1950
2025
Progress in this game has taken weird turns and Golf Digest has covered them all HOW WE GOT HERE
BY SHANE RYAN
To look back on 75 years of golf, since the first issue of Golf Digest went to print in 1950 – it ran 16 pages and cost 15 cents – is to see so many stories that can be defined by a word that usually carries positive associations: progress. Finding those stories isn’t hard, and telling them isn’t hard. What’s hard is trying to under- stand how progress actually works and how it doesn’t always stop at the convenient moment or deliver the happiest conclusion. Instead, it seems to flow onwards, on currents of money, bending against our natural desire for a clean ending.
118 GOLF DIGEST SOUTH AFRICA
MAY 2025
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