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THE SPECIAL EDITION GOLF ISSUE There is a fun little current of energy happening behind the scenes. It’s addictive and contagious and if you happen to be short on patience, high on yourself, have a touch of an unhealthy obsession with your phone, or just happen to own stock in a sunscreen company—we strongly suggest you consider finding the source of that energy. You’re not alone. The likes of entrepreneurs, musicians, athletes, artists, bartenders, school teachers, accountants, photographers, pizza delivery guys, CEOs, mailroom clerks, models, students, bus drivers, chefs, nurses, and many other like-minded individuals are already fanning the flame of this energy to others. To our knowledge, there is no known pharmaceutical drug that can supply the beneficial effects of this energy, which include but are not limited to: a mass amount of time spent outside, smiling with friends, and the sound of a little white ball dropping into the bottom of a hole. However, the Research & Development Department of Whalebone Magazine has been working day and night to literally bottle this energy resource, and we anticipate clinical trials of a new pill format being ready in the next few years. While we wait for FDA approval on our new superdrug, we decided to partner with Callaway Golf and bring to life The Golf Issue of Whalebone Magazine— pretty much the same thing. It is strongly recommended that this magazine is read with a little water, and not while operating heavy machinery. Find the energy. Get outside. Save the world. Tee time. IN C OLL ABORATION WITH 7

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​ H E T O TA L L Y T Debatable History O F E A R LY G O L F Golf courses have been the site and subject of disagreement from the very beginning. 1261 1500 Medieval Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant 1282 describes a stick and ball game with a club, The ban on golf in Scotland is or in his case, koluen. The poem is not only lifted. See timeline on how this the first mention of a prototypical golf game, affects archery in Whalebone A mural found in a temple in the Shanxi Province Magazine's upcoming Archery but also shows that the game was a tool of dating to the Yuan Dynasty depicts members of the Issue that Whalebone class struggle from the start. The poem’s hero, court swinging sticks at balls. Also in the temple: Magazine is not doing. “Merlijn” (his wizarding days ahead of him), the book “Wan Jing,” or “Manual of the Ball Game,” promptly smacks the richest boy in the village written in 1282, outlines the game of chuiwan, 1502 across the shins with his club. literally “hit ball,” it says was played by Song and Jin Dynasties emperors. 14th Century In a move that would have Kolf. Verb form kolven or colven. Sounds like a 1360 had his ban-happy granpappy James II rolling in his grave, word you’d make up if you wanted to claim the James IV of Scotland orders The Magistrates of the City of Brussels attempt to crack Dutch invented golf, but it’s in fact the name of up some fancy golf clubs. In down on hooligans playing the fairly freeform game in a precursor to golf played in the Netherlands, an so doing, he becomes the first which a small, hard ball is struck with a club. The damage early vision of which put a club in young Merljin’s golfer whose name we know. that results from the ball careening through town has hands. The games, in which players took turns Not until Tiger Woods is there raised their ire. The fine for colven is steep: 20 shillings or knocking a small ball around with an iron-headed a golfer who wishes we didn’t confiscation of the player's clothing. club aiming for a target of either a stake or a hole, know his name. this could go on for days and be played wherever the ball took them. In winter, players played on ice. To this day, neither the Scots nor Canadians 1368 1552 are very happy with the inference that this “The Autumn Banquet,” a Ming-era painted scroll, also game influenced their national sports. No one is Archbishop John Hamilton of depicts the Chinese game of chuiwan. A member of the clubbed in the shins. St. Andrews confirms the right imperial court swings a club at a small ball. The scene is of the townspeople to play on complete with a green and hole. the links. The townspeople 1457 meet at a tavern to discuss. 1480 1567 Unhappy that it distracts from archery exercises, Scotland’s Parliament An ordinance in Amsterdam disdains kolf as “mischief” specifically bans the playing of golf, the and is in good company among the many city bans first recorded reference to “golf.” King throughout the 15th Century. The fine here, again, Mary Queen of Scots’ James II ratifies the ban. Parliament confiscation of clothing, but without even the option of a reputation suffers when it’s repeats the decree in 1471 and 1491. fine, so that players would be left naked in the streets. suggested she enjoyed a round of golf right after the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley. 12

1681 1717 The sport becomes something more like what we might recognize when four guys try to settle an argument Golfhall, now believed to be the first clubhouse (maybe), is on the greens. James Duke of York and his partner, a built at Bruntsfield Links, in many ways the proto-golf club. cobbler from Edinburgh named John Paterson, challenge One thing is for sure: There can never be any better name for two English nobles who claim golf is an English sport to a clubhouse. a game in the “first golf international.” 1754 1744 St. Andrews totally bites the Gentlemen Golfers’ style, and get The committee of the Gentlemen Golfers of their own Silver Cup and stage a competition. Edinburgh (later Honourable Company of 1768 Edinburgh Golfers) draft golf’s earliest rulebook in preparation for the first club competition. The 13 rules read more like biblical commandments. The Silver Cup at Leith Links was over a five-hole course The Golf House at Leith is built. Some claim that’s actually and won by the steady hands of a surgeon. So the the first golf clubhouse. You’d have to ask the Honorable old physician-golfer cliche goes way back. Gentlemen, who until then had just met a tavern called Lickie Clephan’s. But by 1831 the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers were in ruin, ironically due to misappropriation of 1786 funds. That rulebook is starting to look suspicious. 1834 The first club in the US is formed at Harleston Green in Charleston, SC. King Henry IV bestows the title “Royal and Ancient” on 1872 the Golf Club at St. Andrews. The Honorable Gentlemen of Edinburgh really have nothing to say, because their club is in Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland holds the first Open the process of being sold off piece-by-piece. Championship. Old Tom Morris narrowly loses. But he’d 1887 have his revenge, sort of, when Young Tom Morris would go on to win four consecutive Opens and accomplish feats unequaled in his era before dying tragically at 24. The Quogue Field Club opens in Long Island, originally with the then-standard 18 holes, but a hurricane in 1938 washes three 1890 holes into the bay and the club downsized to nine. 1891 The song “Hush, Hush, Here comes the Bogey Man” scaring children into being quiet at night, is popular in British dance halls. Dr. Thomas Brown, honorary secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, borrows the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is founded on Long Island. The name “Bogey Man” to refer to the hypothetical man who McKim, Mead and White-designed clubhouse is built the next can play perfect golf at every hole (the “ground score”) year. Originally opened as a 12-hole course, it expanded to 18 in and apparently frightens children in his spare time. 1895 and hosted the US Open for the first time in 1896 (which was only the newly formed USGA’s second US Open). 13

​ H E C O M P L E T E LY T Unassailable History OF MODERN GOLF 1923 Bobby Jones wins the US Open for the first time. 1925 Garnet Carter, owner of Fairyland Inn atop Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN, introduces “Tom Thumb Golf,” placing tiny 1930 obstacles on miniature fairways surrounded by some rather menacing looking gnomes. In a few years, the “miniature golf” Lake Winnie’s at Georgia’s Lake Winnepesaukuah opens at the course ignites a fad. height of the original miniature golf craze, which dies down the next year, though Lake Winnie’s goes on to become one of the longest continuously operated minigolfs. 1937 Green jackets are introduced at Augusta, but not given to the Masters’ winner. Rather, club 1946 members wear green blazers so they may be A scant 379 years after Mary Queen of Scots differentiated from the crowds. caused a scandal, the first US Women’s Open is played. 1949 1951 Sam Snead becomes the first Masters’ R&A and USGA agree to abolish stymie winner awarded the Green Jacket. Winners (in which players can strike an opponent’s golf ball with take the jacket with them and may wear it their ball knocking it further from throughout the year, but after that, may only the hole), making golf less like wear it at Augusta. croquet than it had been. 1958 1954 After WWII, Americans’ taste for mini-golf returns, and in 1954 Combined PGA Tour prizes Putt-Putt Golf is founded in Fayetteville, NC. reach $1 million. Arnold Palmer wins his first major, at Augusta. 1959 1960 Goofy Golf in Fort Walton Beach, FL, opens, on the heels of Lee Koplin’s original Goofy Golf in Biloxi. Retired sign painter L.L. Sowell builds Zoo-Land golf in Panama Beach, featuring the innovation of a fire-breathing dinosaur, which, while not technically historically accurate, is cool.

1961 Richard Craddock and Jim Sidwell don’t even pretend not to rip off Goofy Golf when they open Jolly Golf in Gatlinburg, TN. Some of its obstacles are the stuff of nightmares. 1962 Just by adding an honorific, Dutch Magrath acts 1968 like “Sir Goony Golf” is an original idea, and opens USGA bans croquet-style putting, in which players can the original in Tennessee before franchising hit the ball with the tip of the putter, in official play. Golf throughout the US. now bears practically no resemblance to croquet at all. The move is still acceptable at Goofy Golfs. 1977 The Cucci Family becomes the new 1980 owners of Montauk’s Puff ’n‘ Putt. Caddyshack is released to pretty universally poor They are the third family to operate reviews. Co-writer and producer Doug Kenney the property and continue to do so drunkenly storms out of the post-premiere presser at to this day. Dangerfield’s in New York after telling everyone to go fuck themselves. The slobs-versus-snobs film goes on to gain a massive cult following in the years after its 1982 release. Nancy Lopez marries Ray Knight, which is all some Mets fans know about women’s golf. 1996 The phrase “Ninth 2000 green at nine” enters Tiger Woods, at 24, wins the lexicon. basically every single golf tournament played anywhere. 2001 Arnold Palmer partners with AriZona Beverage Co. to sell cans of “Arnold 2010 Palmer Half & Half,” which, if we’re being technical, is Sales of AriZona’s not the correct proportion. Arnold Palmer Half & Half exceed $100 million. 2018 Callaway debuts Jailbreak Technology in all their Rogue metalwoods. Local man records first ever long drive contest win with Rogue Hybrid. BONE BON BBO ONE OON NNEE

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the VauLt half a century of golf with walter iooss Photos by Walter Iooss In 1960, Sports Illustrated gave a 17-year-old kid his first forget that just this year Whalebone Magazine watched photography assignment—the same year he graduated Walter almost sink a 150-yard shot to win a new car. from East Orange High School in New Jersey. Two years The gentleman has a smooth swing and style that has later, that kid, Walter Iooss, shot his first cover for Sports gained him fans in many of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit Illustrated. Not too bad for someone who shot his first supermodels, professional athletes, and iconic editors he roll of film at the age of 16 with a camera his father had has shot and worked with over the years. A lifetime of bought for him. Fast forward a few hundred thousand rolls accomplishments aside, it is Walter's apparent pure love of film and several decades later, and you have Walter of sports that makes him and his work so relatable. We Iooss walking above a treasure chest of some of the most have a feeling that even if Walter were a world famous iconic moments captured in sports and cultural history— pianist from New Jersey, he would still not miss Game 7, his basement doubles as his photo library. This basement still go to every single Super Bowl, and would definitely be might be one of the best places on Earth where you geeking out at the chance to go to Augusta for a private can sip tequila and listen to stories of his time shooting round. The following are a few selects and some narrative everything from Jimi Hendrix to Muhammad Ali to kids from the Walter Iooss Golf Catalog. Learn more about playing stickball in the streets of Cuba. By the way, don't Walter and buy prints at walteriooss.com. 17

Lee Trevino - Clemmons, NC July 1974. “Waiting to tee off.” 18

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Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez US Open, 1964. 20

Lee Trevino - Unknown location, 1991. “This was a shoot we ended up doing for a Japanese cigarette company. Not sure how it ended up.” 21

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Tiger Woods - Carlsbad, CA 1999. “I was attempting to recreate the famous Hy Peskin shot of Ben Hogan from 1950. Tiger’s caddy wasn’t that pleased with my efforts.” 23

Kate Upton and Arnold Palmer during a shoot for the cover of Golf Digest, 2013. 24

Jason Dufner- Cover shoot for Golf Digest, August 2014. “You wouldn’t think that this guy was funny by looking at him but he was indeed very funny—great sense of humor.” 25

Michael Jordan - Orlando, 1993. “Phones the size of microwaves. Jordan has loved to play golf his entire life. Great golfer."

Bill Clinton - Cover shoot for Golf Digest, 2012. “President Clinton couldn’t get through the room without people stopping him every two feet, but he was beyond charismatic. What a guy.” 27

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Gary Player - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, 1974. “You decide if he missed. Looks like some people are clapping and others not so much.” BONE BON BBO ONE OON NNEE 29

30 Former NFL Star Arian Foster & rap legend Scarface hug it out after 18 hole showdown, as seen in Golf Lives 2.

callawaygolf.com/golflives GOLF LIVES \ golf livz \ noun: A new, unexpected spirit to the game we all love. verb: Connecting golfers from all walks of life through relatable, vibrant, and emotional storytelling. 31

$3.9 1 2 , 7 0 0 GO L F BILLION charitable dollars raised per 143,000 CHARITABLE EVENTS year through golf events & go philanthropic contributions $180 MILLION raised by the pga tour in 2017 (all-time record) run 3.5 mile t he equ i val ent of of To pgo l f ’s 13 pl ay i ng 18 hol es . I n a t y pi cal rou nd , millio n visito rs g ol fers can t ake 10, 000- pl u s s teps in 20 17 d o N OT and burn up to even pl ay go l f 2,000 cal ori es 32

FAC I L I T I E S PEO PL E T R I ED G O L F FOR TH E F IR S T TIM E I N 2 01 7 ATTENDED BY 1 2 MILL I ON PA R T I C I PA N T S i n 2 0 1 6 lf Gives mini-golf courses the hig hest to t al i n h i s to r y 33

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UnOfficial golf Dictionary YEP, THAT’S A THING IN GOLF. PHIL DAVIES & TAYLOR HARKEY Golf is a complex sport where anything can happen. And there’s usually a term for whatever it is, from the moment you tee off on #1 until the final putt drops on #18. So if any of these situations have happened to you or someone in your foursome, making you wonder, “Whoa, I wonder if that’s a thing in golf,” you can now be certain that yep, it’s a thing.

THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO UNDERGROUND TERMS "FAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" DEFINITION: Driving your golf cart into a member of your foursome while he/she is hitting from the fairway, thus "MULL-AGAIN" killing them, and sending them to that great golf course DEFINITION: A second mulligan used immediately after you in the sky. shank your first mulligan into the woods. SENTENCE: “Steve was about to hit his second shot when SENTENCE: “You talked in the middle of my mulligan, jerk-off, he climbed the Fairway to Heaven, so we’ll need to find so I’m taking a Mull-again.” a fourth for next week.” IS THAT A THING? IS THAT A THING? T H E " I S T H AT RE AL LY A T H I N G? " SC AL E EH, FER KINDA SURE Roy, Tin Cup Tiger '97 Barker Dangerfield Payne Stewart 37

"COUNTRY CLUBBING" "LOST-AND-FOUND" DEFINITION: The act of becoming friends with someone who’s a DEFINITION: A previous player’s random golf ball you find member of a fancy country club, and using them strictly for their deep in the woods while searching for your ball that you member/guest privileges. play off as your own to prevent losing a stroke. SENTENCE: “Everyone knows you’re not even friends with Preston SENTENCE: “Uh, yeah, it’s right here...yep, this was mine... Willoughby III; you’re just Country Clubbing your way into his Luckily it was in the... the... Lost-and-Found.” foursome.” IS THAT A THING? IS THAT A THING? "THE #9-AND-A-HALF HOLE" DEFINITION: The toilet a player uses between #9 hole and #10 hole that often delays their group from teeing off because they’re going #2. SENTENCE: “Well, looks like we can’t tee off on the back nine until Dave gets back from his #2 on # 9-and-a-half.” IS THAT A THING? 38

"ICARUS" DEFINITION: An insult for someone who has just popped a rainbow tee shot high into the sky, only to watch it drop straight down into a water hazard. SENTENCE: “Looks like you flew too close to the sun on that one, Icarus.” IS THAT A THING? "PUFF CADDY" DEFINITION: A derogatory name for a caddy who gets high before his loop and is virtually worthless for reading putts, giving yardage, finding lost balls, or even balls in the middle of the fairway. SENTENCE: “If Puff Caddy over here thinks he’s getting a tip after leaving my sand wedge back on the 7th green, he’s as wrong as he is high.” IS THAT A THING? "FIFTH WHEEL" DEFINITION: The name you call a player from one group who gets so far behind on his hole that he’s practically playing with the foursome behind him. SENTENCE : “Hey Fifth Wheel, maybe you should pick up and join your own group on the green, cause, you’re kind of a fifth wheel right now, Fifth Wheel.” IS THAT A THING? BONE BON BBO ONE OON NNEE 39

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P Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re reading an entire issue of Whalebone Magazine dedicated to the love and lifestyle of a sport that even leaders of the free world have obsessed over for decades. You run into a series of golf- related questions that could ultimately change the course of humanity forever. What do you do? Well, if you’re anything like us, you gather a group of well-rounded individuals who have a passion, knowledge, and love of the game that supersedes any preconceived notion and have them answer the questions. (At least, that’s what we would do.) The following feature is a gathering of solid individuals and their take on the current status of the sport, what areas could use some love, and a few things you’ll need to know before you pick up a club next time. Dear Whalebone Magazine Golf Roundtable Participants, please make your way to the tee box. You’re up next. 42

Q1. How is golf good for America? James Blake Pro Tennis Player Golf easily brings people together of all backgrounds and skill levels. Everyone enjoys hitting a good shot and sharing that with friends. That’s as American as it can be. Shep Gordon Legendary Talent Manager One of the great things about golf in America is that even in the highest populated cities where concrete rules the day, the golf course in the town is always green, birds chirping, wildlife in bloom, a moment of sanity in the crazy concrete jungle. Micah Pueschel Lead Vocals, Guitar - Iration It creates a sense of community and comradery. The places that do golf right in the US, like Goat Hill (CA), Winter Park (FL), or Bandon Dunes (OR), make it accessible and create an atmosphere that makes everyone in the community want to be around the course, even if they’re not playing. That’s what it’s all about! Katie Kearney Model Golf is a sport that truly brings people together. If you ever want to get to know someone, play 18 holes together. There’s something about being outdoors, exercising and playing golf that allows people to completely open up. Hence why a lot of business is done on the course. It’s a great hobby that forces people to step away from technology and clear their head for four hours without any distraction. Benji Weatherly Pro Surfer Golf is good for America because it gives the youth an outlet to put their energy into and brings communities and generations together. It also provides an open and green space that is constantly manicured and maintained for other outdoor activities, including weddings, conferences, hiking, etc. 43

Q2. One thing golf has taught you in life? James Blake Golf has definitely taught me humility. Every time I think I’m improving, there is that one bad round that brings you back down to Earth. SHEP GORDON Patience and humility…oops that’s two. Micah Pueschel Accountability. There’s no one to blame but yourself if you hit a bad shot. You can blame the wind, blame this or that, but it’s really on you. For me, that was a big lesson growing up, knowing how to persevere, collect myself and move on. Benji Weatherly Golf has taught me patience, resilience, focus and balance. Golf has created athletic challenges that mimic what I used to experience in surfing. [ Katie Kearney Patience. You’ll have good days and bad days but the important thing is to not let the bad shots get in your head. Similar to life, it’s all about your mindset. If you have a negative mindset, you’ll never have a good day. Golf has also taught me there is always room for self-improvement. It’s a very humbling sport, to say the least. ] 44

James Blake from the sport? The only thing I see that’s missing from the sport is accessibility. There is so much land for a course and it’s still cost prohibitive What is missing for most people. SHEP GORDON Air conditioning for the really hot days. Micah Pueschel We have to create more ways to get everyone involved, start getting kids from inner cities around the game in any capacity. There are organizations who are doing this now and it’s great. But it’s still a big issue…golf needs to be more accessible and affordable in more communities. Katie Kearney Women have come a long way in growing the game of golf but I still believe there’s room for improvement, not so much on the professional but rather recreational level. There are still many courses in my city that are men only. [ Benji Weatherly ] Golf is lacking the availability to play at night under the lights in the evening. Vegas needs to add this to the strip. Q3. In 2014 Benji Weatherly filled in as Adam Scott's caddie for the Sony Open after meeting Scott through fellow surfer, Kelly Slater. 45

Q4. Favorite golfer of all-time? Katie Kearney [ ] Tiger Woods. When I was young, my mom brought me to a golf camp sponsored by Tiger. I was the only girl at the shep gordon clinic, and he was so humble and really took the time to My father, he was a passionate golfer. help each and every one of us kids. It’s refreshing when you meet a hero and they live up to your expectations. James Blake Benji Weatherly Sergio Garcia. Fred Couples because he is the Tom Curren of golf. Micah Pueschel Fred Couples. I just loved his swing, his demeanor, style. He was always such a cool cat. do hnny Accar Photo by Jo 46

Photo by Jesse Dittmar The hardest Q5. part of golf? James Blake The hardest part of golf is the mental side. Focusing on every single shot and having nothing reactionary. shep gordon [ ] I think the true jewel of golf is that it teaches you to be humble. It’s a game you can’t be perfect in. Micah Pueschel Being disciplined on the course. It’s key to develop a consistent pre-shot routine and create a pattern with your entire approach. I’m not much of a Type A person so this has always been a bit difficult for me. The best players are the ones who have rhythm and consistency in their setup. KATIE KEARNEY The hardest part is not getting to play enough. It’s a game of consistency and muscle memory. It’s not like riding a bike, you must practice in order to improve. Also, putting, no reason needed. BENJI WEATHERLY The hardest thing about golf is being consistent and not letting a bad shot deter you. 47

One thing you would Q6. tell someone who is looking to take up the sport? shep gordon Go for it!!!! It is something you can do in your later years. I recently golfed with a gentleman who is 90—he probably doesn’t play a lot of football these days. Micah Pueschel I would tell them to shell out the money for three golf lessons. It’s worth the small investment. I didn’t do this and it probably cost me a couple of years worth of progress. Learn the grip, learn the setup…all the fundamentals. It’s crucial to get started on the right path. Once you get the basics down, it’s all about having fun. KATIE KEARNEY Getting started in golf can be intimidating, especially for women as it still is a male dominant sport. The important thing to remember is everyone, even scratch golfers, began somewhere. And to be honest, most golfers are only focused on their own score, so don't be stressed about trying to compete with anyone but yourself. BENJI WEATHERLY You can’t fail if you have cold drinks, good friends and Pandora on your phone. [ James Blake I would tell anyone taking up the sport to make sure they have patience and to have fun. If you start off having fun, you will want to keep playing, and that will make you a better golfer. BONE BON BBO ONE OON NNEE ] 48

SPORTS MATTER ollie schniederjans, the 24-year-old standout who As soon as I heard about Sports Matter I was extremely netted five top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR as a rookie interested in getting involved, said Ollie, who doesn’t in 2017, is known for his on-course intensity, power off have any formal arrangements with Dick’s Sporting the tee and most notably, his free-flowing, silky-smooth Goods. I love the idea of helping other kids have the same hairstyle. The Callaway Staffer has made it his shtick to opportunities I had growing up playing organized sports. keep lids away during play. However, that changed for A version of the Truvis golf ball is sold exclusively at Dick’s one hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open back with a $2 donation for every dozen sold going toward the in February. While playing the famous par-3 16th hole in Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation, which supports the the first round, Ollie threw on a custom Sports Matter hat Sports Matter initiative. Sports growing up for me—and and teed up a special green and white Callaway Chrome my little brothers—were our lives; it was everything, he Soft Truvis golf ball to promote the Dick’s Sporting Goods added. It had a huge impact on our development, not just Foundation initiative aimed at supporting youth sports. as athletes but as people. 49

B: A: WATER THOSE? Even if you’re only an occasional golfer, you’re probably super familiar with all the varieties and nuances of the course grasses used across the country. Their coloring, growth height, drought tolerance, repair speed, texture...highly fascinating. Let’s put your skills to the test and see if you can name these vastly different grass-types. (The Whalebone team tested out at 100%—no pressure.) No peeking. choices: Bentgrass Kentucky Blue Grass Bermuda Grass Rye Grass Buffalo Grass Paspalum Fescues Zoysia RESULTS: 0 - 1: don’t quit your day job... 2 - 3: your neighbors probably hate your landscaping. 4 - 5: gettin’ there. remember to bag your lawn clippings. 6 - 7: we hope you love riding mowers and a variety of powered and non-powered hand tools because this could be your calling. 8: you’re done. tear this out of the magazine and take it to your local golf course—they will definitely accept this as proof of your ability to be F: E: a groundskeeper. good luck in your new career! BONE BON BBO ONE OON NNEE 50

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RAD gIRlS Of GOLF By Michelle Wie The golf world can be a bubble. When you’re 12, it can feel like the US, but in addition to dealing with all the normal pre-teen it’s made of Bubbilicious. Seemingly never-ending road trips, issues, they also have the weird tan lines from hours spent on practice sessions that feel almost as long, and the pressures the course in cross-back tanks to contend with. That they do so of competition can be a lot for anyone to handle. These young with such grace and poise bodes well not just for the future of women may be some of the top-rated amateur youth golfers in golf, but the future, full stop. QuEenIe Guercio Class of 2023 Longest drive (in a car): What would you do if you made a hole in one? 12 hours. We drove from Dallas to Destin, FL. Go crazy...call my dad and especially my brother, Crosby. He made one when he was 8 years old so I Longest drive: am few years behind him. I hit a drive around 275 yards. It had lots of run on it, as it was the end of the summer and the fairways What’s the hardest part of golf? were firm and fast. I may have even been a little Two things. First, the mental aspect of the game. downwind. I hit my driver around 200 yards, so Keeping your confidence level up and maintaining a definitely got lucky. good attitude when you are playing well or just when It was not my longest drive ever, but my dad’s you are tired. Second, I would like more of my friends friend tells me all the time that I am the only golfer to play. I practice with a lot of boys and my brother. he has seen hit it right down the middle, followed by I do like having putting and chipping contests with two cartwheels and a flip-flop. Davis Ovard, who is my age and a really good player. If you could be as good at something else as Who’d win in a game of mini-golf, you or you are golf, what would it be? Tiger Woods? Volleyball. I used to play all the time. My friends still Probably Tiger, but I wouldn’t go down without a play on the select team I was on. I like the team and fight. I might have a chance in a putting contest if I friend interaction. got lucky. 53

Kaitlyn after hitting a perfect shot to the par-3 seventh hole at the World Golf Village – Slammer and Squire. (North Florida Junior Golf Foundation) ALEXA Pano Class of 2022 Longest drive (in a car): What would you do if you hit a hole in one? Thirty-two hours, driving to the US Women’s Amateur Take photos, save the ball, then move on to my next in San Diego from Minnesota. tee shot. Longest drive: What’s the hardest part of golf? A 300-yard drive during the Qualifier for VOA Making changes and adjustments, and then Shootout. Nice wind at my back. incorporating them when the heat is on. If you could be as good at something else as you Who’d win in a game of mini-golf, you or are golf, what would it be? Tiger Woods? Singing… American Idol. Tiger…He’s the best who ever lived. 54

kAiTlYnSchroeder Class of 2023 Longest drive (in a car): What’s the hardest part of golf? Seven hours. I think the hardest part of golf is the mental challenge. A lot of golfers struggle mentally because when they Longest drive: hit a bad shot they get down on themselves and 250 yards. struggle to finish the round strong. If you could be as good at something else as Who’d win in a game of mini-golf, you or you are golf, what would it be? Tiger Woods? Softball. I don’t know if I would beat Tiger in a round of mini-golf, but I sure would like to! What would you do if you hit a hole in one? I would be a little shocked at first and then jump up and down and high five everyone there. 55

AvERy Zweig Class of 2025 Longest drive (in a car): 10 hours from Destin. Longest drive: 284-yard drive in a tournament. If you could be as good at something else as you are golf, what would it be? Training cats to do tricks and be obedient. What would you do if you made a hole in one? Throw my hands up in the air and then make the ‘mic drop’ gesture. Then strut down the fairway like Rory does on every hole. He seems to be strutting to the theme from Saturday Night Fever even on a normal walk down the fairway. What’s the hardest part of golf? The mental approach. Trying to find the perfect blend of calm and intensity while showing NOTHING. Who’d win in a game of mini-golf, you or Tiger Woods? When I was 3, and my mom made a hole in one, I cried and threw myself on the turf. Hopefully, my skill level has gotten better since then, in addition to my behavior! I haven’t played much. 56

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BY JORDON KAPLAN Golf carts are really one of the only modes of transportation that implies its use in the title, but don’t put these beauties in a box, because there might be literally dozens of other uses for them. You may need one to shuttle the kids to the bus stop in the morning, or for a quick trip to the liquor store, or maybe you’re using it for golf… which is crazy, but who are we to judge. The following is a review of some custom-made and non-custom made golf carts that will lead you to feel things such as—awe, because of the absurd amount of money some people have. You may also feel indignation because some of these are superfluously wonderful and should be recognized for all of their splendid ridiculousness. Enjoy and make sure the kid is still holding onto the back. 60

Ideal Driver: Guy Fieri on a bender If you’re feeling any sort of tender would like, but we here at Whalebone curiosity for this particular body will always recommend that you put kit then you’re in good company. Any flames on any type of vehicle that roadster enthusiast would be pretty you own. It tells something about mildly amused by this thing and isn’t your personage and that thing is—“I that really the only validation love Flaming Hot Cheetos paired with you need? Customize however you a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.” Fiery Features: h Chrome molding h Stainless grill h Hinges h No sense of shame Body Kit for your new ride retails at: $2,999 61

You know when you’re watching a sci-fi movie and you’re watching the CEO of some evil-future-tech- company get shuttled to his next big busy-businessman meeting? This is that fucking shuttle. Not only is this model by Garia the “Coolest Golf Cart Ever,” but it’s actually a pretty Ideal Driver: good golf cart. This is the Siri Mercedes of golf carts— mostly because it’s made by Future con Features: Mercedes. With all of the n Bluetooth connection, hands-free streaming bells and even more of the whistles, you will never feel n Scorecard displayed on integrated touch screen device more superior to your friend n Built-in refrigerator Jason from college than you will in this thing. n Onboard touchpad: 10.1-inch in-dash outdoor touch screen n Dual size cup-holders on both sides Space tax not included, retails at: $73,000 62

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g This body kit might make one think that they are safe inside a military grade vehicle, but not so, friend! You are, in fact, still in a golf cart. But there is good Ideal Driver: news, if you’re shopping for a A tiny, little, baby Arnold Schwarzenegger look that only makes people think you don’t care about the environment, then look no vroom vroom Features: further than this Hummer body g Lights kit. We recommend this for a g Hood Scoop Grill limo-style cart for maximum g Front Bumper raucous behavior that says, “We like being out here, but we’re not good at golf.” Retail-gating at: $2,195 64

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An Excerpt From The Accidental Life by Terry McDonell George Plimpton and I decided to visit Hunter S. ask them to read a little of it aloud. Just a paragraph to start Thompson after he sent me a photograph of himself but it would become a page and then a chapter. sinking a thirty-foot putt at the Aspen Golf Club. He signed “Slower,” Hunter would say, “slower.” Some people it to me with Res Ipsa Loquitur across the image, and there wondered if they’d ever get out of there. was a message on the back: Come out and play golf with I had visited Owl Farm before and told George there me sometime— bring George—and money; I will beat both would be distractions, but we arrived hopeful about our of you like mules. Friends of friends can’t bring friends was connected missions. My plan was to get Hunter to write a taped to the refrigerator; but they did. Hunter complained piece for the premier issue of Smart. George was there to but when you saw him playing his games with new guests interview him for what he planned to be the first interview you knew he loved it. They would tell him how much they for “The Art of Journalism” series for the Paris Review. were influenced by this or that in his work and he would Hunter said first we had to play golf. 67

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We played that first evening, in the dying light, by about a foot and, charging after it, let out a howl as at the municipal Aspen Golf Club, which was closed. he winged his putter into the pond. The geese started Hunter just waved to a guy in the pro shop, who brought honking and Hunter ran back to the cart, pulled the us a bucket of balls. Hunter had a 12-gauge shotgun in 12-gauge from his golf bag and fired over the geese, and his golf bag and we had Heinekens in a cooler on the they lifted off the pond like a sparkling cloud of gray and cart—also a fifth of Chivas, a fifth of Jose Cuervo, limes, white feathers. It occurred to me as I watched the glitter a fifth of Dewar’s (for George) and an extra cooler of blend into the fading sky that having a story to tell about ice. “Here,” Hunter said, holding out three white tabs of acid golf with Hunter and George was probably good for blotter paper with an unfamiliar red symbol on them. my career. “Eat these.” He put one on his tongue and stuck it out at Hunter looked at me and said, “You’re higher than us. I took my tab and did the same back at him. When I am, goddamn it.” I started laughing. Hunter seldom George said he wanted to concentrate on his golf, laughed, but he did then. Hunter licked the third tab. “Ho ho...last of the batch!” “Maybe I should have, well, ‘eaten’ some myself,” “Goddamn geese,” said Hunter. George said. “Branta canadensis,” said George. “You’d like George’s bat trick,” I said to Hunter. “No fucking bats!” Hunter said. “Alas,” George said, and made himself a Dewar’s and water. Hunter always said (and wrote in Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga) that his acid-eating experience was limited in terms of total consumption, but widely varied as to company and circumstances, and that he liked the electric atmosphere it put him in, especially when taking it with the Angels. They just swallowed the stuff and hung on...which is probably just as dangerous as the experts say, but a far, far nuttier trip than sitting in some sterile chamber with a condescending guide and a handful of nervous, would- be hipsters. We, on the other hand, were playing golf. And gambling. Each of us would hit five balls in a row off the tee and then proceed to the green to putt. Only our best ball would count. We were all in for $1,000, Hunter said. When we got to the green, George put two of his balls in for birdies. Hunter had one ball left to tie, if he could sink a thirty-foot putt like the one he was celebrating in the photo he had sent. He walked back and forth between his ball and the hole several times. I On the way back to Owl Farm in the Red Shark, was on the other side of the cup, holding the flag. It was George told us that playing ahead of Arnold Palmer in dark now, as dark as it gets in Aspen on summer nights, the San Francisco pro-am had been like being chased and although the sky still had a glow, I could barely by a migration. Of geese? I wondered. George also said see his ball. George was by the cart, making another that when he’d played in the Bob Hope Classic at Indian Dewar’s and water. The ice tinkled in his glass. Wells, his ball had almost hit Hope and the popular “Silence!” Hunter shouted. “I know your tricks.” comedian Phyllis Diller in their cart at the fourteenth. Hunter took at least another two minutes lining He remembered that both comics had been wearing up his putt, then struck it quickly. He missed the putt “sullen frowns.” 69

“Fuck Bob Hope,” Hunter said. William Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey, David Halberstam, Hunter and George stayed up that night, but I fell William Kennedy and Tom Wolfe). When it came to asleep on the couch. The next morning I got up early and Vietnam, Hunter would cloud over, but he kept talking. went to the supermarket ten miles up the road in Aspen. He said he had arrived, sweating, in Saigon with I was under the delusion that we needed supplies for the what he called his “seminal documents” (Graham interview, and returned with several bags of groceries: a Greene’s The Quiet American, Phil Knightley’s The smoked ham, assorted crackers, cheese, olives, peanuts, First Casualty, Hemingway’s In Our Time), too much etc. As it turned out, no one ate any of it. Hunter was at electronic equipment (walkie-talkies!), sketchbook- his kitchen “command post,” chain-smoking through a sized notebooks and his usual felt-tip pens (they bled gold-tipped cigarette holder and rocking back and forth all over the paper because of his sweat). Plus, he said, in his high swivel chair. As George pressed on with the he had carried a .45 automatic. Hunter had never talked interview, sometimes rephrasing the same question, about it, but he was haunted by Vietnam: The war had Hunter’s mood swung wildly. He was angry and mocking been part of my life for so long. For more than ten years and then suddenly strangely sincere, or flamboyant and I’d been beaten and gassed. I wanted to see the end of hilarious and then respectful (of Kerouac, Henry Miller, it. In a way I felt I was paying off a debt. plimpton I’m not sure. But to be so influenced by the war for so long, to have it so much a part of my life, so many decisions because of it, and then not to be in it, well, that seemed unthinkable. plimpton How long were you there? thompson I was there about a month. It wasn’t really a war. It was over. Nothing like the war David Halberstam and Jonathan Schell and Phillip Knightley had been covering. Oh, you could still get killed... plimpton You hoped to enter Saigon with the Vietcong? thompson I wrote a letter to the Vietcong people, Colonel Giang, hoping they’d let me ride into Saigon on the top of a tank. The VC had their camp by the airport, two hundred people set up for the advancing troops. There was nothing wrong with it. It was good journalism. plimpton Did you ever think of staying in Saigon...? Thompson Yes, but I had to meet my wife in Bali. We moved on to what Hunter wanted to talk about: Nixon and the NFL and, most important, who he was as a writer. George asked about writing under the influence of booze or drugs, noting that every writer he’d interviewed over the years for the Paris Review had said they couldn’t do it. thompson They lie. Or maybe you’ve been interviewing a very narrow spectrum of writers. It’s like saying, “Almost without exception women we’ve interviewed over the years swear that they never indulge in sodomy”—without saying that you did all your interviews in a nunnery. Did you interview Coleridge? Did you interview Poe? Or Scott Fitzgerald? Or Mark Twain? Or Fred Exley? Did Faulkner tell you that what he was drinking all the time was really iced tea, not whiskey? Please. Who the fuck do you think wrote the Book of Revelation? A bunch of stone-sober clerics? 70

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Hunter was angry now and that was it, interview “Good, you deserve to be rich.” over. George noted that the most prominently posted “Fuck you!” quote in the room, in Hunter’s hand, twisted the last “Have you got any new pages?” line of Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle into “I said, ‘Fuck you!’ ” That Good Night”: “Rage, rage against the coming of This went on for months until, as if by sympathetic the light.” magic when we decided to scrap “Year of the Wolf,” When the interview was about to appear, George Polo Is My Life arrived at Esquire. But it was not the sent Hunter an advance copy. Hunter sent back a page manuscript of the secret novel. from the Bible (Revelations) with a big black spot on Packed in a huge wooden crate tight with bubble it—like the page Long John Silver sent to Billy Bones wrap, Polo Is My Life was a four-by-eight-foot plywood in Treasure Island to pronounce him guilty of stealing sheet with crossed polo mallets in the middle; Captain Flint’s treasure from the rest of the pirates. ammunition belts with live .50-caliber rounds had Hunter loved the idea of having stock almost as been hung on it, and the whole thing weighed a couple much as he hated working for free but he eventually hundred pounds. Hunter had titled the collage in red agreed. His first assignment was to write about his spray paint across the top and attached numerous Aspen neighbor Jack Nicholson. He never filed. Then personal totems (photos, press cards, bar napkins, he was going to write a column called “Year of the X-rays, notes, quotes, lipstick, a joint or two, letters, Wolf,” but he said he needed more words, at least five court records...) so that most of the plywood was thousand. Fine, but no copy was forthcoming until, covered. It took two UPS freight guys to carry it into my without discussing it, he faxed me a piece about his office. The phone rang next to my bed at about three trouble with a new neighbor named Floyd that he’d spun the next morning. into a complicated Republican conspiracy. The lede “Now it’s really going to cost you.” Laughter again was: It was just before dawn when the queers rushed in the background. my house. Politically incorrect, but right up the tailpipe “Who’ve you got there with you?” I asked. “Joseph of the anti-gay conservatives he was after in the piece. Wood Krutch?” At the top of the first page of the manuscript was a “You think I don’t know who the fuck that is, note in his unmistakable hand: “You’ll pay in the end...” well ...” almost every time I saw Hunter, he was in Smart was struggling by then and I was running out of shorts and white Chuck Taylors, but he liked expensive, money. I learned to forge Hunter’s distinctive “HST” wild-ass shirts and owned several for special occasions. and began signing books. I must have signed twenty I figured Hunter coming to New York for the twenty-fifth first editions of his Songs of the Doomed for potential anniversary of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would advertisers who loved him. When I confessed this on be one of those. The book had sold well all along another visit to Owl Farm, he smiled with a curious, and had been made into the movie Where the Buffalo surprised look and handed me one of his preferred Roam, which had goosed book sales. A new Johnny Sharpies. Depp version was in pre-production. Modern Library “Show me.” was publishing an expanded edition, and a book party I grabbed one of the random books on the bar, was being planned. Hunter would be staying at the scratched “Thanks for the crack” on a flyleaf, then Four Seasons, on Fifty-seventh Street, because there scrawled my counterfeit “HST.” He lifted the book to had been too many misunderstandings at the Carlyle, the light to see it better, then slapped it back down where he usually stayed—the most recent having to on the bar. do with Hunter throwing a blow-up sex doll out the “Jesus, you’re desperate,” he said. window onto Madison Avenue. The book party was “I just hope to Christ you’re ready,” he’d say when going to be a huge affair at the Lotos Club. Afterward he had me on speakerphone. “It’s about the end of fun, we would be going to George’s house. and it’s going to cost you.” “We need to get George better drugs,” Hunter told 73

me on the phone before he left Aspen. The party was harsh lessons from their incompetence. He had a riff badly organized, with only two bars for more than two about it, how he used to suck editors into his pieces as hundred guests, and the scheduled speakers—including conspirators, all of us wanting to prove ourselves good George, Jann, myself—would have to stand on a chair in enough—hip enough—to edit him. When he got you on the middle of the room. There were supposed to be some the phone in the middle of the night to listen to someone readings too, but you knew that wasn’t going to happen. in the kitchen read to you what he had just written, all No one cared, least of all Hunter, who arrived late. you could say was that it sounded great and that he “Who are all these fuckers?” he said. should send it to you. When a third bar was opened, the room relaxed “Ho ho,” he’d say. “So you can fuck it up before it’s and the speakers started. Hunter listened closely, toying finished?” with the Dunhill lighter. I don’t remember what I said, By the time I got to Sports Illustrated, Hunter was but George mentioned “acid golf.” When it was Jann’s writing a weekly column for ESPN.com, called “Hey, turn, he explained with great wit that he did not have one Rube.” It was conceived to be about sports and gambling, thousand pristine first editions of Fear and Loathing in Las but the columns were full of politics and whatever else Vegas in storage as Hunter had been claiming for years. he found interesting in the news. He often bcc’d me on The crowd booed. these pieces, which were uneven, and didn’t get him “Besides,” Jann said, smiling, “we all know Hunter the attention he was used to. We had not spoken about cares more about art than commerce.” any of this when he called my office to ask “what the Hunter was smiling too, and they hugged when fuck” was wrong with me and to say that my new job Jann stepped down from the chair. Some of Hunter’s should make me a better gambler, ho ho, and that SI still best moments were like that, shockers of kinship when owed him money for an assignment in the early 1970s to he knew you were getting the joke. Much later, there cover Nevada’s Mint 400 motorcycle race—the blown were so many posthumous Hunter-and-me books that assignment that had inspired Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. you wished he hadn’t gotten high with so many people. “You filed a piece?” This was not true of Ralph Steadman’s The Joke’s Over, “You fuckers killed it.” because of the personal subtext the illustrations carry, or “A long time ago.” of The Kitchen Readings, by Hunter’s Aspen friends—the “We can gamble for it,” he said. “But not like the golf writer and artist Michael Cleverly, who lived down the you welshed on, ho ho...” road, and Bob Braudis, who had been the sheriff of Pitkin County since 1986. The title refers to Hunter’s writing process in later years: he would write; his friends would read it back to him; he would edit; and on into the night. As a young writer, Hunter had read his writing aloud as he worked. Now it was easier hearing friends read it, and more useful than making his pilgrims read work he had already published. It was a technique he used to see how his sentences played. He said he had taught himself to write by reading The Great Gatsby aloud as he typed out the entire novel. His son Juan’s middle name is Fitzgerald. Hunter would say that there were far fewer good editors than good writers, and that he had learned some very 74

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By John Capone & Jordon Kap lan, Proprietors Some say the 19th Hole is the most important hole in golf. We find that when a writer uses a phrase like “some say,” it usually means that the writer might actually be the only one who thinks that. We won’t quarrel with that perspective, but we will invite you for a spirited debate over a drink at the bar we’ve decided to open up at the end of this magazine. This is what’s on the menu. 76

G o l d e n T e e k e e Best when set atop everybody’s favorite barroom golf “simulator.” Two of these, and you won’t care what your score was that day. • 1/3 c. Fresh pineapple, peeled • 2 oz. Coconut milk • 1/4 oz. Galliano • 2 3/4 oz. Anejo tequila • Orgeat • Exotic Bitters Combine all ingredients in a blender with ice and blend until slushy. Pour into a tiki glass, garnish with slice of the peel from the pineapple with a tee holding a maraschino cherry through it and serve with a metal straw. R u s t y P u tt e r Either our bar’s take on a Rusty Nail with a nod to golf’s Lowlands heritage, or something you shouldn’t look up on Urban Dictionary. • 2 oz. Lowland, single-malt Scotch whisky (such as Glenkitchie) • 1/2 oz. Drambuie Combine in a rocks glass over one large, hand-cut ice cube if you are in one of those fancy old-timey bars that gets ice deliveries. You aren’t though, so you’ll probably just pour it into a glass half full of some bar ice. Stir to mix. Serve. BONE BON BBO ONE OON NNEE 77

e n t g r a ss S o u r K e n t u c k y B Classic and smooth with the occasional bad bounce. • 2 oz. Kentucky rye • 3/4 oz. Lemon juice • 1 tsp. Lemongrass simple syrup • Old fashioned bitters Combine ingredients in mixing glass over ice, shake well until frothy. Strain either into a small, chilled cocktail glass or over ice in a rocks glass. Add a dash or two of bitters on top, garnish with lemon zest and drop in a maraschino cherry. t o r m y D a n i e l s D a r k & S In recognition of our golfingest President’s greatest achievement. • Juice 1/2 Meyer lemon • Fentiman’s Mandarin & Seville orange jigger (with fermented ginger root extract) • 2 oz. Spiced rum • Orange bitters Fill highball glass three-quarters of the way with cracked ice. Add lemon juice, dash of bitters, and rum, stir well. Top with Fentiman’s, or, fuck it, Fanta, because it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters anymore. Garnish with flaming orange wheel, toss in dumpster fire. 78

Th e L a s t H o l e Put yourself over the edge and make your spouse angry. • 2 oz. Fuzzy’s vodka • 1/2 oz. Green chartreuse • 1/2 oz. Domaine de Canton Ginger liqueur Combine in tin. Hard shake with ice, serve in chilled martini glass, garnish with Luxardo cherry on a pick. Club House Members only Allen, we don't care who you know. • 2 oz. Empress 1908 gin • 1 oz. St. Germain’s Elderflower liqueur • 3 oz. Fever Tree Indian tonic • Squeezed lemon Fill highball glass with crushed ice, begin with Empress gin and layer Elderflower liqueur, then top with Fever Tree tonic. Squeeze lemon over top. Garnish with lemon wheel. 79

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