What makes a champion? You can't define it. But I believe it has a certain amount to do with suffering. I am grateful for how I suffered as a kid. I suffered like a junkyard dog. I adored my mother.

Nobody would call elegance a growth industry, but a vestige of it will be on display this week, most discreetly, at the 153rd Open Championship, in a chic white hospitality suite along the 18th hole ...

He won the P.G.A. Championship twice and his 150-yard shot in 1972 is still talked about. But Player said he was proudest of one he hit at the 1968 British Open. By Michael Arkush Player, who won nine ...