The Journal Play
The nine-hole Saturday is the best golf there is
Two hours, half a set, a tee sheet with room on it. What the game gives back when you stop trying to get your money's worth out of eighteen.
The Sunday Pin Sheet Issue 04
Golf, and everything after the eighteenth.
A publication for people who play badly on purpose, tinker with clubs they should have replaced years ago, drive three hours for a back nine, and stay for the second drink.
In this issue five stories
New writing most Sundays
No club reviews written by robots
The lead
From the journal
All stories
Instruction
What the practice range never teaches you
Fourteen perfect swings in a row from a flat lie in dead air will not survive contact with a Sunday morning. Nine things to practise instead.
Gear
The case for one good wedge (and nothing else)
Four wedges, four numbers, one confident swing. We spent a month carrying a single lofted club and stopped guessing entirely.
The 19th Hole
The drink after the round is the point
The score is the least interesting thing you'll talk about. A short defence of the hour that makes the other four worth it.
Courses & Travel
Worth the drive, worth the flask
Three courses that justify a tank of gas and a morning off: an old muni with greens like a truant, a hilltop nine with no bunkers at all, and a resort track that's better than it needs to be.
The Wire
What the rest of golf is saying
The Sunday Pin Sheet
One email, every Sunday. Reading, not marketing.
A short dispatch: what we played, what we broke, what we drank, and the one thing worth trying next weekend. Free, and easy to leave.