the reigning champ while 2018 winner, Sungjae Im from South Korea, went on to secure Rookie of the Year honors on the PGA Tour in 2019.

The Sandals Emerald Bay Resort boasts an oceanfront hotel with 249 rooms and suites, which has just been named the Bahama’s Best Golf Hotel in 2020 at the World Golf Awards. It features a broad array of 11 restaurants and attractive all-inclusive packages that extend to green fees.

Visitors who book for seven nights and really want to attack the golf course can enjoy unlimited golf.

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The Harborside Resort at Atlantis on Paradise Island [left] and the Four Seasons Resort [below]

The Ocean Club has also been established on one of the most idyllic locations within the Bahamas, occupying the eastern quarter of Paradise Island, which sits just to the north of New Providence island. A pair of Nassau Harbour Bridges reach up to Paradise Island from the Bahamian capital. Attached to the spectacular Atlantis resort and also the Four Seasons, The Ocean Club boasts an 18-hole Tom Weiskopf championship course that has hosted the LPGA Tour. The golf course dominates the eastern peninsula of Paradise Island although it shares the beachfront with resort and residential properties. Still, the course offers some stunning ocean close-ups and here comes the recurring theme of Bahamian golf: wind direction is usually a factor on every shot.

Golfers on Paradise Island looking for some variety could cross the bridge and head to the glitzy Baha Mar Resort on the fringes of Nassau. This is where the Bahamas meets Las Vegas and the resort’s Royal Blue Golf Club offers the only Jack Nicklaus design on the islands. The more exclusive option on New Providence is the Albany resort, 12 miles down the road and overlooking South West Bay. Villa or apartment accommodation here starts at $2,800 a night, while the vast Ernie Els-designed golf course awaits.

This is home to the Hero World Challenge—organised

by Tiger Woods’ TGR Foundation—although the 2020 event scheduled for this December has been cancelled due to the pandemic.

Woods invested in the development of Albany, alongside Els and the Tavistock Group—which developed the Isleworth and Lake Nona communities in Florida—

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Four Seasons

ISLAND HOPPING

and the 15-time major champ is also involved in the evolution of another exclusive community, Jack’s Bay on Eleuthera, some 75 miles east from New Providence. The championship 18 at Jack’s Bay remains at the conceptual stage, but a Woods-designed, ocean-front 10-hole par-3 course called The Playground is open for play. Fringed by striking pink coral sand beaches, the 1,200-acre Jack’s Bay is a private club with more than 500 residential properties planned, along with a string of impressive resort amenities, following a similar formula to Albany.

Our island-hopping would not be complete without including the Grand Lucayan resort on Grand Bahama, where guests can enjoy all-inclusive packages and play the classic Reef Course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr.

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TRAVEL California

Two Ways West Thank God for California wines. The grapes Father Junípero Serra planted in 1769 at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá (the state’s first mission) were only meant to ensure wine for communion. But they, and the grapes he planted at eight other missions along the coast, ultimately were the beginnings of one of the world’s great wine destinations. Golf took longer and came in from the other end of the state, with California’s likely first course the five-hole Aetna

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Springs, opened in 1891 just north of Napa Valley.

Though it can’t be said to have had the same impact as the state’s first mission, it was the precursor to Pebble Beach, Torrey Pines, Mayacama and more. Today, California golf and wine each stand alone, but we quite like enjoying them together—if not at the same time, exactly. Focusing on the regions in which both first appeared in the state, here are just a few of our favorite places to “sip & swing.” Don’t forget to give thanks

Our Picks:

North Coast Although golf entered California through the north, the area’s wines already had a foothold, and today it’s a tough call to say which is more popular. California’s North Coast region is home to Napa and Sonoma Counties and to some of golf’s most iconic tracks, including Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, the Mayacama community, and more. Whether you’re socializing with fashionable urbanites in San Francisco, enjoying Michelin-starred cuisine in St. Helena or perusing vintage motors in Carmel, expect high quality and high standards that are delivered with West Coast affability and a golden smile.

Mayacama is the very definition of idyllic wine country living, with a fantastic golf course, a vibrant and engaged wine community, and resort-style amenities throughout.

Tucked into 675 stunning acres in Sonoma, the community seems crafted from the best kind of Golden State dreams, and it is. At once inviting and exclusive, open-air and intimate, the property features a clubhouse that sets the scene: 40,000 square feet with hand-plastered walls, fireplaces, fine art, vine-draped courtyards and three dining rooms with expansive terraces and private rooms, as you like. The private spa offers games tables, fireplaces and steam rooms, while a members wine grotto provides 500 lockers and a separate two-story wine cellar. Hiking, fitness, bocce and everything you’d expect from a top resort are here (remember, it’s a residential community) and that includes an impeccably maintained Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course that looks as if it was painted by a top artist. Just stunning, it complements Mayacama’s culture of lifestyle excellence—but how could it be different, considering so many of the area’s top winemakers are members. Just fantastic (mayacama.com).

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No. 9 at Pebble Beach [right] and a villa at Mayacama [below]

Mayacama and Pebble Beach define the luxury-golf lifestyle in wine country When it comes to ideal global golf experiences, Pebble Beach might be the definitive destination. The country’s No.1 public golf course, Pebble Beach Golf Links, would be enough, but this property features Spyglass Hill, The Links at Spanish Bay, the Del Monte Golf Course and more, all of it along 17-Mile Drive, one of the most iconic stretches of road on Earth. On horseback, in an open-top roadster, on a motorcycle or on foot, Pebble Beach’s Pacific coastline brings out the poet in anyone. Paired with unbelievably good California cuisine at any of a number of dining options, and with accommodations sorted on site at The Lodge at Pebble Beach, The Inn at Spanish Bay or Casa Palmero, with its 24 private rooms, Pebble Beach might define “bucket list destination” for anyone who loves golf. If you want a refresher on what high standards and top quality look like, or if you’re in search of a worry-free getaway to satisfy the soul, few resort destinations deliver on the level of Pebble Beach (pebblebeach.com).

Not far from Pebble Beach and the town of Carmel, The Preserve Golf Club is a private affair that offers a different sort of California beauty (santaluciapreserve.com).

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Nestled amongst 20,000 acres of rolling hills and ancient oaks, Tom Fazio brought a gentle touch to a design established by former Stanford standout Sandy Tatum, who also helped with The Links at Spanish Bay and Tierra Oaks Golf Club in Redding, another worthy stop (tierraoaksgolfclub.com). The Preserve is one of those places that helps to define a trip, a spectacular layout that brings in cougars, wild boar and more to a layout that seems as if it flowed through the valley and was revealed, as opposed to being constructed. A wonderful complement to any Northern California sojourn.

Schermeister tasting room [above] and Cade Winery [below]

Our Pours “Name a good restaurant in France.” That’s the question, really, when one asks for a good winery in Northern California.

The possibilities are nearly endless, but we’ll start with a nod to one of our longtime favorite wine-and-golf destinations, Meadowood Resort, which suffered greatly during the recent fires. Here’s looking forward to its return, and to the health, safety and well-being of its incredible staff.

Another of our longtime favorites for wine (no golf, unfortunately) is Beaulieu Vineyard, which has been bottling the good grape since 1900 or so, depending on how you count your history (bvwines.com). “BV” was founded by Georges de Latour, who imported hundreds of thousands of French grafted vines to the Napa area, diversifying and improving local wine grape options and helping to build the industry that exists today. The signature Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon has graced many a top table and it’s not to be missed, while the vineyard’s other big-bodied offerings are among the finest produced in the United States. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was poured BV wines at the White House before he was President, while Winston Churchill enjoyed it at a Waldorf Astoria banquet given in his honor.

BV wine was poured for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at a dinner hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in 1959, and President Truman served it to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in Washington, D.C. In a sort of cultural contrast, CADE Winery launched in 2005 as a boutique offshoot of PlumpJack Estate Winery, owned by Gavin Newson, Gordon Getty and John Conover (cadewinery.com). The idea was to create the first California Certified Organic Farmers, organically farmed, LEED Gold Certified Estate Winery in the Napa Valley, and

they succeeded. Beyond the sustainable farming methods, architect Juan Carlos Fernandez used renewable materials and efficiency-driven design to create a dramatically modern and responsible installation. Thankfully the wines deliver as well, with the vineyard’s Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc being particular standouts.

Among the established traditional and the wellfunded responsible, it’s nice to know that the original “go for it” spirit of California winemaking is alive and well, and so we want to throw some light on Schermeister Wines in Sonoma (schermeister.com). In 2012 young winemaker Rob Schermeister read the grape leaves, decided it was the perfect time for Pinot Noir, struck out on his own and made 125 cases of the stuff under his own label. He hired a young graphic designer to sort his website, Laura Erickson, who was about to head back to the East Coast but who decided to take “one last job.” They met, they drank wine, they spoke for hours, and the rest is history/herstory. Today the duo crafts wines from the heart, relying on wild yeasts found in the vineyards from which they harvest each year and offering that “wild fermentation wines are our passion; Pinot Noir is our obsession.” People in California are still trying to change the world, and at Schermeister they’re bottling that change. We like it.

BV represents a tradition of excellence, CADE the future of excellence

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Wine entered the state down south, but today the region is better known for its golf courses and luxury golf lifestyle.

That’s sort of a shame, as the mix of Mediterranean and desert climates makes for some interesting bottled possibilities, and in fact Southern California’s wine industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few decades.

From San Diego to Los Angeles along the coast, with a quick desert detour inland, we invite you to put the top down, throw the clubs in the trunk, and get ready for some serious fun in the sun.

The legendary Riviera [left] and Palmer’s fine work at Tradition [above]

Our Picks: Ready to host the U.S. Open in 2021, Torrey Pines in San Diego surely is one of the state’s top golf destinations.

Comprised of South and North courses, the South Course is the more formidable challenge and the major host, having staged the 2008 U.S. Open as well. Its design was outlined by William P. Bell, who died in 1953 before it came to fruition.

His son, William F. Bell, took up the work and saw it through to its opening in 1957. If the South Course is more famous, it’s the North Course that features the better views, serving up plein aire-style vistas of golden bluffs and crashing Pacific waves along with its rolling, verdant fairways. Stay & Play packages at the on-site Hilton make this a “must” for SoCal visitors—and can you believe this is a municipal course?

Another muni—and William P. Bell design—Rancho Park in Los Angeles was a 17-time host to the Los Angeles Open, but it’s better known to Palmer fans as the site of Arnie’s

infamous 12 in 1961, commemorated by a bronze plaque on site (golf.lacity.org). Closer to SoCal’s wine country, the Temecula Creek Inn offers 27 holes set up as three nines, including the Ted Robinson-designed Stone House GC (temeculacreekgolf.com). The course has hosted U.S. Open qualifiers and the Golden State Golf Tour, and, again, it sits in SoCal wine country, so there’s a lot to love.

When it comes to private clubs, what more can be said or written about Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, one of the world’s great clubs and golf destinations? With a “who’s who” membership, a top PGA Tour event in the Genesis Invitational, three majors and a Katharine Hepburn movie under its belt, and a schedule that includes the 2028 Olympics, this George Thomas and William P. Bell design has a star-studded past, present and future, and remains a deeply coveted tee time for non-members.

Four years out from its 100th anniversary, it also happens to be a beautiful property with top service and dining (therivieracountryclub.com). Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles is another Thomas design and SoCal gem, also nearing its centennial (bel-aircc.com) while inland,

by Palm Springs, the Tradition Golf Club in La Quinta (traditiongc.com) is one of Arnold Palmer’s finest designs, as well as being his former home.

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Temecula wine country [left] and the tasting room at Palumbo Family Vineyards & Winery [below]

Our Pours: The Temecula Valley, an hour or so north of San Diego, has become a hot wine destination over the past decade, with more than 40 wineries and a vibrant food scene as well. The area’s soil is comprised of sandy loam and decomposing granite, which, when combined with the Mediterranean climate, makes for some great possibilities. Hart Family Winery (vinhart.com) helped to establish the area, opening in 1980 and still earning praise for its Sauvignon Blanc, its Syrah and its Arneis, a grape native to the Piedmont region of northern Italy and a relatively rare treat in California. Doffo Wines (doffowines.com) is another Temecula option, founded by Argentina native Marcelo Doffo and known for Malbec, Zinfandel and Doffo’s vintage motorcycle collection. Palumbo Family Vineyards & Winery (palumbowines.com) is certified sustainable, producing handcrafted Cab Sauvignon and Cab Franc along with Sangiovese, while the Carter Estate Winery (carterestatewinery.com) offers an upscale resort and limited-seating Wine & Food dinners at its winery. The in-room spa treatments, bungalow patios and poolside cabanas make for a great getaway, and the estate Merlot, Sangiovese and bubblies on offer provide plenty to savor.

For dessert, head north to Rancho Cucamonga, just east of Los Angeles, and to the Galleano Winery in Mira Loma (galleanowinery.com)—the oldest continuously operated family-owned winery in the Cucamonga Valley.

Dominic Galleano began making wine in a basement on the property in 1927, in the midst of Prohibition. Today production is above board and pointed toward dessert wines, with Galleano’s Old Vine Port, Zinfandel and Sherry regularly taking top awards in their categories. Finally, for something different, “Get your wine on—in the wild” at

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Southern California wines offer modern Old World appeal—and in at least one case, wild animals Malibu Wine Safaris (lasafaris.com). Guests ride in custom open-top trucks and tour the 1,000-acre Saddlerock Ranch and Vineyard while sipping wines from Saddlerock, Semler, and others and mingling with rescued exotic animals.

There are no pink elephants (that we know of) but expect to see zebras, camels, water buffalo, bison and a giraffe named Stanley—all in Malibu—at this quintessentially SoCal experience.

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LEGACY Palmer’s Clubs

At the last count we believe Arnold Palmer was a member at 76 golf clubs around the world. 76.

Palmer’s former personal assistant Doc Giffin recalls some of Palmer’s most notable affiliations

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everal crafted boxes rested on the front edge of Arnold Palmer’s cluttered desk for many years in his memorabilia-laden hometown office in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. One was a silver box he received as winner of his first Masters in 1958—engraved with the signatures of all of that year’s contestants—another was acquired by the Eisenhower Trophy for Arnold’s victory in the 1962 Palm Springs Desert Classic. Both boxes contained a variety of cards—paper, plastic and a lone metal one—reflecting memberships in a wide range of organizations, mostly for the vast number of golf and country clubs to which he belonged.

They accounted for most of Arnold’s 76 different club memberships, many prominent, a few rather obscure, from around the world. If you throw in some 25 TPC courses to which all PGA Tour members have access, the total exceeds 100 and there may be more, since not every club sent him a card or did more than notify him of the bestowal. Most of the membership clubs are located in the United States but the list includes seven in Scotland, two each in England, Canada and Ireland and others in the Philippines and Thailand.

Interestingly but not surprisingly, he was a member or honorary member of all the clubs that hosted his seven major championship victories (Augusta National, Cherry Hills, Royal Birkdale and Royal Troon), three of his senior majors (Oakland Hills and Canterbury), the host of the 1954 U.S. Amateur that inspired his pro career (Country Club of Detroit) and the one that got away—the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont, a club Palmer admired ever since his teenage years in Western Pennsylvania. Even The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews bestowed Arnold with an honorary membership.

“Arnold Palmer was a true gentleman and a truly iconic figure in sport,” says the Royal & Ancient. “His contribution to The Open is immeasurable. We were proud to have him as an honorary member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and he will forever be remembered as a wonderfully charismatic and global champion of our game.”

Several clubs went well beyond merely extending Arnold a membership.

Cherry Hills, for one, has a statue of Arnold fronting its Hall of Champions, where the memorabilia includes the club he used for his storied drive onto the first green that spurred the final-round 65 and brought him his lone U.S. Open Championship in 1960. Cherry Hills bestowed the honorary membership at a 1967 ceremony.

Oakland Hills, where he scored an exciting playoff victory in the 1981 U.S. Senior Open, staged an elaborate dinner party to present that membership with two of Detroit’s all-time sports heroes—hockey’s Gordie Howe and baseball’s Al Kaline—on hand for the honor.

Canterbury created a special area in its clubhouse to toast Arnold, who not only carved out back-to-back Senior TPC Championships in 1984 and 1985 there but also played the course on occasion while enjoying considerable success during his Coast Guard and later amateur days in the Cleveland area.

Another golf course that Arnold loved to visit, dating back to his amateur days, was the famous Pine Valley Golf Club, on the New Jersey side of Philadelphia.

“Arnold was the most charismatic gentleman I have ever known,” remembers Gordon Brewer, former president at Pine Valley. “He looked you straight in the eye when speaking to you, making you feel to be his sole focus at that time. His being a Pine Valley member was a tremendous source of pride.

“Arnold attended the Spring Members Weekend in 1998 and he could not have been more gracious. I had the privilege of watching him interact with the gallery as a member of his foursome and his charisma was genuine and exceptional. Arnold was perhaps the greatest ambassador the game has ever known and having him as a Pine Valley member was extra special.”

A unique statue stands at Weston Golf and Country Club in Toronto, where Arnold won the 1955 Canadian Open, his first PGA Tour title. Located near the first tee, on a

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hole appropriately called “Arnie’s First,” it shows a grinning winner hugging the championship trophy. Weston marked the 50th anniversary of that victory with a celebration that Arnold flew north to attend.

“Words cannot describe the high regard in which Mr. Palmer is held here at the club,” says Jeremey J. MacRae, Chief Operating Officer, Weston G&CC. “Our membership is extremely proud of the association with Mr. Palmer and our statue of Mr. Palmer is a key illustration of that.

It remains on proud and prominent display. People like to walk past the statue and perhaps tap it and there are frequent post-game photo ops taken with it. The statue and Arnold Palmer’s legacy are significant parts of our club culture and of the experience people have at Weston.”

Palmer’s company designed both of the Irish courses where Arnold was a member; the K Club at Kildare, near Dublin, which was site of the 2006 Ryder Cup Match, and Tralee, the highly-regarded links course that boasts a statue of him.

“Mr. Palmer came over in 2001,” recalls Anthony Byrne, General Manager at Tralee, which occupies a terrific parcel of linksland in south-west Ireland. “He played 18 holes and partnered Richard Rafferty (captain at the time) versus David Power (club pro) and Jim Dooley (chairman of management committee). Mr. Palmer holed out from a bunker on the 16th to win that match. It is like an amphitheater around the 16th green so there were people all around and there was a lot of noise and commotion when the ball went in, and Mr. Palmer was pretty excited about it himself. It was just one of the most amazing days; no wind, which is so unusual here, and blue skies.

“That day Mr. Palmer had one of the best caddies we ever had carrying his bag, Chucky O’Connell, and Chucky was singing songs in the men’s locker room after their round. Something, I would say, that Mr. Palmer had probably never experienced in all his life and in all the locker rooms he’d been through!

“Would you believe, Mr. Palmer wrote to Chucky afterwards, so Chucky must have made some impression.

They got on like a house on fire. Chucky, who died a couple years ago, was a real character and he actually had a good singing voice, and he sung Irish songs like The Rose of Tralee. They had a hoot.

“Then Mr. Palmer presented some medals to our juniors and held a Q&A for our members. He was so entertaining, hilarious at times, and it was just great for our members to be able to spend that time with him.”

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Yet another figurine stands outside the clubhouse at Laurel Valley, the distinguished golf club in Ligonier that is figuratively next door to Palmer’s hometown and has hosted a PGA Championship, a Ryder Cup, a Tour better-ball event

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The statue of Palmer at Tralee

for three years and two senior majors. Arnold was involved with Laurel Valley from its founding in the late 1950s and turned down an offer to become the first head professional there, wisely wanting to remain a full-time player on the PGA Tour. Nevertheless, as a member he maintained close ties with the club over the years, influencing its selection for many of those important events and overseeing modifications and alterations of the course from time to time. It was with great pride that Arnold captained the U.S. Ryder Cup team at Laurel Valley in 1975.

Besides Laurel, Oakmont and, of course, his own Latrobe Country Club, Palmer had other memberships in Western Pennsylvania; at the exclusive nearby Rolling Rock Club, plush resort Nemacolin Woodlands, Treesdale—a 27-hole club designed by the Palmer company that is the core of an extensive residential community in suburban Pittsburgh—and Indian Lake, a second-home village in the mountains east of Latrobe, where he laid out his first course in the mid-1960s.

That project lured him into the design business, which has been responsible for the more than 300 courses his company has produced over the years around the world.

Indian Lake honored him a decade ago when they converted a dying tree that he had kept in the fairway of the 11th hole (formerly the 1st) into a wooden statue, thanks to the skill of a chainsaw artist.

Palmer and Jack Nicklaus swap stories in the clubhouse at Laurel Valley in 1965

Besides Latrobe, another obvious membership was at his long-time winter home at Bay Hill in Orlando, which he and partners acquired in the late 1960s and which has been the site of the Arnold Palmer Invitational since 1979. Close by is Isleworth, an upscale gated community that developed around the golf course Arnold designed on property that once abounded with orange groves among the area’s Butler chain of lakes. He also had a vacation home and membership at Tradition Golf Club at LaQuinta, where he designed one of a handful of courses in the Palm Springs area of California.

Another of his Palm Springs memberships was at Bermuda Dunes, which was one of the original courses on which the long-time PGA Tour tournament in Palm Springs was played and was the site of his 62nd and last regular tour victory. It was developed by Ernie Dunlevie, another close friend and key tournament official who set aside a condominium at Bermuda Dunes for Arnold to use whenever he was there.

Arnold’s friendship with Delvin Miller, the Hallof-Fame harness racing driver, led to the choice of the Palmer company to create Adios Golf Club in South Florida and to Arnold’s honorary membership there. Adios, owned

by Miller, was one of the most successful harness horses in the sport’s history.

When it came to designing golf courses, Arnold stayed in touch with clubs afterwards as much as he could and he got a real kick out of seeing golfers enjoy a golf course he had designed.

“Mr. Palmer not only enjoyed designing the courses, but importantly he made connections with the people,” recalls Gerry Byrne, Resort Superintendent at the K Club in

“Mr. Palmer not only enjoyed designing the courses, but importantly he made connections with the people” Ireland, “from members to greenkeepers to the friends he made having a quiet Guinness in our local pub.

His ‘thumbs up’ in gratitude to the Irish welcome he received will be forever remembered by his friends at The K Club.”

Another close friend of long standing—former United Airlines chief executive Dick Ferris—brought Arnold into the consortium that acquired the famed and lucrative Pebble Beach properties in Northern California. That, too, produced a membership. Ironically, the Bing Crosby tournament there (now the AT&T) was one of the few tournaments Arnold played regularly yet failed to win, despite a couple of near-misses.

Lastly, Arnold had a special tie to the New Golf Club, which has club quarters overlooking the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. An honorary member, he provided an annual trophy that went to the club’s player of the year.

Oh, about that metal card. It is a gold one that he treasured. With it he became a life member of Latrobe Country Club at a ceremony held to toast him after his 1958 Masters victory and long before he became the owner of the club on which he grew up and fashioned his tremendous game.

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Arnold Palmer’s golf club memberships Adios Golf Club Army Navy Country Club Augusta National Golf Club Bangpoo Country Club Bay Hill Club Bel Air Country Club Bermuda Dunes CC Brierwood Country Club Canterbury Golf Club Carnoustie Golf Links Cherry Hills Country Club The Concession The Country Club Country Club of Detroit Cullasaja Club Cypress Point Club Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club The Honors Course Hidden Hills Country Club Hiland Golf Club Indian Lake Golf Club Indian Ridge Golf Club Indian Wells Country Club Ironwood Country Club Isleworth Country Club Jacksonville Golf & CC The Jeremy Golf & CC The K Club Lakeside Golf Club Latrobe Country Club LaQuinta Resort & Club Laurel Valley Golf Club Loch Lomond Golf Club Lost Tree Club Madison Club Meadow Club Mid-South Club Nemacolin Woodlands

Deerfield Beach, FL Washington, DC Augusta, GA Bangkok, Thailand Orlando, FL Los Angeles, CA Bermuda Dunes, CA Hamburg, NY Cleveland, OH Angus, Scotland Englewood, CO Bradenton, FL Pepper Pike, OH Grosse Pointe, MI Highlands, NC Pebble Beach, CA Morayshire, Scotland Chattanooga, TN Jacksonville, FL Butler, PA Indian Lake, PA Palm Desert, CA Indian Wells, CA Palm Springs, CA Windermere, FL Jacksonville, FL Park City, UT County Kildare, Ireland Hollywood, CA Latrobe, PA LaQuinta, CA Ligonier, PA Loch Lomond, Scotland North Palm Beach, FL La Quinta, CA Tiburon, CA Pinehurst, NC Farmington, PA

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The New Golf Club Northview Golf Club Oakland Hills Country Club Oakmont Country Club Ocean Forest Golf Club The Olde Farm Old Town Club Orange Tree Country Club Orchard Golf & CC PGA Country Club PGA National Golf Club PGA West Golf Club The Palms Golf Club Pebble Beach Golf Club Pine Valley Golf Club Pinehurst Plantation GC The Plantation at Ponte Vedra Preston Trail Golf Club Quail Hollow Country Club Renfrew Golf Club Rolling Rock Club Royal & Ancient Golf Club Royal Lytham & St. Annes GC Royal Birkdale Golf Club Royal Troon Golf Club Shawnee Inn & CC Spanish Hills Golf & CC Spring Island Golf Club Teton Pines Country Club Thunderbird Country Club The Tin Whistles The Tradition Golf Club Tralee Golf Club Treesdale Golf & CC Waialae Country Club Weston Golf & CC Wilshire Country Club Winged Foot Golf Club

St. Andrews, Scotland Surrey, BC, Canada Birmingham, MI Oakmont, PA Sea Island, GA Bristol, VA Winston-Salem, NC Orlando, FL Dasmarinas, Philippines Port St. Lucie, FL Palm Beach Gardens FL LaQuinta, CA LaQuinta, CA Pebble Beach, CA Pine Valley, NJ Pinehurst, NC Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Dallas, TX Charlotte, NC Renfrew, Scotland Rector, PA St. Andrews, Scotland Lancashire, England Southport, England Troon, Scotland Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA Camarillo, CA Beaufort, SC Jackson, WY Rancho Mirage, CA Pinehurst, NC LaQuinta, CA County Kerry, Ireland Gibsonia, PA Honolulu, HI Toronto, Canada Los Angeles, CA Mamaroneck, NY

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There is no way Arnold Palmer could have enjoyed so many golf club memberships [see article on previous pages], play in so many tournaments, design so many golf courses and fulfil so many other business and charity commitments had he not embraced private aviation with such unbridled enthusiasm

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uss Meyer was one of Arnold Palmer’s closest friends and they both enjoyed outstandingly successful careers in their own ways. Meyer was CEO of Cessna, building the company to become the world’s leading manufacturer of private jets, before becoming its Chairman Emeritus.

“Arnie didn‘t just like to fly. He loved to fly,” started Meyer in a fitting tribute at the memorial service for Palmer in Latrobe in October 2016. “The faster the speed and the higher the altitude, the better he liked it.”

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) once used Palmer’s words to spearhead a “No Plane No Gain” marketing campaign. Palmer had explained that using business aircraft “is the single most productive thing I have done. It’s given me the opportunity to compete more effectively in golf and in business, and it’s enabled me to do

both from a place not served by the airlines.”

In 1999, Palmer’s hometown of Latrobe Pa. named its airfield the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, and Palmer received the NBAA’s Meritorious Service to Aviation Award in 2010. This is the association’s highest honor, given to an individual who has made identifiable contributions to advance aviation.

Palmer leased and owned a series of private jets over his lifetime, his last being his cherished favorite. Indeed, Palmer was the first customer worldwide to take delivery of the Cessna Citation X, which he described as a “wonder ship”, and which was powered by the peerless Rolls-Royce AE 3007C engine.

Added Meyer: “Arnie was not just a pilot. He was an outstanding pilot. In aviation we describe the really special pilots as having good hands, and I can assure you that Arnie’s hands were just as comfortable on the controls of an aircraft as the grip of a golf club.”

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CLUB Mclemore

Where Eagles Fly Discovering the breathtaking mountain-top retreat of McLemore

Photography by EVA N S C H I L LE R / GOLFS H OT S.C O M

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The spectacular 18th on the Highlands Course at McLemore [main pic]; and [top to bottom] the 2nd, 4th and 17th holes

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ometimes it works to begin stories at the end.

At the McLemore Club, atop Lookout Mountain in north-west Georgia, a round of golf on its Highlands Course builds to an unforgettable crescendo. And you can take “Highlands” literally, in terms of a final green that is more than 2,000 feet above sea level. The panoramic view from the 18th reaches for miles over the untouched wilderness beauty of McLemore Cove and Pigeon Mountain.

This is some way to draw a round of golf to a close.

“It is different here at McLemore,” starts William Duane Horton, President of the McLemore Club. “People come here just to look at the land and to experience it.

This golf course celebrates the natural areas and is carved into the land in a way that makes it look part of the character and like it belongs here.”

“McLemore is a retreat from fast-paced, suburban living, coming up to a more pastoral and relaxed way of life” The Highlands course was designed

by Rees Jones and Bill Bergin and it opened for play last year, while the club also offers a six-hole Short Course of rare quality.

“This is not just a golf course,” says Jones, who has been trusted with key renovations at classic American clubs including Oakland Hills, Hazeltine, Bellerive and Baltusrol. “Golfers come here and they know they are in a special place. McLemore is about more than just playing golf. The views are phenomenal and that is half the experience of playing golf, just enjoying being at a place with views that calm you.”

The 18th is a par-4 that plays up to 435 yards from the tips, with the left side of the hole defined by the cliff’s edge and a

dramatic 100-foot drop. The fairway is 40 yards wide so offers golfers plenty of scope to find safety, but a determined hook off the tee by a right-hander will send the ball onto a long-haul flight path into the wooded valley below. The green location also tests a golfer’s mettle as it snuggly sits just feet from the rocky precipice.

A 245-room hotel should open in 2022 but for now, guests are welcome to stay in an array of beautifully crafted cottages that tuck unobtrusively into the wooded landscape, while the brand new clubhouse opened on October 24.

“The clubhouse looks better than we had even hoped,” explains IV Whitman, VP of Marketing. “It has a very elegant design and it is amazing how it has come together, combining authentic old world craftsmanship with new world construction techniques. It has been built with strength and durability, with materials like rock, zinc, slate and exposed timbers.”

Hiking, mountain biking, road cycling, hang-gliding and rock climbing head the array of activities on offer beyond the golf course at the McLemore Club so the options for exhilarating action are all there, although guests should be pre-warned that McLemore exudes a sense of serenity that members and guests tend to recline into.

“Sitting back and taking in the amazing surroundings with a cocktail seems to be the most popular activity here after the golf,” admits Whitman. “It is just what people end up doing.”

Adds Roland Aberg, Master Planner for the McLemore Club: “McLemore is a retreat from fast-paced, suburban living, coming up to a more pastoral and relaxed way of life. You cannot create all of this. It has to be there [already] and that is what McLemore has. It has a lot of beautiful, natural places within the property and that is what McLemore is all about.”

Concludes club President Horton: “When you come to McLemore you see that it does not need anything more. It already has more than we could have imagined. It is an island in the sky.”

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FEATURE Course Design

Shaping the game

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Arnold Palmer Design Company’s Brandon Johnson offers an expert’s perspective on five golf holes that continue to shape our game; study up, and find their influence on your favorite courses...

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ften with the greatest respect, each generation of golf course architects and designers draws inspiration from last, with new talents referencing (sometimes obviously) past work even as they seek to distinguish themselves with personalized contemporary approaches to traditional tenets. Late 19th century designer Charles Blair MacDonald might have formalized this kind of referencing with his “template holes”, a collection of roughly 20 model holes the Chicago native identified as present in some form on the world’s greatest courses. His work arguably marked the

beginnings of North American golf course architecture, but in fact his go-to templates represent only a small collection of influential golf holes that drive the game forward.

Nature, via architects’ interpretations of her landscapes, has created holes that have stood the test of time and which have influenced prominent designs as much as, if not more than, any individual. The finest among these holes evoke the purest emotions, delivering beauty and charm to the heart along with joy, excitement, and perhaps even a kind of fear.

From the plethora of non-template holes that have influenced and inspired the canon of course architecture beyond their contemporary eras, here are just five examples.

CYPRESS POINT #16 Alister MacKenzie / Marion Hollins Par-3, 222 yds / 1928 Golf course architecture is at its purest when the key strategic feature (i.e., the key puzzle to solve) is derived from a stunningly beautiful natural element. In the case of Cypress Point, courageous golf course architecture met the sublime craggy coast of the majestic Pacific Ocean and created one of the most coveted and heroic forced-carry holes in the game: its par-3 16th [pictured, left].

Marion Hollins, one of the earliest female golf course developers, was responsible for retaining Alister MacKenzie at Cypress Point, and when she first saw the property she must have seen its historic potential—evidenced by her conception for No. 16.

As MacKenzie wrote in his book, Spirit of St Andrews, “except for minor details in construction I was in no way responsible for the hole. It was largely due to the vision of

Miss Marion Hollins. It was suggested to her by the late Seth Raynor that the carry over the ocean was too long for a golf hole. She pegged a ball and promptly carried it to the site of the green, proving him wrong.”

Architects long for the opportunity to find and incorporate irreplaceable natural features into the fabric of their golf holes, and the 16th at Cypress Point sets the ultimate precedent for providing the dramatic thrill of such a do-or-die challenge to those who dare.

They are countless attempted modern interpretations of this hole, but certainly one of the most striking is the 6th at the South Cape Owners Club on Namhae Island, South Korea. This is a 235-yard masterpiece laid out by Kyle Phillips, but much of the hard work was done by the natural lie of its rocky cliff.

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A hole requiring such a short pitch shot should be relatively easy, but history has shown that the fortunes of a round can turn disastrous quickly here

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ROYAL TROON #8

“THE POSTAGE STAMP” Willie Fernie / George Strath Par-3, 123 yds / 1888 The legacy and influence of Royal Troon and its Old Course dates to 1878 when the first five-hole links layout was designed by Willie Fernie and George Strath, who then expanded it to 18 holes in 1888. Troon’s notoriety primarily stems from the fact that it holds both the longest and shortest holes in [British] Open golf, but while the 601-yard sixth is notable, Troon’s true treasure is the little jewel of a hole known as “The Postage Stamp” [pictured].

The name came from Willie Park, Jr., who in a 1909 Golf Illustrated article described No. 8 as “A pitching surface skimmed down to the size of a Postage Stamp.” The hole is one of the early harbingers for the short, tricky, drop shot par-3. At first glance, the absence of length lowers one’s guard, but even on a calm day hitting the miniscule green requires a precise strike, and five bunkers lie in wait.

Scottish winds typically complicate things for even the most skilled players, making this an often cruel test.

The psychological irony of the hole adds to No. 8’s intrigue. A hole requiring such a short pitch shot should be relatively easy, but history has shown that the fortunes of a round can turn disastrous quickly here.

And beyond its design, the hole’s placement is ideal.

Success here can jump-start a slow round or fuel a solid run, while disaster might halt a fast start or lead to a complete meltdown. Plenty of holes remain to allow players to recover their rounds, but No. 8 tends to stick with you.

Today, the short par-3 hole is almost a staple on any revered golf course. One famous example, where the inspiration can be traced directly back to its predecessor, is the 13th at Kingsbarns. Another (not so well known) Postage Stamp-inspired hole was Tom Doak and Jim Urbina’s No. 11 at Charlotte Golf Links, where a reversed and mirrored rendition paid tribute. Sadly it’s no longer in existence, but it was fun to play while it lasted.

Other great short holes vary the theme, such as the 7th at Pebble Beach as it kisses the rocky cliff edge of the Pacific and dazzles players at 107 yards; the 10th at Pine Valley with its Devil’s Aperture Bunker, nestled amid the sandy rolling terrain of the Northern U.S.; and Augusta National and its famous No. 12 at Amen Corner. While slightly longer than its treacherous forebear, all the principles of a dicey, thoughtprovoking, one-shot hole with trouble are incorporated here in a majestic inland setting.

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RIVIERA #10 George Thomas / Par-4, 315 yds / 1926 In a time when advances in technology, training, and turf standards converge to allow players of all calibers to achieve tremendous distance gains, it is counterintuitive that the short Par-4 hole is en vogue again. And yet it is.

One vexing paradox behind any masterful short four is how it can cause longer hitters, with what seems like an advantage, to struggle in capitalizing on the scoring opportunity, yet allow a shorter or more precise player to excel. There is no better architectural example of this than the 10th at Riviera [pictured]. No panoramic ocean views, no water hazards, no out of bounds, just essential architectural elements placed in perfect accord, the hole performing as brilliantly now as it did when it was first conceived.

Despite the enormous distance advantages elite players have today, the combination of green angle, contour and angles of attack and approach are central in keeping the virtue of this hole current with the modern game. They put a premium on ball placement and tactically plotting

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decisions, whether one chooses a conservative lay up or bashes away on an attempt to drive the green. No apparent right or wrong way to play the hole emerges outside of a “do not go there spot” to the right of the fairway. Beyond that, the variety of strategic permutations is what makes this hole interesting and relevant 94 years after its conception.

The consistently wide shot disbursement is another key to the enduring prominence of the hole. Anytime a hole produces a wide array of shots that don’t conform to a predictable pattern, you have revealed a design that causes players to think and potentially to deviate from their comfort zone. This is no easy architectural feat to achieve.

Classics such as Kingston Heath No.3, Victoria No.1, or the 12th or 18th on the Old Course at St Andrews, depending on the wind, have tempted players for decades.

More recently there’s the seaside No.3 at Castle Stuart, the 14th at TPC River Highlands, 17th at TPC Scottsdale and the converted 16th at Harding Park, on view during the 2020 PGA Championship. The seeds of Riviera’s 10th have taken root and grown a new crop of fierce short fours.

Riviera’s No.10 remains interesting and relevant 94 years after its conception

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RIVIERA COUNTRY CLUB

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“The sense of history… It adds something to your experience here because you know every great golfer and so many others have been on this course,” explains Michael Yamaki, Riviera’s longtime corporate officer—and he’s not kidding.

Presidents, movie stars and VIPs from around the world have enjoyed—and continue to enjoy—what long has been regarded as one of the world’s greatest clubs.

Perched atop the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles since it opened in 1927, enjoying the cool Pacific breezes and golden light, the club is scheduled to host the golf portion of the 2028 Olympic Games, but every day here is special.

There’s the spectacular clubhouse where Dean Martin, Jack Nicholson and so many others have relaxed and dined, and the grounds where a young Elizabeth Taylor trained with horses before appearing in National Velvet, and so much more. Today Riviera’s membership continues to be a “Who’s Who” of entertainment, sports and finance, a global group that appreciates the top-shelf service and amenities along with the club’s illustrious history and traditions. But in the end, of course, it all comes down to the golf course, which is a legend in its own right.

“Say you only played nine holes,” Yamaki points out.

“So you finished up on 9. No.9 is equally as good as 18. And then, say, you started off on 10 instead of 1. You’re starting on another world famous hole. We have pretty much four iconic opening and closing holes, and there aren’t too many courses with that.

“When you walk up 18, every great golfer has walked up 18 and talked about what it’s like to come back toward the clubhouse with that amphitheater and with all the fans and the energy. There’s a magic to this place.”

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TOBACCO ROAD #1 Mike Strantz / Par-5, 547 yds / 1999

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If an opening hole’s primary role is to set the mood for the remaining architectural journey, Tobacco Road might be the best opening hole in golf [pictured, below]. Few holes pinpoint the essence of the forthcoming experience with more clarity. The jaw dropping, awe-inspiring scene is chock-full of hints and suggestions of the wild ride on which you have just embarked—offering that feeling of “There’s no getting off the roller coaster now.”

Tobacco Road shocks the player with an almost freakish scene that’s meant to overwhelm and play with the mind. Commenting on the architect’s intent for first-time visitors, Tom Woodard, the course’s co-owner, said it best: “I think Mike Strantz wanted people to shake in their boots.” And while many do just that, Mike Jones, one of the premiere shapers on the project, offers some reassurance: “Everything is an illusion from the tee, but in reality it’s much easier than it looks.”

A relatively young hole in course architecture, it’s likely not fair to identify any progeny via inspiration, but doubtless this hole is inspiring and will continue to inspire architects in various ways. Considering its potential impact, perhaps it’s not the physical form of this hole that will be a source of influence and inspiration to others, for that might carry the same trap that concerns soulless copies of the famed island green (next page). Rather, its strength might be more in how, as the opening bell, it embodies the architectural personality of the site and showcases the unique architectural language of a course that captivates and thrills players from start to finish.

The importance of nailing the opener should not be overlooked—it’s the architect’s best chance to prepare the player for understanding, enjoying and appreciating the architectural excursion—and Tobacco Road does all of that and more.

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TPC SAWGRASS #17 Pete & Alice Dye / Par-3, 132 yds / 1982

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While No.17 [pictured] is not the first island green ever built, the crazed reception by pros and public alike suggested otherwise when Pete and Alice Dye unveiled their creation in 1982. Time has softened its edge but it’s still feared, and still a focal point, even for non-golfers. The genius is not just in the hole itself, but also in the lead-up. How the rhythm and flow of the back nine unfolds, and the status of each player’s round, are important to the full experience. The short 12th, the Par-3 13th (arguably as interesting as 17), two successive demanding par-4s followed by the tricky but gettable Par-5 16th... All of this is part of the emotional experience of 17, which sees some 120,000 balls go in the water each year (45 of them at the 2019 Players Championship).

Notable or notorious, it’s also revered, a fact pointed out by Joel Beall of Golf Digest, who wrote, “Perhaps the greatest compliment to the hole is how often its design is duplicated around the world.” And it is. Even Pete Dye was asked to copy it. Dye’s reprise at PGA West Stadium works

and is a noble cover of the hole he and his wife designed, but as with da Vinci and the Madonna, the original remains the preeminent version.

Other architects’ versions around the world—often demanded by developers and owners—have been less successful, and have even diluted the avante garde nature of the feature. It’s a lesson for all of course design that some ideas translate well into new renditions while others should be left to stand on their own—a conversation as applicable to the arts as it is to course architecture.

Inspiration and striving to emulate what one finds interesting and successful can be tricky. With the purest of intentions one can be lead down fruitless paths in attempts to recreate the magic found in originals. With each substandard copy unable to recreate that magic and emotional impact, some ideas can lose their luster and be lost—at least until they are rediscovered anew, for a new generation to reinterpret and to appreciate.

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GROWING UP TOGETHER ArborLinks in Nebraska, one of Arnold Palmer’s most distinctive course designs, pre-dates Kingdom magazine but only just. It featured in the first ever issue of Kingdom and the two entities have evolved side by side ever since

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here is a lot more to Nebraska than cornfields and prairies, but sometimes you have to look hard into this vast golden countryside to find its gems. That is just how they like it at ArborLinks.

This links-style golf course lies over gently rolling hills of the Great Plains and it honors its natural landscape. The golf course and nature exist in harmony, with minimal disturbance to native topography, foliage and wildlife when the course was carefully laid out at the beginning of the new millennium. Spread over an expanse of more than 300 acres, native grasses were utilised as Arnold Palmer and his team established one of the first conservation-driven golf courses in the United States. The result was a 7,190-yard layout that looked like an ancient classic from the start.

The clubhouse at ArborLinks [left] was renovated in 2019 while rustic cottages [below] provide laid back yet luxurious accommodation

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A striking illustration of how environmentally responsible design could produce stunning results “Right now the condition of the golf course is as good as it has ever been,” starts Dave Plaster, Chief Marketing Officer of the Dormie Network, of which ArborLinks is a part. “The Dormie Network acquired ArborLinks in 2015 and we completely overhauled the agronomic practices. While we have not made any changes to the course routing— Arnold Palmer created just a really great golf course—we have reviewed the attention to detail to ensure it plays its best through the season.”

ArborLinks completely removes golfers from fastpaced urban life. The remote and tranquil setting combines with the links nature of the course to emanate an Old World

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feel (although the summers here tend to be warmer than in the Scottish homeland of links golf).

The Midwest course was included in the very first issue of Kingdom in fall 2003, when it was little more than a year old, and it stood out at the time as a particularly significant project for Arnold Palmer Design; a striking illustration of how environmentally responsible design could produce stunning results. Palmer and his team were ahead of the curve and to ensure ArborLinks stays that way, the team from Arnold Palmer Design is back at ArborLinks during this off-season to renovate and expand the driving range in time for summer 2021.

ArborLinks was the first golf club acquired by the impressive Dormie Network and it is now one of six outstanding American venues in the elite squad. Dormie Network members enjoy membership of all six golf clubs for the price of one, and all offer the same exacting standards of service, accommodation, hospitality and golf course experience.

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R E T R E AT TO THE WILDS In fast-paced times, with buzzing cities meshed together by steel, tarmac, bright lights and constant noise, there come moments when the human senses need to be refreshed, when they yearn for the scent of a pine forest, the sight of distant stars in the night sky and as Paul Simon once penned, when they need to hear the “sound of silence”

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he opening foray into the much heralded Payne’s Valley golf course, pictured here, encapsulates not just the wondrous golf experience of this course designed by Tiger Woods, but it offers a glimpse into the vast, natural phenomenon of America’s greatest wilderness resort.

Payne’s Valley is a tribute to Missouri native and Major Champion, the late Payne Stewart, who hailed from these Ozark mountains, so there could hardly be a more fitting tribute than this new course, which opened in September at the 4,600-acre resort.

One of five golf courses at Big Cedar Lodge, Payne’s Valley is in fact a 19-hole course, with owner Johnny Morris, the noted conservationist and founder of Bass Pro Shops and Big Cedar Lodge, having created a 140-yard par-3 bonus hole, on which golfers take aim at a small island green in the middle of Lunker Lake.

Fishing, boating, hiking, biking and horseback riding are among the wide array of activities at this unique family destination, where untouched nature combines seamlessly with contemporary luxury.

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idden amid the citrus groves and canyons of Southern California, the extraordinary golf course at The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe was designed by Robert Trent Jones II. Here the lush green tones of the fairways and greens flow through the course in striking contrast to the rocky terrain that surround them. With bridges stringing together the golf holes as required, a singular, unforgettable golf experience has been created.

The 7,000-yard, par-71 challenge can seem daunting from some tees, yet five sets of tee boxes are offered, to cater for all skill levels, and golfers need to remember that first appearances can be deceptive. Yes, there are craggy canyons into which wayward golf balls will never re-emerge, yet the target areas are always broader and more receptive than they at first appear. Therein lies the magic of The Bridges.

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THE RESERVE

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he Reserve at Moonlight Basin gives new meaning to golf in the wilderness.

Rolling out for 8,000 yards in southern Montana, this stunning Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course is just one element of the 8,000-acre mountain-side property. Moonlight Basin extends from Lone Peak down into the Madison River Valley and is integral to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The philosophy at the Reserve at Moonlight Basin is unyielding in its priority to preserve the natural land and wildlife. All prominent landforms, wetlands and stream corridors are preserved and enhanced where appropriate, and limited dwellings on the property are created to function as islands in a sea of open, untouched space. Genuine sustainability is central to all activity. There is limited room here for environmentally sensitive mountain living yet no room for compromise with the natural surroundings.

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Holiday Gifts Whichever end of the gift you’re on, the following will be well enjoyed

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Dewar’s

Founded in 1764 by the Bishop of Metz, 12 years before America won independence, this iconic French crystal glassmaker has long been a supplier to Royalty and Heads of States around the world. The Baccarat crystal 4 Elements classic tumblers set featured here was inspired by the four elements (Earth, Fire, Air, Water). Handcrafted in France and 10.5cm tall, they would grace any table around the world.

Drawing inspiration from A.J. Cameron, the original creator of White Label, Dewar’s has created a super-premium blend that reaches new levels of smoothness. Resurrecting Cameron’s fourstage aging process from 1901, malt whiskies are double-aged, as are single grain, the malt and grain whiskies are then aged together for a third time before a fourth and “finishing” age in sherry casks. The four-step process uniquely marries the whiskies for layers of flavor, while the finish adds an uplifting finesse.

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Holderness & Bourne T H E K IN G V E ST

Holderness & Bourne is a firm favorite among Kingdom staffers.

The brand’s combination of design and product quality is unparalleled in a golf market where increasingly high prices don’t always seem to be commensurate with high quality.

Featured here is the appropriately named King, offering featherweight insulation and a modern aesthetic to keep you both warm and looking sharp on chilly days. The King provides four-way stretch for the golfer, while hidden side pockets and a tonal two-way zipper complete the versatile style.

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Peter James

L EATHER C IGAR AFIC IO NAD O CA S E Hand-crafted in Canada using the finest Italian leather is the superbly elegant Peter James Leather Cigar Aficionado Case. Providing safe storage for your favorite smoking pleasures, the case is wonderfully soft in hand yet constructed to last a lifetime, which is why Peter James includes a lifetime warranty on all its products.

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Torch Eyewear KENNEDY

The stylish Kennedy collection from Torch features a Polarized Air Silver lens tint that provides excellent activity vision—from golf to driving. Featured here in matte black and grey tortoise, the frame is available in eight further color ways, all combining classic style with unwavering quality.

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Ettinger

D O U B L E WAT C H ROLL From England’s long-standing premium leather goods creator comes this Double Watch Roll. Crafted in elegant and durable goat leather and lined with a matching soft suede, the roll lends itself equally to use at home or when traveling. The dividing ring keeps timepieces separate and the monogrammed popper closure allows for both larger and small watches to be placed within. Add up to five initials to the case to make it truly personal.

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Rolex

SKY - DW EL L ER With this magnificent timepiece, Rolex provides the ideal travel companion. Featuring a bright black, sunray-finish dial with hands and hour markers in 18-carat yellow gold, the Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller is presented with the innovative and patented Oysterflex bracelet. The hands and hour markers are embellished by a luminescent finish that emits a long-lasting blue glow in dark conditions. This new version of the Sky-Dweller displays the time in two time zones simultaneously and, like all Rolex watches, comes with the Superlative Chronometer certification.

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Vocier

L EATHER TRAVEL DUFFEL BAG German engineered in smooth Italian leather to match Vocier’s F38 luggage, the F34 travel duffel bag is designed to last a lifetime of travel. It features a trolley sleeve that secures to the Vocier Legacy carry-on bags, and will fit in the overhead of most major airlines. Inside is lined with premium fabric and features several slim-line pockets for safe-keeping of essentials. The polished metal zippers are from the YKK Excella line and, like everything else Vocier does, are durable yet beautiful.

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Hubbard Peanuts

S A LT E D A N D CHO COLAT E There are peanuts and then there are Hubs peanuts.

Two of our favorites are their signature Hubs Salted peanuts and the wildly popular Chocolate Covered, an irresistible salty and sweet combo for peanut lovers. Featured in a festive gift box, these two 20 oz. tins are a holidays must.

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Aerin

Georg Jensen

Part of the Aerin Shagreen barware range, and in the signature style of the brand’s founder Aerin Lauder, is this handsome rounded ice bucket. It boasts a stainlesssteel interior and a brass knob for easy opening, ice not included.

There are few sounds that provoke the sensation of pleasurable expectation like a cocktail being shaken. Inspired by New York’s jazz era, we have taken a shine to the Manhattan shaker from Georg Jensen.

Its strong geometric lines in gleaming stainless steel are reminiscent of New York’s art deco architecture. Pick your ingredients well.

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Field Company

CA ST IRO N SKIL L ETS Made in the USA with 21st century know-how, but with respect for the cast iron heritage of yesteryear, we feature these immaculate skillets. They are light enough for everyday cooking yet sufficiently sturdy to last through the generations. Their smooth, naturally non-stick cooking surfaces develop and retain seasoning just like the best vintage pans, making them equally perfect indoors on the range or outside over flames.

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SI N G L E S E AL E D CI GA R S This array of premium hand-rolled cigars is wonderful: beautiful Honduran-made blends, a Partagas Rothschild with a Cameroon wrapper, a Macanudo crafted in the Dominican Republic, and more...

But the genius is in the packaging: Each cigar is individually packaged in a special air-tight, foil-lined pouch that keeps it fresh without a humidor. There’s no better way to get your smoke to the course, on the boat or anywhere else.

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Jim Beam BL AC K

The official Bourbon of the PGA of America, Jim Beam Black is engaging golfers, amateur and professional, all across the country. Premium, and with plenty of power at 86-proof, the Black spends years longer being aged in American White Oak barrels than original Jim Beam. And its that additional aging that gives Jim Beam Black its full-bodied flavor with notes of smooth caramel and warm oak.

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Daphne’s Headcovers

Snell Golf

First available in 1979, today Daphne’s Headcovers still lead the market they created. Attention to detail, quality and fit are their hallmark, and the company even back each headcover up with a lifetime guarantee. The Tiger is probably the most famous of the animal collection but it is also reflective of Daphne’s core value of “we must do good while doing well.” Some of the many charities that Daphne’s supports include Golf Fore Africa and Els for Autism. Great product by some of the nicest people in golf.

Named the “longest and best value golf ball” by MyGolfSpy.com, Snell Golf’s MTB-X features an updated threepiece construction to further enhance performance. The X model of the MTB line features a firmer feel for high ball speeds, as well as increased spin for approach shots. The soft cast urethane cover provides sustained durability and boosts the soft feel on short irons and around the green. All orders include free shipping and volume pricing.

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Stewart Golf X 9 FO L LOW

Nothing beats a sweetly struck shot but golf is also about the exercise.

We are big advocates of walking golf at Kingdom, and if you can’t get a caddie you might enjoy the company of the X9 Follow from Stewart Golf.

The British company has enjoyed tremendous growth in the US this year, thanks to a sleek remote-controlled cart with a bluetooth connection so it can follow its boss hands-free.

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Boston Scott

A superb looking bag constructed in synthetic leather for durability and luxury feel, the Player III really comes into a category of its own with elevated details, increased functionality and unmatched craftsmanship from top to bottom. Available with either a 6-way or 14-way top, the bag features a divider layout, full-length enclosed dividers and an elegant leather handle. Superior organization such as an anti-microbial lined valuables pocket, interior lock pocket and magnetic rangefinder pocket make it easy to stow every essential.

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From the fresh and vibrant brand Boston Scott comes the Golf Stillwater Tradition Polo. Featuring moisture-wicking technology and breathable fabric, it helps keep golfers cool on and off the golf course. The dynamic Links collection is available in 32 colors and designs. There is no doubt these sophisticated and versatile prints add flair to the game but don’t take our word for it, see ambassador Scott Piercy rocking the feel good, play good mentality on tour.

Cleveland Golf RTX ZIPC O RE

The new RTX ZipCore wedges are unmistakably Cleveland with their elegant lines that inspire confidence, as Cleveland wedges have always done. The new low-density clubhead core supplies a technological leap forward, with Cleveland promising it produces exceptional feel and consistency. UltiZip Grooves should bite hard at impact, channel more debris away from the strike and deliver superb spin performance to improve accuracy into the pin. RTX ZipCore wedges are offered in a wide variety of lofts and sole grinds, while reigning [British] Open Champion Shane Lowry claims, “I couldn’t ask for anything else in a wedge”.

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FEATURE Motoring

Bentley’s Flying Spur is a supreme achievement from the venerable automaker, defining luxury, capability and excitement in equal measure

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efore this century’s appropriation of “handcrafted” to describe such trifles as oatmeal and lattés, the word denoted painstaking effort, skill, and pride. In describing the best machines, “handcrafted” meant that they were not just capable and beautiful, but also beautifully connected to the human experience, elevating our lives as opposed to alienating us from them. Bentley’s Flying Spur is born of that era, even as it defines the best of today. It is what Bentley has always been: a supremely modern, high-performing luxury automobile—ready to transform any driving experience into something quite special. It is also handcrafted, in the best possible way.

Bentleys have made a statement ever since W.O. Bentley himself delivered his first vehicle in 1921. Big and fast, the cars have a legacy in both racing and in fine living, driven by Le Mans winners and by royalty alike. The Flying Spur wasn’t built for the track, but it is capable of immense performance—making it perhaps the ultimate luxury grand touring sedan, with abundant power and comfort.

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A combination of power, comfort and capability make this the ultimate grand touring sedan

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or those who have enjoyed Bentleys before, the Flying Spur will be familiar for its detailed build and its solidity, with a curb weight of 5,372lbs. The standard 524hp V8 is certainly capable, but our “First Edition” test model came with the optional 626hp W12, which was a revelation and, we think, a worthwhile expense. With the engine upgrade, Bentley claims 0–60 in just 3.6 seconds— quicker than the current Lotus Evora GT, a two-seater sports car that’s 2,200lbs lighter. In “Sport” mode (one of four driving modes, joining Comfort, the well-balanced “Bentley” mode and Custom), pressing the accelerator to the floor yields a “slammed back in your seat” adrenaline rush and a huge roar from the engine. But the Flying Spur is more than just a straight-line rocket. With its adaptive suspension and rear-wheel steering system, and a brilliant 8-speed transmission getting the power to the wheels, its

agility and fluidity surprised us. Carving turns at speed on the roads outside of Savannah, GA, it became obvious that one of the thrills of a Bentley is that there’s so much car, so much power in your hands, all of it flying forward in harmony. Not once did the Flying Spur ever feel as if it was being pushed, and with the available driver-assistance features such as automated emergency braking, adaptive cruise control and night vision, neither did it ever feel like too much to handle.

The interior complements the performance/luxury balance, with impeccable fit and finish. Various design themes are available or clients can customize their own Bentleys via a dizzying array of colors, real woods and polished metal, gorgeous leathers, carbon fiber trim—and additional options from the seemingly endless Mulliner catalog. Even the hue of the interior lighting can be adjusted to suit, in a sort of piping that tastefully and subtly outlines some of the interior’s beautiful lines at night.

Able to seat five, the Flying Spur is very comfortable with four, and though the rear seat area is sumptuous, as far as we’re concerned the best seat is behind the wheel. Ergonomics are great, and nice touches such as the seat automatically moving back to allow more room for entry/exit, and then returning to the driving position

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once you’re in, underline that this is no standard car.

The 12.4-inch infotainment touchscreen can be fixed in place or ordered as rotating element, hidden in the nearseamless dash and then revealed James Bond-style when the ignition button is pressed. Press another button and the screen rotates again to a third face bearing three analog gauges (outside temperature, clock, and compass). That and the retractable “Flying B” hood ornament are good fun, and reminders that you’re in something special.

With the in-seat massage, sublime audio system and other features, you don’t want the road to end There are three trims of audio experience available, including a top-of-line Naim Audio system that came on our test model and which we highly recommend (see sidebar: Naim Audio). Likewise, the navigation system with real-time traffic was great, as was visiblity and interior light, thanks to dual glass panels in the roof. Electric privacy screens for the rear windows, a tablet-style interface so rear-seat passengers can control numerous functions without bothering the driver, drink-chilling cupholders, heated and cooled seats in the front and an effective in-seat massage system for all main seats—plus ample trunk space and a range of nearly 500 miles on a full tank—mean this truly is the ultimate luxury grand touring sedan. We drove from Orlando to Savannah and back, and honestly, our only complaint was that the trip was too short.

Price as tested: $288,645. For more information on Bentley’s new Flying Spur range, visit bentleymotors.com

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This British firm has been making premium audio equipment since 1973. As the top-of-line audio option for Bentley, Naim turns the new Flying Spur into a virtual listening room, delivering 2,200 watts via a 21-channel amplifier, eight DSP sound modes and active bass. There are 19 speakers and two shakers, with branded and illuminated Naim speaker grills, and while the system’s aesthetics and touchscreen interface are fantastic, the point is, of course, the sound. With incredible separation, supremely clear highs and pristine mids and bass, you’ll hear every breath of Coltrane’s sax, every brush of the drums, every growl of the guitar and every thrilling emotion in a singer’s voice. No matter your preferred genre, the Naim for Bentley audio system is the ultimate and appropriate complement for the ultimate grand tourer. A concert hall experience—and in a Bentley, why would you settle for less.

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Instinctively, when searching for inspiration, we look skyward, rarely downward. Those directing their eyes to the skies these days are sure to see something that inspires both the heart and head: the new Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft from Bombardier. The product of more than 50 years of privateflight innovation, this new light jet offers limitless freedom in creating a space for ideas to take flight while providing class-leading performance, safety, and operating costs. For those in search of a supremely effective workspace in the sky who also want the assurances of comfort, cutting-edge engineering, support and responsibility, the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft is the way to fly.

The “Liberty” name calls to mind another inspiring moment from Learjet history: Arnold Palmer’s recordsetting circumnavigation of the globe in a Learjet 36 named “Freedom’s Way USA” (see sidebar: World Record).

At the time, the Learjet 36 was the height of private flight engineering, lauded for its range, speed, safety and comfort. Similarly, the new Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft stands out today, providing all of the above attributes along with a spacious two-seat Executive Suite and pocket door in the forward cabin, ensuring the quietest, most private and productive cabin in its class. There is no better place to do business on the move, and no better way to get your top executive team—in a 6-seat or 8-seat configuration—to its destination.

OFFICE IN THE SKY

In designing the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft, Bombardier focused on creating a workspace to facilitate maximum productivity. The cabin had to be efficient and effective, but also comfortable—and the designers delivered on all fronts. For the first time ever in a light jet, the Learjet Liberty 75 aircraft features a forward cabin Executive Suite.

With a true pocket door between the galley and the cabin, this private, quiet and spacious Executive Suite offers a segment-defining 35 inches of passenger legroom, a stow-able oversized ottoman at both places, and seats that swivel, track and recline. Maximum privacy for sensitive business conversations is ensured, with plenty of room to stretch out and relax as well. Aft, the Club Suite is perfectly appointed for productivity as well, with four seats in club configuration, which swivel and can be adjusted in various recline positions. A generous 24 inches of passenger legroom and large concealable side table bring the functionality of a board room to the skies, including available 4G ATG high-speed internet connectivity— perfect for streaming video conferences so that you can stay connected to your team on the ground, or streaming movies so you can relax during travel. Furthermore, with a flat floor and easy access to in-cabin storage, personal items are always within reach, whether you’re in need of important papers or headphones and slippers.

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A SMART INVESTMENT

For a light jet to be truly effective as an executive solution, supreme cabin functionality needs to be complemented by performance and operational responsibility. Here, too, Bombardier impresses. For the same operating costs as its nearest class competitors, the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft will take you farther, faster, and—even with a full payload— with better fuel efficiency. Twin Honeywell TFE731-40BR engines power the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft to a top speed of Mach .81 and a typical cruising speed of Mach .76, with a maximum operating altitude of 51,000 feet. Maximum range is 2,080nm, which is just a little farther than the distance between Washington, DC and Los Angeles, while the best-equipped cockpit in its class means you’ll get there more safely. In fact, the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft features the most advanced avionics suite in its class, with the latest navigation and communications technologies.

This includes the Bombardier Vision flight deck, with a Synthetic Vision System, enhanced ergonomics and advanced controls to reduce pilot workload and to ensure maximum functionality and safety. Multiple flight control system redundancies provide peace of mind, as do the main landing gear’s dual wheels (as opposed to single wheels featured on close competitors), and an unmatched certification level in demonstrating safe operations under icing conditions, and tested and certified resilience in withstanding heavier bird strikes than the competition.

The Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft is the only light jet in its class certified to the industry’s highest safety standards— standing out further as, unlike its competition, it is certified to commercial aircraft safety standards.

Backing it all up is Bombardier’s global network of more than 100 service locations and support teams, including a 24–7 Customer Response Centre. The company’s Smart Services offers industry-leading cost protection, and its substantial array of parts pipelines, Mobile Response Team trucks and Mobile Response Team aircraft ensure any issues or questions will be sorted swiftly, keeping you in the air and on the move.

The Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft also offers the smoothest ride in the light jet category, thanks to an advanced wing design and best-in-class wing loading. Overall, the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft is more comfortable, more efficient, better certified and more capable than its competition, at a more responsible overall cost of operation. With a first-in-class private, quiet Executive Suite, and top avionics and amenities, it all adds up to a smart, supremely capable business solution that’s sure to inspire everyone aboard— and everyone on the ground looking up.

To learn more about the Learjet 75 Liberty aircraft, visit businessaircraft.bombardier.com

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WORLD RECORD

By any measure 1976 was a big deal. The Concorde made the first-ever supersonic commercial flight out of Heathrow; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computer; the Space Shuttle Enterprise debuted; and two separate Viking missions successfully landed on Mars—all in America’s bicentennial year. Buoyed by patriotism and the desire to push himself forward (and to have some fun) Arnold Palmer set an around-theworld flight record in a Learjet 36, a record that still stands today. On a red, white, and blue plane named “Freedom’s Way USA,” with the tail number 200 Yankee (N200Y), Palmer and co-pilots James E. Bir and Lewis L. “Bill” Purkey, along with aviation writer Robert Serling (brother of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling), left Denver, Colorado, on May 17, heading to Boston, the first stop of their trip. The plan was to travel from there to Paris, but headwinds compelled them to redirect to Glamorgan, Wales, for refueling. Paris came next, then Tehran, Iran; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Jakarta, Indonesia; Manila, Philippines; Wake Island; and Honolulu, Hawaii, before landing back in Denver. Recounting the Sri Lanka stop, Palmer later said, “They met me at the plane with an elephant, and I rode into town for the golf awards and then back.” Leaving Manila, the crew faced the oncoming Typhoon Olga, but managed to get out just before it landed. In Hawaii things were more pleasant, local girls offered flowered leis and the golf star demonstrated his swing on the tarmac before climbing aboard to make the last segment of the trip. The foursome landed in Denver on May 19, 57 hours, 25 minutes and 42 second after leaving—a record that still stands today for that class of jet. A Swiss crew tried to beat it in 2010, but came up short by more than half an hour.

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Some legacies are viewed through museum glass, some in statues or monuments, while others are experiences that are meant to be shared across generations. The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is among the latter.

Aligned with the longstanding local institution of Saint Vincent College, the Reserve’s place as a community center and natural healing space tells a story that goes deeper than the legend that is Arnold and Winnie Palmer, right to the heart of a family’s commitment to community, and a community’s commitment to itself

“She loved flowers, beautiful gardens, and she loved community,” says Amy Palmer Saunders, chair of the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation, talking about her mother, Winnie. “Her commitment to both of those things meant that when there was an opportunity to prevent something from happening that she felt truly would have polluted the view and the vision for Saint Vincent College and the Basilica, and spoiled the nature that surrounded it, she felt it was important to the community to save that.”

As part of its commitment to children’s health, youth character development and nature-focused wellness, the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation supports the Reserve, among numerous other efforts. The roughly 50-acre property adjacent to Saint Vincent College originally was slated for development, but the community balked when the nature-rich meadow came up for potential demolition.

Winnie was among those who believed that the space should be preserved for the community, and so she spoke up.

As Amy told Kingdom some years ago, “It was a difficult situation for my mom. Not only did she have strong feelings of opposition to large commercial developments, but she was sensitive to the community desires and she would never want her actions to result in hard feelings among her neighbors.”

Those neighbors included Ned Nakles Sr. and Emmett Boyle, two local investors who owned the land and who were in talks to sell it to a developer. A large retail space was

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Arnold Palmer knew the Reserve would be something quite special— and he was right

planned for the site, but Winnie, working with the college and with others, planned a better solution. Sadly, both Winnie and Nakles died in 1999, before the Reserve came to fruition, but in the end there were no hard feelings. In fact, as Kingdom reported previously, Nakles’ wife, Barbara, recalled a warmth between the two and a shared commitment to community.

“They’d become friends on the Art Conservation Trust,” she told us, “and they shared a lot of the same feelings. Truly, the property had been available for many years to the first developer, but it started turning out as if it was simply meant to end up something different. The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve just turned out to be the right thing to do.”

More than just preventing the development and keeping the land in its natural state, organizers and supporters of the Reserve project wanted to ensure the land’s value to the community could be sincerely appreciated. So, plans to turn it into an educational healing space took shape. Amy and her husband, Roy, led an effort to have an old barn on the property restored and relocated to serve as a learning center, a blockhouse was restored, Chicago artist Julie Amrani designed a sculpture to reflect Winnie’s love of nature and reading, and the firm of Sweringen, Earl and Dietrick was hired to help transform the site.

Environmental Architects, they threaded walking paths through the property that lead to Saint Vincent College, they built a butterfly garden close to the barn, and they ensured wildflowers, local fruit trees and seasonal perennials would frame the property for generations to come. When the grand opening was celebrated just before Arnold Palmer’s birthday in 2007, Palmer commented that “Winnie would have been delighted to see what has happened to this piece of land that

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she helped protect for the community. I feel sure that this beautiful park would have exceeded her fondest dreams and that the community’s appreciation of it and Winnie will only grow over the years.”

Indeed it has. Today, more than just being a protected environmental space, the Reserve is a treasured community asset, one in line with Winnie’s perspective and with the mission of Saint Vincent College.

Speaking with Kingdom some years ago, Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B., who served as Archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey and as Chancellor of Saint Vincent College and Seminary, explained the college’s perspective on a complete education: “We believe, certainly, that the education of the mind is an important part of the experience here,” he said, “but equally important is an education that reflects values in terms of the way we live our lives.”

Those values—shared by the college, the Palmers and so many in the Latrobe area and beyond—are manifested in the Reserve, but they also are promoted by the Reserve, and not just to locals. The nature-focused educational programming offered to children and families in the barn has established a kind of blueprint for other potential projects beyond Latrobe, and so the Reserve’s impact could travel quite far.

“It turned into something I don’t think even my mother could have envisioned, it’s just wonderful,” Amy says. “She was certainly very big on education, and she was big on nature and wellness, so all of those things connected in a way that created something that now really embodies the mission of the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation. This kind of project, in some ways it very much tells the story of my parents’ lives. It sets the tone for purposefulness.”

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he Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve is a nationally certified center for research, recreation and education that both Winnie and Arnold Palmer desired for Saint Vincent College, Latrobe and all who come here. Saint Vincent is proud to fulfill the request and the charge from Arnold to honor his wife, Winnie.

Rooted in the Benedictine tradition, Saint Vincent College educates students through a classical liberal arts and sciences curriculum. A top-ranked national liberal arts college, Saint Vincent’s academic rigor and connected community of learners provide one of the most transformative student experiences in the nation. The next time you are in the hometown of Arnold Palmer, be sure to come visit and experience for yourself all that Saint Vincent has to offer.

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BUSINESS Insperity

Survive & Thrive

Disasters, disease, cultural shifts— upheavals happen. How your business responds will determine its long-term future and culture.

Here, in line with its commiment to deliver “HR that makes a difference,” leading business authority Insperity offers guidance to leaders looking not just to survive tough times, but to emerge from them stronger and poised for bigger success

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t insperity, we believe that one of the defining characteristics of the American entrepreneurial spirit is resiliency.

Business owners, by definition, are problem solvers. In crisis situations, entrepreneurs often emerge stronger, smarter, and even more determined to succeed. They teach us about what is possible with creativity, tenacity, and grit. Insperity has been advising businesses, in good times and bad, for more than 30 years. The following is designed to present some of the lessons we’ve learned from prior down times as well as in this current crisis.

RESCUE, RECOVER, AND REBUILD

There is nothing normal about today’s business landscape.

This pandemic, the likes of which we haven’t seen in more than a century, has had a major impact on businesses of all sizes. But it has been particularly devastating for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). However, this is not the first time America’s small businesses have faced monumental challenges. From hurricanes to 9/11 to the financial crisis of the late 1980s, businesses have had to deal with the painful aftermath of massive upheavals. During the past four decades, Insperity has helped clients look at a variety of economic, health-related, and natural disasters through three distinct stages: rescue, recover, and rebuild.

PHASE 1: RESCUE

A big part of this crisis’ rescue stage has been the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security (cares) act, which provided various loans and grants to SMBs. Without that assistance, countless businesses would have gone under. However, while important, those measures were temporary. To survive, business leaders are having to find creative ways to rescue their businesses without the help of future handouts.

When your business is in the rescue phase, the goal is triage. You may feel like you’re in survival mode, looking for any opportunity to stave off the threat and keep your business going. During the pandemic, many businesses have made significant operational changes. They may have shifted much of their workforce to remote work.

Some businesses have significantly expanded their online presence and e-commerce abilities or begun offering new products or services.

With each shift has come the need to adapt. For businesses with remote workers, that has meant learning how to get maximum productivity out of each employee, while maintaining a positive company culture. This requires nearly constant communication and transparency from leadership. For those making the shift to online sales or new product offerings, adapting has meant assembling the necessary infrastructure and tools to support those new ways of doing business.

During this difficult time, every decision matters.

To make these decisions, you must bring your best and brightest together. Fortunately, technology has evolved, and there are myriad tools and platforms to help teams communicate and collaborate from afar. Gone are the days when weekly staff meetings were sufficient. As you’re in rescue mode, your leadership team must huddle every day, because during this time, there will be constant, important decisions to be made.

Business owners don’t have the luxury of compartmentalizing for just one thing. Of course, during the rescue portion you must focus on what you need to do today to keep your business operational and make progress toward your next phase. That is a survival instinct. If you have that rescue mindset, you can’t stay in that alone every day. Call on your colleagues, advisors, mentors, employees, and even your customers to give you feedback about what’s working and what needs to change. And know that these people are on your side. They want to see you succeed.

PHASE 2: RECOVER

Once your business has faced the immediate threat, and you have determined how the organization will continue to operate, it’s time to think about recovery. You must manage the reality of what has happened and think about the necessary steps to take to get back to where you were.

There will be many questions, including: • • •

Where do we go from here?

Can we take advantage of down time or a slow business period now to position ourselves to be stronger?

How do we model our business today to get where we want to be tomorrow?

As business owners, you must keep your ultimate desired outcome in mind. Look at the changes your business has undergone, and think about how these shifts will affect your business in the future. One of the most astonishing aspects of this pandemic has been how it has helped some organizations usher in changes that may otherwise have taken years to implement or which may never have happened at all without the monumental shifts caused

by COVID-19.

Think about how many workers were told that their jobs couldn’t be done remotely. Then, almost overnight, they were working effectively from home. Some organizations have gone completely virtual because of the pandemic, giving up their office leases for good. Others have begun onboarding new hires remotely, which has required new management skills and additional effort to ensure employees feel included and trained properly. For example, if you have people at home who don’t have enough work to keep them busy, what can they be learning to help them be more

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productive and effective once the recovery gets to that next phase? They may even have to develop entirely new skill sets if that’s what the post-closure business requires.

As you think about recovery and plan to rebuild, consider this time an opportunity to make necessary changes to your business. So many businesses were affected by this global event, and each will be finding its own way back. Now is the time to do that on your own terms, creating a stronger business that serves your customers and communities well.

PHASE 3: REBUILD

Because entrepreneurs think about opportunity, they have an optimistic and forward-looking mindset in the face of the dangers their businesses face. They become more focused. They can more clearly observe weaknesses and strengths. In fact, a crisis can cause the kind of out-ofthe-box thinking that can not only rebuild a business but reimagine it. Sure, there have been serious disruptions, but that kind of creativity and ingenuity are going to result in some amazing new ways of rebuilding something better in the post-pandemic economy.

In his book, Take Care of your People: The Enlightened CEO’S Guide to Business Success, Insperity CEO Paul Sarvadi coined the term “entrepreneurial faith,” which is the optimism of believing you’re going to get where you want to go. That kind of faith is contagious and pulls people along.

It makes them want to help you succeed. So, go ahead and be an evangelist for your business. Embrace the opportunity

to learn and change the game for your business. When you look back on this time, you’ll see that you learned much more when you were facing challenges than when you were just cruising along.

As you begin rebuilding your business, you may need to make tough decisions about where to invest your time and resources. Think about what you need to do to maintain the people, place of business, promotion, and other assets and actions you will need to bounce back. Keep a close eye on your financials, and run several scenarios to determine how you might need to pivot to survive additional lean times or maximize the gains when business turns around.

This is also an important time for ongoing communication. Turn to your employees, who have a vested interest in seeing the company succeed. They will likely have ideas and feedback that can be invaluable.

And don’t forget to stay in close contact with your customers. Find out what they need now. How have their businesses changed? And are there ways you can adapt what you offer or the way you do business so that you can strengthen those relationships as you rebuild?

In Insperity’s efforts to help customers navigate the challenges presented by COVID-19, it developed a framework called “The Resiliency Curve.” It begins with a people-first mindset and then takes the business owner through the journey from rescue to recover to rebuild. Those business owners who successfully navigate that journey emerge as an employer of choice, one able to successfully compete for talent even in the toughest job markets.

THE RESILIENCY CURVE

PHASE ONE

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PHASE TWO

RECOVER

PHASE THREE

REBUILD

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FOOD Terroir

Heavenly Flying High Pairings

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We’re big fans of fall/winter gettogethers at which friends gather [responsibly] to enjoy wine and elegant small bites. Such affairs keep the crowd lively and present the opportunity to showcase a host’s good taste, especially in wine.

This season we’ve decided to pair our parties with rosé. In warm or cold light, it is nearly impossible to imagine a more approachably life-affirming wine, and among rosés none so immediately define good taste as those from Château d’Esclans. Here we showcase three sublime options from the respected French house paired with perfection.

These will go quick and establish your maison as the place to be.

Our solution: Buy by the case.

Joyeuses fêtes!

Rock Angel + The Sea Rock Angel turns up the volume on its exquisite sibling, Whispering Angel, offering a variation on everything you already love. Crisp peach and berry are delivered with a round mouth feel and notes of lemon zest, which complement seafood brilliantly. We love it with oysters—particularly with briney oysters such as Pink Moons from Prince Edward Island or Beausoleils from New Brunswick.

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Château d’Esclans + The Clouds A delicate expression of Provençal style, this rosé pairs well with a discrete French cheese. We went to the Loire Valley for Mary Dans Les Etoiles, a buttery goat from Herve Mons. Don’t let the cave-aged aroma and ash rind fool you: this is all about subtlety and class, making it an ideal friend for Château d’Esclans’ sumptuous estate rosé. Add pops of pomegranate, persimmon and caramelized Spanish walnuts to reveal secrets in this lush beauty.

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Garrus + The Earth There is nothing in the world like Garrus except for Garrus.

It is a wine that impresses immediately, both for its impeccable quality and for redefining boundaries in its genre.

Complex, emotional, and imbued with a history of rosé in Provence that dates back more than 2,500 years, Garrus is made from the estate’s most treasured old vines. A limited, exclusive privilege, it boldly celebrates earth-toned flavors as well as established rosé complements (its name stems from the Latin word for “bear” after all). We paired it with an artisan butter-braised wild mushroom and shallotte mélange served on barely toasted fresh baguette rounds with a light layer of salted mascarpone, topped with a heritage prosciutto—the wine was still the best thing about the bite.

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DRINK

Light & Dark W

alt Whitman wrote that “every moment of light and dark is a miracle,” and though he absolutely was not referring to cocktails when he wrote those words, we’ve decided to put them in a glass regardless. Yin and yang, sun and moon, New York City’s famous “black & white” cookies… Countless examples of duality exist, and the balance between light and dark is no less apparent when distilled, poured and mixed. A spirit once rich turns refreshing, once complex becomes immediately approachable. Here, we consider examples of the split personalities contained within a few of our favorite libations and invite you to choose the darkness or the light. Either way the choices are delicious, if not exactly miraculous.

Macademia Highball o 2 oz Dewar’s

Caribbean Smooth o 4 oz ginger beer o ½ oz Macademia

nut liqueur o Lemon zest o Lemon wedge

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Add the Dewar’s Caribbean Smooth to a highball glass, then the Macademia nut liqueur. Fill with ice and ginger beer, stir twice then spray with lemon zest and garnish with the wedge

Ginger Snap o 2 oz Dewar’s

White Label o ¾ oz Amaro di

Angostoura o ½ oz Amaretto o ¼ oz Ginger liqueur o Dash of lemon juice

Add all ingredients to a large glass full of ice and stir until thoroughly chilled, then strain into a coupe cocktail glass and enjoy

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Añejo Sazerac Paloma o 2 oz blanco tequila o ½ oz fresh lime juice o 4 oz grapefruit soda

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In this neat Paloma, to ensure everything’s cold, we mix the tequila and lime juice in an ice-filled glass, then strain into the already cold soda; two stirs and you’re good to go

o 2 oz añejo tequila o ½ oz cinnamon-infused sugar syrup o dash aromatic bitters o dash chocolate bitters o dash orange bitters o garnish with orange

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass then add ice, stir gently until chilled and strain into your cocktail glass of choice

B&W Russian o 2 oz Ketel

One vodka o 1 oz coffee

liqueur o Heavy cream

To make our neat Black Russian, add [very cold] Ketel One and coffee liqueur to an ice-filled glass and stir, then strain into a glass.

For the White, float a layer of cream atop the cocktail and enjoy

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LAST PAGE The Greenbrier

A special bond The Greenbrier features prominently among Arnold Palmer’s first and last professional successes, bookending an association that lasted more than 60 years

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n the 1950s the PGA clung to an arcane rule that touring pros could not pick-up official prize money until they had served a six-month apprenticeship on tour. So when The Greenbrier’s Professional Emeritus Sam Snead personally invited Arnold Palmer to his pro-am in May 1955—an unofficial tournament at which tour rookie Palmer was allowed to earn winnings—penniless Palmer didn’t hesitate.

Newly married Arnold and Winnie Palmer had spent the early season traveling between tournaments in Palmer’s beaten up two-door Ford, pulling along a trailer home.

At The Greenbrier, Palmer and amateur partner Spencer Olin tied for first in the pro-am, while Palmer finished third in the pro division. Palmer collected prize money of $1,500 before Olin gave him a $5,000 share from the amateurs’ Calcutta pool. It was the biggest check of Palmer’s fledgling career to that point and as a result, the old Ford was succeeded by a Chrysler New Yorker, a car much better suited to cruising coast to coast.

Palmer’s friendship with Snead would last the rest of their lives and Palmer would often return to The Greenbrier.

He was ideally placed, then, to team up with old friends Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Lee Trevino to co-design The Greenbrier’s latest golf gem, a revived and extended Oakhurst Links. The 18-hole championship course is planned for the site where the original nine-hole Oakhurst Links thought to have been established back in 1884, which would make it America’s very first golf course.

The Oakhurst Links revival marks the one and only time these four legends of the modern game collaborated on course design. Construction is yet to begin but Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia and owner of The Greenbrier, hopes that pooling the talent of four of golf’s all-time greats will help to establish Oakhurst Links as a major venue of the future.

“Why not have the U.S. open in West Virginia,” demands Justice. “How could the USGA turn their back on these four icons and their golf course? We can do things in West Virginia.”

[Far left] Arnold & Winnie Palmer [on right of picture] with friends at The Greenbrier in 1955. [Right] Trevino, Player, Palmer and Nicklaus celebrate their collaboration on the Oakhurst Links

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A M E R I C A’ S R E S O R T YOUR BACK YARD

Clear mountain air, breathtaking views, unparalleled amenities and the peace and serenity that come with living at The Greenbrier. That’s Life as Few Know It at The Greenbrier Sporting Club.

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Approachable sweetness, but with a discernible smoky finish – reflecting the fruity, and smoky malts and creamy grain whiskies selected for this blend. As with all Dewar’s varietals, once matured and blended, it is returned to casks for an additional period of maturation our signature process that is known as Double-Aging.

Put simply, the ideal every day indulgence.

Specifically created to highlight the mellow fruity, floral character of Dewar’s – with a rich proportion of fruity, floral malt whiskies, a drop of smoky malts and creamy, vanilla grain whiskies that are hand-blended and further Double Aged. So change it up; pour something remarkable with your friends next weekend and enjoy memorable moments that all can share.

A once in a lifetime experience, this blend provokes a sigh of deep satisfaction. It contains the highest proportion of fruity, honeyed malts, along with medium to heavy bodied malts that build weight, add complexity and enrich the lingering finish.

Matured with both Bourbon and fine Sherry casks, then patiently ‘Double-Aged’, 18 is celebratory pleasure - perfect to mark the moments that matter.

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