The modern guide to golf style, family golf life, and the culture shaping the next generation of women in golf.
The modern guide to golf style, family golf life, and the culture shaping the next generation of women in golf.
It is 9:47 on a Tuesday night in Gangnam. The bars are filling. The restaurants are clearing their second sittings. And in a glass-fronted bay on the third floor of a building that also contains a nail salon, a convenience…
On 7 July 1998, Se Ri Pak won the US Women’s Open at Blackwolf Run in Wisconsin. She was twenty years old. She was the first South Korean woman to win a major championship. She won it in a sudden-death…
Korea took golf seriously from the inside in 1998, when Se Ri Pak’s victory produced a national investment in what Korean golf could become. Japan had been taking it seriously from the inside since the 1970s, through the quiet luxury…
In 1998, Se Ri Pak won the US Women’s Open and catalysed one of the most significant transformations in the history of women’s sport. The Culture Series article on the Se Ri effect described what happened at the structural level:…
On the unexpected conversation between Japanese Sunday bag philosophy and Scottish links tradition — two cultures, one slender bag, the same five-club solution Two problems, one solution Japan arrived at the five-club Sunday bag through philosophy. Scotland arrived at the…