Golf Digest Issue 3, 2022

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CALLING ALL high schoolers, whether or not you know a thing about golf. There’s a revolution afoot to bring back the greatest summer job ever to young people. Work outside, earn cash and scholarships, enjoy daily interaction with successful folks and maybe meet someone who changes your destiny. If you play golf or try, you get to live like a millionaire once a week on caddie day. For me, it was actually three days a week: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays after 4 p.m. at Ekwanok Country Club, the greatest course in Vermont. It was such a raw deal I caddied there only eight summers through high school and college. Like a lot of gigs, caddieing took a hit during the pandemic. But now that normal modes of human contact are back, so…

THE BEST JUNIORS play in the U.S. Kids World Championships in Pinehurst, N.C., so my dad, Sonny, and my mom, Renu, flew us from our home in Los Angeles to North Carolina so that my sister, Rhea, and I could compete. My parents, who had grown up in London and Hong Kong, decided to raise us in North Carolina rather than chaotic Los Angeles. At the time, my dad had a tumor in his eye, and the doctors were more convenient in North Carolina. He’s blind in that eye now, but he’s doing well. We moved to Wake Forest when I was 10. I started loving golf then. I liked being outside, and I wasn’t a big kid, so I appreciated that there was no contact. I wore my golf clothes…

Now I’m finally feeling freeI’m living down by an old par 3You know I’ll be playing The last lyric that came to Adam Granduciel for the latest The War on Drugs album is the one he’s most proud of—and the one he most enjoys singing. But the frontman and creative force behind the Grammy-winning rock band didn’t need to take any artistic license in coming up with it. Granduciel actually lives down by an old par-3 course, and it played a crucial role in his band’s most recent creation. After moving to the Studio City area of Los Angeles in 2020, Granduciel stumbled onto Weddington Golf Course while on a walk with his theninfant son, Bruce (named in part for one of Granduciel’s music idols, Bruce Springsteen). It soon became a place…

I CARRY FOR a guy you know, but you haven’t heard his name much the past few years. Still, given what I do for a living, I’m the subject of envy in social settings, and I’d be lying if I said the attention didn’t feel good. Recently, however, I attended my high school reunion, the type of biganniversary event that motivates you to lose weight to impress your friends, and maybe more importantly your foes. This time I was the one who was envious. I saw how many of my classmates were entrenched in thriving careers with robust families who seemed genuinely happy. On that same trip I ran into an ex-girlfriend, someone who I originally thought was the one, but it didn’t work out because of my transient lifestyle. It…

IN AN INTERVIEW with NBC ahead of his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Tiger Woods was asked which of his accomplishments brings him the most pride. He didn’t hesitate: his 142 consecutive cuts made, the most ever on the PGA Tour. “You’re going to have plenty of bad days; you can get the wrong side of the draw, where you’re just not feeling well, things just aren’t going right, and bad things just happen,” Woods said. “But I didn’t miss a cut for over six years. That’s something I’m truly proud of.” It’s telling that a man who has hoisted every trophy and stood on every mountaintop hangs his hat on being better than average every single week. Earlier this year, I watched Jon Rahm study a six-footer with forensic intensity as the…