My Usual Game: David Owen
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In association with GOLF DIGEST. David Owen is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a contributing editor at Golf Digest, and one of The Fifty Funniest American Writers. My Usual Game, The Making of the Masters, The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness, Hit & Hope, and Lure of the Links, a collection of of golf stories, which he co-edited.
My Usual Game: David Owen
5y ago
I watched it in the boarding area of Augusta Regional Airport, on my way home from the tournament. I had company: Watching the Masters on TV is what most reporters who cover the tournament do, incidentally. They don’t watch it ..read more
My Usual Game: David Owen
5y ago
If you have the good fortune to watch the Masters in person this year, you may notice—as you wander the grounds with your mouth hanging open—that there are metal grates in a number of the greenside mounds. Those grates, and ..read more
My Usual Game: David Owen
5y ago
Alex Nosevich, a reader and ad-agency partner in the Boston area, attended Monday’s practice round. Back in 2014, he described an October trip that he and a group of his friends had taken to Bethpage and Yale. This was his ..read more
My Usual Game: David Owen
5y ago
Scott Nixon was an insurance salesman in Augusta, Georgia. Between the early nineteen-thirties and late forties or early fifties, he visited several dozen American places called Augusta and documented their existence in a sixteen-minute silent film, called “The Augustas.” Nixon ..read more
My Usual Game: David Owen
5y ago
The final-round duel between Maria Fassi and Jennifer Kupcho at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur was the awesomest golf of the year so far, not least because Kupcho began her amazing second-nine charge with a migraine that made it impossible ..read more
My Usual Game: David Owen
5y ago
I just got back from Helsinki, where the golf season is even shorter than it is in New England. While I was away, The New Yorker‘s website ran a piece of mine about Marion Hollins, which you can read here ..read more