The World's Best Golfer Has Some Issues With Golf
A profile of Brooks Koepka.
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A profile of Brooks Koepka.
Daniel Riley GQ Feb 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of Larry David.
Brett Martin GQ Jan 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.
Charles P. Pierce GQ Mar 1997 25min Permalink
When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.
Ben Schreckinger GQ Mar 2018 Permalink
At home with the liberated former House speaker.
Tim Alberta Politico Magazine Oct 2017 30min Permalink
Donald Trump’s relationship with golf has never been more complicated.
Alan Shipnuck Sports Illustrated Aug 2017 20min Permalink
The golfer at his nadir.
Wright Thompson ESPN Apr 2016 20min Permalink
An interview with Tiger Woods as he turns 40.
Lorne Rubenstein Time Dec 2015 25min Permalink
The very complicated life of Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt, who once built a very good golf club.
Update: Grantland has published a pair of responses to the reaction to this story, "What Grantland Got Wrong" by Christina Kahrl and "The Dr. V Story: A Letter From the Editor" by Bill Simmons.
Caleb Hannan Grantland Jan 2014 30min Permalink
A once-great golfer’s private second act.
Chip Brown Men's Journal Jun 2010 20min Permalink
Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.
Charles Pierce, Michael MacCambridge Grantland Apr 2013 30min Permalink
Each year, thousands of people pay to play eighteen holes of golf at Angola, “the largest maximum-security prison in the country.”
Josh Begley Tomorrow Nov 2012 10min Permalink
How the golfer hasn’t changed, post-scandal.
Try as his publicity squad might, it's tough to maintain—or now restore—the Tiger Image when former insiders sprout secret-sharing campaigns. "It's always a divorce," David Feherty, longtime commentator and golf-gab-show host, told me recently. "Tiger expects the curtains to remain drawn, and when somebody opens them, it pisses him off. He has appeared superhuman for so long, and it's like he feels the need to perpetuate that myth."
Daniel Riley GQ May 2012 15min Permalink
The same forces that put his family in the slum also gave him the golf course on the other side of the wall, and the teachers and sponsors, and the strange ability to hit a ball with a club. But it still doesn't make sense. Sometimes it seems as if fate is wrestling with itself, making sure the circumstances of his birth are always conspiring to take away whatever gifts might allow him to escape it. He lives in two worlds, each one pulling away from the other. Anil is in the middle, trying to keep his balance.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2011 25min Permalink
On the suicide of a promising professional golfer.