Bill Fields

It’s not easy comparing champions from the 20th and 21st centuries, but one quality spans the divide: Winners respect winners, no matter the era

Talks with Ladies European Tour could boost women’s golf

Frank Beard celebrates his 80th birthday on Wednesday, a milestone that those of us who grew up watching professional golf in the 1960s and ’70s might find hard to fathom. (CBS Golf Classic, anyone?) Businesslike and bespectacled, Beard didn’t stand out f

ORLANDO, Fla. — Not every golfer has a father who plays the game, but many dads do. Mine came to golf in middle age after I took it up as a kid, and it was the best gift I ever gave him. We played a lot but competed together only once, when I was 18, on t

Yachts large and larger were docked at Albany in the Bahamas last week, one of them, “Privacy,” belonging to the host of the Hero World Challenge, Tiger Woods. It wasn’t the best of weeks on the course for Woods in the limited-field event that supports hi

NORTON, Mass. – Among multimillionaire golfers or those nearly so, pressure is, of course, a relative thing. Having your season end a couple of weeks early sure isn’t like someone on the way up playing for a hundred bucks when all he has in his pocket is

There is a popular saying in golf that if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. No doubt that maxim has motivated players throughout history – shag bags to launch monitors – to practice hard in pursuit of improvement. But Bruce Lietzke was an e

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – Late Sunday afternoon after the conclusion of the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, someone will experience one of the best workouts in the game when he is handed the trophy. Alfred S. Bourne bought the eponymous prize from Tiffan