From the desk
Original writing from The Historians Archive — championship venues, architects and the records the clubs themselves have kept.
September 1, 2026 · 11 min read
As the U.S. Senior Amateur finally comes to Maryland, a look at the club that hosted an Open in 1899, a major in 1928 — and the 2014 restoration that gave Tillinghast his greens back.
August 30, 2026 · 12 min read
How Andrew Green stripped East Lake to the dirt and gave Bobby Jones's home course its Donald Ross soul back.
August 27, 2026 · 10 min read
From a six-hole neighborhood tournament to the course record cup he never gave back — the East Lake years that built the greatest amateur in golf.
August 26, 2026 · 9 min read
As the TOUR Championship returns to Atlanta, a look at the 113 years of consequential golf that made East Lake the season's proper ending.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
How Bellerive left its own golf course, took a major away from San Francisco, and kept doing it for sixty years.
August 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Fifty players. One demanding major venue. Thirty tickets to East Lake. The FedEx Cup Playoffs reach their most unforgiving stage.
August 16, 2026 · 6 min read
How a Doncaster kid who once wanted to quit golf, a father who never stopped believing, and a week of pure grit at Merion produced England's first U.S. Amateur champion in 13 years.
August 16, 2026 · 5 min read
How a Stanford junior and an English Florida State senior reached the final at Merion — and what the second 18 may bring.
August 14, 2026 · 5 min read
A wide-open bracket, no mid-amateurs left, and four matches that will decide who plays for the Havemeyer Trophy this weekend.
August 13, 2026 · 9 min read
Six U.S. Amateurs on the East Course, from Chick Evans to Edoardo Molinari — and what they say about the final this Sunday.
August 12, 2026 · 5 min read
The 63-year-old amateur legend who went viral at the 2026 U.S. Amateur — and why his story is bigger than one cigar.
August 10, 2026 · 9 min read
How the Merion greenkeeper William Flynn patented golf's most beautiful piece of hardware — and why the front nine is red and the back nine is orange.
August 6, 2026 · 6 min read
August 10–16, 2026 — 312 players, two Flynn-touched Philadelphia courses, and the ground where Bobby Jones finished the Grand Slam.